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Originally posted by Mister Pleasant
The Japanese call themselves the 'Nipponese' and call their country 'Nippon'.
The Japanese call themselves the 'Nipponese' and call their country 'Nippon'.
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And Russians call their country "Rossiya" and Germans call their's "Deutschland" But the words in English are different, it's just the way it is -
And we Americans call ourselves America, but that's just to annoy the Canadians at this point...Comment
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I've always wondered about this, why do you call yourselves Americans? If you couldnt call yourselves Americans what would you say? USAers?Originally posted by death_head
And we Americans call ourselves America, but that's just to annoy the Canadians at this point...It's candy. Surely there are more important things the NAACP could be boycotting. If the candy were shaped like a burning cross or a black man made of regular chocolate being dragged behind a truck made of white chocolate I could understand the outrage and would share it. - DrosedarsComment
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Nah they would call themselves "a pain in Canadians butts", or "butts" for short.Originally posted by Wille
I've always wondered about this, why do you call yourselves Americans? If you couldnt call yourselves Americans what would you say? USAers?
What if your words could be judged like a crime? "Creed, What If?"Comment
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australians always call the Americans "Septic Tanks "
GM of MAFIA #40 ,#41, #43, #45,#47,#49-#51,#53-#58,#61,#68,#70, #71Comment
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I'm getting tired of all the people who insult the USA. I know that most of these comments were light-hearted, but I've read 5 different threads in the last 2 days where people who have never lived in the United States have talked about things they know nothing about. I'll admit that I'm in a bad mood right now, but I could say a lot of bad things about other countries represented here. If you disagree with me, say so, but don't start flaming me just because I like America.Comment
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Ah sabre my fine american friend, don't worry I was just posting in regards to "Americans, being called that to annoy Canadians", which was posted by an American.Originally posted by Sabre2th
I'm getting tired of all the people who insult the USA. I know that most of these comments were light-hearted, but I've read 5 different threads in the last 2 days where people who have never lived in the United States have talked about things they know nothing about. I'll admit that I'm in a bad mood right now, but I could say a lot of bad things about other countries represented here. If you disagree with me, say so, but don't start flaming me just because I like America.
If we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at? So from a beer swiling, hockey playing, toque wearing, dog sled driving, peace loving Canadian who lives in an igloo. Cheers!!What if your words could be judged like a crime? "Creed, What If?"Comment
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I didn't mean this thread specifically, I just meant that many people in these forums will talk about a nation that they've never lived in, only read or heard about. Like I said before, I'm in a bad mood, so maybe I'll feel differently about this later (like when I get out of workOriginally posted by November Adam
Ah sabre my fine american friend, don't worry I was just posting in regards to "Americans, being called that to annoy Canadians", which was posted by an American.
If we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at? So from a beer swiling, hockey playing, toque wearing, dog sled driving, peace loving Canadian who lives in an igloo. Cheers!!
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Ay, damn hosers just mad we've taken all their hoceky teams away, ay. And now they have subsidize the ones they have to keep them from moving to the Bible Belt, so beer swilling rednecks can watch at least one sport where the can't watch with their fat slob shirts off, ay.Originally posted by November Adam
If we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at? So from a beer swiling, hockey playing, toque wearing, dog sled driving, peace loving Canadian who lives in an igloo. Cheers!!
Blame Canada...Blame Canada !!!Comment
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and for those that dont know "Septic Tanks" is simple rhyming slanf for "Yanks" actually quite often the title is simply "septics" as the rhyming word is dropped... Goes back a long way to Mother England , cockney rhyming slnag i think it was called...
My old man used to always say to us kids at nightime, "Its time to go upthe apples" meaning go up stairs to bed... Apples & Pears = Stairs .....GM of MAFIA #40 ,#41, #43, #45,#47,#49-#51,#53-#58,#61,#68,#70, #71Comment
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Well we rednecks can always just watch our fun luvin CFL fooseball, well kcept for the poor fat rednecks in Winnipeg, they get airlifted from the field by their damn, skeeters.Originally posted by SerapisIV
Ay, damn hosers just mad we've taken all their hoceky teams away, ay. And now they have subsidize the ones they have to keep them from moving to the Bible Belt, so beer swilling rednecks can watch at least one sport where the can't watch with their fat slob shirts off, ay.
Blame Canada...Blame Canada !!!
Or for more fun we can watch as Floridans try to figure out how to punch out lil holes in a card
What if your words could be judged like a crime? "Creed, What If?"Comment
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Most NHL teams have moved to the southern US, those were the rednecks I was referring too. You damn canucks are just a bunch of ice-fishing, plaid-wearing, beer-drinking, hockey-playing nuts who actually sent a bicycle regiment to WWII. Damn and you guys call Americans wierd. Oh yeah, please take Tom Green back, he scares me.Originally posted by November Adam
Well we rednecks can always just watch our fun luvin CFL fooseball, well kcept for the poor fat rednecks in Winnipeg, they get airlifted from the field by their damn, skeeters.Comment
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A bicycle unit? really? Now that would be a special unit for Canada for civ (If we even make it in the game, and if we do, please don't use Pierre Trudeau as our leader! Use Mckenzie or something)! Oh and you can keep Tom Green... he scares me too!Originally posted by SerapisIV
Most NHL teams have moved to the southern US, those were the rednecks I was referring too. You damn canucks are just a bunch of ice-fishing, plaid-wearing, beer-drinking, hockey-playing nuts who actually sent a bicycle regiment to WWII. Damn and you guys call Americans wierd. Oh yeah, please take Tom Green back, he scares me.
What if your words could be judged like a crime? "Creed, What If?"Comment
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they were reknowned for their chariot riders in the late bronze age. (see richard drews, The End of the Bronze Age) but then so were all neighboring civilized states - the hittites, babylonians etc. the chariot dominated the late bronze battlefield until 1200BC. except in mountainous terrain where it was not useful. It was even dominant in India. With the rise of new modes of infantry warfare in 1200 BC the chariot became largely obsolete. And it did so as much in Egypt as anywhere.Originally posted by Rasputin
i was going to say mummies and they would curse your nation
but how bout chariots.. they were reknown for their chariot riders thorough out history ...
But then what could be the unique unit of an ancient civ - seeing as these civs were so quick to adopt each others military technology, and any superiority in use was subtle, and generally is poorly documented (if at all). ?
Answer - civ specific units generally dont make much sense.
LOTM"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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No they wouldnt. you will note that most of the invaders of 1200BC who defeated the chariots with new infantry tactics- judeans, achaeans, sicilians, sardinians, lucians, etc were mountain peoples.Originally posted by November Adam
Or the Egyptians, they had chariots due to the fact they lived in the desert, would those same chariots be any good if they started in the middle of a mountain range?
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and that the one lowland "civ" which adapted best to the new conditions was Assyria, which bordered on the Zagros mountains, and had always had to fight barbarians in the mountains.
Keep on being a thorn - calling out historical truth is not trolling, its necessary here.
LOTM"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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