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2012-12-09 02:10 7116254 Anonymous (86105-paltrow2.jpg 290x315 52kB)
>“We have great dinner parties at which everyone sits around talking about politics, history, art and literature—-all this peppered with really funny jokes. But back in America, I was at a party and a girl looked at me and said, 'Oh, my God! Are those Juicy jeans that you're wearing?' and I thought, I can't stay here. I have to get back to Europe.”

0 min later 7116261 Anonymous
that's nice

0 min later 7116262 Anonymous
Sounds about right.

3 min later 7116289 Anonymous
It makes me weep, sometimes. I want those dinner parties more than anything. Mr. Hitchens gives mouthwatering accounts of late evening spent with intellectuals of various stripes talking all manner of things true and beautiful. I have to find my American counterparts. Alas, I don't live in New York.

3 min later 7116291 Anonymous
you're going to the wrong parties

4 min later 7116303 Anonymous
>implying it isn't against the British etiquete to talk about politics during a party

7 min later 7116336 Anonymous
>>7116303 In Spain it would be: >1% History >2% Art >1%Literature >96% Politics

7 min later 7116341 Anonymous
>"Wordly" Americans despising the average Joe If it makes you feel better about yourselves, proceed.

8 min later 7116353 Anonymous
We mostly talk about cheese and wine.

9 min later 7116362 Anonymous
>“We have great dinner parties at which everyone sits around talking about politics, history, art and literature That sounds more southern European. Northern Europeans tend to talk about trivial nonsense and only trivial nonsense.

9 min later 7116367 Anonymous
>>7116341 Reminds me of those people who grew up in a small-town with naive illusions about "the big city".

11 min later 7116402 Anonymous
>>7116254 >We have great dinner parties were we circle jerk over our left wing politics and talk about how special we are compared to everyone else, how anyone who doesn't live in LA or NYC is dumb, and how morally superior we are to republicans for driving priuses and donating to the DNC. >translated

12 min later 7116416 Anonymous
>>7116353 lel

14 min later 7116443 Anonymous
>>7116362 but it should be the other way around shouldn't it? i mean you being master race and all.

14 min later 7116444 Anonymous
>>7116402 hey who dropped this /pol/ poster over here?

16 min later 7116478 Anonymous
>>7116444 You're seriously beyond retarded if you don't think that's accurate description of most celebrities who bash average Americans for being uncultured, etc. American liberals are some of the smuggest people on the planet.

17 min later 7116489 Anonymous (0l3eR.jpg 620x413 61kB)
Dinner time is for eating, not for talking.

18 min later 7116502 Anonymous (1346886853894.gif 389x360 1250kB)
>>7116443

19 min later 7116519 NationalistischKindje
>>7116362 Speak for yourself kankerbrit, we discuss politics all day err day, with some weather and random complaints added for variables ofcourse.

19 min later 7116520 Anonymous
we have parties where we sniff meth and fuck each others girlfriends

20 min later 7116530 Anonymous
I visited Madrid and Seville and Barcelona, and I was absolutely astounded Everyone knows so much about culture and you really enjoy yourself just talking in parties It's unbelievably different from here, one of the reasons I want to move there

20 min later 7116532 Anonymous
..and then each other

20 min later 7116535 Anonymous
that's so blowhardy that she might just be the personification of a black hole

23 min later 7116570 Anonymous (steve martin hates life.png 295x600 318kB)
If Europe wants her, they can keep her.

23 min later 7116574 Anonymous
>>7116289 faggot

24 min later 7116588 Anonymous
Jesus she sounds like a blowhard. But what do you expect from LA? the place is a black hole for culture beyond old WC rap

29 min later 7116666 Yooper
Wow, how arrogant. I bet she'd fit right in with most Europeans.

30 min later 7116678 Anonymous
>American jewess >bashing America Nothing to see here, move along.

32 min later 7116703 Anonymous
Either Europe is made of high class intellectuals or pretentious faggots. I wonder which.

33 min later 7116726 Anonymous
>>7116574 Would you prefer to talk about some brands you like? Or how about your swag?

33 min later 7116729 Anonymous
>>7116666 >>7116703 Sums it up right here.

36 min later 7116778 Anonymous
>>7116703 >>7116729 why is caring about the world viewed as faggotry in America? being cultured and sophisticated is something everyone should aim for. it's not anyone's fault some people develop a sense of entitlement.

