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10 Aug 2005, 3:07 pm

Approximately 59 million people in the country that I live in (the USA) are incredibly stupid.

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10 Aug 2005, 3:10 pm

Bec wrote:

Approximately 59 million people in the country that I live in (the USA) are incredibly stupid.

Okay, I'll bite, which 59,000,000?

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10 Aug 2005, 3:12 pm

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The US has better gun laws than the UK or Australia. In fact, bettter than any other first world nation except Switzeland.

On the whole the Swiss can be trusted with guns you lot cant. Having watched America's dumbest criminals i wouldnt trust youse with circled paper and a safety pencil.

And I suppose you get your opinions of Americans gun safety from wild west movies too? Or that the movie Deliverance is an accurate represenation of mainstream American culture? :roll:

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10 Aug 2005, 3:12 pm

In America, the city that the Declaration of Independence was signed in isn't even the city we'd even dream of it being signed in.

Especially since Philadelphia isn't the capital of the United States, I find that very interesting.

As a matter of fact, I was wondering. Do any of you know for sure if Betsy Ross had a say in the Declaration of Independence being signed?

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10 Aug 2005, 3:43 pm

Sean wrote:

eamonn wrote:

Sean wrote:

The US has better gun laws than the UK or Australia. In fact, bettter than any other first world nation except Switzeland.

On the whole the Swiss can be trusted with guns you lot cant. Having watched America's dumbest criminals i wouldnt trust youse with circled paper and a safety pencil.

And I suppose you get your opinions of Americans gun safety from wild west movies too? Or that the movie Deliverance is an accurate represenation of mainstream American culture? :roll:

Why do you suppose that? I came to that conclusion by looking at the statistics between the USA and Switzerland for gun crime including crimes involving murders. Dont presume we all watch movies and believe in the stereotypes or the fake violence. Such as watching Star Wars then posting about your dark side and body counts. :lol:

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10 Aug 2005, 4:08 pm

Sean wrote:

Bec wrote:

Approximately 59 million people in the country that I live in (the USA) are incredibly stupid.

Okay, I'll bite, which 59,000,000?

You know my political beliefs, Sean. Which 59 million do you think I mean? Your 59 million.

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10 Aug 2005, 6:58 pm

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We are not a socially oriented country when it comes to economics. Pull yourself by your own bootstraps and work............
America was built on sweat, not handouts. Tallgirl.

America was built on sweat alright....the sweat of millions of African ancestors who were kidnapped and brought over here as slaves so that American farmers wouldn't have to do the back breaking, dangerous labor. My ancestors weren't given hand-outs. Their lives were hand-outs to America's capitalistic, make profit at all cost system.

Whenever I here rhetoric about how people value the good ole' protestant work ethic and the "Horatio Alger" principle, it makes me cringe because this, in practice, almost always applies to the lower, working class people who are doing the actual hands-on hard work, not the people who are the corporate and political leaders of this country making a thousand times more in salary, benifits and perks than the people they employ.

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10 Aug 2005, 8:12 pm

nirrti_rachelle wrote:

tallgirl wrote:

We are not a socially oriented country when it comes to economics. Pull yourself by your own bootstraps and work............
America was built on sweat, not handouts. Tallgirl.

Yip.
At one point I wondered why so many African Americans had names from Scotlan, all the MacKenzies and Macleans, etc. The I found out it was due to the fact that the "Slave Master" passed his name to those under him at the same time as beating as much christianity as they knew into them. People here remember the Highland Clearances and in Ulster they lament that so many had to leave during the hard times. Nobody mentions the scandals/crimes commited after that.

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10 Aug 2005, 8:14 pm

We have the lowest literacy rate out of any first world country on the planet.

Go America.

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10 Aug 2005, 10:36 pm

This has turned from "Post something NICE about YOUR country" to "Find something BAD about SOMEONE else's country"

Australia has a nice climate, on the whole.

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10 Aug 2005, 11:14 pm

GalileoAce wrote:

This has turned from "Post something NICE about YOUR country" to "Find something BAD about SOMEONE else's country"

...Like nobody else saw that this was going to turn into a patriotic pissing contest... :roll:

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10 Aug 2005, 11:20 pm

hehe, true enough

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11 Aug 2005, 12:36 am

Mike Myers (Austin Powers) was born here, in Canada.

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11 Aug 2005, 1:02 am

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Mike Myers (Austin Powers) was born here, in Canada.

...which is Canada's second greatest acheivement next to inventing basketball.

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11 Aug 2005, 2:17 am

I dunno, I reckon one of Canada's greatest achievments would be not being subsumed into the US.

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11 Aug 2005, 3:55 am

Sean wrote:

And I suppose you get your opinions of Americans gun safety from wild west movies too? Or that the movie Deliverance is an accurate represenation of mainstream American culture? :roll:

whoops - my mistake... now, where on earth could i have got THAT idea from...?

(JOKE, people :roll:

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