Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "Lotuseaters Dot Com" channel.

  1. Right, that's an Americanism too I don't think Europeans get, if I'm unsure of who I'm talking to to that level, I won't talk to them, I'll avoid them. And here you can do that, I don't like someone I can easily make sure I never encounter them again, even living in the same area. I think that's a lot harder in dense places like Europe. Here in the US you move across town and meet an entirely new separate population, there's 350 MILLION of us.
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  2. That's the problem with European visitors, they can't grasp the SCALE. In college I had foreign students telling me about their ambitious US road trip to see NYC and LA, to get the whole experience...in a week. I'm like guys, 4-5 entire days of that trip will be JUST driving, and that's if you don't stop ANYWHERE. We're in St Louis, from here to NYC or LA is TWO THOUSAND KILOMETERS one way.
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  3. 40, never been to a strip club. Never saw the appeal, never had enough guy friends to drag me to one. I'd be way more interested in a brothel (provided it's legal) than a strip club lol. Why would I pay just to look?
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  4. The best way I've seen what you state explained is that Europeans are GREAT at seeing class, but are mostly racism-blind. Whereas we Americans are abso-fing-lutely blind to the strict class system we live in but WE SEE racism everywhere, because we confuse classism with racism. We believe everyone is equal and all that, but we can't LIVE it because it's not true physical reality. There's parts of the US where it doesn't matter if you're a billionaire and everyone else is poor, if the billionaire is a black man, well, he's just another black guy, and to those people even with a billion dollars he'll never be more than just a black guy. And quite a lot of us see it the exact opposite of what you describe, we're trapped, the system is doing this to us, there is no escape, there is nothing I ON MY OWN can do, why isn't someone else saving me?
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  5. Like my city, 3000 residents, you must comply with the entire 2003 international property code, book, whatever the f It's called, and they have a full-time staff of three to write code enforcement tickets ALL DAY everyday. So glad I live in the country outside most legal authority.
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  6. I had a 14 hour layover in Munich once, let me tell you ALL about Deutschland!
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  7. My neighbors built a new house that's way too close. I know this is true because I can SEE it. That's too close, go elsewhere lol. Now the new neighbors built a house on the next hill facing mine, so yeah, we're literally 1000 meters apart but they face right into my house, don't like it lol. When I build MY new house, it'll be in a place I've found where that'll never happen.
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  8. We use wood because the options are pay $499K for this wood house, or we can build the stone version for $2,499K. Also you only earn $28K/year, discuss.
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  9. We men talk about our feelings CONSTANTLY, unfortunately women only hear us talking about our feeling as COMPLAINING. I feel this, I don't like this, why did you act such and such? These are all feelings. Women hate those.
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  10. The American Dilemma: Buy a $499K wood house and spend $1000/yr on Sentricon, OR Buy the stonework version of my house for $2.499K and...still spend the same or more on Sentricon because insects DILLIGAF your building materials.
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  11. You get to see most of it on the approach, right? get a bigger country, brah @heyfriend8519 
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  12. Why is your house made of wood? Because the wood option was only $499,000. The stone option for the same house was $2,499,000. Why does everyone in the UK live in 'Council Housing'? Here we call that The Projects or The Hood.
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  13. I hear more gunfire daily out here in the middle of nowhere on my 100 acres (40 hectares) than I ever did during my 10 years living in St Louis while it was rated the most dangerous city on EARTH. The joke at the time was my buddies who were deploying with the US Army to Iraq and Afghanistan were statistically going to a SAFER place, an actual warzone. Everyone out here has their own shooting range. My closest neighboring home is too close, because I can see it at all.
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  14. It's like how my local churches have 'taken over' providing community meals for Thanksgiving, my sister turned to me and asked "Didn't we abandon a continent like 300 years ago to come to the new world to FLEE the church taking over holidays, and we celebrate that flight with Thanksgiving, and now the churches have taken over the holiday we celebrate fleeing the church?"
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  15. Isn't that a national sport the English have spend near a millenia perfecting, traveling to far off exotic places and shitting on them? Then invading? They were pretty good at it for a damn while.
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  16. As an English-descended one of those later-arriving Germans, yes, and you're welcome. I live here in Missouri in an area known as the Winestrasse, centuries of German immigration and winemaking, amazing town, great vineyards. When German immigrants arrived here in the 1700s fleeing the Munich region, they found central Missouri along the Missouri River to be the closest place on earth as fertile and beautiful as the Ruhr and Rhine vallies, so they settled here, built up a town and when people back home came and grew the town, the original founders moved down river to get AWAY from the crowd and started a new town, over and over and over and over, so the whole Missouri is dotted with these German towns full of whatever-generation Germans. It's great to visit. I've often wanted to visit the central European French-German countryside, I'm told it's quite similar to my native Midwest US.  @NoahBodze 
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  17. All true from my perspective. When I lived in St Louis City, not a small town and definitely a big scary place, when I took a road trip to Chicago is was like dropping into a different planet by comparison. It's a 4 hour drive but the difference might as well be 4 million miles. Where I grew up the population was 305. When I lived in STL area it was 1.3 million, but Chicago is almost 10x that, it's an entirely different character.  @nocturnal_noise 
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  18. And yes, Herman, Missouri, the epicenter of the Winestrasse and tourist attractions, it is common to hear German spoken as a first language on the street. It's normal to walk into a shop and be greeted first in German, then they see you don't understand and fall back to English, I don't think that's common in many places outside of cultural enclaves in big cities. When I lived in St Louis I saw that but only in specific cultural spaces, like for example some South Korean friends took me to a REAL Korean restaurant they knew in our area and it was AMAZING, but the entire menu was in Korean, there was no English version, no English in the entire restaurant, because this was not a place Americans went or knew about. Luckily I had fiends I trust to guide me because if you've never had a full-on traditional Korean meal it's pretty overwhelming. First you drink makgeoli, from bowls not glasses, then they bring out the giant table plate with like 20 different appetizers you have to try ALL of, then they bring out and setup a giant steam pot, bowls and plates, rice, liquor, more snacks and appetizers, then the beef bulgogi I ordered that they started marinating like last week that's SO tender and tasty...it's a whole PRODUCTION, and this was a group of like 20 so always something happening. I miss those days.
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  19. Can confirm, have lived in US for 40 years, including almost 10 in St Louis during the time it was the most dangerous city on earth, and I've never even seen or been part of a drive-by, I'm not convinced they're even real lol. Have I been shot and and heard others get shot at in the big city, sure, who hasn't, but rarely do people get hit. Lol. Irony is I moved back to my 100 acres in the country and I hear WAYYYY more gunfire, because everyone has a shooting range.
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