Thread of Awesome: THIS! IS!! QUOTEFILE!!!

[Mamorien]

On QQ,

Speaking as a Canadian as I plot out my future contributions to the Global Achievements List (for some reason non-Canadians call them the Geneva Conventions), Americans don't really feel shame. The full range of human emotions aside from shame yes, just not shame.

Unistaters still felt shame acutely enough to die of it as late as 1959, according to Naked Lunch.

Nelson Muntz can think of at least two things wrong with that title.

It was A. J. who put the piranha fish in Lady Sutton-Smith's swimming pool, and dosed the punch with a mixture of Yage, Hashish and Yohimbine during a Fourth of July reception at the U.S. Embassy, precipitating an orgy. Ten prominent citizens--American, of course--subsequently died of shame. Dying of shame is an accomplishment peculiar to Kwakiutl Indians and Americans--others simply say "Zut alors" or "Son cosas de la vida" or "Allah fucked me, the All Powerful...."