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Re:Alabama tracking students' locations to penalize them for... by magduf on Friday September 13, 2019 @01:10PM (#20964071)
Exactly. Hanging around and drinking a lot, and being around a bunch of noisy, drunk people, is something that most Americans greatly enjoy.
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Re:Alabama tracking students' locations to penalize them for... by rpmisms on Friday September 13, 2019 @03:20PM (#20965421)
Well, most of us are Irish and German, so it does stand to reason that we would enjoy those things.
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Re:Alabama tracking students' locations to penalize them for... by magduf on Monday September 16, 2019 @10:51AM (#20984623)
My genetic background is mostly from those places too, yet I'm not like that. Those things are cultural, not genetic. Americans are loud and boorish because they choose to be.
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Re:Alabama tracking students' locations to penalize them for... by rpmisms on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @12:04PM (#20996809)
America draws a lot of its culture from those two countries, but my point was more facetious than literal.
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