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| Regullus | Aug 21 2007, 02:20 AM Post #126 |
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Holy Swedish Meatballs, Batman! According to Interpol Sweden Has 3x Higher Violent Crime Than USA!![]() Best and Worst Tourists By Country |
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| lara | Aug 21 2007, 04:45 AM Post #127 |
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And here I've been living under the misapprehension that Americans (as in people from the U.S.A.) and Germans were the worst. I do wonder who was on the list - was it multiple choice, or put in anyone you please? I'd imagine Canadians just plain weren't noticed or, more likely, were lumped in with the Americans. Oh, on that note, I checked our style guide at work, and we are not on any circumstances to ever refer to the United States as America. America is any country in North or South America. We can refer to people from the U.S.A. as Americans, and we can, if the U.S. is getting repeated too often, use American as an adjective in place of U.S., but calling the country America is verboten. (Not that it had occurred to me to do so; it's just the discussion here made me curious. That, and I was looking up the style on British/English/etc.) |
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| Regullus | Aug 21 2007, 01:34 PM Post #128 |
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I doubt the Canadians were lumped together with the US. I've never heard that being done. Probably came in fourth. At least you're not on the shabbiest dresser list. We had some tourists in town the other day and I was quite amused by their style of dress: They were wearing jeans, t-shirts and sunglasses but everything was gilded, enormous and designer, multiple designers at that. One of the ladies had giant denim butterfly riveted to her ass. I was quite, well, riveted by the sight. I don't think they were Canadians.
:D I believe they were Italians. They were very pleasant.I'm not surprised by the tourist ratings at all. The average citizen of the US still refers to themselves as an American. I usually say the 'states' or the US when referring to the country, I don't think I every say the United States of America. |
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| lara | Aug 22 2007, 03:20 AM Post #129 |
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Oh, I meant that if there was a list to pick from, I wouldn't be surprised if we weren't on it, and if there wasn't, I wouldn't be surprised if those polled thought of the lot of us as "Americans," although I'm not sure. Many Canadians get mistaken for Americans in Europe - it's very common.
Yeah, we say "the U.S." or "the States." I don't know if you saw the discussion with Eral, but it actually came out of a video posted here, which you probably couldn't watch on your internet connection. They were basically laughing at Americans who couldn't name a country that started with U. So then Eral said (and I paraphrase, probably badly), well, that's not fair, they live in America. And I said, funny, I never call it that, I wonder if they do. So that's the only reason I brought up our style guide. |
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| Krazy | Aug 22 2007, 07:39 AM Post #130 |
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I haz powah!
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Funny I saw this the other day, The North American Union and the Amero! |
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| underdog | Aug 22 2007, 03:17 PM Post #131 |
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it's not funny, a lot of Americans don't want anything to do with it, but is being done behind closed doors, and run by a bunch of unelected bureaucrats (like the EU) who will be making decisions for everyone. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=57263 at the bottom several related articles, a few good ones. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=53023 they want a super hiway from Mexico to Canada, 8 lanes in each direction http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=52684 http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=51023 complete with a Mexican (soverign soil) port in Kansas City. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=50918 http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=50938 |
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| lara | Aug 22 2007, 03:23 PM Post #132 |
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It's not going to happen. First of all, our PM would get kicked out so fast his head would spin. Beyond that, it's not really in any sort of serious discussion at all - it's paranoid people taking proposals and saying they're in serious discussion. Government bureaucrats come up with all kinds of crazy ideas to further the ends of their particular area of expertise (i.e. trade); gives them something useless to do. |
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| Eral | Aug 25 2007, 12:51 AM Post #133 |
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underdog, I confess I think it's hilarious. :blush:
How outrageous. Clearly that's a clever ploy to cover-up the truth. It took the European Union years to get off the ground: and that was between countries who had good relationships with each other, and liked each other. The amount of hysteria about loss of national identity nearly put the kibosh on the idea a dozen times. It was only because their united desire to score off at America was so strong, that it came to fruition at all. I know there are people who are annoyed with the EU, and the euro, and the determination on the part of euro supporters to take the throne of standard currency from the US dollar: but I really can't believe any stock market plutocrat would ever join the US$ to the Mexican peso. Come on now. Never going to happen. In the unlikely event a mass lobotomy was held, and the rich guys agreed, Canada and Mexico aren't going to help America. They're cheering for the EU. Also people like lara, with *a nearly unquenchable antipathy for all things American, would have a stroke; the Canadian health system would collapse under the pressure; and the ensuing financial crisis would kill the plan dead. Umm, isn't there an election coming up? And aren't pollies coming out with complete rubbish in order to scare people into voting for them? Could this be one of those stories? :rolleyes: *edit. :) |
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| lara | Aug 25 2007, 01:34 AM Post #134 |
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Oh come now. I like Reg. And aren't BG and Macs American, too? Not to mention Scrubs. |
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| Krazy | Aug 25 2007, 05:19 PM Post #135 |
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I haz powah!
