The World Cup is completely changing European minds about Texas

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In reply to Sid Farkas • 9:38a, 6/13/26
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Did you really just post the exact same video as in the original post on this thread?
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In reply to Vitani • 9:40a, 6/13/26
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Vitani said:
Did you really just post the exact same video as in the original post on this thread?

yes - instead of quoting the OP, I just copied the X link. It's quite common to do so.
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9:44a, 6/13/26
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Based on the title of this post, I was expecting to see a video where someone said they had a preconceived belief about Texas or the US and they were surprised at how wrong their perception was. But there isn't any of that. It's just a person talking about how they enjoyed the hospitality.
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In reply to IIIHorn • 9:46a, 6/13/26
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IIIHorn said:
Yesterday said:
100%. I always tell anyone, whether American or Foreign that I am from Texas.


How often did you get this follow up question?:

"Do you have a horse?"


I haven't gotten the horse yet but plenty of Oil and gun talk thanks to the shows Dallas and now Landman.
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In reply to aggiedata • 9:56a, 6/13/26
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Hydration break sounds better than what it really is: A TV timeout.
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9:57a, 6/13/26
Does it matter? European having their minds changed as their cultures are erased from history because they vote like idiots.
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In reply to Sawgrass • 10:04a, 6/13/26
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Sawgrass said:
Hydration break sounds better than what it really is: A TV timeout.


Yeah I'm pretty sure FIFA doesn't give a **** about anything other than cold hard cash
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In reply to Old Sarge • 10:05a, 6/13/26
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Welcome to our country, traveler.

Welcome to our State of Texas, traveler, let us show you our hospitality. Thank you for coming.

Please remember, if you want to live here, there is a LEGAL way to live here.

Don't forget to go HOME, and return the LEGAL way, get naturalized, and perhaps become our neighbor.







It's a challenge, and it was meant to be that way.


Good luck. If you follow the RULES and LAWS, we will WELCOME you.

Preach!!!!
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. Hippocrates
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10:22a, 6/13/26


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USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.

I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.

In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.

"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.

"Honey, that's what it looks like."

The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."

I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.

I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.

It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.

"Well?" the waitress asked.

"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."

"Everybody does, hon."

Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.

Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.

I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.

It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.
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In reply to Gaeilge • 10:25a, 6/13/26
I have seen a number of foreigners try biscuits and gravy and have the same reaction when they first see it….then they try it and are in love with it…the food videos of people coming over from other countries are great.
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10:42a, 6/13/26
They found Luling City Market!!

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In reply to Gaeilge • 10:44a, 6/13/26
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I order it [biscuits and gravy] every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden


…"and I put on 15 lbs and take a statin."
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In reply to Ulysses90 • 10:53a, 6/13/26
Every American should thank God every single day that we are blessed to live here.
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10:59a, 6/13/26
Just gonna declare this thread the World Cup Thread and post the **** I'm finding on X!

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11:03a, 6/13/26
The politicians in Washington, regardless of Party, have never been an accurate representation of America or the average citizen of our great country.
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In reply to IIIHorn • 11:09a, 6/13/26
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IIIHorn said:
During each visit to Europe, I have performed an experiment.

When asked if I am from the US or are you an 'American', I receive an entirely different response depending upon my answer.

If I answer 'Yes', the conversation concerning where I'm from did not last much longer.

The answer 'I am a Texan', prompted curiosity, hospitality and numerous questions.


I've noticed that as well. Had a museum doscent tell me, the funny thing was only the Texans tell you. He said folks from every other state will say the US or American, then only tell their state when asked further.
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In reply to Kenneth_2003 • 11:23a, 6/13/26
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Kenneth_2003 said:
IIIHorn said:
During each visit to Europe, I have performed an experiment.

When asked if I am from the US or are you an 'American', I receive an entirely different response depending upon my answer.

If I answer 'Yes', the conversation concerning where I'm from did not last much longer.

The answer 'I am a Texan', prompted curiosity, hospitality and numerous questions.


I've noticed that as well. Had a museum doscent tell me, the funny thing was only the Texans tell you. He said folks from every other state will say the US or American, then only tell their state when asked further.
Been that way for over a hundred years. Go back and read Bram Stoker's Dracula and the note the Texan cowboy character.

This is also an opportunity to plug Texas A&M and educate folks on why it is the state's premier university.
The left cannot kill the Spirit of Charlie Kirk.
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In reply to Gaeilge • 11:34a, 6/13/26
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They found Luling City Market!!


He put sauce on the brisket. Damn foreigners.
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12:04p, 6/13/26
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Here's another one of the South African guy just touching grass in America. Actually, he's just taking a stroll at midnight near a Pilot gas station and he's amazed that he isn't in fear for his life and that slow moving trucks aren't being looted. Listen carefully to what he says. If you can see what he sees, you know America is worth fighting for.



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In reply to Ulysses90 • 12:09p, 6/13/26
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We need more white South African refugees, people are actually being oppressed and truly deserve refugee status.
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4:36p, 6/13/26
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Threads like this are stupid. There is no reason to conclude that the life experience of the average American is much better than the life experience of the average European aristocrat.

