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Offline Martlet

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Re: Re: The USA
« Reply #15 on: July 09, 2004, 08:42:04 AM »
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Let's see

Ireland:

...it's hard to argue with success.

We are a good country. Particularly now.

Canada:

...it's hard to argue with success.

We are a good country.

Try it, it works for most countries.

Sweden:

em ...it's hard to argue with success.

We were a good country but now a nice lake for Norway and Finland.


Cannot deny the USA is a good country, can't get enough of it myself. But why the constant need to assert it?


Why does it bother you that we do?

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« Reply #16 on: July 09, 2004, 08:55:42 AM »
America, Love it or Leave It!   :aok

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« Reply #17 on: July 09, 2004, 08:57:56 AM »
Martlet it doesn't bother me. I'm just curious. I never have to assert my pride in being Irish. I just am what I am. It's an American thing I think. Australians do it to sometimes. Maybe it's a new(ish) country thing?

Why do YOU think it might bother me?

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« Reply #18 on: July 09, 2004, 09:06:19 AM »
Name another coutry where 100s of people die every year trying to get INTO. I can name quite a few where people die trying to get OUT of.

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« Reply #19 on: July 09, 2004, 09:06:55 AM »
Cpxxx it's just exibitionism  :p

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« Reply #20 on: July 09, 2004, 09:11:51 AM »
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Why do YOU think it might bother me?


I just gathered that from your post.  It's not the first time I've been mistaken.

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« Reply #21 on: July 09, 2004, 09:15:10 AM »
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Martlet it doesn't bother me. I'm just curious. I never have to assert my pride in being Irish. I just am what I am. It's an American thing I think. Australians do it to sometimes. Maybe it's a new(ish) country thing?

Why do YOU think it might bother me?



HMMMMMMMM mabye the constant state of civial war that has taken place up untill recently has something to do with you not wanting to take pride in being Irish?

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« Reply #22 on: July 09, 2004, 09:31:14 AM »



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« Reply #23 on: July 09, 2004, 09:35:58 AM »
i bet its hard thinking you are the best when a vast quantity of your population has never been to another country.
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Re: The Smiling Face of American Entrepreneurial Success
« Reply #24 on: July 09, 2004, 09:36:26 AM »
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Only in the euro mind

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« Reply #25 on: July 09, 2004, 09:41:04 AM »
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Cannot deny the USA is a good country, can't get enough of it myself. But why the constant need to assert it?



We have big balls cpxxx, we like to swing them around from time to time.

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« Reply #26 on: July 09, 2004, 09:47:57 AM »
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UK, Norway, France, Germany ... practically the entire EU ... China .. I'm sure there are more.


:rofl :rofl :rofl:rofl :rofl

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« Reply #27 on: July 09, 2004, 09:49:37 AM »
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i bet its hard thinking you are the best when a vast quantity of your population has never been to another country.


When you are the best you needn't bother with the rest.

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« Reply #28 on: July 09, 2004, 10:03:26 AM »
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UK, Norway, France, Germany ... practically the entire EU ... China .. I'm sure there are more.

You are confusing the deaths of trying to escape FROM a place. Cubans are not shot or incarcerated for going to Mexico (or France to use your example).

I was talking about risking death to get TO a place. Haitians are not dying by the hundreds each year by trying to get to Jamaica, they die by trying to get to America. Who is actually dying by the hundreds to reach the EU, and how?  I have read that most European countries are seeing an overall decline in citizenry, at least a drastically slower increase than the rest of the world.

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« Reply #29 on: July 09, 2004, 10:11:21 AM »
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Thousands of people even flee to China (from NK).


lesser of two evils, do you think these folks would come to the US if they had a chance?