Only in America ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6238364.stm
Short of it - A US Judge had a pair of trousers (worth $1000) lost by a dry cleaners in 2005, and so attempted to sue them for $54,000,000 (yes that's 54 million). His reasoning for the large amount was for the hours he spent preparing the case, and the fact he had to hire a car to take him to another dry cleaners every weekend.
He lost the case! :D
Short of it - A US Judge had a pair of trousers (worth $1000) lost by a dry cleaners in 2005, and so attempted to sue them for $54,000,000 (yes that's 54 million). His reasoning for the large amount was for the hours he spent preparing the case, and the fact he had to hire a car to take him to another dry cleaners every weekend.
He lost the case! :D
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This remindes me of another "Only in America" case of a woman that got incredibly fat by eating like ms PacMan from Mc Donald's and filed a law suit against the company. What on earth did she expect!!!
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LOL Skarpo, this reminds me 2003 when I visited the US for a month (Monroe-Connecticut).
I went to a local Starbucks cafe to get my fix and the employee there kept pronouncing the esspresso "expresso" (another local joke? maybe).
You can also get the "as far as your eye can see fat ass" because of that...
Har Har Har! :-)
I call them "hamburger-asses" ... well ... because of the inordinate amount of hamburgers people here consume.
I like to call monstrous asses, "asses with a mind of their own" because in practice they lead the way and the rest of the body follows :razz:
I wasnt too upset when i read it !
So difficult in America not to put on weight though, the few times i've been its been amazing, the quality of food, how cheap it is, how much you get etc. Over here its a right rip off, i've been to Chiquitos a few times in the UK and the foods so poor compared to the US, of course as normal we pay a ton for it. I do like mexican food but thats about the only restaurant i can go to in the UK for it
Even Dennys (had to experience that !) you got a ton of great food (still weird they put the 'pudding' with the main meal) at a cheap price, over here you have a very expensive Little Chef which is crap but you eat it as you are so hungry.
Hopefully going back next year, cant wait for the places to visit and of course the food !
But taste and looks have nothing to do with food quality. A quality food must be healthy, with as less saturated fat as possible, and the burger meat has to come from one cow or at least from as less animals as possible.
The vast majority of beef meat served in the US comes from grinding tens of different cows together. If one of them is diseased and escaped detection, all meat gets contaminated.
Also all those hamburgers contain excess fat, so much that it drips.
Its delicious no doubt about that, but quality food? Noway....
One day they say wines bad for you, then its good for you in moderation, then you shouldnt drink so much etc and same for food etc.
By quality of food i meant everything looked so good, tasted good, unlike over here where some restaurants its just slopped on a plate, isnt even that tasty and we pay a fortune for it.
I can see why some americans are so fat, a trip to the US every few years for me is alright but if i lived there all the time and never did any exercise with all their food i would probably have to be cut out of my house 'Jerry Springer' style
Personally I have a soft spot for bread and olive oil (both fattening enough), now imagine pieces of bread dipped into a salad's olive oil, combined with small pieces of white cheese, Slurp!!!!!!!!! Deamn, i'm on a diet again.....10 away, 5 more to go....
Used to go to a sushi restaurant in France all the time when i had to work there but of course sushi in most places in the UK is expensive and not even that good compared to a proper jap restaurant.
Havent found a good mexican restaurant either, just big chains in the UK where the foods alright but nothing stunning (and pricey of course)
As for food here yup it is tasty, we have an amazing Mexican place called Jalisco about 5 mins away from us and the carne asada tacos are too good to describe. Greedily enough I always get 4 of em', next time I may get 5 they're only $2 each yumster yumster.
...and yes thinking back to many years ago I thought Chiquitos was good, until I tried Mexican food here (back in 2005), although I hadn't eaten Mexican in the UK since I was about 18 anyway (maybe younger). They knocked the Chiquitos near me down anyway, as it was attached to the complex which used to be the Warner cinema (which got knocked down, and I guess since I moved away I'll maybe never know what was being built in it's place).
I still miss Indian food, the US is like the UK with mexican and Indian inverted, here there's hundreds of Mexican places and one Indian if you're lucky. At least now I have it on good authority that the Indian restaurant here is good enough to eat at, now I just have to find someone to go with (my wife hates Indian food so won't go with me:( ).
Yes, and?
We think that Paris Hilton going to jail, and the suicide of some TV wrestler (I have no clue who the guy is...I stopped watching wrestling years ago, and solely for Mick Foley) is more important than the War in Iraq.
yeah. like when Anna Nicole died. "She was a good role model for girls". What? where?
I mean CNN is all OVER this Benoit dude. Nothing when Barrett died. Barely any coverage for Dimebag Darrell of Pantera. I didn't learn for THREE WEEKS that John Peel died. But this guy? I've never heard of him (like I said, i stopped watching wrestling when the scripts started to rip off Days of Our Lives [UK substitute EastEnders]).
It was a funny story! I best be careful or else you might sue me for $195,000,000 ...
teehee :p
That's weird... I haven't put on any weight at all. I'm still (give or take a couple of pounds) the same weight I've been since I was 20 or so.
Same here. Mexican food is okay, but I love a good indian meal. I have to travel 50 miles to the nearest one, and that's only so-so. I've heard that there are better ones in Atlanta, but I've not had a chance to try 'em yet. Whenever I go to Atlanta, I'm with my wife, and she won't touch the stuff.
She never forgave me for taking her to an Indian restaurant in the UK when we visited there.
Andrew
340lbs? :p
Damn! Pipped at the post :D
340lb? My god, I couldn't even conceive of being that heavy...
155lb, more like it.
Andrew