Are Americans Offended Too Easily?

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


Notice the Yank conveniently forgetting to mention that the colony 1/10th the size of the US and immediately north of it kicked its ass, even though half of its population was frigging French.

Uh, yeah.

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by MikeH
At uni we had a LGB (Lesbian Gay Bisexual) society which was a social group / pressure group checking up against discrimination. Also an Asian Students group, Black students group, Christian group, Muslim students group, Different groups for different political parties, womens issues group... they weren't allowed to restrict their membership though.

If anyone had wanted to form a straight white male group I'm sure that would have been allowed too as long as they didn't restrict their membership to straight white males. *shrug*

Do you have a clue how little sense any of that makes, and the lack of relevance?
What does a black students group have to do with sexual practices?

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by MattHiggs
Not a bad line of work if you can get it.

Let's say I made 'em an offer they couldn't refuse.

[Asher]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Asher, your constant reference to "old man" bothers me very little.
Hopefully your mouth won't disallow the same for you some day.

When I'm an old man, I'll refer to myself as an old man.
Right now I'm a young man, and as such I'll refer to myself as a young man.

I just found it odd you decided to try to threadjack with a post whining about how others have threadjacked.

[MikeH]

*sigh* sorry my brain is not working properly today. I was trying to say that you could pick any attribute of people and form a club for it. Doesn't imply predjudice unless you limit the people that can join the club. Sexual orientation, colour, religion, political beliefs, sex are all things that people will use to judge and form predjudicial opinions about other people but at the end of the day are totally irrelevant to what that person is like as an individual. Why shouldn't there be a club at a school which is set up for gay students to provide them with support for the particular issues that are relevant to them? No reason I couldn't also join it but perhaps I don't need support from my peers when I have to come out to my parents or whatever.

[Asher]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Do you have a clue how little sense any of that makes, and the lack of relevance?
What does a black students group have to do with sexual practices?

He was illustrating that minorities were allowed to have clubs at the school that celebrated/dealt with those minorities.

[MattHiggs]

So who do you think will win the World Cup this year?

[MikeH]

Argentina.

[MattHiggs]

Yeah they have a really, really good chance. Though I think Czech Republic are really, really good this year.

[MikeH]

Thing is a European team has never won outside Europe...

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
What does a black students group have to do with sexual practices?

So they can get more SEX, perhaps?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
So they can get more SEX, perhaps?

Has it really been that long for you Lefty?

[MattHiggs]

Even more reason they will win then, that statistic has to end some time.

[Lefty Scaevola]

About 5 hours ago. You got to admit I have a handle on this suject. Err, wait, I did not really want to say that, did I?

[Chris 62]

Originally posted by Boddington's
I see Slowwhand and Chris62 amongst others are wedging themselves even further up MtG's arse. Only to be expected, of course as they can't think for themselves.

And yet, I have never had any problem shooting down any argument you have ever put forth.
Doesn't say much for you, dear Spinky, now does it?

That's why you go with friends. You don't seriously thought I meant that I go around a pub mocking every individual in there? No. Just friendly banter with people we know.

Typical thug mentality.
Insult others while in groups to attempt to avoid retaliation.
For shame, dear boy.

You're joking, right? Americans over here complain because customer service is worse than they receive back home. We're prepared to accept.

Hardly valid, any first person experince is subject to varibles, such as the amount of times exposed to others of whom you speak.

I'm not whining, just discussing. Hey if Americans want to get all riled-up and offended then that's their choice, it certainly makes the job of MarkG, AH and cohorts easier.

Yep, they bouce you like a rubber ball!

And in response to your "walking away" comment which you like to constantly repeat, I was sleeping.

To easy, I'll let that one pass.

You say what happens externally is of no interest to the Mods in adjudicating. That's ridiculous - Giancarlo has sent nude pictures of "himself" to many posters, and complimented many male posters on their looks. He is gay.

Typical thug tactic.
Make a bold statement that is impossible to verify, as the "sources" are corrupted.

If we then pertain to him being gay on the site, we get banned? That's plainly ridiculous. Should we not talk about anyone's sexuality in case it might offend them?

Looks like that's the case, Spinky!

Getting on to your topic, as many here well know, I answer you as you speak to me.
If someone insults me or my country, they will draw the same or worse fire.
Basically, if you want to troll, be prepaired to take the heat.

What often causes problems between US and other posters, is the fact that others will often believe anything that is negative about the US, without a shred of evidense.
An example, a few months back, the Taliban leaked a story claiming that "The UN was recieved reports that USA bombing hospitals in Kabul".
This went straight to the boards, followed by a number of angry posters denoucing the USA, and adding other "facts" to the USA's list of imfamies.
I pointed out (and correctly, as it turned out), that there was no proof, so no reason to believe it, as it came from the USA's enimies.
The obvious bias was seen, on the part of so-called "enlightened" non-US posters.
A few days ago, El Queda prisiners were brought to Gitmo, and at poly we see "US breaking Geneva convention reguarding POWs?".
Totally ignorring that these were criminals, not POWs, we were treated to endless pages of what was basically a complaint about the US favoring the death penalty, as oppossed to others views against this.
Once again, the USA and it's posters were attacked and villified, and if we respond in kind, people like our friend Spinky here call ua "sensitive".
Sprayber did a nice thread about the "best and worst" of your countries' histories.
I wrote a long post on what was bad about the USA's history, and recieved one favorable remark about it's brutal honesty.
I wrote a second post about the good things, and was attacked for pages on end about points I brought up, forcing me to defend each and every word.
You telling me that is not bias?
Not a single USA poster questioned good moments of other nations, but write about what's good in America and the vultures swoop in, and you tell me we are "oversensitive"?!!?

As with all Spink trolls, they never survive truth or the light of day, and this is no different.

And just a reminder, I will continue as always.
Speak to me, I will speak back.
Attack me, and I will fight back.

Simple as that.