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Nah. You are the OP. I think you are getting alot of the responses you want, we will leave it at that.Quote:
Originally Posted by spoonitnow
It also is pretty apparent the FTR community area is for the regs to BS and say what they want and flame anyone who might disagree with them on any point. Took me a few threads to figure it out, but I get it.
Kind of funny since the post you made earlier to prove your intelligence was dependent on people making assumptions based on your geographical location.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ztech
To straighten you out. My response to Stacks was a joke, primarily being that we are within a few hours drive of each other and live in the same state. As far as the rest of the traffic, take that however you will.Quote:
Originally Posted by Galapogos
Stax is from f-kin TN??? That 'splains some sh!t......
I don't know if he is "From" TN, but I do know that is where he lives right now. I am not from TN either, but w/e.Quote:
Originally Posted by sarbox68
Where I'm from, you are from where you're at until you at somewhere else...
...then you from there
In Germany, you're not from somewhere unless your parents and your parents' parents grew up there.
there are great places to live in loads of countries around the world, i doubt that the USA is any exception. Even the world's more egalitarian societies are becoming polarised, germany and new zealand are classic examples of poverty trap cycles becoming rampant, and the gap between rich and poor accelerating.
on a less somber note, the question is flawed cos america ain't a country ;) funny way to incense latin americans etc. Los Estados Unidos. Also, and note that this is from the perspective of someone who has not yet visited the US, doesn't the huge variety within the USA render this question kinda strange - i recall a thread from spoon asking for 'where to live' suggestions a while back that hit this pretty hard.
Haha true. You´re also paying more than half your wage for taxes and several public insurances, trains are on time on the minute and we´re having the 2nd highest school massacre victims per capita altough the gun laws are incredibly strict.Quote:
Originally Posted by kiwiMark
Typical blame America first crowd.
America is the greatest and best country God has ever given man. That is absolutely a fact.
All links and stats in this thread are the liberal spinsters trying to convince you to give the gov't your money.
If someone tries to convince you otherwise, remind them that you're right and a patriot.
It would be so easy to bank 20 mil a year if I just knew how to get my own Fox show.
This. I honestly think you could do it via YouTube and blogging within 2-3 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
Nah I was being sincere but if you don't want to share that's okay too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ztech
But don't you live in Chicago? Most of where people actually live in Canada has weather the equivalent of Chicago or better (West coast, SW Ontario).Quote:
Originally Posted by boost
i think flomo won this thread on the last page.
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Originally Posted by XTR1000
hahaha you beat me to it
And Lebanon fo' shizzleQuote:
Originally Posted by spoonitnow
Call it "500 Pounds of Truth"? I'll be watching for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
Just call everyone left-wing extremists and it'll be a hit, but you know that already.
"Ghandi! He was a left-wing extremist!"
"Roseanne Barr was also a left wing extremist!"
And when you get rebuffed on Jon Stewart or something, invoke Godwin's law.
It all depends where you live in US. I would much rather live here in FLA than most states. Who wouldnt want to live in sunny Fla.
I think the whole of GB wants to move here by the amount of tourist we get. Other than the fact that Mexicans want to take over my state it one the best places for weather, activities, beauty in the world.
But id rather everyone think that the US is a shitty place to live. We dont need more people moving here. Close the boarders now! So please continue with the US bashing it only help.
Mosst of us need to travel more.
that is all i can conclude from this thread.
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Originally Posted by flomo
hahaha flomo wins another thread!
Im pretty sure our summers are longer than most major canadian cities, and our winters a tad less brutal, but I could be wrong? Vancouver is probably nicer. But still if Im gonna make a big move I want it to be at the least san fran type of weather, an ideally LA/SD..Quote:
Originally Posted by BennyLaRue
When I saw Australia's GDP growth figures (ONLY country in the OECD not to go into recession FTW!) I became more convinced that I made the right decision to move back here from the UK/US 6 years ago.
Yeah, Americans often think Canada is wayyyyy colder than it actually it. It's true, there are some areas that are really cold in the winter. But some areas are also really warm. The town I live in averages 35°C days in the summer (off my own recollection, dunno if that's official).Quote:
Originally Posted by BennyLaRue
Not saying boost is one of them, but I have actually come across Americans that are under the impression that Canada is constantly snowing. This seems to be less common, probably because the internet makes that kind of confusion less likely these days.
Yeah, I was hoping Boost wasn't one of those guys but he clarified what he meant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Galapogos
I've been on the ferry back to Canada alongside an American chick in a fur coat in July. I grew up near the border so there are countless dumb stories like that.
Tell you what... I'll trade 'em for all the non-American tourist morons wandering up and down the streets of Santa Monica or Venice on any given summer weekend with their cameras wondering why they haven't bumped in to Vince Vaughn or Julia Roberts. Or who think Dallas is all cowboy hats and oil men. Or New Yorkers are all rude. I'd love to send home all the uninformed, inexperienced stereotards as it would make my life much less congested....Quote:
Originally Posted by BennyLaRue
This won't help those Americans think it's any warmer up her at allQuote:
Originally Posted by Galapogos
Don't worry guys, in the coming decades, as temperatures increase, Canada will likely be beating away immigrants from US and Mexico.
thats like just above freezing! crazy canadians..Quote:
Originally Posted by jyms
you should see the Americans we get here in London.Quote:
Originally Posted by sarbox68
All fat, all wearing "fanny packs", all wearing back packs invariably with a little US flag poking up in case they get lost from their group, all wearing baseball caps, talking really loudly in really annoying voices "wooooow isn't it quaint!!", "Wheres the restroom?" "Can you direct me to Liiiiiiecester Square?"
