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    Posted: January 02 2005 at 12:24

Three Fates....

When i spoke about the good things about the US, I didn't mean the trumpeting of America's wonderful record of pitching in when things go wrong or the country's superiority at, apparently, everything.

I have many, many friends who work both for the IRC and IFRC as well as several other NGOs working in humanitarian not just in tsunami struck areas but all over the globe. These people come from all over the globe - the US, UK, Ireland, Afghanistan, Iceland, Japan wherever.

None of them counts the amount of aid flowing their way in terms of nationality of personnel or nationality of cash. They - Americans, South Americans, Europeans, Africans, Asians - just get on with the job of helping people.

I may be wrong, but the inference from your post, seems yet again to be - America is the best at....

It's just this kind of thing that makes me so tired about the US. I absolutely love a whole helluva lot about the US and I was merely trying to point out some amusing things the US had given us - in response to the endless yank-bashing that had been going on. For a reply I get a sermonising article from an obviously right-wing US publication which just tells me about the triumph of US capitalism and undisguised cheerleading exercise for Doctors without Border (which I believe is also known as Medecins sans Frontiers to those who invented it).

All I wanted was Tom and Jerry.
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Go to Sweden, We´ll just bore ya to death 
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And It´s true 
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Actually that was one of the trivia quotes I remember from my trip there... highest rate of deaths from stabbing.. than any other country....hmmmm
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Knives and Kosken is no path to paradise
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Finns have the highest suicide rate in the world apparantly and I'm not surprised.
Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
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Well we don´t really like Finns 
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Once at a shopping mall in Helsinki, I noticed writing that continued on all 3 sides of the building.  I asked my Finnish friend what does that say... she said one word to me in Finnish... I said "That writing on all 3 sides of that building is one word"????   I thought it was a quote of some type....
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Ich bin der wervikirkligheitgeschaffenunterstumpffen!
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Sehr Gut !!!!!
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Originally posted by threefates threefates wrote:

Oh so paranoid!!

I don't know about the Swedish or Norwegian language.. but I've seen the Finnish language written.. and I think it needs some English influence... When each word is 20 characters long... and half of those are the letter a - its just a time saver to have some influence on shortning those words...

The Finnish language belongs to an entirely different family of languages actually,it has it's roots among the Slavic languages and Sweden and Norway among the Indo-European ones. Don't they? Yes,I think so. Swedish and Norwegian have much in common with German,also a simple,straightforward language.
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Thanks to our schools and political leadership,
the U.S. has acquired an international reputation
as the home of 250 million people dumb enough to
buy 'The Wacky Wall-Walker.'

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Oh so paranoid!!

I don't know about the Swedish or Norwegian language.. but I've seen the Finnish language written.. and I think it needs some English influence... When each word is 20 characters long... and half of those are the letter a - its just a time saver to have some influence on shortning those words...
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We will never give up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Points: 793 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2005 at 11:17

Good one,Velvet. In fact,I think I'll join you:

FAEN!!
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n a hundred years all the Scandinavian languages will have disappeared entirely.


I HELVETE HELLER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Points: 793 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2005 at 08:57
Originally posted by Reed Lover Reed Lover wrote:

Originally posted by Pixel Pirate Pixel Pirate wrote:

Impotently helpless? What the hell does that mean?!

see your doctor for your helpless impotency!LOL

So that's what it was. A Freudian slip!
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Points: 5187 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 02 2005 at 08:26

Originally posted by Pixel Pirate Pixel Pirate wrote:

Impotently helpless? What the hell does that mean?!

see your doctor for your helpless impotency!LOL



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