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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1809 Joined: 13 Oct 2008     | |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 968 Joined: 9 Oct 2007     |
American sports crowds never seem to be nearly as crazy and wild as Europeans when it comes to soccer. I mean, we don't sit there and watch the game quietly, but physical violence at sports events is pretty rare. The worst it usually gets is some name calling. College sports tend to be a bit wilder though, since the college students get into the game much, much more. If you go into a Duke basketball game...the sound is just deafening. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1809 Joined: 13 Oct 2008 | ameriaca can not speall (lol) are religious extreamists, and are stupid. have WAY too many guns, WHY?!? why do you need to all be armed? have ridiculus cars. why a 4x4 in the city?!? and why a "Muscle" car? is it to make up for your small "muscle"? and all thote giant Nukes, definately phalic. and compansating. Homophobic. if you like being with a guy, why should it matter to you what de does in bed with other guys? yeah, i totally believe that the twin towers was NOT an inside job and that the "Patriot" act just happened to be lying around. Guantunamo bay. an illegal military base, doing illegal things to people, who you arrested illegally. leave Cuba alone, just because they made comunisum work you didn't have to screw up the country. you are too big. not just fat people, but your contry should be split into 3-4 differnt nations. so should china and russia, australias OK because most of the land is uninhabbitable, and aussies are too lazy to take over the world. stop bashing the "scientific minority". creationists are stupid. NO ARGUMENT. EVULUTION HAPPENED THE BIBLE IS BULL. and athiests are 25% of americas population, so the nex time someones wants them to lose all rights as a citizen (like Bush Sr), go die. you are a horrible nation that needs to look at what it is doing to the world. you are not the world police. and you KNEW about Pearl harbour before it happened, stop your lies and brain washing. making little kids pleadge alliegence is EVIL. it is something Hitler would have done. no do what you people always do. dont address the issues, just bomb me with flame and make fun of my spelling like you always do. why dont you accuse me of being unreasonable, nothing like americas war with Vietnam, or the war of terror, or your whole Frickin sex obsessed society. what is with you people and sex? its always about getting "down and dirty" or "Hot and sweaty". rarely is it about closeness and love. or affection, trust, careing. personally, i like the adds for "i want to be an engineer, sex can wait", but people need more sexual education other than "dont do it" and "how to do it". how about "when to do it" and "why to do it"? but why do you hake such disgusting sex scenes, and SO MUCH porn? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3310 Joined: 10 Oct 2008   |
No shit. I like America because we can do and say just about anything as long as it does not harm another human being. Business and people getting rich/successful on an individual basis had never really been seen in the world before like it is in America. A poor man living homeless on he street can come up on his own to become a millionaire, like the true life story of Chris Gardner. That is why America kicks ass so much. Sure it has it's issues. But I dare anyone here to point to one Nation that does not have issues on some level. |
Paperboy  Posts: 42 Joined: 18 Dec 2008   |
Obvious troll is obvious. Could the troll please cite some of his stats for my amusement? Edit: a little side note, Aluminum (American spelling) was originally named Aluminium (UK spelling), but the scientific community changed their minds a couple of years later, and so they name it Aluminum. America, for the first and last time in its existence, changed the name of a term, so Americans are using the technically correct term. I do so love the weird facts that Bill Bryson digs up.
