It is currently Thu May 08, 2025 7:16 am View unanswered posts | View active topics |


Board index » Community » Community Discussion


Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 71 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2, 3  Next
Author Message
 Post subject: America is Pathetic.
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:39 am 
Star-Spangled Subligar
Star-Spangled Subligar
User avatar

Joined: Wed Dec 31, 1969 7:00 pm
Posts: 15671
Location: THE DOJO
Im not saying im "Proud" to be Canadian, or that Canadians are better. Canada has its own stupid problems.


I just cant believe some of the stupid things I see happen in the US. I think the thing that bugs me the most is how people sue for the most retarded reasons ever.
Ever since I got HD-TV I have been forced to watch Detroit and Washington stations. I get all american programing including comercials. Whats the difference?
Well american broadcasting consists of 1 advertisment every comcercial break to promote some lawyer who can help you make money. Dont forget how awesome daytime TV is and its 1 million adds for schools that can help you become a dental assistant! Yes even you!

So this morning I read this little prize right here.
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articl ... 01-ON.html
Quote:
MySpace blogger who spread sex gossip sought

Associated Press
Oct. 2, 2006 06:20 AM


ATHENS, Ga. - Authorities are searching for whomever posted a long list and description of supposed sexual encounters between dozens of high school students on the online networking site MySpace.com.

Oconee County Sheriff's officials said they were investigating who posted the gossip about North Oconee High School students Sept. 1-9. Since gossip isn't a crime, the sheriff's report lists the offense as distributing obscene materials to minors. The list describes sexual encounters and could be accessed by people younger than 18.

"There's a lot of difference between writing on a bathroom wall and distributing it all over the world on the Internet where anyone has access to it," Lt. David Kilpatrick told the Athens Banner-Herald for a story published Sunday. advertisement




Students argued with one another, disrupting classes, when most found out about the MySpace blog, said principal John Osborne.

Kilpatrick said that MySpace gave him the e-mail address of the person who created the site, but that it was an anonymous Yahoo account. He said he would subpoena BellSouth, the Internet service provider used to create the e-mail address, to try to determine who paid for the Internet service.

Any student found to have created the site could be expelled because the school's conduct code covers off-campus behavior that affects school life, Osborne said. He said they might also face lawsuits from parents of students cited in the postings.


I mean seriously here. Why the hell should this school and the police be doing a massive investigation into ... Gossip... This is a high school we are talking about. Shouldnt the school and police be more concerned with say Drugs? Or Guns? It seems really stupid that a student can be kicked out of their school for writing gossip on myspace.

Only in the great United States of America!

_________________
COBRA KAI DOJO NEVER DIES
RIP Shiloh


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:08 am 
Decent Challenge
Decent Challenge
User avatar

Joined: Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:46 am
Posts: 457
"As of the 2000 census, the consolidated city-county (including all unincorporated areas in Clarke County except Winterville) had a total population of 100,266."

Its a pretty small city compared to most other cities, we have a housing development here in Orlando that has that many people living in it.

Small towns are usually close knit and gossip can usually be a big thing in a small town where everyone knows someone by last names, and no one lives very far.

Calling America pathetic because of one small town trying to sniff out a gossip monger is a little much. Entitled to your opinion, but I figured I'm entitled to share my own as well. Its easy to pick singular events, or groups of similiar events, and make generalization about an entire country. Especially when you have values which are inconstitent with that country's current political motiviations causing you to be prejudice.

_________________
Warlock's are not OP, maybe if you stopped running around like frightened little girls you'd be able to beat me...


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:16 am 
Star-Spangled Subligar
Star-Spangled Subligar
User avatar

Joined: Wed Dec 31, 1969 7:00 pm
Posts: 15671
Location: THE DOJO
Daedalan wrote:
Calling America pathetic because of one small town trying to sniff out a gossip monger is a little much. Entitled to your opinion, but I figured I'm entitled to share my own as well. Its easy to pick singular events, or groups of similiar events, and make generalization about an entire country. Especially when you have values which are inconstitent with that country's current political motiviations causing you to be prejudice.



This was an example. This was not the only event I based my opinion on. I live very close to the boarder so I see all the US new stations. I get all the NY state (not including NYC) news and have all my life. I now get Detroit and Washington news. It was after getting these RAW US channels that I realized how sad and patetic the USA is. Youre just a bunch of cry babies who feed off of mistakes and weak\weak-minded people.

_________________
COBRA KAI DOJO NEVER DIES
RIP Shiloh


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:26 am 
Yarr's bane
Yarr's bane
User avatar

Joined: Fri May 14, 2004 10:38 am
Posts: 6097
you took the quebec thing out hahah!

Ok well. Heres one thing that bugs me.

