not to entirely change the direction of the conversation, but everybodys favourite helicopter pilot (i'm sticking with helicopter pilot, scott, sorry :P) made me wonder..

the western half of russia, are they european? the eastern half of russia is.. asian? can russian refer to both european and asiatics?

lol

While im not jealous of your country, I am jealous of your ignorance.


I hear ignorance is bliss. I am sure you would know.

"We are the United States of AMERICA..."

but the word of is crucial. america was there, then you divided it into colonies. rebels won, then they were states. when they ratified the whatever of the whatever during the whatever, they became united. not only those thirteen colonies made up "america", or with two even the americas.

this is getting silly though, people, come on, we're sitting here arguing suffixes and use of the word of?

MIGHT AS WELL CALL EVERYONE PANGEANS BECAUSE, AT ONE POINT IN TIME, ALL CONTINENTS WERE CONNECTED. WHO CARES IF IT IS RELEVANT TODAY, I CAN CALL NEWZEALANDERS PANGEAN BECAUSE AT ONE POINT IN TIME, ALL CONTINENTS CONNECTED.

im not arguing anything, I am simply stating fact, and scott is trying to deny this fact because he doesnt want to be labelled in the same group as mexicans


Basically all this boils down to is, Scott is a racist.

http://www.globalfirepower.com/...;Submit=Compare+Countries

Leaving that there go scode.

there are zero inhabited landmasses that formed after the super continent?

lets meet half way in the middle, joni was right, we're all just billion year old carbon

+fluffinghippies

Hardly flufftard. You are wrong and retardedly splitting hairs like you do all the time. You can't even logically form an argument. Sure, you can make 1+1 =1 if you secretly subtract 1.

(none of us want to grouped in with mexicans, scott isn't the only racist here)

Lol and yet your govt still threw a hissy fit when we wouldn't let your dirty nuc ships into our harbours

What does that tell you.

On a side note, you can call me a pagan, you can call me whatever you like, unlike you, what other people call me does not effect me :), so yip sure, I am a pagan (i must say, being a pagan is much better than being a christian!)


Sorry braden, both you and those mexicans are in the same group :P

Stop squeezing my head then you stupid son of a fluff!

Did you actually just confuse a pagan with the continent of Pangea? WOW

Leave pang out of it

Lol Pang would have been closer to Pangea than a pagan.

*sigh*


If you dont get the reference, then thats cool bro

Once again ignorance is bliss

but just for you, yeah thats exactly right, I confused paganism with the continent of Pangea...

*shakes head**

fluffen stupid uneducated ignorant americans...

both are based wholly on faith, scode. unless it's the physical man jesus you dislike, but i'm going to guess your issue lies mostly with those whom basterdize his name and not the man himself. unless you have an issue with respect and equality?

Yeah must really puss you off that a bunch of Christians founded America and became the sole world superpower.

(i think they may have named christchurch, too, but i may be wrong)

Ok, off to bed. I actually have to go earn a living tomorrow.

I think you will find that the founders of America were more masons than Christians, not many of the original founders were that religious


It must piss you off that I know more about the history of the founding of your country than you do?

p.s. USA is not the sole world superpower...

Of course Braden and Mexicans are in the same group...North Americans. No one denies this, but huge number of people would deny that applying the United Nations recognized demonym for someone from the United States of America to anyone from North America or South America makes sense. It doesn't makes sense. It is a cause for confusion.

Confusion or clarity? In everything that I have learned over my life, clarity is always better than confusion.

If you think in your own unique way, then just be sure to translate your thoughts to a message that will have the meaning you intend to convey when the recipient reads it. It gets to the point that we're using the same words, but we're speaking two different languages.

very well done braden, they did name Christchurch :P

stop drawing lines..we are one world

Shuddup hippy! Divided we stand!

I think this just about wraps this thread up, folks.

And here is a good closing remark from John Belushi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkZeJbswnUk

To solve some issues, a continent is a tectonic plate, therefore a Chinese, Pakistani, Zimbabwean, or any other resident in a country on the African or Asian tectonic plates cannot be European.

