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tuxon
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Posted: December 13 2004 at 11:19 |
First I voted for america, then I voted against america
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Blacksword
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Posted: December 13 2004 at 11:08 |
I've never met an American I've disliked, and the US will always be one of the best places in the world to visit IMO..
But who the f**k put that turkey in the Whitehouse?? None of my US acquaintences will own up to it..
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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sigod
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Posted: December 13 2004 at 07:33 |
I like Americans
Couldn't eat a whole one though...
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James Lee
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Posted: December 13 2004 at 03:49 |
Or that Kevin Spacey movie...South American Beauty!
wait, that wasn't Kevin Spacey...oops, I've said too much...
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Reed Lover
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Posted: December 13 2004 at 03:48 |
Sorry, Ivan but choke.. choke Threefates is entirely correct!
The continents are:
Europe,Asia,Africa,Australasia, South America, North America and Antarctica.
As the great Cert would say,I am not offering an opinion, this is fact!
Listen, Javelin-Boy we males need to assert our intellectual superiority over the girlies,blips like this do not help!
Consider yourself on a Yellow Card!
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James Lee
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Posted: December 13 2004 at 03:47 |
Don't tell me you guys invented American Cheese too!
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: December 13 2004 at 01:09 |
I don't quite understand this. Actually the continent the USA is on.. is called North America. Your continent is called South America last I heard.. |
Nope Threefates, the whole continent is called America, there are only 5 (Maybe 6 Continents if Antartica is also considered) and there's no difference between North Central or South America.
South, Central or North America is only a name created to identify regions, but really there's not such thing. But that's not the problem.
USA is in fact United States of America, but the problem is that from the President to the last ctizen calls that country AMERICA, the networks call Bush The President of America (He's not my President), their second anthem is called America the Beautiful (Is there official anthem in USA? Because until 1896 there wasn't).
All of this as if the rest of the continent, including Canada and Mexico (Which are also North America) didn't exist.
Iván
PS: By the way, the official name of Brazil is United States of Brazil (Estados Unidos no Brasil ) and Mexico is United States of Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos), because as United States of America they have a Federal Government divided by States, not because they copied anything.
So USA is not the only Federation of United States in America either
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: December 13 2004 at 01:00 |
Error, see the next post
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threefates
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Posted: December 13 2004 at 00:52 |
ivan_2068 wrote:
Why do USA citizens keep calling America to their country?
That's really pretentious, does the rest of the Continent doesn't exist?
Iván
PS: Have nothing against USA or their people, on thecontrary, I lived there for a couple of years and had a great time, but taking the name of the whole continent for them is at least despective for the rest of us.
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I don't quite understand this. Actually the continent the USA is on.. is called North America. Your continent is called South America last I heard.. for english speaking americans anyway. I believe in spanish speaking S.A. its called Suramérica, and in Portuguese, its Ámérica do Sul.
Also the name of our country is the United States of American... we are the united states on the continent of North America... so where is the confusion there? If Canada wanted to call themselves the Canadian States of America... or if Mexico wanted to do the same thing.. .we'd have no problem with that... they are on the same continent afterall...
So if you had some country there who wanted to call themselves Los Estados Unidos de Suramérica, they wouldn't be very creative, but they could probably do that too...
So for short people call us Americans.. we are afterall. And not to forget that most Japanese, Chinese and Koreans prefer to be called Asians these days... and thats not a bad thing either.
If you'd wanted to call yourself Americans.. you should of copyrighted the name first...
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threefates
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Posted: December 13 2004 at 00:37 |
Watch the news in England.. and you can find out whats the latest trouble Prince Harry has gotten into, or the latest from prison on that guy who killed 2 adorable little girls.
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Reed Lover
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Posted: December 12 2004 at 20:00 |
ivan_2068 wrote:
Why do USA citizens keep calling America to their country?
That's really pretentious, does the rest of the Continent doesn't exist?
Iván
PS: Have nothing against USA or their people, on thecontrary, I lived there for a couple of years and had a great time, but taking the name of the whole continent for them is at least despective for the rest of us.
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Watch the Global News in the USA and see the rest of the world disappear!
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James Lee
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Posted: December 12 2004 at 19:34 |
^ That's an interesting topic. I can see your point completely- it'd be like Japan or China (or India) calling themselves "Asia".
On the other hand, it's been so commonly done and for so long that it is ingrained (all over the world). Once that happens, it's pretty much a lost cause...
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: December 12 2004 at 19:23 |
Why do USA citizens keep calling America to their country?
That's really pretentious, does the rest of the Continent doesn't exist?
Iván
PS: Have nothing against USA or their people, on thecontrary, I lived there for a couple of years and had a great time, but taking the name of the whole continent for them is at least despective for the rest of us.
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Quacky
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Posted: December 12 2004 at 14:19 |
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arcer
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Posted: December 12 2004 at 14:17 |
land of the free
home of the vague
that's a joke people!!! don't get upset
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Quacky
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Posted: December 12 2004 at 14:15 |
I am not nor ever have been envious of Americans. I agree that they have a huge rep to live up to though. I enjoy my anonymity here in Canada.
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Proghead
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Posted: December 12 2004 at 10:33 |
"STUPIDITY IS NOT A HANDICAP. Park elsewhere!"
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Reed Lover
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Posted: December 12 2004 at 07:04 |
I love all the Americans on this forum. Even 3F8ts()
Just hate your politics.
Everybody in the world is envious of America in some way but that's a lot to live up to!
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Quacky
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Posted: December 11 2004 at 21:57 |
I have no problem with the American citizen, but often find issue with the politics of the American gov't. Next to Canada you guys are the best
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Arioch
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Posted: December 11 2004 at 09:41 |
Sweetnighter wrote:
nationalism is the most idiotic ideology ever formulated... and i don't care what country you're from, there's nothing inherently worthwhile about any artificially plotted chunk of landmass. |
you're the type of guy who wants government funds so you can heap feces on the american flag....all in the name of art!.....aren't ya?
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