Alex Kozlowski

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[Alex Kozlowski @Wizard_ofKoz]

@NealGardner_ It’s beautiful

[Alex Kozlowski @Wizard_ofKoz]

One side of my family can be traced back directly to the revolutionaries.

The other half came from Poland to the US in the late 1800s looking for a better life.

We recently visited Poland to visit where they came from, and loved it.

Long live Poland and its people!

[Wojciech Konończuk @W_Kononczuk]

100 years ago, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of U.S. independence, the Polish people presented the American people with the Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States.

These unique documents were signed by... 5.5 million Poles.

Their purpose was to acknowledge the importance of the US and gratitude for it assistance to Poland during World War I.

The collection of 111 volumes of signatures and greetings is available on the @librarycongress website.

Btw, it is also a remarkable resource for genealogical research.
https://t.co/hZ5g2VNnE6

Happy 250th, America!

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE! 

The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.

LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.

[Alex Kozlowski @Wizard_ofKoz]

@NickRTFM King

[Alex Kozlowski @Wizard_ofKoz]

“Kilometre”

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

WTF IS A KILOMETRE!!

[Alex Kozlowski @Wizard_ofKoz]

@LaTri Yo no soy ecuatoriano, ni hablo castellano como lengua materna. Pero mi mujer sí es ecuatoriana.

Me alegro mucho por el pueblo ecuatoriano y su gente. Viva el encebollado!!

[Alex Kozlowski @Wizard_ofKoz]

The mental gymnastics Ronaldo fans have to go through to convince themselves he’s the GOAT is honestly impressive.

Debate ended awhile ago too… Messi is undisputed

[Zack Hedrick @zhedrickTV]

The USMNT is serenaded by the crowd in Seattle with John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" after their 2-0 win over Australia.

USA is on to the Round of 32.
📽️: @FOXSports

[Alex Kozlowski @Wizard_ofKoz]

We did that without captain America.

He makes us better, good to see we can still get a solid result without him.

[Alex Kozlowski @Wizard_ofKoz]

@AlbertOrtegaES1 Uno pensaría que los jugadores que reemplazan a esos dos, intentarían ser protagonistas. Pero han terminado siendo más flojos que mi barriga después de vacaciones en Marruecos.

[Alex Kozlowski @Wizard_ofKoz]

@theoldzealand (S)pain

[Alex Kozlowski @Wizard_ofKoz]

@BrettKollmann Not Spanish but live here (have so for 7 years). The nerves are there but still confident we can get something going

[Alex Kozlowski @Wizard_ofKoz]

7-1. Brazilians, look away

[Kevin Patrick Mahaffey @dropalltables]

Oh yes, I remember that Bond film where the villain decarbonized the auto industry, brought fast internet to everyone on the planet, and helped paralyzed people interact with the world again.

[Alex Kozlowski @Wizard_ofKoz]

I posted this 11 years ago and it’s wild that it’s still relevant today

[Alex Kozlowski @Wizard_ofKoz]

In order for more Americans to get into soccer, we need to get rid of Alexi Lalas, Warren Barton, and that other wanker. #RuiningTheSport

[Alex Kozlowski @Wizard_ofKoz]

Boshnia is his magnum opus

[Coral @Coral]

Big John's Bosh Around The World 🌎

48 teams. 48 boshes. No autocue.

Bosh.

[Alex Kozlowski @Wizard_ofKoz]

@FreddyLA7 Looks like the one the top gear guys stopped at

[Alex Kozlowski @Wizard_ofKoz]

Funniest one for me is the yellow school bus. A buddy of mine from Spain visited and he *literally* could not believe they were real.

Thought it was just some made up movie thing.

[Lady Nimby, pitiful bigot @LadyNimby]

Every *single* euro I’ve ever known who has visited the US has described something as mundane as walking into a gas station as “like being in a film/tv show”

When I was there, everyone wanted to see photos of my high school and hear stories about it. Because it was “like being on tv”

Drive down a wide-open desert highway. “It’s like a film”

Drink a cup of drip coffee out of a porcelain mug. “Just like on tv”

Red solo cups in the store. “Just like high school films”

Packed high school football game on a Friday night. “Just like tv”

Subdivisions with big houses, double garages, large yards “just like in films”

Go to a shooting range. “I THOUGHT THIS WAS MADE UP FOR TV”

Even the “America is retarded” crowd get like this when they finally experience it

I will fault Hollywood for a lot but selling America as an insanely cool and desirable place to be is not one of them. At least not through the 00’s. All of these people in some way or another emulated what they saw on tv and in film in their own lives as teenagers and at university, whether they realized it or not. The way they dressed (particularly early 00s SoCal fashion), the food they ate, the kind of parties they threw.

Once the ice was broken and we became friends, I never met a single person that didn’t confide that the banality of my life growing up was incredibly cool, even “the dream,” just by virtue of being in the US. We’ve maybe lost some of that cred recently. But it’s still there. It’s still the dominant feeling whether they’ll admit it or not.