40 min later 7116865 Anonymous
>>7116778 usually in America the people who know what they're talking about don't go around shouting it from the rooftops like this bitch. People like her are considered hipsters, doing the "in" thing of trashing American's as stupid and uncultured. To them it's about being better than everyone and making sure the world knows it. For example, if this were to come from a college student, it would probably consist of: >the latest young turks episode >some indie band >some obscure foreign film they saw 15 mintues of in a class and "love" >and left wing cliches about politics, like muh 99% tl;dr most Americans who say this are attention seeking hipsters trying to be cool.

41 min later 7116883 Anonymous
>>7116778 It's not. There are plenty of intellectuals residing in the United States, many of which could be considered sophisticated and cultured even by Europeans standards. The main difference here is the arrogance, as a couple others have pointed out in this thread. Modesty is key, boastfulness is very unattractive and unnecessary. Paltrow is a good example of how to be a pretentious blowhard. There are plenty of people discussing art, literature, history, politics and the like in the States; however, LA (Hollywood) might not be the best place to go looking for these people. She makes it seem like the US is full of uneducated, shallow, materialistic goons.

43 min later 7116896 Anonymous
>>7116778 The US has a deep-seated hatred of "elitism", and when combined with the typical American's extreme reactions to anything that challenges their world view, it becomes impossible to discuss anything of any importance here without someone getting horribly offended. Thus, we talk about juicy jeans.

43 min later 7116910 Anonymous
>>7116778 this >>7116896 is what I'm talking about here >>7116865

45 min later 7116933 Anonymous
Yep, we're all low-brow brutes incapable of critical thinking or intellectual conversation. It's true. You got us.

45 min later 7116935 Anonymous
>>7116910 And you're a perfect example of what I'm talking about.

46 min later 7116952 Anonymous
>>7116726 nah, you just sound like a faggot

47 min later 7116959 Anonymous
>>7116883 but i thought boasting and being boisterous was kind of an American thing. like when the football captain of a high school gets all the cheerleaders and is prom king and all that shit. i must be looking through the lower end of the social hierarchy and through the wrong scope alltogether.

47 min later 7116977 Anonymous
>Gwynith Paltrow doesn't like America or Americans what am I supposed to do about this exactly?

49 min later 7116998 Anonymous
>>7116959 Sports is different, it's ok to brag a little in competitive atmospheres. But to just go around trashing people's taste and proclaiming yourself to be superior to them makes you look like an arrogant douche. >>7116935 Stay edgy

49 min later 7116999 Anonymous
This reminds me of the Onion article about how even Americans don't like Americans.

49 min later 7117005 Anonymous
>>7116977 Break into her house and force her to kiss the flag at gunpoint?

49 min later 7117006 Anonymous
what people don't realize is that Paltrow was being made fun of for not having any class and wearing Juicy Jeans to a dinner party

50 min later 7117012 Anonymous
>>7117005 I'll make her kiss something else if you follow my drift.

50 min later 7117025 Anonymous
>>7116367 Far as I can tell the people with the biggest illusions about the big city are the inner city crowd. A more inbred and self-righteous bunch you'll have a hard time finding.

52 min later 7117040 Anonymous
>>7117012 Of course. You're talking about the Constitution.

52 min later 7117054 Anonymous
>>7117040 The Declaration actually

55 min later 7117092 Anonymous
>>7116570 So fucking based

55 min later 7117099 Anonymous
>wearing juicy jeans to a party clearly paltrow was being mocked for lack of refinement.

56 min later 7117112 Anonymous
>>7116865 Holy fuck, The Young Turks are the fucking worst.

57 min later 7117127 Anonymous
>>7116959 It all depends on where you live, I guess. Your upbringing, social class, etc. >>7116998 This guy has it right about sporting. In response to your comment about the high school QB prom king: a lot of high school students don't give a shit about that type of shit (at least the majority of my graduating class didn't). That seems like a pretty stereotypical image of America--one that you might see in American Pie movies, but never in real life. For example, my school voted an autistic kid to be prom king. Hell, it was probably a joke, but no one gave a shit. The high school quarterback didn't beat the kid up, or anything like that. There are entitled, arrogant douchebags all over the world. They certainly reside in the United States, as well as continental Europe, but it's not a uniquely American thing. And we certainly do not wish to embrace it.

1 hours later 7117192 Anonymous
>>7116959 That guy just used the wrong word. It's not boastfulness that is looked down upon, it's elitism. Boasting is a celebration of success. Elitism is just acting superior to others because you think you are better.