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[EU countries that...] liked eachother? Oh boy that's a good one. :lol: The EU worked far better as an economic union on which it was first based rather than the horrible mess we have now. Political Union should never have come into it at all. The eurocrats in Brussels are a bunch of corrupt w**kers, who should be put up against a wall and shot. Apologies for my French there. |
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| Nibsi | Aug 25 2007, 06:29 PM Post #136 |
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You just feel that way because everyone in Europe dislikes the English, much like everyone in the world dislikes America and France :lol: |
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| Bex | Aug 25 2007, 06:53 PM Post #137 |
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BG is pretty Canadian, even if you can't call it 100%. (I love that Bioware is using Edmonton actors for V/A now.) |
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| Eral | Aug 25 2007, 10:44 PM Post #138 |
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Ok, I'll amend that to "a nearly unquenchable antipathy". Krazy, the situation now is the inevitable civil war that occurs after a moment of great unity, and the achievement of a goal. They were united by their desire to blow a raspberry at America, but having done it, they are falling back into their usual bickering. They're plutocrats and bureaucrats, for goodness sake. It isn't supposed to work, it's supposed to make them feel important. Jeepers. I thought I was the only hopeless lefty around here. You know, it never occurred to me to think of BG as any particular country. Perhaps because Faerun is so multicultural.
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| lara | Aug 26 2007, 02:24 AM Post #139 |
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No idea why I thought BG is American. Perhaps because so much comes from there. My favourite Americans (as in famous Americans I don't know but admire) are the patriots who fight the system without violence. Ani difranco and Utah Phillips are two. Nanci Griffith: I am a backseat driver from America They drive to the left on Falls Road The man at the wheel's name is Seamus We pass a child on the corner he knows And Seamus says, "Now, what chance has that kid got?" And I say from the back, "I don't know." He says, "There's barbed wire at all of these exits ... And there ain't no place in Belfast for that kid to go." It's a hard life It's a hard life It's a very hard life It's a hard life wherever you go If we poison our children with hatred then, the hard life is all that they'll know And there ain't no place in Belfast for these kids to go A cafeteria line in Chicago The fat man in front of me Is calling black people trash to his children he's the only trash here I see And I'm thinking this man wears a white hood in the night when his children should sleep But, they slip to their window and they see him And they think that white hood's all they need It's a hard life It's a hard life It's a very hard life It's a hard life wherever you go If we poison our children with hatred then, the hard life is all that they'll know And there ain't no place in Chicago for these kids to go I was a child in the sixties dreams could be held through TV With Disney, and Cronkite, and Martin Luther Oh, I believed, I believed . . . I BELIEVED Now, I am the backseat driver from America I am not at the wheel of control I am guilty, I am war, . . . I am the root of all evil Lord, and I can't drive on the left side of the road It's a hard life It's a hard life It's a very hard life It's a hard life wherever you go If we poison our children with hatred then, the hard life is all that they'll know And there ain't no place in the world for these kids to go I mostly like them because I identify with what they say. |
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| Regullus | Jun 7 2008, 04:42 PM Post #140 |
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Everything You Know About Sweden is Wrong? |
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| Eral | Jun 8 2008, 12:55 AM Post #141 |
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I'm starting to hate that site. ![]() http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Sweden Hah! I knew they were spinning evil capitalist garbage.
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| Regullus | Jun 8 2008, 02:07 AM Post #142 |
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Free Markets, Free Minds. * *Reason's slogan. |
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| Eral | Jun 9 2008, 01:53 AM Post #143 |
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Yes, I read that. Too bad it isn't the case. <_< |
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:D I believe they were Italians. They were very pleasant.

4:31 PM Jul 13