I’ve seen a lot of threads on other forums, so I might as well give it a try too.

RULES: The poster asks a question using this structure: Would you rather……. or would you……………?

Then the NEXT poster answers that question and asks ANOTHER question using the structure, then the next poster repeats the last poster and so on……

Would you rather be able to travel all over the world or win a $1m but never be able to travel?

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Highest birth rate in Europe + highest divorce rate + highest percentage of women working outside the home = the best country in the world in which to live. There has to be something wrong with this equation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/18/iceland

How happy are the people in the cultures you grew up in? What culture do you believe are generally happier?

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The city of Harbin in north-east China makes the most of its freezing winters by hosting an impressive ice festival!

Blocks of ice are carved into sculptures and buildings and lit from within to provide glittering lights of ice.
The Harbin International Ice Snow Festival has been celebrated annually since 1985, which officially starts January 5 and lasts one month. As the largest and most extraordinary of its kind in the world, the event have yearly attracted numerous snow enthusiasts from around the planet to visit Harbin.
In the past, structures have included tall towers, Buddha statues and even restaurants made of ice. There’s little chance of the constructions melting, as Harbin’s location near the Russian border provides icy temperatures for most of the year.

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Using Google Maps we can find some satellite pictures of some pretty amazing things. Here are a few I and some friends have found. Please post in the comment section if you have any others!

Interesting Locations
Vegas
Belagio Fountain
Statue of Liberty
Ground Zero
Memphis Pyramid
Buried Warheads
Hollywood Sign
Nude Beach
Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch.
Twin Nuclear Reactors
U.S./Mexico Border crossing at San Ysidro, CA
49ers game in progress at 3Com Park
Yankee Stadium
Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children – and the old duPont mansion and grounds on-site.
Turner Field (Home of the Braves)
Salem County, NJ – Hope Creek Nuclear Plant
Mall of America
Cedar Point
Wrigley Field
Busch Stadium
Veteran’s Stadium (Phillies Game in progress)
Police Academy driving pratice Range
Fort Benning Parachute Training ground
Alcatraz
St. Louis Arch
Empire State building
Trinity nuclear test site
Mt. St. Helens
Space needle
CN tower and Toronto Sky Dome
Easter Island, South Pacific
Playboy Mansion
Mount Rushmore
Old Faithful
SeaWorld
Diamond Head Hawaii
US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL (Space Camp)
LAX Airport
Disneyland
Disneyworld
Hoover Dam
Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant
Washington Monument, Washinton D.C.
Titan Missile Museum Note the black half-circle, that is the half-open silo. It is kept that way so soviets can look inside.
Uffington White Horse Jaurez mexico
Dave Rules. (Bunker Hill, IL)
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Actually Luecke does.

Interesting Company Headquarters
Sprint Campus
Microsoft Campus
Apple Campus
Ford Test Track (huge)
Chrysler World HQ
GE Healthcare Headquarters
The Initech building from “Office Space” =)

Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and the Boneyard
Skunkworks Research Facility (underground home of the B2)
Area51
Scott AFB
Willow Grove Naval Air Base
Where the Space Shuttle Launches
Missle Launching Site
Cape Canaveral 2 shuttle launch sites & hangar.
Plane taking off at SFO
Aircraft Carrier in San Diego (CVN76 Ronald Regan?)
Mothballed ships in Suisun Bay (near San Francisco)
2 C-130s flying into Little Rock AFB
Saturn V Rocket laying on its side (Go north a bit)
Tyndall AFB
Semi Trailer Graveyard
BMW Test Track
Tanker loading/unloading in Duluth, MN
A couple of SR-71s
Iowa Class Battleship at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
Mojave Airport
Edwareds AFB etched compass
Concorde at JFK Airport

Bridges & Waterways
Golden Gate Bridge
Open Swing Bridge
Sunshine skyway bridge
Golden Gate Bridge
Ambassador Bridge
Rainbow Bridge, Utah (words largest natural bridge)
Niagra Falls

Government Buildings
Whitehouse (photoshopped?)
Pentagon
Blurred Government Bldgs