1 hours later 7117211 Anonymous
>>7117099 this can we point out that she wore jeans to a dinner party? what an uncultured whore

1 hours later 7117229 Anonymous
>>7117127 yeah but America is probably the only western country with social cliques during high school/jr high, at least from a thread a while back on /int/ every American was saying that they experienced cliques and everyone else said they didn't.

1 hours later 7117256 Anonymous
>>7117229 >getting information from thread on /int/

1 hours later 7117260 Anonymous
Here's an eastern european woman's opinion upon arriving in Atlanta, Georgia: >Here's the perspective of an outsider, 13 years ago. Granted I was a severely uninformed European at the time...when I received an opportunity to go to grad school in Atlanta. For whatever reason, I was under the impression that this city was...THAT! A city - as Europeans understand it: big metropolis, tons of sidewalks and pedestrians, tons of stores, outside cafes, huge public transportation network, historic buildings, the works. The Olympics had probably created that illusion for many outsiders. When the person who picked me up at the airport was driving on the Interstate, through the city, I asked when we get to Atlanta and he said "we are in Atlanta". From that moment on, the shock of my life began and it never ended to this day. When we drove on Peachtree Rd. through the middle of Buckhead I was told that this is where very rich people live.I could not comprehend how rich people can live in an area where the public spaces look as impressive as a modest village or province in Europe, with minimal if any sophistication. I had not yet seen the huge palaces hidden away in the forest nearby, but the bottom line is that the public spaces looked extremely rudimentary. They built a lot in that area over the past decade but at the time, it looked sub-provincial.

1 hours later 7117277 Anonymous
>>7117260 Overall you can't possibly call this a city...and yet, this is what people in the area do. They call it a city. I ended up living here because I got married here and found good professional opportunities, which would be very hard to come by in majestic Europe...but I am still dreaming of moving back to Europe somehow. The areas considered nice in Atlanta look like a very well manicured, well-taken care of cemetery to me. Sometimes it feels like people live in tombs - certainly so for people with families. It's as if you need to bury yourself under the ground once you have children. The suburb life and 24/7 365 a child-oriented lifestyle where nothing truly adult-worthy ever happens. People's entire lives revolve around micro-managing their children andf signing them up for activities. Invariably the children end up little spoilt Centers-of-the-Universe no matter how you twist it. The entire infrastructure and collective lifestyle is conducive to that even if you have different values. But hey, you get some big-bang-for-the-buck house.

1 hours later 7117305 Anonymous
>>7117260 We like our space. President Lincoln said that if he could see the smoke rising from his neighbors chimney, then they lived too close to him.

1 hours later 7117334 Anonymous
>>7117260 >>7117277 it's her fault for picking Atlanta

1 hours later 7117350 Anonymous (345665787.jpg 249x188 60kB)
>>7117277 >a slav WOMAN's view of the world >mfw

1 hours later 7117460 Anonymous (commieblock shit.jpg 1024x768 218kB)
>>7117260 >>7117277 right so is this her idea of a REAL CITY?

1 hours later 7117542 Anonymous
>>7116570 God damn i love that guy

1 hours later 7117715 Anonymous
>>7116341 I don't think you quite understand how frustrating it is to speak to these types of people. It's not even so much that they're hopelessly ignorant of the world - it's that they don't like being knowledgeable and even reject becoming less ignorant. They enjoy ignorance and even find it to be cool. I have no problem with normal people that if they don't know something, you can inform them of it and they'll take it to heart and vice versa.

1 hours later 7117771 Anonymous
>chris martin touched her bagine do_not_want

1 hours later 7117821 Anonymous
>>7117771 >chris

1 hours later 7117865 Anonymous (5675673456.jpg 499x500 52kB)
>>7117715

1 hours later 7117891 Anonymous
L'Europe me manque. >>7116570 <3 Steve Martin >>7116896 It's so sad and pathetic that this is 100% true. Few times have I been able to go out to places or parties and without reprimand talk about culture, politics, or history. >>7116998 I fucking hate that all that anyone ever wants to talk about is sports, I suppose it's because the only sport I really follow is soccer. >>7117305 You could manage that living in the rural countryside in say France. >>7117715 This.

1 hours later 7117917 Anonymous
>>7117821 Cristovão Martinho. O que é queres meu caralho? Puta que te pariu.

1 hours later 7117973 Anonymous
>>7117917 wow puta. don't get angry over nothing. are you on your period or something? chill.

1 hours later 7118003 Anonymous (1349841819425.gif 1920x1070 2374kB)
>Wear jeans >to a dinner party So classy and refined

1 hours later 7118013 Anonymous
>>7116254 Americans girl are the worse. Fkin teenage mentality even if they have good jobs and are getting older. It's pathetic fk but you gotta play their game or you get nothing.

