For the benefit of Americans

Pixel Pirate wrote: Arioch wrote: Pixel Pirate wrote: In the Euro corner: Homer,Hippocrates,Socrates,Plato,Aristotle,Euclid,Lucretius, Seneca,Cicero,Virgil,Marcus Aurelius,Thomas Aquinas,Dante,Machiavelli,Erasmus,Rabelais,Copernicus,Montai gne,Shakespeare,Francis Bacon,Galilei,Milton,Descartes,Pascal,Spinoza,Hobbes,Newton, Locke,Hume,Montesquieu,Rosseau,Kant,Blake,Goethe,Hegel,Kierk egaard,Schopenhauer,Darwin,Ibsen,Nietzsche,Freud,Einstein,Ka fka,Jung,Heidegger,Sartre. In the American corner: Err.....hmm....err.... A bunch of fools who spouted rubbish! And slipping in with just 20 minutes to spare: The Greatest Joke Of The Year! That one's going to keep me laughing right through to spring.

...I'm glad you like. But seriously. I find all those so called wise  philosophers spouting their psychobabble rants at the world as a bunch of long winded, blow hard fools....kind of like DallasBryan!! 

Eddy wrote: man, i never even think about other countries and opther people outside the us exept for this tsunami thing. we americans live in our own world away from all the crazies!

....all my arguments couldn't have said it better!

Reed Lover wrote: Course it is EDDY!

Ps that big blocky place is Africa!

Reed Lover wrote: Reed Lover wrote: Course it is EDDY! Ps that big blocky place is Africa!

Isn't that close to Bolton, Lancashire?

maani wrote: Blacksword: "Intellecutal and cultural supremacy?"  Surely you jest!  Is that why most of your "greatest minds" leave the U.K. to work in the U.S.?  Is that why U.S. "culture" dominates in the world (for better or worse)?  (For more, see the thread on "American Empire" in this category...) Don't get me wrong.  I am an anglophile, and always have been.  But you are going to have to come up with stronger positions than that to justify your greatness! Peace.

Oh manni, honestly. I shouldn't have to answer that. Which country has produced the best rock prog rock music? England. Which out of our two continents have produced the best classical composers? Europe!! America has spawned some fantastic writers, I must admit, but lets be honest we had Shakespeare, all the romantic poets etc. Thats what I refer to as cultural supremecy. The fact that the world has since embraced Big Mac culture is not a credit to America, but more a discredit to everyone who indulges in it. Then there is cuisine & wine. Which continent produces the finest wine? Europe. Forget that dusty Californian rubbish, its only a step away from Jacobs Creek Aussie muck  

Why do our top minds leave and go to the US? Because they go on vacation there and get kidnapped and chained to a Harvard desk and told to produce plans for weapons and world domination for sinister underground masonic Zionist organisations run by the likes of Donald (666) Rumsfeld....ok now I'm getting silly. I Might have made that last bit up..

Happy New year to EVERYONE!

Pixel Pirate wrote: In the Euro corner: Homer,Hippocrates,Socrates,Plato,Aristotle,Euclid,Lucretius, Seneca,Cicero,Virgil,Marcus Aurelius,Thomas Aquinas,Dante,Machiavelli,Erasmus,Rabelais,Copernicus,Montai gne,Shakespeare,Francis Bacon,Galilei,Milton,Descartes,Pascal,Spinoza,Hobbes,Newton, Locke,Hume,Montesquieu,Rosseau,Kant,Blake,Goethe,Hegel,Kierk egaard,Schopenhauer,Darwin,Ibsen,Nietzsche,Freud,Einstein,Ka fka,Jung,Heidegger,Sartre. In the American corner: Err.....hmm....err....

Well Europe has all you guys, and evidently you're not all that bright..

American has many, many great writers, painters, inventors, actors, directors, statesmen, businessmen... This is the home of the free and the brave afterall... Great Americans such as :

George Washington, Alexander Graham Bell, Eli Whitney, George Westinghouse, Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, The Wright Brothers, Rosa Parks, Georgia O'Keefe, Louis Armstrong, Teddy, FDR, and Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Ford, Ernest Heminway, Walt Disney, Jackson Pollack, John F. Kennedy, Andy Warhol, George Patton, Davy Crockett, Ray Charles, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, George Washington Carver, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, Henry Adams, Edith Wharton, Upton Sinclair, Will Rogers, Langston Hughes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Ayn Rand, Jack Keroauc, William F. Buckley, Mary Cassatt, Emily Dickenson, Willa Catha, John Singer Sargent, James Whistler (who painted his mother), Margaret Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Ansel Adams, Muhammad Ali, P. T. Barnum, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Andrew Carnegie, Margaret Mead, Raymond Chandler, Henry Clay, John Fenimore Cooper, Aaron Copland, Dwight Eisenhower, Duke Ellington, Bill Gates, George Gershwin, Robert E. Lee, Sinclair Lewis, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Charles Lindbergh, Henry Longfellow, J. Pierpont Morgan, Samuel B. Morse, Robert Moses, Joseph Pulitzer, Richard Rodgers, Charles Schulz, Isaac Stern, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Keats, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Humphrey Bogart, Grace Kelly, Charlie Chaplin, Katherine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, John Wayne, Martin Scorsese, Stephen Spielberg, Frances Ford Coppola, Michael Jordan, Mark Spitz, Pocahantas, Amelia Earhart, Frank Lloyd Wright, Buffalo Bill Cody, Harry Houdini, Ethan Allen, Jimmy Carter, T.S. Eliot, Oliver Wendall Holmes, Washington Irving, Jack London, Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, Eugene O'Neill, J.D. Salinger, Carl Sandburg, Tennessee Williams,  and Homer Simpson among thousands of others....

However, if you're not up on your American history... here's a link where you can learn about some of these great Americans..

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/