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1. 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
2. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don’t die throughout the movie.
3. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
4. 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5. 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S’s highways.
6. 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world’s widest road.
7. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
8. 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is “A meaningless existential hell.”
9. 315 entries in Webster’s Dictionary will be misspelled.
10. 5% of Canadians don’t know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
11. 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
12. 7% of Americans don’t know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
13. 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
14. 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
15. A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
16. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
17. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
18. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
19. A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
20. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
21. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
22. A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
23. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
24. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
25. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
26. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it’s there.
27. A hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
28. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
29. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
30. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
31. A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
32. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
33. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
34. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.
35. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
36. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
37. A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
38. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
39. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn’t give her coffee.
40. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
41. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
42. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
43. A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
44. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
45. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
46. A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background — when they say “walla-walla” it looks like they are actually talking.
47. A whale’s penis is called a dork.
48. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
49. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
50. According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.
51. Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
52. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
53. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
54. All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20.
55. All porcupines float in water.
56. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
57. Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
58. America once issued a 5-cent bill.
59. America’s first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
60. Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
61. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
62. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
63. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
64. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
65. Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
66. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
67. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
68. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant “plenty of excrement.”
69. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.
70. Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
71. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
72. Back in the mid to late 1980’s, an IBM-compatible computer wasn’t considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.
73. Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
74. Barbie’s measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
75. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
76. Ben and Jerry’s send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
77. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
78. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
79. Bubble gum contains rubber.
80. Camel’s milk does not curdle.
81. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
82. Canada is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”.
83. Cat’s urine glows under a blacklight.
84. Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
85. Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
86. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
87. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down – hence the expression “to get fired.”
88. Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
89. Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
90. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader’s lines, and didn’t know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
91. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
92. Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
93. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
94. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.
95. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth… and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, “His name is Mudd.”
96. Dr. Seuss pronounced “Seuss” such that it rhymed with “rejoice.”
97. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”
98. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
99. During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
100. Einstein couldn’t speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
101. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

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Hey, I just got on the chatroom and learned that Brice is engaged? … is this true? Who is the lucky girl??

“Jerry : Guess what everybody??? BRICE IS ENGAGED!!! (not sure how these rumors start, but they don’t sustain themselves!!!)

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I moved back in the U.S recently and I really feel like an outsider here, even though I’m “American”. It’s frustrating because I’m not sure I can relate to them at all, since I mostly grew up in overseas and all over Europe. It was easier making new friends there than it is here.

My younger brother is having a much harder time, for example with playing sports… they make fun of him for not knowing the rules of playing baseball. I really feel lonely here and I’m having difficulty making friends, I’m happy I found this site, I’ve been lurking on tckid for a while and I think this site is fantastic, it’s making me feel a lot less alone. But I’d like to know if anyone has been there and if you can anyone give me advice on how to make friends after you move?

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Any plans/ travels ? Personally I have no life so I’m probably going to spend time with family then be online on christmas day and perhaps watch the new year celebration on TV… but thats just me, i hope some ppl have more plans than me.

Lets hear it!!

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Found this map in my newsreader and thought it was funny!!

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I’m not sure if this was posted here before but here goes…

You know you’re a TCK when:

- You’ve heard this ‘textbook’ definition of a TCK before: “A third culture kid is a person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside their parents’ culture. The third culture kid builds relationships to all the cultures, while not having full ownership in any. Although elements from each culture are assimilated into the third culture kid’s life experience, the sense of belonging is in relationship to others of the same background, other TCKs.”

- “Where are you from?” has more than one reasonable answer.
- You’ve said that you’re from foreign country X, and your audience has asked you which US state X is in.
- You flew before you could walk.
- You speak two languages, but can’t spell in either.
- You feel odd being in the ethnic majority.
- You have three passports.
- You have a passport but no driver’s license.
- You go into culture shock upon returning to your “home” country.
- Your life story uses the phrase “Then we moved to…” three (or four, or five…) times.
- You wince when people mispronounce foreign words.
- You don’t know whether to write the date as day/month/year, month/day/year, or some variation thereof.
- The best word for something is the word you learned first, regardless of the language.
- You get confused because US money isn’t colour-coded.
- You think VISA is a document that’s stamped in your passport, not a plastic card you carry in your wallet.
- You own personal appliances with 3 types of plugs, know the difference between 110 and 220 volts, 50 and 60 cycle current, and realize that a trasnsformer isn’t always enough to make your appliances work.
- You fried a number of appliances during the learning process.
- You think the Pledge of Allegiance might possibly begin with “Four-score and seven years ago….”
- Half of your phone calls are unintelligible to those around you.
- You believe vehemently that football is played with a round, spotted ball.
- You consider a city 500 miles away “very close.”
- You get homesick reading National Geographic.
- You cruise the Internet looking for fonts that can support foreign alphabets.
- You think in the metric system and Celsius.
- You may have learned to think in feet and miles as well, after a few years of living (and driving) in the US. (But not Fahrenheit. You will *never* learn to think in Fahrenheit).
- You haggle with the checkout clerk for a lower price.
- Your minor is a foreign language you already speak.
- When asked a question in a certain language, you’ve absentmindedly respond in a different one.
- You miss the subtitles when you see the latest movie.
- You’ve gotten out of school because of monsoons, bomb threats, and/or popular demonstrations.
- You speak with authority on the subject of airline travel.
- You have frequent flyer accounts on multiple airlines.
- You constantly want to use said frequent flyer accounts to travel to new places.
- You know how to pack.
- You have the urge to move to a new country every couple of years.
- The thought of sending your (hypothetical) kids to public school scares you, while the thought of letting them fly alone doesn’t at all.
- You think that high school reunions are all but impossible.
- You have friends from 29 different countries.
- You sort your friends by continent.
- You have a time zone map next to your telephone.
- You realize what a small world it is, after all.

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