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  • #376
    Yeah, some Americans draw more attention to themselves than others. I've never been timid to drawing attention to myself when neccessary.


    I didn't know if people wanted to go through page after page of stuff about Canada to read my post when this is not a thread about Canada.
    "When you ride alone, you ride with Bin Ladin"-Bill Maher
    "All capital is dripping with blood."-Karl Marx
    "Of course, my response to your Marx quote is 'So?'"-Imran Siddiqui

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    • #377
      Originally posted by DuncanK
      I didn't know if people wanted to go through page after page of stuff about Canada to read my post when this is not a thread about Canada.
      Your quite right, But it is a thread about the differiences between people. The though of "Limelight" trait of Americas just occured to me reading your post.

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      • #378
        ARG!!

        Damnit! Was there anything good on page 18? Because I can't get to it (the lovely "UUUUUUUUU" error).

        -Arrian
        grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

        The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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        • #379
          Originally posted by Arrian
          Damnit! Was there anything good on page 18? Because I can't get to it (the lovely "UUUUUUUUU" error).
          You didn't miss much.

          Page 19 isn't so hot either.
          Last edited by DinoDoc; January 16, 2003, 14:20.
          I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
          For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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          • #380
            Page 18 was mostly uninteresting, except for this quote HershOstropoler used :
            The Americans, in their intercourse with strangers, appear impatient of the smallest censure and insatiable of praise. The most slender eulogy is acceptable to them, the most exalted seldom contents them; they unceasingly harass you to extort praise, and if you resist their entreaties, they fall to praising themselves. It would seem as if, doubting their own merit, they wished to have it constantly exhibited before their eyes. Their vanity is not only greedy, but restless and jealous; it will grant nothing, while it demands everything, but is ready to beg and to quarrel at the same time.

            If I say to an American that the country he lives in is a fine one, "Ay," he replies, "there is not its equal in the world." If I applaud the freedom that its inhabitants enjoy, he answers: "Freedom is a fine thing, but few nations are worthy to enjoy it." If I remark on the purity of morals that distinguishes the United States, "I can imagine," says he, "that a stranger, who has witnessed the corruption that prevails in other nations, would be astonished at the difference." At length I leave him to the contemplation of himself; but he returns to the charge and does not desist till he has got me to repeat all I had just been saying. It is impossible to conceive a more troublesome or more garrulous patriotism; it wearies even those who are disposed to respect it.
            GP answered him that explained why Hersh was so buttlocked.
            "I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
            "I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
            "I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis

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            • #381
              Originally posted by Arrian
              ARG!!

              Damnit! Was there anything good on page 18? Because I can't get to it (the lovely "UUUUUUUUU" error).

              -Arrian
              Stuff about trade and job transfers
              "When you ride alone, you ride with Bin Ladin"-Bill Maher
              "All capital is dripping with blood."-Karl Marx
              "Of course, my response to your Marx quote is 'So?'"-Imran Siddiqui

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              • #382
                I bored with this thread about half way through. Could some kind soul provide me with a summary (hopefully in3 words or so, so that I don't have to read too much).
                (+1)

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                • #383
                  Taz : put simply : read MrWhereItsAt's post (page 14), it leads to the interesting posts of these thread. Skip all posts he doesn't mention
                  "I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
                  "I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
                  "I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis

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                  • #384
                    Originally posted by Spiffor
                    Taz : put simply : read MrWhereItsAt's post (page 14), it leads to the interesting posts of these thread. Skip all posts he doesn't mention
                    That's more than the three words he asked for.
                    I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                    For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                    • #385
                      Read MrWhereItsAt
                      Is that better ?
                      "I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
                      "I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
                      "I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis

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                      • #386
                        Skip pages 15 and 16 unless you are very interested in the Canadian lumber industry, how it used to be part of the English Empire and whether it shold aquire serious weaponry. There is nothing else there.
                        "When you ride alone, you ride with Bin Ladin"-Bill Maher
                        "All capital is dripping with blood."-Karl Marx
                        "Of course, my response to your Marx quote is 'So?'"-Imran Siddiqui

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                        • #387
                          Skip 18 & 19 too, just complains "aboat" Canadian threadjacking.

                          Americans need a identifying vocal mannerism. eh?

                          Or do "Yeeha" and "Sazamm" count?

                          Tat Tat and all that rot.

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                          • #388
                            Originally posted by Ozz
                            Skip 18 & 19 too, just complains "aboat" Canadian threadjacking.

                            Americans need a identifying vocal mannerism. eh?

                            Or do "Yeeha" and "Sazamm" count?

                            Tat Tat and all that rot.
                            18 is not "aboat" that at all. Most of 19 is not about that. I'm just trying to get this thread back on track (and poke at you a bit ) Please don't take too much offense. Canada is a great country.
                            "When you ride alone, you ride with Bin Ladin"-Bill Maher
                            "All capital is dripping with blood."-Karl Marx
                            "Of course, my response to your Marx quote is 'So?'"-Imran Siddiqui

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                            • #389
                              Originally posted by Taz
                              I bored with this thread about half way through. Could some kind soul provide me with a summary (hopefully in3 words or so, so that I don't have to read too much).

                              READ TOQUEVILLE'S BOOK

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                              • #390
                                Originally posted by DuncanK
                                and poke at you a bit
                                Not offended at all, I was doing a bit of poking too.

                                Do Americans have unique reckonzied vocal mannerisms as a whole? Some regional areas do ie Texas, The South but as a whole is there something only Americans
                                say?

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