Columbus Day Rewlz!

0Dannyboy · October 2005

God Bless columbus :!: the freekin native american enslaving desease spredding english tyrant that he was :shock: he got me the day off work to play with my GNX3 :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :!:

shando · October 2005

\0Dannyboy\ wrote:

english tyrant that he was

I'm sure you'll find he was a bloody Italian, m8!!!

TY

shando

0Dannyboy · October 2005

:shock: :oops: I stand corrected.
:evil: Italian enslaving deasease spredding tyrant then :twisted: :!:

shando · October 2005

Hmmm, wonder why the Germans don't have a \"Hitler\" day bank holiday type thing!

Thomas · October 2005

Columbus was a Portugeese hired by the Queen of Spain...

jazzandblues · October 2005

i think in canada we call it thanks giving.
so turkey time and happy thanks giveing to all.

KiLLiN-TiMe · October 2005

Don't much matter here... I'm at work! :evil:

Thomas · October 2005

Me too KT, gotta work OT to top it off

D.Alexander · October 2005

Nope not the equivilent of Canadian Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is all the way into November here. Canada needs Viking Day, you know those fair skinned barbarians that really discovererd the America's.

T3 · October 2005

I had to work today. But I get Ozzy's birthday off.

jay7590 · October 2005

The number was actually 250,000 Arawak indians killed withen ten years of columbus landing in the bahamas.Spain was recently unified and had tied itself to the catholic church,expelled all the jews(let my people go),and driven out the moors.The information Columbus wanted most was:Where is the gold?,so he persuaded the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition.Thirty-three days later the ships of death arrived and immediatly enslaved them and demanded they show him the gold,but there was very little,14 year olds were required to wear meddallians around their necks to show they had made their quota,and if they didnt their hands were CUT OFF.Columbus was full(the irony)of religious talk:\"thus the eternal God,our lord,gives victory to those who follow his way over apparent impossibilities.\",and later wrote \"Let us in the name of the holy trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.\"Ladies and germs what really gets me is that my kids have to go to school and learn lies about this piece of s@$#.God bless america and no one else......right?

D.Alexander · October 2005

yeah right.... God Bless Canada, or Brazil, or Guatemala !!!
dosen't really have the same ring to it, now does it? Marketing, marketing, marketing!!!!
anyways good points.... possibly too real and uncomfortable for many, but still understood.

AlbertA · October 2005

\D.Alexander\ wrote:

yeah right.... God Bless Canada, or Brazil, or Guatemala !!!
dosen't really have the same ring to it, now does it? Marketing, marketing, marketing!!!!
anyways good points.... possibly too real and uncomfortable for many, but still understood.

They are still part of America tough....

D.Alexander · October 2005

I agree, however most people identify \"America\" as the United States. Example....\"We all come to America\" maybe Neil Diamond meant the 2 continents but i doubt it.

AlbertA · October 2005

\D.Alexander\ wrote:

I agree, however most people identify \"America\" as the United States. Example....\"We all come to America\" maybe Neil Diamond meant the 2 continents but i doubt it.

You mean most people in the US only ... he he he
That's a common US sentiment that I had to adjust to...

Everywhere else (in the American continent) recognizes themselves as Americans as well...

0Dannyboy · October 2005

This post is getting pretty funny

...mean most people in the US only ... he he he

:? No not really I have been to south american countrys to visit and they always refered to me as an \"American\" not a united statian. Probably because I live in the United States of... AMERICA ... see thats in our countrys name, Brazil-no not in there name so they are not nicknamed \"Americans\" for short like we are often refered to. Not any kind of arrogant USA attitude trying to take over the Americas just a nick name one of many that the rest of the world calls us. It is one of the nicer nicknames I bet :oops: :P

D.Alexander · October 2005

good point DannyO. Neil Diamond was guilty of presumption but not commonolity, the dream lives on

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shando · October 2005

Hi again dudes, I'm a Scotman living in England (don't really know what that has to do with anything). However, when I visited Belize and Mexico the locals were very hostile in some parts until they heard me speak. They assumed I was a white \"American\" until they heard the broad Scots accent, after which they were really friendly. I never heard any of them class themselves as \"Americans\", in fact their use of the word always had negative connotations. My own experience of \"Americans\" in London are that I always hear them before I see them. Why are you all so loud? Why is there so much anti-American sentiment around these days, you surely can't all be bad!?! Personally I take each person as I find them, regardless of where they come from, except the English. Oh and the French.

