I realize the promo is about the future, but I’d be ticked if I were those two. You put Buke up on the front page and not Jackson? Especially since the audio mentions Jackson pumping up the crowd,

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3508955

“New Jersey Nets free agent Nenad Krstic signed a two year deal worth $3 million euros per year with Triumph Moscow early Tuesday morning, Krstic’s agent, Marc Cornstein, said.
The salary is the equivalent of around $9 million per year in the United States once you factor in the exchange rate and the fact that European clubs pay all the players’ taxes.”

Now, 3 mill euros = 4.5 mill dollars
That’s pretty much what i was saying, getting 4.5 in europe is the equivalent of 9 in USA…

The reason, as you can see in the press report, are the taxes. As i said, in europe the organization pays it for you because they got it back when they close the books at the end of the fiscal year.

what about Irish? :>)

I don’t know if you traveled to Greece but the situation on those beautifull islands is that they are overruned by brittish citizens(most of them dead drunk and obnoxious) who think that they are better than the rest of the world.

“while i m not very high minded about regular citizens of UK whom drunk behavior in heart of my city makes me mad every time when i heard brittish accent”

Can you clarify this, otherwise Buike and I will be asking you to step outside for a small chat!

I will confess there is a large portion of the British community I would like to drop into a large hole in the Atlantic Ocean, however I fear there is a 20 to 1 ratio of Americans I could equally do the same with!

Pity the poor “American” who (and I have seen this so many times) decided it was cool to chat up this girl at a bar who was clearly with someone else and when he didnt take NO for an answer, found the 6’4” of angry boyfriend Brit next to her grabbing him by the ears, giving him a “Glaswegian kiss” (Translation – Headbutt) to his nose where upon he started crying like a girl as to “WHY” as he poured claret everywhere?

It all comes down to culture and there are some things you just dont do. For example, drink driving. I have to say..Americans SUCK when it comes to drink driving! The seemed rule is a drink an hour Horsecrap!!!!!!!! A beer an hour for 6 hours does NOT make you safe to drive a car. The Brits do know their limit (two drinks) if they are driving, period. However when those who are not driving do get drunk, they can get a little out of hand and to be honest, they are embarrassing.

Equally though, the complete inability of Americans in and around San Francisco to understand the basic principles of the road, are driving me mad. I kid you not, I took my US driving test and the route from Daly City DMV did not allow me to get out of 2nd gear??? Yet this is then fine to let people on a freeway at 70+mph!

Whilst there is much that is very screwed up in the UK, there is just as much screwed up here. The only difference is we are traditionally a little more Worldly wise (having wanted to conquer the world in the past, not our greatest hour but pretty damn impressive considering our size as a nation) Oh and lest we forget, we turned the entire German army away from British shores a whole year before the US decided to even enter WW2! However….the weather…..is MUCH nicer here, SF city excluded! ;-)

As to TAX in Europe….............BULLCRAP!!!!!!!!!! you show me one European government that will allow tax dollars to go back to people! No, the truth is we get bent over a barrell and told to enjoy the tax grabbing shafting that we get and when it stops on Income Tax, they then go to town on you for cigarettes, Beer, Petrol… etc etc.

CAN YOU IMAGINE PAYING $12 A LITRE HERE???? Guess what…been paying that for a while now in the UK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So….in answer to your comment, I equally do not like drunken behaviour on the streets of any city, but for every British voice you hear…. there will be many many more American voices in just as bad if not worse shape!

Let get rid of them all!!

THE BEST!