>The US is definitely #1 at thinking they are #1.
As a US citizen, it pains me to say that's so true. But I also think that we
have a problem that most of us want to reduce everything to a football game. No
country is #1. I will admit there is a real contest to see who can get to the
bottom fast enough, but Miss world is about T&A, not about which country is the
best. Make America Great Again? How about just aim for average.
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From: olympus <olympus-bounces+pearce=kmuw.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of
Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2020 2:34:42 PM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion; olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: End of an Era
More accurately, we're #1 at being last. One look at our passenger rail
service will tell you everything.
Let's roll back about 55 years, when Detroit was screaming that Americans
would never accept compact cars. So they came up the Pinto, the world's best
known mobile crematorium. Ten year later Japanese compacts were selling like
hotcakes and Detroit was in the toilet. They still are.
>
>I lived in Switzerland in the early 1980s, and I was astounded that, upon
>opening a bank account, I was issued a card with a chip in it that worked
>essentially everywhere! I could insert it to buy groceries, ride public
>transportation, even to pay my rent with a private landlord. Credit cards
>were almost unheard of; people just used their bank cards.
>
>Here in Canada, we regularly "tap" for just about everything. I went into
>a Starbucks for a coffee in the US, and the reader said I could tap, so I
>tapped my Canadian credit card. The person working the till said I had to
>insert it, even as it began to spit out my receipt. He asked me if I could
>wait a minute, then excitedly called co-workers and his manager over to
>look at my credit card. None of them had ever seen a "tap" before.
>
>The US is definitely #1 at thinking they are #1.
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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