Also, residents of India are not technically Asian, since India is, more or less, it's own tectonic plate.

The United States of America, will be fine, until there is a different United States of America in South America.

zombie heaven

Why would anyone dislike the physical man Jesus? Except maybe the Romans, who saw him as a problem to be dealt with...

I think most people who have a problem with Jesus are more concerned with the hypothetical deity Jesus, not the physical man.

how did you manage to bring up obummer from my post? i'm really starting to think that instead of you being MR/lost your marbles, that you just might be a troll instead.

regardless, HERP DURP LIBRULS OBUMMER TEA PARTY 4 LIFE derp

united states of alabama

It's amazing the level of stupidity on this thread.

Hey, Heston, does it hurt much? Same question for iScode.

Ignorance at that level has GOT to be painful.

Trife? Obama? Ford? U suck tranny penis?

so you are telling me that the United Nations is not a competent global governing body, and are shocked by this?

Where have you been hiding for your entire life?

face palm topic

Yes and the Monroe Doctrine Says it like it is.

The United States of America is frequently shorted to just "America", and thusly the people from the United States are called Americans.
People from the continent of North America are called North Americans.
People from Canada are called Canadians.
People from Mexico are called Mexicans.
People from South America are called South Americans.

You can cry all you want, but people will never call people from the US anything but "Americans"



You included Haiti on the list of "touristy" places? LOL!

YES THEY WILL! IN FACT, THEY ALREADY DO CALL US OTHER THINGS ALL THE TIME!

"ASSHOLES", "JERKS", ETC...

Jerk store called.... over abundance of Americans.

You know what they say about nice guys, they finish last. USA #1! USA #1!

In England they called me Yank

Im sure they are saying wanker.

Yep, yank the wank, the Yank, etc.

In the history books they call USA the back to back world war champs.

Vlad, keep pushing and you will end up on the losing end of a threepeat.

We should just annex all the states south of here all the way to the Panama Canal and make them states 51 thru 100 and start collecting taxes from them. Since they all seem to be coming here anyway without being invited we should just pull a PUTIN and make them all part of the USA. Then the war on drugs will really be a War when everyone is armed from here to the Panama Canal.

The annexation of the Crimea by Russia worked so well because the population identifies with Russia culturally and perhaps more importantly recieves pension benefits from Russia. Another disputed territory in Eastern Ukraine is Transnistria. Here an article about Transnistria posted recently in De Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/...d-in-europe-a-965801.html

quoting from that article:

"More than anything else, the border is an annoyance for the villagers here. They are tired of having to apply for a travel permit every time they want to go shopping across the frontier, though some have made the best of it and registered in Transnistria in order to benefit from the pension supplement paid by Moscow. Passports are hardly a hurdle; almost everyone in the region has several."

Do you think the US is going to offer green cards and pension benefits to all the Mexican, Panamanians, etc.?

Do you think we dont already to anybody that applies? And if denied do we really stop them from coming over if they want to?

Furthermore, if you think the 14th and the 19th were actually because they cared about the minorities and women you are naive. In both cases they were to essentially double the tax base.

To be fair, the US came into both wars late. If anything, America is the guy that comes in when the fight is nearly over and finishes off people who were already bled down.

US war weariness has always been worse than most other first-tier military states. I don't think the population of the US have the appetite for conducting a war from start to finish against a major power -- back then or now! Look at wars like Iraq, Vietnam and Afghanistan for examples where America led an invasion and war weariness took over quickly. During WWI and WWII, the US played the isolationist card and there was tons of support for it.

In any conflict against Russia + allies (even China), I'm certain that the US + allies dominates militarily but I definitely think that this time there will be no way to avoid casualties on the home front. That's something the US has NEVER had to worry about in the first two world wars. The reason the US was the winner of the second world war was because their infrastructure and economy remained in tact -- and in many ways strengthened. It wasn't completely crushed and left to rebuild with a scarred population like many other countries (current allies) in WWI or WWII.

Pang u just wait for the robot wars...