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everybody else: a symbol of my childhood or my struggle
americans: guns bullets and swords hurr

In my house you'll find an American flag periodically flown around by a bald eagle smoking a marlboro red. Also the eagle is made of guns and his cigarette is also a gun and the flag can turn into a sword.

Yeah, this is my second one. The first shot me so I had to buy the second to shoot the first. Lousy Chinese engineering.

Well, somehow, in the event of a nuclear apocalypse, I didn't people would find much use for my spell books or my encyclopedia of Arthuriana or my books on ancient history. In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, nobody is going to find your sentimental childhood crap interesting. They're not going to care less about my Star Wars, Star Trek, Final Fantasy, or X-Men action figures, or my dachshund lamp, or my DVD collection, or my SNES. They MIGHT view my tridimensional chess set as an interesting way to pass the time. My piano likely won't be playable and even if it is, you can't carry it with you. There will be no achievements for collecting bobbleheads. Your phones will be paper weights. If they can find gasoline and my electric generator works, they might be interested in that.

My thermoses! Those will be interesting!

I find it highly amusing that people openly practice arrogant intellectual and cultural superiority while chiding Americans for arrogant intellectual and cultural superiority.