I don't quite understand french canadians lol. Its 2006 and they're still trying to succed from the rest of canada. Here we don't have that issue. But why bother wasting tax dollars to seperate yourself from your own country? Wouldn't that be an economic disaster really?

I remember a while ago Quebec tried to make french the national languge. It didn't work. That fine and all, but then they've made montreal mostly french. The text books ( as i understand this) and even street signs all in french. While its cool to keep ones culture and at least maintain it, isn't it almost unconsitutional to try and force an entire country to speak and live the way they do? I wonder about that. Now i'm not pointing at yarr really cause he isn't french canadian lol. But its just one thing really that bugs me.

Ohh and you guys have a town called Dildo

_________________
Job 10: 20
The mikey's have a plan. Djay isn't all powerful.
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:40 am 
Posts way too much
Posts way too much

Joined: Thu Jun 24, 2004 4:09 pm
Posts: 2744
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Why does Canadian currency have British monarchs on it? I was talking to a Canadian guy in the printing industry when I was in Munich, Germany about that and many other subjects. He thinks it is pretty lame that there is another nation's dead ruler on your currency. I know we have George Washington on our dollar, but he was a part of what started our country. The US was a former colony, but you don't see us paying homage to the Brits like Canada still does lol.

Quebec is weird because the rest of Canada speaks English (the majority at least). The fact they want to seperate due to a language barrier from the rest of the country is hilarious. Miami isn't trying to seceed from the US so it can have its own Spanish only speaking country for example.

_________________
Eternus Ifrit Server Atariii LS member
75 BRD with a bunch of subjobs


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:23 am 
Incredibly Tough!
Incredibly Tough!
User avatar

Joined: Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:53 pm
Posts: 1076
Location: In the pit with the basket of lotions.
We have the queen on our money because we are still a part of the commonwealth. The commonwealth of nations is made of 53 sovereign states/nations, which used to be british colonies. Queen Elizabeth II is the head of commonwealth and the reason she appears on our money, pictures in the post office, on stamps, etc is purely symbolic.

French Canadians are crazy, ask anyone from Western Canada. The majority of Canada's population is in Quebec and Ontario, though, so they get a lot of sway when it comes to politics in this country. If Quebec, alone, voted for one particular political party or policy...All of the votes in BC, Alberta and Manitoba would not be able to counter it. How's that for a stupid political system?


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:36 am 
Posts way too much
Posts way too much

Joined: Thu Jun 24, 2004 4:09 pm
Posts: 2744
Location: Jacksonville, FL
So you are saying the majority of Canada speaks French? If so, then you are kinda fucked in a sense if Canada was a direct democracy. I am pretty sure it isn't though. What does the commonwealth mean if it really is just a collection of former British colonies? If you are your own sovereign nation then why would you belong to some "commonwealth". I can understand the European Union for economic unity in a sense, but I have no clue what this commonwealth really means beyond being just symbolic. The US was a former colony, we decided a long time ago to do our own thing and look at the colonial days as a pretty shitty time in our history. Britian treated their colonies pretty shitty if you read the history, taxing someone and not letting them have representation in your government is bullshit in itself.

_________________
Eternus Ifrit Server Atariii LS member
75 BRD with a bunch of subjobs


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:38 am 
Yarr's bane
Yarr's bane
User avatar

Joined: Fri May 14, 2004 10:38 am
Posts: 6097
Eternus wrote:
So you are saying the majority of Canada speaks French? If so, then you are kinda fucked in a sense if Canada was a direct democracy. I am pretty sure it isn't though. What does the commonwealth mean if it really is just a collection of former British colonies? If you are your own sovereign nation then why would you belong to some "commonwealth". I can understand the European Union for economic unity in a sense, but I have no clue what this commonwealth really means beyond being just symbolic. The US was a former colony, we decided a long time ago to do our own thing and look at the colonial days as a pretty shitty time in our history. Britian treated their colonies pretty shitty if you read the history, taxing someone and not letting them have representation in your government is bullshit in itself.


It never passed. Quebec just refuses to have anything in english. Text books road signs pretty much everything.

_________________
Job 10: 20
The mikey's have a plan. Djay isn't all powerful.
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:48 am 
Posts way too much
Posts way too much

Joined: Thu Jun 24, 2004 4:09 pm
Posts: 2744
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Well not surprising as when I was in vacation in Europe the only country that I visited that had people consistently unwilling to speak English even if you asked them if they could was France. The Germans and Swiss people that I met said the majority of the French can speak English, but some of them choose not to out of pure pride and sometimes out of spite for people that speak another language. Some French people will pretend to not know how to speak English just to get you to go away if you ask them, well that is what I was told in Germany and Switzerland. Also in France you always have to ask people if they can speak English first in French for them to even talk to you it seems lol. They just ignore you if you come up to them speaking English from what I heard (I just said Parlevue English? spelling?). There seemed to be a lot more Germans and Swiss (of course the Swiss seem to speak every European language) that speak English.