Put another way, I am willing to bet that, for every other country on Earth, the majority of US citizens also holding passports from that country chooses to live here.
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5:10p, 6/13/26
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LOL. Something something Irish vs. Scots.
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In reply to doubledog • 5:39p, 6/13/26
doubledog said:
If you have ever traveled to Europe you will discover...

European locals often harbor negative feelings towards American tourists, particularly those from the East and West Coast of America ; however, it is worth noting that Americans tend to contribute significantly to the local economy through their spending.

German tourists are similarly viewed unfavorably in various European nations due to their perceived annoying behavior, as well as their tendency to bring their own food and minimize their expenditures.

Travelers from the U.K. also face disapproval in other European countries, as they are often seen as bothersome and are known to introduce their own cultural elements, such as the prevalence of English pubs along the beaches of Spain.
I could go on, but there is a common theme here.
Not sure what you experienced, but my experiences in our travels to Greece(Athens, Santorini, Corfu, Katacolon,& more), Croatia(Dubrovnik, Cress, &more), Italy(Venice, Milan, Rome, Messina, Sorento & more) has been quite the opposite,
The people were friendly, engaging and a pleasure to be around.
The ships, although small(~ 200 passengers) we traveled on was German owned and the passengers were ~1/3 German, 1/3 British and a blend of American, & Eastern European.
Sorry your experiences were so different.
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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In reply to nortex97 • 5:44p, 6/13/26

I don't see any of them eating a sausage and peppers sandwich, made with Bianco sausage, I declare this tweet to be fraudulent.
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In reply to richardag • 5:47p, 6/13/26
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We've traveled Europe via cruises several times. The only place where we felt unwelcome was Germany, and that was just a handful of folks. The slavic countries, even Russia, were very friendly. Poland/Italy might have been the friendliest European countries we visited.
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5:50p, 6/13/26
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European locals often harbor negative feelings towards American tourists, particularly those from the East and West Coast of America ;


I can't ever once remember, in months and miles of European travel, that I have experienced resentment "because I was American." That was true, even when I was a snotty college kid and my French just sucked.

I have witnessed quite a bit of resentment of drunks and asshats who happened also to be Americans.
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In reply to boulderaggie • 5:56p, 6/13/26
boulderaggie said:
We've traveled to Europe via cruises several times. The only place where we felt unwelcome was Germany, and that was just a handful of folks. The slavic countries, even Russia, were very friendly. Poland/Italy might have been the friendliest European countries we visited.
Glad you had good experiences.
We didn't actually cruise to Europe we flew into the demarcation cities, boarded the Royal Clipper for the adventure.
Amazing experience, people,crew,food, excursions.
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
-Aristophanes
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5:57p, 6/13/26


We don't hate the MSM enough.

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In reply to Backyard Gator • 6:02p, 6/13/26
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Backyard Gator said:


We don't hate the MSM enough.


Well well well, who do you think it was, pray tell, that told Euros that America was foreboding or inhospitable, old ass liberal white lady?


Ohh,... dont tell me it was you! What a clown you would look like if they are experiencing the complete opposite than the nonsense lie that you have been selling for a decade!

Get bent. This reflects Southern Americans as welcoming and you dont even have the self-awareness to realize that the people that you despise are actually really welcoming and nice people and who aren't racist and dont hate foreigners. This is not your victory, dip*****
i'm sorry i dont laugh at the right times.
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In reply to richardag • 6:03p, 6/13/26
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WOW!
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In reply to IIIHorn • 6:05p, 6/13/26
IIIHorn said:
During each visit to Europe, I have performed an experiment.

When asked if I am from the US or are you an 'American', I receive an entirely different response depending upon my answer.

If I answer 'Yes', the conversation concerning where I'm from did not last much longer.

The answer 'I am a Texan', prompted curiosity, hospitality and numerous questions.



Last time I traveled outside the U.S. I took my badge so I could skip the TSA line. Thank you HPD for the hook up. While in St. Maarten, locals got a kick out of the sheriff's badge.
My gummy-bear died. My unicorn ran away. My imaginary friend got kidnapped. The voices in my head wont talk to me.
I've got a red bull. So I got that going for me.
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6:08p, 6/13/26
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I hope I did not offend anybody with this post. If I did, please come see me at my address in my profile so we can talk.
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6:12p, 6/13/26
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Woke white female liberals are the most inhospitable people on the planet - and project their image of America in to everyone else. She is among the worst.
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6:20p, 6/13/26
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Need to figure out a trade situation, any America-hating Democrat (or two or three), for a European who loves this country.
I don't think you know me.
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In reply to Vitani • 7:07p, 6/13/26
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Vitani said:
The fan from Germany who is trying all of the American restaurants and interesting locales is fun.

https://nypost.com/2026/06/12/lifestyle/german-world-cup-tourist-goes-viral-eating-his-way-across-america/



In other World Cup news, it was great that during the national anthem before the US game tonight everyone in the stands was singing.


I drove from Florida to New Orleans today and when i crossed the border into Louisiana someone had affixed a homemade "Welcome Freddy" sign
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