1 hours later 7118025 Anonymous (1300394164377.jpg 613x520 42kB)
I've never sat with americans around a table but talk at dinner for me usually includes politics, history, jokes, stories, facts, philosophy, studies, tv, cooking.

2 hours later 7118105 Anonymous
>>7117973 meu menino, não venhas à pizzaria se não consegues lidar com a polpa de tomate.

2 hours later 7118107 Anonymous
>>7118013 Bro, you can write out the word "fuck." It's fine. None of us care.

2 hours later 7118187 Anonymous
>>7118105 lol. vai-te curar miudo.

2 hours later 7118229 Anonymous
>>7118187 és tu que me dás o xarope, queres ver?

2 hours later 7118535 Anonymous
>Celebrities >Capable of talking anything but liberal bullshit in "political discussions"

2 hours later 7118550 Anonymous
>>7117715 so much this

2 hours later 7118574 Anonymous
>>7117715 >They enjoy ignorance and even find it to be cool. Hollywood types get a +5 bonus to ignorance.

2 hours later 7118643 Anonymous
>“We have great dinner parties at which everyone sits around talking about politics, history, art and literature—-all this peppered with really funny jokes. But back in America, I was at a party and a girl looked at the table and said, 'Oh, my God! Are those canned whole chiken?' and I thought, I can't stay here. I have to get back to Europe.”

2 hours later 7118684 Anonymous
>>7118229 pela maneira como falas provavelmente sou. sais ao teu pai na estupidez é? vai masé po caralho cretino :DD

2 hours later 7118754 Anonymous
>“We have great dinner parties at which everyone sits around talking about politics, history, art and literature—-all this peppered with really funny jokes. But back in America, I was at a party and a girl looked at me and said, 'Oh, my God! Where 's your scooter?' and I thought, I can't stay here. I have to get back to Europe.”

3 hours later 7119177 Anonymous
>“We have great dinner parties at which everyone sits around talking about politics, history, art and literature—-all this peppered with really funny jokes. But back in America, I was at a party and a girl looked at me and said, 'ill suck your dick for a beer, YOLO!' and I thought, I can't stay here. I have to get back to the store for some beers.”

5 hours later 7120225 Anonymous
I don't think you understand exactly what a Hollywood girl is. Have you seen the Hills or 90210? You can probably find smarter and less-shallow women in the trailers of Alabama.

5 hours later 7120343 Anonymous
>>7120225 >90210 nice series. everyone's perfect, rich and beautiful, but retain human emotions.

6 hours later 7121081 Anonymous
>>7116362 Are you lumping Britain with the rest of Northern Europe?

6 hours later 7121143 Anonymous
Yeah, whatever. All I know is that she's a shit actor.

7 hours later 7121332 Anonymous
>>7118025 Talk at dinner for me is well.... I eat alone... but I have you guys to talk to

13 hours later 7125865 Anonymous (biographie.jpg 500x310 39kB)
We talk about women, music, politics, problems in Finland and how to fix them, all while getting wasted, and of course Bear Grylls. We always talk about Bear motherfuckin' Grylls.

17 hours later 7129287 Anonymous
If you speak spanish don't miss Hispachan imageboard. http://www.hispachan.org

17 hours later 7129440 Anonymous
>>7116519 >Discussing politics >at all progressive or productive Should be talking about how to make more money, anarcho capitalism is best capitalism

17 hours later 7129472 Anonymous
>>7129440 >Whoa, can German Reich post from the past now? >No wait their flag is the other way around >check country >Yemen Sup bro. I bet your country with it's strong tribal connections and supposed connections to terrorists provide plenty of opportunities for same anarcho capitalism.

17 hours later 7129504 Anonymous
>>7129440 Tell me of your country, Yemen.

17 hours later 7129572 Anonymous
>>7116530 Welcome to the educated 1st world. But Spain is the 3rd world of 1st world.

17 hours later 7129750 Anonymous
>>7116254 >dat post Fucking faggots. Ameribros, stand up for yourselves.

17 hours later 7129803 Anonymous
>>7125865 >Bear motherfuckin' Grylls i loved that episode where he jumped out of the boat near port in Gdansk(Danzig) and acted like its some sort off abandoned post apocaliptic wasteland. So much laughs.

18 hours later 7130711 Anonymous (1353871875723.png 975x666 108kB)
>>7117054 >>7117005 >>7117040 >>7117012

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