Thats because all those people are way drunk :P. I don't know about how it works in Europe, but over here college sports are HUGE. They make far more money than most of the professional teams in the US (Mostly because they dont have to pay multimillion dollar salaries to their players) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1771 Joined: 18 Nov 2008     |
A short history of nearly everything, right? good book! |
Paperboy Posts: 42 Joined: 18 Dec 2008 |
Correction: Fantastic book. I think I learned more about science reading that than I ever had at school. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3310 Joined: 10 Oct 2008 | To those that have not, read this, it is a very informative book. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_United_States |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1142 Joined: 12 Aug 2008    |
second. |
Paperboy  Posts: 16 Joined: 8 Jan 2009 | I live in America and know firsthand how much it sucks. Mainly it's the SHIT WE EAT, and yes I do mean HORRIBLE FILTHY SHIT FAST FOOD AND PROCESSED SHIT, that bugs me. For some reason no one really gives a fuck. It gets banned in Europe for some odd reason. Yet, we dunt care about dem stoopid eur-o-pee-ans. Yea what would they know? They've only been around about, oh..., a few hundred years long than us, but just a few... |
Paperboy Posts: 42 Joined: 18 Dec 2008 |
There, I fixed it for you. Zinn states that
This "historian" in essence, states that if a particular part of history (something that should be objective) does not aid the writer in what cause they are attempting to benefit (something that should not be in a historical text) they should be ignored. Howard Zinn is essentially the Karl Marx of the history world. He writes that
He also out and out lies several times. He states that the wealthiest man in America during the Revolution was George Washington (not even close). He states that unemployment rose during the Reagan years, but Reagan inherited an unemployment rate of 7.5% and left office with one of 5.4% He also leaves out enormous parts of American history that don't fit his class struggle version of American history. Washington's Farewell address, the Gettysburg Address, Reagan's speech at the Brandenburg gate, all of them are simply omitted. He notes Valley Forge once, ignores the Normandy Invasion and Gettysburg, and yet dedicates several pages to My Lai and several more to the bombing campaigns in the original Iraq War. This is not history. This is a work of fiction. |
Paperboy Posts: 12 Joined: 25 Sep 2008 | Don't kid yourselves. Britain had to fight off Nazi Germany in the Battle of Britain on our damn own. (A little help from a few foreign pilots). America was happy to see us under a Swastika. It was only after Pearl Harbour that they felt it necessary to take the war to Europe, when they could gain influence over the severely weakened countries there. So NO, America has not lovingly leapt into the fray whenever there is trouble and don't even try to suggest that they have. |
Paperboy Posts: 12 Joined: 25 Sep 2008 |
Seriously, how old are you? 5? "Because our military owns"... That is the most immature thing I have heard for a long time. America is awesome because, what? They have a high friendly fire count? Often kill innocent civilians with misguided airstrikes? Charge guns blazing into a country raping, and napalming yet more civilians only to lose the war to a bunch of farmers and women and children with severely outdated weapons and equipment? Or maybe dropping atomic bombs onto 2 cities of no strategic importance or military value?Yeah... your military sure does "own"...I would be so proud of those achievments... |
Muckraker  Posts: 267 Joined: 4 Dec 2008 | I don't... America isn't bad but I wouldn't call it awesome. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 125 Joined: 19 Dec 2008  | When i went on the 4th of July, everything was so dramatically partiotic and historically inaccurate and viewed with rose-tinted glasses that i could help but love the lardy buggers. I think they're strangely endearing. Bless their cotton socks. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 125 Joined: 19 Dec 2008 |
We put cheese in ours, you seem to place a yellow rubbery plastic material in yours. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 57 Joined: 24 Dec 2008 | It's subjective, to your credit Americans are the most patriotic people on the planet, except maybe the Chinese. I'm not sure the Russians count since they all look back at the Soviet Union not the Federation... On the other hand however I look down upon you all through my monacle and English nature and laugh at your every action and acheivement for it's sheer hilarity. You won the Revolution? *Laughter* The greatest men in the history of your nation agreed to white peace with the maddest most incompetent King Englands ever had and who couldn't tell his own son from a tree and you consider that an accomplishment?! On the other hand America could certainly crush us today... *runs and hides whilst laughing* |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 772 Joined: 25 Jun 2008   |
Yes raven we get it, Your a transparent Bigot who can't stand americans. Can those of us who don't base our opinions of people in other nations off of their sitcoms now continue a rational discussion please? Or do you want to go on a stint about the Japanese or Germans or French now? I'm sure you must have lots of interesting thoughts on them. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 213 Joined: 6 May 2008 | Too many responses, but ill add mines anyway. I immigrated to this country as an 8 year old boy, and the opportunities that i got by living in this country made the move worth it. I love americans, the same way i love idiots. Even though i was not born here, and even though i still keep the traditions and culture of my birthplace, i consider myself an american. Because i like porno; i enjoy beer; and i believe that freedom is something you must fight for. But im not one those patriotic fucks that go around pissing off other countries. Just because you came out of a vagina into this country does NOT make you an american, its your believes and ideals that count. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 159 Joined: 17 Jan 2008  | Who said they were awesome -.- ? |
