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look at us in the UK for christ's sake, we're already paying nearer $8 a gallon for our fuel. chill out |
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and we all drive around in 3 wheeled tea drinking rodney trotter mobiles, who's king of the road now Brad Yankstein |
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Americans are crazy. Bush just vetoed the "no more torture" bill. So yay they can keep torturing! "Torture is tools." "What about human rights, Mr. President?" "Human rights.. heh.. that's kind of vague, isn't it?" |
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they'll be nuked soon. they've got 15 years tops before sammy binlid makes one of |
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everyone cries about it but nobody cuts down on fuel consumption. |
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fuck you. i've not left the house in 6 days. |
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you're doing your part. mother earth says thank you. |
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i cant wait to die |
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as soon as you die, infinity will pass and you'll be reborn again there's absolutely no escaping it chances are you've already lived an infinite number of lives already! no respite for you. ever. |
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no wonder why i get deja vu all the time, cause ive lived this damn dumb life over and over and i want it to change. |
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happy 14th birthday. |
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thank u! |
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NEW NEW NEW WORLD ORDER 4 LIFE! |
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"america worrying about prospect of 4 a gallon" that's like falling from a plane without a parachute and worrying about the landing. |
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Europe is way smaller than America. You have much more public transit. Americans live in their cars. Distribution of products such as groceries are done via 18 wheelers trucks. Thus affecting the price of everything while in a recession. Id rather have a train in each town and shorter distances to drive than cheaper gas and no trains no busses and vast distances. Its not that great. |
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yeah its great, i can catch the #12 bus to france for £3.50 to get cheap wine and be back in time for robot wars. |
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Americans live in their cars. and i was thinking the usians drive big suv's because they're thick. i guess it must be me who's thick. they frigging live in their cars! especially now that they can't afford to live in normal houses anymore... |
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Lovely pedantic trite joke. Since when is America the SUV capital? SUV are made by Porche, BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, Land Rover. Most people in America own foreign cars and trucks. Cause, frankly, Americans cars suck and we know it. So why don't you petition your local car companies to stop making these vehicles if they anger you so much? |
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all those foreign companies make SUV's, BECAUSE THE AMERICAN MARKET GENERALLY WANTS INEFFICIENT LARGE VEHICLES |
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Your foreign language sites for these companies have these vehicleslisted. So it doesn't seem to be solely the usa fueling the need for these vehicles. They want to cater to an international audience. You aren't going to guilt trip people into doing the right thing. It has to happen from the top. The people making the decisions. New energies, new technologies,. Thats the only thing that has taken us out of the smog filled Industrial Revolution |
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wait a second here, are you defending your own country? |
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No no Im with you guys. I hate Bush too |
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America is sick of Bush. America is sick of the war. America wants hybrid cars. |
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at least many of the people do. Our problem is that that the line between government and corporation has become very blurred. |
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the fear of smug is the only thing stopping progress |
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lol that's just nonsense. is that the american way of reasoning? just because mcdonald's (or a european fast food thrash restaurant - can't think of any atm) sells big macs doesn't have to mean you have to eat them. come on. sure, the government have to make regulations forcing the industry to make healthier food, because well, the masses obviously can't think for themselves. they're just brainless consumers right? and btw: sure suv's are sold all over the world. but still, they're relatively far more popular in the us. i don't see an argument here. |
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Ok, than I'm done arguing with you. Thank you for listening., Good bye. |
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seriously though, i feel sorry for the americans. i read an article last week where they gave a nice analogy for the current economic developments in america (in this case, the huge trade deficits) wrt the rising economies in asia. it was a story about four people stranded on an island. three asians and an american. in the old situation the asians made long days producing food while the american basically did nothing apart from making sure the asians kept working. after a long day working the american ate a large part of the food, leaving the left-overs for the asians. for as long the asians didn't know better, things worked out well and there was a stable economy on the island. but after a while the asians started to wonder why they would have to feed the american. and that brings us to the current global developments: again, i wish you the best. you're in for a hard time and the worst has yet to come (and there's not a democrat president who can do a damn thing about it) |
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if yuo really cared youd provide me a nice escape route out of here |
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i dont know why that was a follow up to glasse. im drunk. sorry. |
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don't apologise, drunk is rad. |
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"that's like falling from a plane without a parachute and worrying about the landing." as my physics teacher said, "the fall's not so bad, it's the sudden stop at the end that's the problem." |
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"i feel sorry for the americans" great. |
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I work hard to not worry about things out of my control |
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i'm drexcyian, not american so fuck off you fat little european toad, america don't need your holy sympathy. what it needs is more women. |
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and more burgers |
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and cheaper gas |
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Every decade since after ww2 has had some doomsday scenario with magazines spewing fear over something taking us over. Whether its the cold war, the Japs buying all our real estate and taking over the economic world or the next ice age. Now its global warming and China. So much wasted worry over nothing. The scary stuff is the shit we can't predict. |
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like gasoline with AIDS |
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Yeah, AIDS too. Fear mongering in order to drum up government funding. |
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yeah i walked into a barnes and noble and there was a whole section on "PREPARING FOR 2012!" what the hell is that about. pretty soon it will all be on Oprah and then all hell will break loose. |
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prepare to be Bottom Feeders i know it's scary. |
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oh i meant gasoline that gives you AIDS |
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can't predict that shit |
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Homosexual hatchbacks |
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woops i meant drexciyan |
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here's your escape route: get a degree and find a job abroad. preferably in an up and coming economy. |
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If you offered any of those issues any kind of minimal thought, you'd notice how the reason why they didn't actually grow into disasters is that someone did something about it (not the future/current ones yet, but people are doing something about those). It may not have been you, but it may also just as well have been you. So you would have to justify your idea that you can't do anything about issues like these. Sure, the sun exploding and gamma rays and whatnot, but do you really believe you can't do anything about man-made global warming? Do you really believe you can't do anything about China? Do you know what a vote is? Do you know what action is? Do you know what engagement is? Do you know anything at all, or have you been shut up inside your own sphere of "self-sufficience" so long that the light outside keeps blinding you? |
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Voting is important, but my point is these big problems are often times chaotic systems that aren't in the control of a handful of do gooders. The fickle fingers of fate are often the only thing in control. In the early 90's we were scared shitless of the Japanese. The result of that was not in the control of anyone in America. We are worried about China now. All these up and coming economies we are so afraid of are also contributing to your other pet smug topic global warming. Since they are like America in the early 20th century. Focusing on unregulated manufacturing. So which one do you want more? The demise of America or less green house gasses? Godel, I really hope it all works out for you. I know you love to see America turn into the next Siberia. I am hoping Obama is elected and makes America into what it was prior to ww2. Insular. No foreign bases. Minimal foreign policy and involvement. No policing of the world. |
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Also, Many scientists believe the earth goes through natural warming and cooling patterns. Why did we choose to listen to the group that thinks that warming is man made and not part of the natural cyclical pattern of the earth temp? |
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