AMERICANS ARE INDEED strange people, but they are also quite fascinating. P's general concern about Americans is that if perchance some people from some far off planet were to come to earth and meet the average American, they might be led to believe that all people from earth are like them.
Surely they would be a bad sample. You see Americans fall short in a number of areas like humility, common sense, and some basic principles like hygiene.
For a set of people who are clearly hypochondriacs [have you seen the volume of ads that they have on medication for ailments, they must be the sickest people in the galaxy] they seem to have lost their way when it comes to basic hygiene.
Just this week during CNN's coverage of the wrath of Wilma, the news anchor on location was looking on a flooded street and wondered about the source of the water. That is, was it sea water from a storm surge or rain water.
I am not too sure why this was so important because if your house was flooded it was just flooded, who cares about the salinity of the water. But you know with CNN there are all these minutes of newscast to fill constantly so any crap to discuss is good to go, in these minutes water was it. Anyway the goodly news anchor decides John Public needs to know for sure where this water gushing through the streets in Florida came from so what does the mad American man do?
Oh yes you guessed it. He dipped his hand in the water scooped some up to his mouth and tasted it! Yuck! What would make anyone in their right mind do something so daft? He then declared with some sort of scientific surety that this was not sea water because it was not salty.
GOOD STORY
This fellow was a part of the same team who was going into hysterics about the water that was settled on the streets of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and just how sick it might make people, if they just waded in it.
We guess that the medical research companies have a new drug to start searching for. The drug for idiots who intentionally drink filthy water and get sick. For the sake of a good story it would be interesting if this news anchor did get ill from the water and had to have some long term treatment which his station could cover minute by minute.
How much sewage and other filth this man sipped in his uncompromising desire to get the 'story' is irrelevant in his mind I guess.
All P and I really wondered though, is this man married? And if he is was his wife going to kiss him good night or hello anytime soon? I would divorce him immediately, the man is a clown.
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