TY

shando

shando · October 2005

\Thomas\ wrote:

Columbus was a Portugeese hired by the Queen of Spain...

No, check your history there matey, Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy to the son of a wool merchant and weaver in 1451!!!!!! I s'pose that's the benefit of an \"American\" education is it?

TY

shando

D.Alexander · October 2005

No, check your history there matey, Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy to the son of a wool merchant and weaver in 1451!!!!!! I s'pose that's the benefit of an \"American\" education is it?

\"Columbus used the Portuguese version of his name while in Portugal and the Spanish version after moving to Spain in 1485\"
this is the info i found on him by doing a web search.... (i know not always terribly accurate but a comon theme on history pages)
The common belief amongst historians is that he \"was\" born Genoa but no one is 100% sure of this.
Anyways, i doubt it makes much sense to try and compare standards of education between countries here. Your use of \"American's being loud\" and \"benefit's of an American education\" are vast generalizations. It would be like me turning around and saying all British and Scottish are pompous and your comments simply back that fact up, i do know better of this however. I think that you can take humor in the little differences between people from around the world, but it is something that you should be very careful with.

My own experience of \"Americans\" in London are that I always hear them before I see them. Why are you all so loud?

It may very well be that American’s are louder…. However here is another thought on the subject….. The English get much quieter when a American is speaking. They do this because they are not accustomed to the accent, or alternativly the accent is so uniquely different the ear isolates it against the backdrop of what it is accustomed to hearing, thus it is centererd and comes across as \"louder\"
Just a different take on it..... i don't think that you have to be British or Scottish or anyone in particular, your ear just has to hear somthing it is not accustomed to and that could be anybody who meets somebody from somewhere else in the world.

cheers
D.

0Dannyboy · October 2005

:shock: Why are you all so loud? Why is there so much anti-American sentiment around these days, you surely can't all be bad!?! :shock:

Why are you all? :? Surely you cant all be \"Bad\" ... I think thats why there is so much anti anything these days. Stereotypeing. It really suX dont do it. Because of this attitude I think alot of my freinds here in the USA are starting to do the same thing. They are thinking the rest of you \"ALL\" are just a big bunch of jealous haters. Of course this makes no real sence the world is not that simple.This will breed indifference when it comes to all the good we as a nation can do the rest of the world when we think and contribute as a global comunity. Be a free thinker and decide on an indiviual basis what people are like The United States.This is a huge country much larger than most with many different personalitys.

Please do not asume we are all LOUD except of course when our and GNX3s are all turned to 11

shando · October 2005

Hmmm, we are getting a tad serious now aren't we? First let me just say that my previous comments were meant in a light hearted way, as \"banter\" if you will. If any of my comments have offended any of you then tough s**t, as I have no control over how they are to be interpreted. If you cannot see the obvious then why should I care? Though it would appear that the sense of humour I take for granted isn't as common as I would have hoped. Whilst still on a \"serious\" note, an American voice in the middle of London is not perceived as being loud in volume due to the ear being unacustommed to it, rather, it is due to the huge volume only. If i use public transport in London around 80% of the other passengers within the carriage are foreign, many of which speak no english at all, yet the American voice always appears to boom over the others. So there, take that! PS. it still doesn't change the fact that anti-American feeling is increasing on a global scale!

shando · October 2005

PPS. For the record I have \"Ginger\" hair, wear a kilt , am always drunk and swear a lot!

