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JoeTerp wrote:

Sabre wrote:Yeh, well, erm, we don't do much of that in the north. Some women do that in classes, the Andalussians living here they keep their traditions, but it's rare.

I guess it's as unlikely to see a cowboy from Texas with the boots and the hat, in Chicago. 

just preparing you for expectations, because if you said you were from the Basque region Americans might think you were from Middle Earth or something. 

It's the problem of Americans. They watch the McGyver view on basques, and they think the Sabres jump in the mountains, sing opera in the jungle, recollect bananas (there are none here), and practive Guerrilla warfare for a living.



Mc Gyver and Basques

loopyliverpool wrote:I had slipped disc and was in agony for three months but was put right by a chiropractor who was practising the 'Mactimony' technique. This essentially focuses on the whole skeleton and is gentle manipulation from your feet to your head, it's actually very pleasant and leaves you feeling quite dazed aftrewards. Its the only thing that worked for me after trying loads of other techniques from osteopathy, physiotherapy, reflexology etc. If your seeing a specialist he should advise appropriately, it's important to know exactly what the problem is so any treatment is effective. Good luck.

Sabre wrote:

JoeTerp wrote:

Sabre wrote:Yeh, well, erm, we don't do much of that in the north. Some women do that in classes, the Andalussians living here they keep their traditions, but it's rare.

I guess it's as unlikely to see a cowboy from Texas with the boots and the hat, in Chicago. 

just preparing you for expectations, because if you said you were from the Basque region Americans might think you were from Middle Earth or something. 

It's the problem of Americans. They watch the McGyver view on basques, and they think the Sabres jump in the mountains, sing opera in the jungle, recollect bananas (there are none here), and practive Guerrilla warfare for a living.



Mc Gyver and Basques

doesn't seem like you lot like wearing shirts too much      But seriously I think you would be very saddened if you conducted a poll on the general American public and asked them on which map can the Basque Region be found: the globe, Star Trek Universe, or Middle Earth.  And then once telling them it was on the globe, asking them what continent it was located, and then once telling them Europe, ask what country its located in.

but to be fair, a good number of Americans (especially women) have trouble with this

Sabre wrote:I'll google a bit

you'll get the likes of destro and the band of googlets on yer trail

Sabre wrote:We're not as educated as we pretend to be.

I found that out when I visited London. I knew all about how dumb Americans were about international geography and such, so I just assumed that everyone else must know a lot about America. But most people I asked, couldn't tell me which coast Washington DC was on. and had never heard of my state, or they would think of the cookies (which aren't even from here    ).  So I came up with my own little theory that the average person's geography knowledge is probably pretty similar across the globe accounting for education and probably socio-economic status when put in terms of how much they know in a certain amount of miles away from their home.

Sabre wrote:

JoeTerp wrote:

Sabre wrote:Yeh, well, erm, we don't do much of that in the north. Some women do that in classes, the Andalussians living here they keep their traditions, but it's rare.

I guess it's as unlikely to see a cowboy from Texas with the boots and the hat, in Chicago. 

just preparing you for expectations, because if you said you were from the Basque region Americans might think you were from Middle Earth or something. 

It's the problem of Americans. They watch the McGyver view on basques, and they think the Sabres jump in the mountains, sing opera in the jungle, recollect bananas (there are none here), and practive Guerrilla warfare for a living.



Mc Gyver and Basques