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01 Oct 2008, 3:19 pm

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I dont have sex in public places :? What is European about that?



you should go to France.


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01 Oct 2008, 3:32 pm

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I dont have sex in public places :? What is European about that?



you should go to France.


Or Germany.


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01 Oct 2008, 3:33 pm

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I dont have sex in public places :? What is European about that?



you should go to France.


Well, I'm not sure about the sex in public places here in France, but the men certainly pee everywhere in public. They seem to think nothing of whipping out the old snake and peeing in someone's flower bed.

I've seen several places where the urinals are outdoors with no screening in public places. The men don't care who is walking past as they wave their todger about flicking the last drops off. Oi - careful with that thing - you nearly got me in the eye :lol:


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01 Oct 2008, 4:30 pm

they poke their nose in every business and their government's nose grows so fast when you aks them something.

Everything has to be big in america or it isn't good enough

they export their s**t and ideology to other countries

they are arrogant and don't learn another language

in guns they trust

in fear mongering they trust

they highjack freedom from fredom loving countries like Guatemala, Honduras

and support dictatorial regimes and take out leaders supported by the people

it is one big Dysney land in whcih the natives have become nothing more than decor

they have the highest number of missionaries whom they send out into the world to convert some more (I hate those spick and span mormon uniforms)

they believe it is Gods' own country

Mickey Mouse was Belgian designed and not by Walt Disney (they cheated)

They like to sue everyone over nothing

it is a predator

they outlawed sacred plants like Marihuana peyote (except for the natives who can use it in the Native American Church)


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01 Oct 2008, 6:55 pm

pheonixiis wrote:
anna-banana wrote:
crackedpleasures wrote:

I dont have sex in public places :? What is European about that?



you should go to France.


Or Germany.


He is living in Germany. ^^;



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01 Oct 2008, 7:47 pm

Khan_Sama wrote:
pheonixiis wrote:
anna-banana wrote:
crackedpleasures wrote:

I dont have sex in public places :? What is European about that?



you should go to France.


Or Germany.


He is living in Germany. ^^;


I lived there for three years. Just because he isn't having sex in public place (as commendable as that is) doesn't mean other people aren't. I saw it over there.


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01 Oct 2008, 9:02 pm

I don't hate my country in the least, just a few parts of it.

Nevertheless I am getting the hell out of here.


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01 Oct 2008, 9:20 pm

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Many Europeans are now looking at America and basically wondering what happened? America seems like a backwards and belligerent place now, being left behind, a former super power in decline.

We're basically retracing Russia's steps.

After being the hero of the world (Russia beat Napoleon, we beat Hitler) both countries went about trying to maintain a super-dominant position in the world and to be the bastion of civilization everywhere. Needless to say, this is rather taxing on the budget. So, budget problem, plus badly-chosen wars (Crimea for Russia, several for the US, currently Iraq) along with a belief in the superiority of your own nation and a separation from the rest of the Western world (Russia had the quandary of whether they were truly part of Europe, America is on another continent) and eventually you end up falling behind and collapsing under your own weight.

America in fifty years will still be a major power, but we will no longer be THE dominant power. It may be that there is no longer a super-power, or China may fill that role. I think the world would be better off with no nation ever being so completely dominant again. I sort of want a modern-day Metternich to come and establish a stable balance of power, except this time for it to actually work.


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01 Oct 2008, 9:41 pm

No doubt I'm a member of a very small minority but I have neither fear nor disgust of seeing penises, a**holes, nipples, or people having sex. I am not particularly interested in exposing myself but the strange fascination people have for seeing specific parts of other people's bodies strikes me as childish and with common exposure that strange perversion would quickly vanish. Dogs, cats and horses move around publicly with all parts exposed and little if any interest is raised. Urinating or defecating indiscriminately raises issues of public health and that's another matter.



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01 Oct 2008, 9:52 pm

Some reasons

-The US likes to shake it's finger at China on issues such as Tibet, Xinjiang and Taiwan even though the majority of those autonomous regions are pro-China. (if I were a lower class Tibetan, I would rather have Chinese rule than Lamaist rule) Also, the Taiwanese right now are leaning towards conditional reunification, the current ruling party; the Kuomintang, support eventual reunification. The United States on the otherhand is fanatically trying to prevent this.

-The typical American ignorance of other cultures.

-Our occupation of Muslim nations.

However, I will admit that some of the criticisms against the US are unjustified...such as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgZ5k2n8k4s

As a guy who has read two versions of the Communist Manifesto, I have more viable criticism than Shubelmorgan's praises.



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01 Oct 2008, 9:54 pm

For the record, Tibet has been considered a part of China since, IIRC, the 14th century, which is longer than we've lived here.


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01 Oct 2008, 10:06 pm

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For the record, Tibet has been considered a part of China since, IIRC, the 14th century, which is longer than we've lived here.

Except that, y'know, the Chinese aren't actually there. China has thus far failed to overwhelm the native population with Han (as it has done in Xinjiang), so it remains foreign rule. Tibet is essentially Tibetan and always had been.

And I am unsure about the accuracy of this claim. I distinctly remember a very old globe in a classroom as a child which showed Tibet as separate from China. It was, de facto, not part of China for a decent chunk of the 20th century, and I do believe it was somewhat later than the 14th century that the Chinese moved in, although my grasp of Tibetan history is practically non-existent.


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01 Oct 2008, 10:30 pm

Okay, a half black man is probably going to be our next president and we're so extremely racist? Uh...huh..... Where did you get your sources? Jesse Jackson? He just stirs the pot and exaggerates to keep his power. I'm not saying there isn't *any* racism, but it's not nearly as bad as the NAACP wants you to think.
But yes, as an American, I can safely say our country is quickly going down the gutter. We, just like the EU, are quickly turning into a corporate fascist police state.



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01 Oct 2008, 11:02 pm

Cyanide wrote:
Okay, a half black man is probably going to be our next president and we're so extremely racist? Uh...huh..... Where did you get your sources? Jesse Jackson? He just stirs the pot and exaggerates to keep his power. I'm not saying there isn't *any* racism, but it's not nearly as bad as the NAACP wants you to think.

You're from Oregon. Try the South or Midwest if you want to see racism.


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01 Oct 2008, 11:04 pm

I can see the South, but the Midwest? Many Minnewegians technically aren't 'white' people per se.


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01 Oct 2008, 11:14 pm

Fun facts: Indiana has the nation's most active KKK, followed by Ohio.

Parts of Ohio are pretty bad. I remember my hometown of Cincinnati having race riots a few years back. Ah, Cincinnati, hotbed of copperheads. There are people there who argue against interracial marriage. And good chunks of the Midwest are just as redneck as the South.


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