_________________
Eternus Ifrit Server Atariii LS member
75 BRD with a bunch of subjobs


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:36 am 
The legend. Teh Ponuh™
User avatar

Joined: Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:36 pm
Posts: 7134
Location: I will eat you alive I will eat you alive
Yarr, America is seriously fucked up and backwards. But not for the reasons you've listed.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:43 am 
Decent Challenge
Decent Challenge
User avatar

Joined: Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:46 am
Posts: 457
Yarr wrote:
Daedalan wrote:
Calling America pathetic because of one small town trying to sniff out a gossip monger is a little much. Entitled to your opinion, but I figured I'm entitled to share my own as well. Its easy to pick singular events, or groups of similiar events, and make generalization about an entire country. Especially when you have values which are inconstitent with that country's current political motiviations causing you to be prejudice.



This was an example. This was not the only event I based my opinion on. I live very close to the boarder so I see all the US new stations. I get all the NY state (not including NYC) news and have all my life. I now get Detroit and Washington news. It was after getting these RAW US channels that I realized how sad and patetic the USA is. Youre just a bunch of cry babies who feed off of mistakes and weak\weak-minded people.


Still won't make a generalization about a country, the way you have, and the way the rest of this thread has about Canada. Both are great countries, with their share of everything humantiy has to offer, the bad and the good.

Your opinion has turned from valid to just slanderous. If at one point you could comment and sound constructive, you have ended up sounding like someone who is prejudicial. I frankly take personal offense to being labeled pathetic by you, someone I never interacted with on a personal level. You don't know me or my lifestyle, and I frankly don't think I have ever labeled you pathetic.

If I took your mindset, I would think all Canadians were high and mighty egotestical know it alls. But I know they aren't. Sorry to seem combative toward you, your not someone I ever found particularly combative with me. But this thread's title is very disrespectful, to people you frankly don't even know either.

Your invited to hang out with me and my friends and my family, and learn instead of hate. Its always fairly nice in Orlando.

_________________
Warlock's are not OP, maybe if you stopped running around like frightened little girls you'd be able to beat me...


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:59 pm 
Mike&Ike Irl
Mike&Ike Irl

Joined: Mon Sep 20, 2004 5:59 pm
Posts: 5256
Location: The Internet
yarr, did you originaly see this article on azcentral.com? or did you just google it and find it there?


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:14 pm 
Decent Challenge
Decent Challenge
User avatar

Joined: Sat Jul 31, 2004 12:32 pm
Posts: 519
Location: Medulla Oblongata
Well..when you get so far off the track from your God you use to love, things are bound to go wrong. Read Judges. At this point...we are just in damage control and w/o the Lord we will continue to fall. To quote Palahniuk "It's like trying to paint a house that is on fire."

_________________
Graduate student/clinical psychology
"The World breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong in the broken places." Hemingway
ImageImage


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:20 pm 
Star-Spangled Subligar
Star-Spangled Subligar
User avatar

Joined: Wed Dec 31, 1969 7:00 pm
Posts: 15671
Location: THE DOJO
Parade wrote:
yarr, did you originaly see this article on azcentral.com? or did you just google it and find it there?


I got it through a website that lists strange and odd news.

_________________
COBRA KAI DOJO NEVER DIES
RIP Shiloh


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 1:40 pm 
Mike&Ike Irl
Mike&Ike Irl

Joined: Mon Sep 20, 2004 5:59 pm
Posts: 5256
Location: The Internet
ohh ok i was just curious to why you were on azcentral of all news sites.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 2:50 pm 
Even Match
Even Match

Joined: Sat Apr 30, 2005 5:19 pm
Posts: 640
America is dumb!

im moving to Madagascar!!!

HAVE AT YOU BITCHES@!@!@1

_________________
Image

FFXI - Yurichan: 75THF(Ret) / SC2 - Lawncare / XBOX - Zombie Sharks / PS3 - Zombie_Sharks


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:16 pm 
The legend. Teh Ponuh™
User avatar

Joined: Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:36 pm
Posts: 7134
Location: I will eat you alive I will eat you alive
Yarr, here is why America is pathetic. Read the following IM conversations.

As I'm sure you've heard, "Maf54" is the IM alias of Congressman Foley "XXXXX" is the 16 year old page. Fucked up.

