Only 20% of Americans

... have a passport.

Of those, only half have used it to travel out of the country.

45% of Americans have been to Disneyland.

Might explain the Langster London.

80% of Americans live over a day's drive away from the nearest International airport, and can't afford to buy tickets for International flights. Might explain why only 20% have a passport.

mdja 80% of Americans live over a day's drive away from the nearest International airport, and can't afford to buy tickets for International flights. Might explain why only 20% have a passport.

and bush being the president...

maybe the americans are just really concerned about their carbon emissions so decided not to fly.............maybe.....

Being an American I feel I must comment. Most Americans don't travel abroad purely because they don't need to. They live in a country that geographically can provide you with pretty much anything you need. If you want culture go to New York, if you want sun go to southern california, you want hatural beauty go to Yellowstone park, if you want far right bible referencing diatribes go to Texas.

And if you want to go abroad?

:)

Yeah, Australia is a very multicultural country.. but going to your local Korean restaurant is hardly the same as visiting Korea.
There's no Eiffel Tower in Oz, no Buck palace, no black cabs, no ice formations, no Han caves, no vatican, blah, you get the idea.
If you can afford it you should travel..

who needs paris, just go to vegas baby.

Not the same due to differences in culture but I wonder the percentage of eu citizens that have traveled out side the eu?
I think Thedude has it spot on, most poeple from the uk who travel to Spain don't do so for the spanish culture, they go for sun and cheap booze. Similarly most people travel the Prague not to see the Charles bridge or mini efile tower but for the strip bars and cheap booze, The Alps for sking people don't cear that it is a French / Swiss / Italian resort they are staying. IF all of these thing where easily avalible with in the same country I think the uk would be not far off.

touché again, the brick.

The eu isn't a country. You can travel for an hour and be in the midst of a different language, different culture. That's why it's so cool for an isolated Aussie to come to Europe.
Anyone with a tiny percent of adventure in their body would be a fool not to travel outside the bounds of their own country no matter how big it is and no matter what they think it can provide. It's like never reading any books because you've got the Encyclopedia Britannia sitting at home..

The point I was trying to make is that the Langster London looks like it was designed by somebody/a comittee that had never been here, for people that have never been here.

It looks like soomeone ramraided a shiity souvenir shop.

Does it have little Paddington bears on the bars instead of the usual tassles?

just looking at the Langster london, if they took all of the rubbish graphics off it would look quite nice, plain white with the red langster logo. even a simple union jack on the fork would have been better.

hippy The eu isn't a country. You can travel for an hour and be in the midst of a different language, different culture. That's why it's so cool for an isolated Aussie to come to Europe.
Anyone with a tiny percent of adventure in their body would be a fool not to travel outside the bounds of their own country no matter how big it is and no matter what they think it can provide. It's like never reading any books because you've got the Encyclopedia Britannia sitting at home..

Not denying what you are saying but you forget where the average (I am pro talking modal average here) line falls. People say to me that I am fitter than average, eat better than average have a bigger ..errr.. anyway I would hope I am fitter than average because most poeple are very unfit e.t.c. It is like the way most poeple are suckered into watching t.v, getting a big loan to buy a plasma screen entertainment system. Most people don't have much adventure in them. Sound harsh I know, wheather it is scoial situations, or socail conditioning that makes people like this I don't know what the reason is. I just think people tend to be the same where ever they are from and given the same situaion many europeans would do the same as many US people.

Thank God! imagine what London would be like if there were MORE American tourists!!!

"Gee, I just love your Royal Family" (say with accent)

"80% of Americans live over a day's drive away from the nearest International airport, and can't afford to buy tickets for International flights. Might explain why only 20% have a passport"

then how do these Americans get to Disneyland then?...if they're not prepared to drive for more than a day and if they can't afford flights how do they pay for Disney resort?.....it's well known that America is one of the poorer nations of the world....my sympathies go out to them!

hope this helps

I definitely agree that it's all about the carbon emissions ;)

Tommo And if you want to go abroad?

Hawaii/canada/mexico

cough i forgot what i was going to say

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/11/1126_021120_TVGeoRoperSurvey.html

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/roper2006/

nuff said

hippy The eu isn't a country. You can travel for an hour and be in the midst of a different language, different culture. That's why it's so cool for an isolated Aussie to come to Europe.
Anyone with a tiny percent of adventure in their body would be a fool not to travel outside the bounds of their own country no matter how big it is and no matter what they think it can provide. It's like never reading any books because you've got the Encyclopedia Britannia sitting at home..

an hour? I can travel 5 min down the road and listen to arabic in shepherds bush and then down to chiswick for some polish, funny thing is people still cant understand my scottish accent ;)

kowalski The point I was trying to make is that the Langster London looks like it was designed by somebody/a comittee that had never been here, for people that have never been here.

It looks like soomeone ramraided a shiity souvenir shop.

Haha!, thats prob the best analogy ive heard for the london langster

Yeah hael, but that's Scottish! Not even the Scots understand that ;)

hippy Yeah hael, but that's Scottish! Not even the Scots understand that ;)

lol,

did anyone see the interview with the guy that jumped on one of the failed glasgow airport bombers? it was broadcast with subtitles

le car http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/11/1126_021120_TVGeoRoperSurvey.html

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/roper2006/

nuff said

Can you name three states that border Utah, or tell me thae capital city of Wisconsin...?

90% of Americans could answer these question with ease

can you without looking at a map.

Geography is largely a matter of ones own perspective