Paperboy Posts: 15 Joined: 12 Nov 2008 | The reason we're awesome is because we're so rich! The reason we're rich is because over the last 30 years we spent TEN TRILLION DOLLARS we didn't have :( It's far from the first time it's been done. Traditionally, the next step is to print EVEN MORE dollars we don't have to fight the oncoming depression, eventually making the dollar so worthless you have to cart a wheelbarrow-load of money to the store to buy a loaf of bread. I hope the next "world megapower" has the sense to teach their kids history. Here, it's been nothing but memorizing a list of names and dates for decades, but then the corporations never wanted us any more educated than we needed to be to use an ATM and buy crap. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 57 Joined: 24 Dec 2008 | *looks up at Bright Ravens comment* Right... I have nothing to say, it's a potential landmine given my inclination to correct people via humurous means... All I will say is that if the Cubans got communism to work then I'll renounce my communist ways because that is not commuism. More like a heriditary dictatorship with an offcial communist dogma. Also if communism had some how worked on that island then it raises the question as to why there's any form of government at all... I'm going to assume you don't know your communism. |
Muckraker  Posts: 346 Joined: 7 Jun 2008    | America is not awesome....Um..... that's basically it. |
Paperboy  Posts: 42 Joined: 27 Aug 2008   | Ammurrka Sucks. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 528 Joined: 22 Jan 2008 | I love America because: - it has fewer economic freedoms than my own country I love you America! |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 851 Joined: 30 Jul 2008 | I'm not American. America is not a guardian angel, but the world would certainly be a worse place without it. No, we wouldn't be under the Nazis, nor the communists, nor the monarchy. But we wouldn't be eating Big Macs and drinking cola either. |
BANNED  Posts: 253 Joined: 4 Sep 2008 |
how is it historically inaccurate? 4th of July is pretty much just about shooting off fireworks now. there aren't people running around the streets shouting GOD BLESS AMERICA and yelling out historical statements. User was banned for: Why aren't girls into gaming?. (Permanent) |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 868 Joined: 4 Jun 2008  | we are the guys with the nukes |
Beat Writer  Posts: 196 Joined: 12 Aug 2008  | |
Beat Writer  Posts: 222 Joined: 27 Oct 2008 |
White Castle |
Muckraker  Posts: 291 Joined: 28 Aug 2008   | I live here. It's not. |
Muckraker  Posts: 282 Joined: 18 Jun 2008 | As an American, I will be happy to answer this question to all you brits, aussies, and other assorted nationalities. The reason we're so awesome, is simply this: We've accepted that we're all card carrying residents of crazytown, USA. You see, other nations see how utterly insane America is, and think we must be poor deluded fucks, and we can't see the amount of nonsensical bullshit we live in. But in truth, we are FULLY aware of this, and have embraced the insanity. The world is going crazy, we've just started the party early |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3310 Joined: 10 Oct 2008 |
Yes it is. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 116 Joined: 18 Dec 2008 | America rocks because the 55 guys who created the constitution were all rock star super heroes. Also, we pwnd Britain not once, but twice. I mean, the British were the strongest military threat in the world and a bunch of backwoods cretins BEAT them. I know the whole expense argument; it cost Britain WAAY too much to keep sending reinforcements across the Atlantic, but come on! Then the war of 1812, we had Andrew freaking Jackson, one of the craziest SOB's to become a general and then go on to presidency. James K Polk then freaking raped the English and the Mexicans in the Manifest destiny. He was also the only president to fulfill all of his campaign goals, which included lowering the tariffs on foreign trade, creating an independent treasury that lasted until 1913 and seizing the whole west coast. Polk was also unusually angry and uncharismatic. We all know Lincoln was part machine, and made of pure unadulterated awesome. He managed to keep the union AND after the North won, lay the foundation for a peaceful restoration of the southern cities to be rebuilt. That's not even in the 20th century! The United States of America just has a pretty cool history and a LOT of freedoms that most of it's inhabitants take for granted. The US, because of it's revolt against the Crown with the declaration of independence, spurred many of the other monarchies in Europe to limit the amount of power their sovereigns had over them with similar documents. (i.e. The Declarations of Rights of Man in France, the independence of Serbia in 1815 and the independence of Greece from 1821-30) So yeah... A lot of history classes. :) |
Copy Clerk Posts: 116 Joined: 18 Dec 2008 | We also have the world's largest roller coaster park! BA DOOM! |
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i have solved the american credit crisis, they spent all their money on american flags.