D.Alexander · October 2005

ug :roll:
the anti American setiment may very well be true. My hope is that this is partly in fact due to the current administration and not to do with how the citizens of this country are percieved in a generalized sense. The administration will change in a few years (i hope).
I can laugh at the \"Americans are loud and obnoxious jokes\", but if it does breed a stereotype i think that this is a bad thing. Hopefully this has nothing to do with the anti sentiment.

shando · October 2005

Yes, you hit the nail on the head with the adninstration idea. They have a lot to answer for. Still, it was ordinary Americans who elected them, apparently.

0Dannyboy · October 2005

First of all \"Dude I am bieng very lighthearted. and just \"shooting the S**t\".

shando: If any of my comments have offended any of you then tough s**t,I have no control over how they are to be interpreted. If you cannot see the obvious then why should I care?

I think thats what i will say back to you in a most lighthearted way as well

I have no control over how we as a Nation are are to be interpreted. If you cannot see the obvious good in our country then why should I care? :P

If any of my comments have offended any of you then tough s**t,

And I guess it IS true Scotsman are Angry people :twisted: I am saying this VERY LOUD!!:P :twisted: :roll:

yes that was supposed to be funny ...now lets Jammout and drink some Scotch

Thomas · October 2005

Shando,

Love your attitude - MATEY

Sweet.... :roll:

shando · October 2005

I think thats what i will say back to you in a most lighthearted way as well

I have no control over how we as a Nation are are to be interpreted. If you cannot see the obvious good in our country then why should I care? :P

If any of my comments have offended any of you then tough s**t,

And I guess it IS true Scotsman are Angry people :twisted: I am saying this VERY LOUD!!:P :twisted: :roll:

yes that was supposed to be funny ...now lets Jammout and drink some Scotch

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You're only coming across as an angry person, I'm missing your humour. Also, if you want to have a shot at the title at least have the decency to be original. As for the obvious good, tell me about it? Iraq? Failure to sign up to the Kyoto Protocol? Blatant disregard for international conventions ie Geneva Convention (Camp X-Rayamongst many others), invasion/occupation of Philipines, Cuba, Panama, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Korea, Nicaragua, Lebanon etc, etc, etc. The list goes on and on and on. Still to be fair I am just concentrating on the negative. America has, after all, given us CocaCola and Big Macs, yes sir, and the dollar is accepted nearly everywhere.

Thomas · October 2005

Let me add to Coca Cola and Bic Mac - Liberation of Europe 1945... Hey dude, UK is US' strongest allied in Iraq :shock: Talk about the pot calling the kettle black

ODB, I see the humor

shando · October 2005

Yes, you're completely right there, and it is exactly a pot, kettle black scenario. Hey after all I'm pretty sure the brits had a major hand in developing the slave trade, and don't even start me on th Pilgrims. I s'pose it really comes down to people don't choose to whom or where they are born and we shouldn't have to bear the burden of our forefathers wrongdoings, this is probably why I am not at all patriotic though and do not bang on about how great my country is. In fact living in the US would probably be a better deal all round. Have you seen the prices we pay in the UK for gas, automobiles etc? 94 pence (UK currency) for a bloody litre of unleaded!!!

0Dannyboy · October 2005

shando
This is all one little ball of mud planet earth. If you want to mis interpet my humor and basically blame the state of the world on America then go for it. That is after all your right to sit on the sidelines and blame others:D I see it as we are all to blame in one way or another no country holds the High ground on desencey these days just look back into any countrys recent history and I am sure you will find policys to disagree with. As for me being so unoriginal ... :roll: as far as you not sticking up for your country living in and off another country thats doing the same thing and then blaming others ...now thats Original

And by the way NO I am not angry I find chats like this alot of fun and enlightening so dont go have a freekin stroke getting all worked up
I like diffrent opinions and learn alot from even Angry Scotts like you :P

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