"No, now fuck off you fat c*nt" This normally works.
I went to thailand with a group from school, and I was def embarrassed to be associated with most of the people I was with. Many perfectly fit into the "fat obnoxious american" stereotype perfectly.
steroetypes are funny things, and always have an element of truth i guess.
People think all Brits are either posh blithering toffs ala Hugh Grant in Four Weddings or drunken football hooligans.
British slang is the most awesome stuff I've ever heard.
Say what you will about the British, but when
sex = rogering
crazy = barmy
very ugly butterface = double bagger
you've got yourself a hilarious language
she may have a had a boat race (face) worse than Babara Cartland on a good day and been barmier than a warm night in India, but I was so plastered I took her up stairs and rogered her senseless....Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
My idea of Brits are is basically this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdP0JXZpbx0
So I tell the swamp donkey to sock it before I give her a trunk in the tradesman's entrance and I have her lick me yardballs.
Can anyone from the UK confirm that this is really English English?Quote:
Originally Posted by HalvSame
Are ye accusing me of telling pork pies and a bag of trout??
brits would never use verbs so accurate as accuse or tell!
And so the thread on relative greed devolves into one about people talking funny... :shock:
ha, the first e-mail I opened at school today was the picture below, sent to me by a teacher in our social studies department
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n...mericans-1.gif
bombs go here!
can confirm that my Grandad from East Ham used to speak like that, but add a few more F*cks and C*nts in there.Quote:
Originally Posted by BooG690
but no speaks like that any more. and its seriously over the top. And its London (Cockney) slang.
Santa!!!!!!
Michael Caine is too awesome. He became one of my favorites after his role in The Man Who Would Be King.
Also, can a Brit please answer me this: Why are half of you guys named Bovver, and why do you all think that Jenny Agutter the hottest woman on the planet?
Can confirm Michael Caine is a top geezer. Can confirm I know no one called bovver (though did have a mate nicknamed Trouble), and can finally confirm i have idea who J Agutter is, but the bird in your pic is mustard.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
On a more serious note, do you have any clue why Jeff left Coupling? That was such a great show, but without him it lost just about everything
me? What who? Who the fuck is Jeff?- is this Brit show I missed?Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
I'm enjoying Generation Kill (redeemed my faith in American Marines) - though i recon if they just sent 007 in it wall all be sorted.
Classic.Quote:
Originally Posted by WillburForce
Succinct. Colorful. And yet so full of nuance.
lol dude im just being a dick.Quote:
Originally Posted by WillburForce
As an American, I assume that all British people know everything that comes out of Britain. I do wanna know why you guys chose to ruin one of the best shows you ever had
And Gen Kill is amazing
FYPQuote:
Originally Posted by sarbox68
lolage - i vaguely recognise the name Coupling - never seen it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
If its a comedy.......fuck that shit. You want Brit humour, watch Peep Show, The Mighty Boosh or some old skool Fawlty Towers or something. And lastly. i goota go bed. I'm atruly cunted and nearluy 2am and i got work at 8am. booooooooooooooooo!
Yeah, Coupling was very un-Brit comedy. I am normally quite baffled at British humor
Our former VP "invented the Internet" and thus spawned the spread of Internet porn. God bless America!
Nah we'll just convince the rest of the world that they were creating nuclear devices and had to be stopped. So we had to take over the country - to save the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
Fuck ya fawlty towers.Quote:
Originally Posted by WillburForce
The Office.
inb4 controversy over which is better.Quote:
The Office.
Yes, Generation Kill rocks, so glad we finally got it over here.
I prefer this, seems the relative scale is more accurate:Quote:
Originally Posted by UG
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/5...americant6.png
but where do our bombs go?
I never understood this one. I mean, the guy's so f-king boring to listen to, nobody would be able to stay awake long enough to here him claim anything.... :shock:Quote:
Originally Posted by spoonitnow
>>sigh<<
people, people... I know it's fun to poke a stick at the large sometimes slow child... and not to come across as partisan, but let's in the name of fairness remind our self-righteous European friends across the pond that...
- they are responsible for starting the only two truly global wars ever
- they can claim responsibility for the cluster f-ck that is Pakistan and India, through the brilliant management of independence through completely inept (tho' quite smart looking) politicians like Mountbatten
- take pride in such fabulous ideas as the Balfour Declaration that nicely set the stage in a usual meddling fashion for the Middle East crap that somehow everyone is looking at the US to solve (?)
- fully appreciate their handiwork on the African continent, of which there are just to many really neat examples to call out in this post
- and of course they had nothing to do with Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc -- or at least want nothing to do with it now.
And of course, that's just the last couple of hundred years. I can certainly understand the weight of this much deserved guilt and how it manifests in the need to rebuild self-esteem...
/part tongue in cheek, part not
I know. Also the American press is completely unbiased, very informative, and never takes things out of context. So we got that going for us.... which is nice...Quote:
Originally Posted by spoonitnow