America - Where’s Your Empire?

Reed Lover wrote: Whassh the mater wish yousz? drunk moi? nah, Only just onto bottle 3 of the vIno! a very nice Wolf Blass Cab Sauv   ......... nice!

Enjoy, I am just getting started. 4 harp lagers in me before dinner. Have 2 bottles of wine and one of champagne to come. As for my waffeling he got me on facts.

egszactlee!

gdub411 wrote: Graino adn Reed Lvoer.......yuo funxnyie!!

Next we are going to get the "M'I uto Hert! thread by Eydd
(suggested by GG)

gdub411 wrote: Eddy should teach classes on this strange form of english...we could call it Eddyspeak or Eddycant...or maybe Edydsepak!

Kind of like an Edukayshun?

hey all of you god dam retardos quit making fun o me! im enjoying the
new year with some magicqal drinks too!(TEGILAAAQAA!) yea i read this
thread and saw it change gradully to "lets make fun of eddy's typing! WEll
i just type at super mock speeds thats all! just to let all of you guys know,
im ABOUT 50 TIMES MORE COOLER THEN ALL OF YOU! im the kool kid in
school! all the girls want to sit on my lap(IN ONOTHER WORD THAT
MEANS THEY WANT MY BOD yes they WANT MY BOD

Edited by Eddy

^ Who finds his ways endearing? His only saving grace is his age, and somehow I think his deficiencies will outlive his youth.

Arioch wrote: America did actually aquire quite a bit of territory after the Spanish-American War. We had captured or aquired The Phillipines as well as several other Islands in the Pacific and the Aluetians. Also why doesn't Alaska and Hawaii not count. They were territories before they were states. That would be saying England couldn't count Canada, India, Egypt, or Australia as places they once occupied. That's just stupid.

Actually this is true... we have American Guam, th US Virgin Islands & Puerto Rico, but we'd gladly give them to the first good buyer...

Edited by threefates

I'm from New Zealand...you know we used to be owned by England. In some senses we still are; our official head of state is Queen Elizabeth II!! I mean, I ask you.

threefates wrote: Oh.. I like this article.. it basically says that Europeans don't like us because we're optimistic conservatives.. and they're pessimist conservatives... I guess if they were reading the whining on this board, they'd have some proof on that... http://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0034380.cfm

In all seriousness that article is rubbish.

Adrian Wooldridge might as well have been a punk-rock fan discussing Prog.

No Christian radio stations??? Well I notice at least one when I flick through my cable channels (yes we have radio on TV, dont know if you do)

http://www.premier.org.uk/engine.cfm?i=9

No Christian TV channels?

http://www.revelationtv.com/

Plus another bizaare statement:

And in Britain? I know that a columnist for the Guardian newspaper, in reference to George Bush, asked something to the effect of "where are the John Wilkes Booths or John Hinckley, Jr.'s when you need them?" And the BBC recently named Michael Moore as a commentator for their coverage on Election Night.

Yes. That's extraordinary and disgraceful, I think. The BBC is a publicly funded organization that should not be employing such a rigid partisan such as that. I think that is disgraceful.

Whilst the comment about assassinations is something Americans might find offensive ( though an example of British sardonic humour, and America's inablility to laugh at themselves), the comment re Michael Moore is ridiculous.Do you seriously think that Michael Moore would be the only commentator on the night?Whilst I cannot say for certain, knowing the BBC, and all British TV companies,I would bet that there would be a Pro- Republican commentator around too , to maintain balance.However, if Moore was the only commentator around, what would be disgraceful about that? Going over-the -top dont you think?

Edited by Reed Lover

Oh Reed, I thought it was a funny article anyway... I doubt there's much accuracy in it.  Afterall its on a site called thefamily.org... sounds ultra right to me...

I just thought the comment about American conservatism being optimistic and British conservatism being pessimistic was funny.  Especially since they didn't mention that the British conservative party doesn't really have the same definition as ours...  Plus I was thinking about a newspaper article I read recently...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v20/Pebble/Greg%20Lake/Lon donTimes.jpg

Greg Lake and comedian Jim Davidson at a conservative party reception... must of been a hoot!