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How did the UK go from the world's biggest empire to politically, and technologically irrevelant in less than 100 years? |
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heh, I was only joking, its the title of a book thats came out recently. as for the British Empire, I don't really care... |
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you wish you were fat. Supersizing everything. Ihoppin your ass. All nite dining. Stacks of choices. It's wonderful. Regular utopia. |
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I wish I was british. So I could have that cool accent. Any one of them. They are all cool. |
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"You assholes are the first to criticize the United States but you sure have taken our money and military help time and again as well as our culture that you enjoy mocking, but copy every chance you get."(godataloss from Cleveland (United States) on 2004-03-27 23:14 [#01121779]) godataloss: care to explain the culture bit please.? |
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MEE TOO and with that I think i will drive down to the corner and get a bucket of deep fried chicken skin and gravy! America fuckin rocks! |
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hobbes, it's over yer head. |
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"No pissing contest- its just will all the US bashing around here you goons ought to get your history strait " for me we're just exchanging views, sharing thoughts. im not a u.s basher. |
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what is over my head elusive, how cool you are? |
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sorry Im just a little sensitive- just because our president (who stole the election) is a complete moron doesnt mean we are all stupid |
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i hear that sir! |
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Americans may be fat and lazy, but we smell good and all have nice white- perfectly staight teeth. You Europeans have pooor personal hygene. Smelly balls and grey horse teeth. |
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but hey we also have teeth and balls! could we actualy be more similar than we think? |
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wow, i leave for like an hour or 2 and its gone from a political discussion to name calling? smelly balls and grey teeth. THAT is the exact reason this type of global crap happens. there IS no civil rest. |
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consider the thread title- it was bound to happen. Now I am off to cook monkfish for my darling girlfriend. |
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true , the thread title is inappropriate. |
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it was a joke! look at the article! jesus.... |
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go ahead and blame it on the thread title... but it will do nothing to address the real cause: your violent nature! |
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Noam Chomsky uses the kind of linguistic features he helped pioneer the study (and criticism over) of in his own writing to make it persuasive... its ridiculous |
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*study of (and criticism over) didn't really make sense before |
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that does'nt stop the fact he's got some good points. im sure he is falible somewhere though, thats obvious, and its up to the reader to pick out the things that make sense to him or not. |
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yeah he sure does make some good points... and i think hes also trying to make a point by using those features himself |
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well he is a linguist ;) |
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This talk of negotiating with the terrorists makes no sense to me,..It's pretty clear that the demand is for Israel to be rid of all Jews. Not live together in peace, or divide plots up. Entirely Muslim. That's what they want. Sure oil has much to do with conflict. Western nations bullying a bit to get what they want. Sure, but the real steam for the anger comes from support for Israel and the Jewish people. Until they are gone there will be conflict. No matter how many concessions are made. |
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"it's pretty clear that the demand is for Israel to be rid of all Jews. Not live together in peace, or divide plots up" does israel really want peace though? they've had military occupation in palestine for 35 years or so. " steam for the anger comes from support for Israel and the Jewish people. " yes thats true. *i should learn how to do italics* |
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You would think Isreal would unite the arab people, but there they sit on the west bank with a big bullseye on their foreheads and all the arab nations can do is find a poor palistinian and strap some c4 to his back and have him go blow up a bus. |
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a lot of people gravely under-estimate the popularity and depth of anti-semitism and anti-israel sentiments in the muslim world most palestinians want israel not to exist most israelies favour an independant palestine the way the media here portrays it, especially the "independant" liberal stuff all the political kids read, you dont get that impression at all...... |
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QUOTE of AMINAl- "a lot of people gravely under-estimate the popularity and depth of anti-semitism and anti-israel sentiments in the muslim world" Are you out of your frigging mind? |
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hey theyve tried to destroy israel by invading it, and they pull outrageous shit in the UN all the time to paint israel as the only racist country in the world, to change the definition of "anti-semitism" to include hatred of muslims, etc..... |
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If I was a Palestinian, I bet I wouldn't want Isreal to exist either. Is that such a big surprise? |
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i dont think so |
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no i guess not |
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AMinal: when you say "independant " liberal media, you mean as opposed to fox news and cnn? probably not but im just curious. as for the "political kids" remark dont you think its a bit condescending? |