Quote:
Maf54 (7:37:27 PM): how my favorite young stud doing

Xxxxxxxxx (7:37:46 PM): tired and sore

Xxxxxxxxx (7:37:52 PM): i didnt no waltzing could make you sore

Maf54 (7:38:04 PM): from what

Xxxxxxxxx (7:38:34 PM): what do you mean from what

Xxxxxxxxx (7:38:42 PM): from waltzing...im sore from waltzing

Maf54 (7:39:32 PM): tahts good

Maf54 (7:39:32 PM): you need a massage


-

Xxxxxxxxx (8:00:32 PM): so you have a fetich

Maf54 (8:00:32 PM): hey what

Xxxxxxxxx (8:00:40 PM): fetish**

Maf54 (8:00:43 PM): like

Maf54 (8:00:53 PM): i like steamroom

Maf54 (8:01:04 PM): whats yours

Xxxxxxxxx (8:01:09 PM): its kinda weird

Xxxxxxxxx (8:01:14 PM): lol

Maf54 (8:01:21 PM): i am hard as a rock..so tell me when your reaches rock

Xxxxxxxxx (8:01:23 PM): i have a cast fetish


-


Xxxxxxxxx (8:06:53 PM): not tonight...dont get to excited

Maf54 (8:07:12 PM): well your hard

Xxxxxxxxx (8:07:45 PM): that is true

Maf54 (8:08:03 PM): and a little horny

Xxxxxxxxx (8:08:11 PM): and also tru

Maf54 (8:08:31 PM): get a ruler and measure it for me

Xxxxxxxxx (8:08:38 PM): ive already told you that

Maf54 (8:08:47 PM): tell me again

Xxxxxxxxx (8:08:49 PM): 7 and 1/2

Maf54 (8:09:04 PM): ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Maf54 (8:09:08 PM): beautiful


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:19 pm 
Posts way too much
Posts way too much

Joined: Thu Jun 24, 2004 4:09 pm
Posts: 2744
Location: Jacksonville, FL
In America we have people in leadership positions who are child molesters. Surprise!

_________________
Eternus Ifrit Server Atariii LS member
75 BRD with a bunch of subjobs


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:20 pm 
The legend. Teh Ponuh™
User avatar

Joined: Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:36 pm
Posts: 7134
Location: I will eat you alive I will eat you alive
No eternus, remember, they're alcoholics who become child molestors when they're drunk :roll:


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:23 pm 
Star-Spangled Subligar
Star-Spangled Subligar
User avatar

Joined: Wed Dec 31, 1969 7:00 pm
Posts: 15671
Location: THE DOJO
that IM conversation is really pathetic. I mean the 16 year old boy sounds like the adult in the conversation.

_________________
COBRA KAI DOJO NEVER DIES
RIP Shiloh


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:30 pm 
Onionhead
Onionhead
User avatar

Joined: Thu May 20, 2004 6:38 pm
Posts: 7560
Location: Houston
Yarr wrote:
ATHENS, Ga.

that explains everything right there lol

_________________
RIP Shiloh - I'll never forget ya


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:31 pm 
Emo Immolator
Emo Immolator
User avatar

Joined: Wed May 26, 2004 10:13 pm
Posts: 2282
Location: Seattle
Ponuh wrote:
Yarr, America is seriously fucked up and backwards. But not for the reasons you've listed.


I can't even explain my fusturations with the U.S.

And hey, Daedalan. chill out. Thanks.

_________________
Retired 8/21/06
Don't click this link.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:37 pm 
The legend. Teh Ponuh™
User avatar

Joined: Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:36 pm
Posts: 7134
Location: I will eat you alive I will eat you alive
Caduceus wrote:
Ponuh wrote:
Yarr, America is seriously fucked up and backwards. But not for the reasons you've listed.


I can't even explain my fusturations with the U.S.

.


Me neither. I can't attempt to seperate actual points from the slush of bitterness I feel for this place haha

edit: Daedalan will always defend any nation that gives him the freedom to have a disgustingly large amount of lolicon legally.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:45 pm 
Posts way too much
Posts way too much

Joined: Thu Jun 03, 2004 5:38 pm
Posts: 2991
I don't think pathetic is a correct label for the U.S. You can say whatever you wanna say, but the US is indeed one of the if not "the" most successful county today. Some categories we lack and in others we are more then perfect. Saying all of america is pathetic is kinda like saying all the islamist are crazy human bombs; it isnt true at all.

I have lots of negavite thoughts about this country, specially the government, but i have a lot more posite then negative. Don't even start me on how naive and inexperienced canada is with certain things they shouldn't be.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:51 pm 
Star-Spangled Subligar
Star-Spangled Subligar
User avatar

Joined: Wed Dec 31, 1969 7:00 pm
Posts: 15671
Location: THE DOJO
The United States is just a giant pile of hypocrisy. A nation of discovery and kiddy porn.

_________________
COBRA KAI DOJO NEVER DIES
RIP Shiloh


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 71 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2, 3  Next

Board index » Community » Community Discussion


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 16 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group