FrisianDude
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You may now begin to doubt your sanity.Familyguy1 said:
What would your view of America be if it isolated itself after WWII?
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Familyguy1
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FrisianDude said:
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That's not respect. That's confusion while they try and work out what language you're speaking in. I mean it sounds like English, but there's all these funny made up words. I mean faucet for example; sounds French FFS.socks said:
Cookie Eating Huskarl
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Double agent alert!socks said:
Plus, human governments have the innate fear of nukes, so when Uncle Sam speaks, all will listen.
socks
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What is this 'English' you speak of? We're talking in American.Archonsod said:
By that logic when Nicolas Sarkozy speaks, all will listen, but who wants to listen to a few cowardly frogs?Cookie Eating Huskarl said:Double agent alert!socks said:
Plus, human governments have the innate fear of nukes, so when Uncle Sam speaks, all will listen.
Folthrik said:
Pretty much. The problem with Nationalism is similar to the problem with religion in that people make it their top priority to follow. Sure, there is nothing wrong with a dollop of both of them, but if you stress them too much then they will cloud your mind and start to push away the big picture.
Elenmmare
You'll find that I said that myself.
Your logic of self-bias doesn't explain why so many Brits here vehemently despise America.
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Elenmmare
Urlik said:
johncage
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Blodheafodban said:
it'll be the same, because of this thing called envy. there will always be those who dislike the smart kid in class, or the star athlete. any nation that exceeds the others in terms of cultural pluralism, wealth, power, education, technology, etc, etc will naturally gain the ire of those less fortunate.
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Rebelknight said:
Elenmmare
He's right, but I'm not sure which country he's referring to
Mixedpotatoes
Master Knight
The US is a country built up on immigration.
Elenmmare said:
Wait.
What?
Americans think they're special because some brits here mock them?
Ahaha. Dude, you totally don't understant British humour. We mock our neighbours, because they don't live in our house. We mock people the next street over, because they don't live on our street. We mock people from the next town, because they don't live in our town. We mock people who live in the next county, because theirs is clearly inferior to ours. We mock people who aren't on our corner of the country, because their corner sucks. We mock the southerners because their half of the country is inferior. We mock the Welsh for not being English, the Scots for being themselves, the and the English for being neither. We mock the French for being snail-eating garlic-loving girly-men. We mock the Germans for failing at war (twice) and the Swedish for Abba. We make fun of anywhere out of Europe, for not being European. We mock the Aussies for being in the wrong hemisphere and being usually better than us at our own sports. There is nothing special or unusual about Brits mocking Americans, it's just that you guys provide so much mock-worthy material that we let everybody else in on the action too. It's so much fun to see Americans sulking.
(And by 'Americans', I mean US folks. We like Canada (which, by the way, is mocked FAR more by yanks than anyone else - do you guys hate them or something???) And we like to think that SA is nothing but rainforest)
Really, mocking people and forming queues are at the heart of British culture. The American ego is just so big that many yanks think the world revolves around their country. It really doesn't.
Elenmmare
Pharaoh Llandy said:
Canada? Nah. Actually our usual ability to mock ourselves is what makes me glad to be Canadian. However when Canadians spend half the year preparing for winter and the other half hurling insults at the Americans, only to be offended by a small (true) remark, that's what annoys me. It's also what gives me the impression that everyone can Mock the Yank, and when they shoot back in kind, they're mauled to death.
Take Fox News' mocking of the Canadian military. They made a remark that Belgium could defeat us in an open conflict, which is hyperbole but true in spirit. Instead of accepting that it was from Fox News and just part of our cross-border trade, Canadians harnessed their dogs, cried "Mush!" and scurried to our parliament, demanding that they demand an apology.
Just an example. I adore our ability in the West to hurl insults at eachother and ourselves; often it seems, however, that the U.S. gets the **** end of the stick.
FrisianDude
Archduke
To be fair, though, Belgium has a relatively massive arms industry.
And a population of 18 to wield them! That works out at 3529 weapons per person.