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strongly left-wing news sources like to call themselves "independant" ( for some reason..... i guess they mean they're not a big corporation..... when i think of hte independance of a news source, i think of it meaning in terms of bias... like do they have a social/political agenda, are they tied to certain social/political causes....... not financial independance..... anyways i think its a little misleading sorry i should have said strongly politically opinionated people in general, all ages..... it applies to everyone i was thinking "political kids" though cus at my age we practically are kids with big opinions on big issues that are based mostly on bullshit.... old people seem to tend to be a little calmer when it comes to jumping to pick one side or another, and they dont have as strong an 'anti-establishment' instinct affecting it, and they aren't as passionate about speaking out about a cause and trying to change other opinions..... i mean in general it seems to be a trend not that adults are much more informed with their opinions |
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Jews are the biggest racists on the planet. Its probably the onlly reason they are still a people. |
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i wonder if youll get banned for that, or if youd get banned for saying it about some other group arguably a lot worse than creating some pointless topics |
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AMinal: i see what you mean about the trendy aspect. and believe me i hate it. i've mostly stopped talking about these subjects with a lot of people coz of this. but it remains a positive thing to express your views and create a dialogue.a certain exchange is important. when people try to tell you how to think as opposed to what they think is when it gets dodgy. i think. |
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excuse my poor writing.... the 3 "think"s were painfull for me too! i should have read it again |
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Not that I give a shit about being banned, but I'm certainly not an antisemite. If 6 million of my people were waxed, I'd wanna circle the wagons too. My experience with jewish racism came when I tried to date a JAP (jewish american princess) and her parents found out I was an Irish catholic- it was game over- they told her they would take away her inheritance if she married me. Nice, huh? |
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"What about Jazz, hip hop, fucking rock and roll, blues? on and on- Nothing culturally relavant has come out of Europe for at least 300 years." ha ha! "Jazz came to America 300 years ago in chains. The psalm-singing Dutch traders, sailing in 1619, described their cargo as '14 black African slaves for sale in his Majesty's colonies'. But this priceless freight - destined three centuries later to set a whole nation dancing - went unnoted and unhibited by the stolid, revenue-hungry Dutchmen. The thrifty Dutch traders, after they had successfully disposed of their human wares and unwittingly assured a future for jazz, returned home to put their money in the bank and to repair piously to church and praise the Lord for his goodness." - "Jazz", Paul Whiteman and Mary Margaret McBride ..anyway - if I only thought that you had any inkling of an idea what has been happening culturally in Europe for the last 300 years, I could take your statement seriously. |
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beautiful quote gee I never knew that the dutch invented jazz. Shit 300 years ago I thought they were just hopping on ships and inventing the stock market who knew? |
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good response! "..uh..uh...uh....!" |
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I admire the dutch- they are very much like the japanesee in that they have never invented anything and yet they have used technology greatly to their advantage |
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thats rather silly in my opinion. both those countries invented stuff,obviously. |
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That bit about the marriage thing was funny. Sorry, but it made me chuckle. If a group of people had no interest in negotiating a compromise, but instead, wanted nothing except for to you to die or leave and was prepared to kill, randomly, innocent civilians until such time, wouldn't you want to keep them at arm's length? That's what's happened in Israel. That's why there is a wall. |
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If someone forcibly removes you from your home, wouldn't you want to use force against them? |
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if people were randomly blowing up and otherwise killing your citizens on streets and in restaurants and were intent on the destruction of your people, wouldn't you use force to stop them? i dont get your point... you could try justify either side by saying its a natural reaction to the toher side... also theres a big difference between the kind of force that removes someone from their home and the kind that destroys a bus full of random civilians and theres a difference between using force to defend yourself and using it to simply kill as many people as you can |
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i get what you mean hobbes.. i agree... |
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quote- "also theres a big difference between the kind of force that removes someone from their home and the kind that destroys a bus full of random civilians and theres a difference between using force to defend yourself and using it to simply kill as many people as you can """"""""""""""""""""" one man's terrorist is another man's patroit. |
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a great Comsky quote: "When I'm driving, I sometimes turn on the radio and find that I'm listening to a discussion about sports. People call in and have long and intricate discussions with a high degree of thought and analysis. They know all kinds of complicated details and have far-reaching discussions about whether the coach made the right decisions yesterday and so on. They don't defer to sports experts; they have their own opinion and speak with confidence. These are ordinary people, not professionals, who are applying their intelligence and analytic skills in these areas and ccumulating quite a lot of knowledge. On the other hand, when I hear people talk about, say, international affairs or domestic problems, it's at a level of superficiality that is beyond belief. I don't think that international or domestic affairs are much more complicated than sports. And what passes for serious intellectual discourse on these topics does not reflect any deeper level of understanding or knowledge....It does not require extraordinary skill or understanding to take appart the illusions and deception that prevent understanding of contemporary reality. It requires the kind of normal skepticism and willingness to apply one's analytic skills that almost all people have. It just happens that people tend to exercise them in analyzing what, say, the New England Patriots ought to do next sunday instead of questions that really matter." |
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