Standup comedian. Atlanta sports fan
Joined September 2011
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Can i just say one thing about The United States of America real quick? (We’re on a flight home from two weeks in Asia and the Middle East).
We were driving across the Sri Lankan country side and I saw a guy on a John Deere tractor. I looked it up. John Deere, Largest agricultural equipment manufacturer on Earth. Started in 1837 in Grand Detour, Illinois by a man named John Deere.
I’ll keep going.
If you get on an airplane anywhere on this planet, odds are it’s a Boeing. William Boeing, 1916, Seattle Washington.
Go to any cafe on the globe and you can drink a Coca Cola. Created in Atlanta, Georgia by a man named John pemberton in 1886.
Everyone communicates using Whatsapp. Founded in Mountain View, CA in 2009 by two buddies, Brian Acton and Jan Koum.
Every vehicle is navigating the Globe using Google Maps. Google, started in the garage of Larry Page and Sergey Brin in Menlo Park California. 1996.
Pfizer distributes medicine in every single country on Earth. Charles Pfizer in 1849, Brooklyn, New York.
Amazon products are served in every single country on earth. Also started in his garage by a man name Jeff Bezos in Seattle Washington in 1994.
Half of the world’s population communicates on Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2004.
Our Qatar Airways flight attendant said she can’t wait to get to Dallas to go to Walmart to get vitamins for her family. Sam Walton, 1962, Rogers, Arkansas.
This list could literally go on for days. That should fill every American with tremendous pride for this country, its founders, its people, its opportunities, and its contributions to the planet.
Sure we have our flaws, but I can’t wait to get back to America and not drink sparkling water anymore (whoever invented that needs to be in prison), not have to use Kilometers or Celsius anymore, and sink my teeth into a Chick-fil-A sandwich (Truett Cathy, Hapeville, Georgia 1964)
God Bless America.
@uno18b44 boss, my Alma mater Samford university got new football coach John Grass from Clemson. How we gonna be this year?
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Why are they always saying “say it louder for the people in the back.” As someone usually in the back, I take offense to that. Y’all privileged people up front just assuming that the people in the back aren’t listening? To just assume we are somehow at fault for being in the back is unfair.
Additionally, the statement is presumptuous to people who are sitting up front. You assume they are paying attention cause they’re up front? Is it general admission or does everyone have a reserved seat? There are several socioeconomic factors to consider as well.
Plus, why didn’t the place where the things are being said have adequate sound accommodations? Why is it “say it louder for the people in the back” and not “maybe the person saying the things should reconsider the environment in which he is saying said things so next time the people in the back will have equal opportunity to hear.”
The statement also assumes the thing said was so important that the people in the back need to hear it, in comparison to other things said. So the privilege of the people up front get to decide which parts are said louder, based on what THEY THINK the people in the back need to hear? Presumptuous and elitist.
As someone in the back, let me just say that we do not need it to be said louder. Have you ever considered we sat in the back NOT to avoid hearing, but to avoid sitting next to the type of people up front who say things like “say it louder for the people in the back”
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
“I’m not good mentally” 😂
John had our fans doing mental gymnastics on the way into Bridgestone Arena 😅
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I have so many questions
Got to take @johnbcrist to his first Holy Mass today! Give him some encouragement to balance out whatever heat he might take for attending.
