OT: Tabletops

[RibbonBlue]

I play 40k and fantasy, 40k, eldar, fantasy, lizies and High Elves

[OG_Gleep]

I don't work at a bank, and am not a savant, so I'm sorry if I don't know the currency exchange rates (which are adjusted constently btw).

You do know how many currency symbols there are right? Your telling me you know them all? I sure as hell don't. I don't want to start a huge thing here, but it really bugs me when people make sweeping comments about us. Have you spent any time here?

That and the general comment is just silly. Unless you:

1. Do buisness in a foreign country.
2. Cater to Foreign clients/customers.
3. Travel to foreign countries.

What possible reason would you have to keep track of foriegn currency?

And PS. one generalization that is fair...most Americains are sensitive to the word prejudice and 9 times out of 10 will get offended, especially if its unwarrented.

[Endoperez]

Pardon me, but US is so big some things just feel weird for Europeans. Until recently, all the countries in the Europe had their own currency. Now most lands in the EU use the same currency, euro (&#8364. Until recently, almost every time one went out of one's own country, which might be smaller than a state, currency changed.

For us Europeans, the fact that an American doesn't know something very important feel just absurd. But for Americans, it must feel just as absurd that Europeans don't know, err, some very common legislation in the neighbouring state. Or something. I don't know enough of US to come up with an example. My point is, that it feels very strange, because things important in European life aren't important in American life, but that difference is very hard to grasp.

I also think that rude generalization is true, for most Americans, but also for most Europeans. We only have west and south coasts, though, so the line in the east is somewhat hazy. Still, I don't know anything about African countries, and I know nothing of the Asian countries except for the big ones, and I know very little even about them - and I know nothing about the US. I probably can't name more than a dozen states, if that. I think that is just as absurd for those in the US than not knowing euro is for us in the Europe.

[OG_Gleep]

I personally don't expect anyone to know anything about the US that has never spent any time here. Most people tend to focus on the things that affect them personally. If you can name 12 states, you have a leg up on a lot of people living here.

I think most people would guess that the Euro has something to do with Europe. I know it because I follow the news, but have never delt with it, so had no clue what the currency exchange rate was (which was what I was asking).

Anyhow, the only thing I find absurd is judging a country of our size without any substantial basis for those judgements.