Thank you for the compliment of the streets. As a person who goes into DC daily and lives about three minutes from the Mall, I can agree that the streets are really friggin' nice.
Oh yeah right Alaska used to belong to Russia.
California is so stinkin' big because they had all this gold and strategic coastline and the US Government fell all over themselves letting them in because they figured they needed California more than California needed the US.
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Interesting that everyone here seems to think that DC is so friendly. I'd agree that we're a polite city and friendly enough in the tourist areas (isn't every city?), but not so much in the areas where the locals hang out and live. Everyone seems to think that their time is the most valuable, and heaven forbid you actually have to drive... Now as I said, I do agree that we are polite even in our rudeness (because we're supposedly so much better then New York or Boston), so a lot of the time it's not immediately obvious when someone's being a dick. All those New Yorkers and Philadelphians are just more upfront about it.
I'm working on it.
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Well, California is a great big nation...
Oh, I also bought a tiny American flag. I like to labour this point as much as I can. (and a tiny EU flag too)
If it was a lapel pin, you'd be qualified to run for federal office.
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Sorry, nope. Just a tiny American flag that I can WAVE.
Perfect for those occasions when the president is visiting the UK!
@Hopey You can wave oh clearly advantageous 
An actual flag! I'm American and I don't own an American flag. I am contemplating buying a bunch of Canadian flag pins for when I go to Europe. That way people will think I'm Canadian and like me. I'll make sure to say "Aboat" too. 
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Hopey: Sounds like you had a good time. Sorry you had to put up with the McCarthiast security theatre screenings.
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Who watches the watchmen?
If polite Americans wear Canadian flags instead of their own abroad, aren't you just contributing to the stereotype that their aren't any polite Americans?
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@wuggles: A-ha! I was right! It is "aboat", not "aboot"!
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Well, nobody here likes Americans (y'know, Blair-Bush, Iraq War, American imperialism, etc). But Canadians? You're our favourite former colony! Saying you're Canadian also gets you laid.
/fun facts
If I said I aspire to be a Canadian, could I get some groping?
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Fuck if I know.
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I don't know what bizarre part of the country Hopeling lives in but I've never known people to get laid simply due to their status as a Canadian.
Gimme yer lunch money, dweeb.
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Sweet Christ! O.o I thought that was an urban myth!
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I'm as polite as a Canadian, and Canada was my favorite country as a child. That count?
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Oh, I forgot Alaska makes up almost a fourth of the country just by itself, so add Russia to that list.
What we got from Britain is mostly on the east side of the Mississippi River.