Jean,

>>I don't see alot of movies lately. The last one was english/american (wallice and grommit) on the plane.
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>Ah the Wererabbit. Very nice one and i don't care who funded it but that one is a English as the cliffs of Dover. <s>
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>What i meant was that we do have a -probably distorted - view of the States but the reverse is scant at best.

Well ok, I guess I did not get your point.

>>Btw, how many american cars (aside from ford) do you see on the road? How many american consumer electronics do you have at home?
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>Cars ? Chrysler thanks to mercedes seems to make a small comeback. On the whole - due to several raisons - Am. cars just aren't suited for our roads.
>Consumer goods...eh none..as far as i'm aware.
>But all this is a bit besides the point i was making.
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>>I also love german crimi's. but how many Americans have ever heard about >derrick, der alte, commisar rex, etc.

>Aren't you proving my point here, Walter ? BTW on the whole EU one's are a lot less violent than the US one's

I agree, In those crimis, a max of one or two killings, though I know of a belgian one (forgot the name) which tend to have a higher murder rate.

>I've seen some of the German one's but i prefer UK 'crimi's' b.y a rather large margin.

I've seen a few UK ones, but they tend to be too longthreaded (langdradig) for my taste. Inspector morse and murder she wrote (or is this american?) are the one I can come up with. The latter irritates me to the bone though because it is totally unrealistic (I know they all are far from reality, but this one really stands out).

Yeah, the one I really liked was the german one called Wolf. But again that is personal preference.

Walter,