Author Topic: Is there anything in england that is better than in the states? (Read 3816 times)

Wlfgng · « **Reply #120 on:** November 13, 2002, 11:39:39 AM »

two more words: Jimi Hendrix

Nashwan · « **Reply #121 on:** November 13, 2002, 12:46:32 PM »

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I maintain that if the entire population of Ireland were armed and wanted you out... it would not be worthwhile for you to stay there...

If the entire population wanted to leave Britain, they could vote to do so. Guns wouldn't be necessary.

On the other hand, the entire Kurdish population wanted to leave Iraq and Turkey, and their guns haven't done them much good. (Or the Chechens, Palestinians, etc etc)

Guns aren't necessary to have your say in a democracy, and won't help you much against a truly tyranical government. Not when they have tanks, helicopters, aircraft, etc.

gofaster · « **Reply #122 on:** November 13, 2002, 12:57:53 PM »

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Originally posted by Wlfgng
two more words: Jimi Hendrix

Did somebody say Jimi Hendrix?

H. Godwineson · « **Reply #123 on:** November 13, 2002, 01:13:16 PM »

I'm PROUD to be an American...

Shuckins

udet · « **Reply #124 on:** November 13, 2002, 01:28:55 PM »

if it weren't for the US, the language in UK would now be German(WW2)
it it weren't for the UK, the language in the US would now be...German again (I heard the Constitution almost was written in German)

28sweep · « **Reply #125 on:** November 13, 2002, 01:53:21 PM »

Thrawn..

If you want to talk about accents....I once talked to a guy from NewFoundland. Didn't understand a damn word he said and he sounded like he was the dumbest person on Earth.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #126 on:** November 13, 2002, 01:55:50 PM »

gofaster.. you should be shot

Shuckins, thank you

lazs2 · « **Reply #127 on:** November 13, 2002, 02:04:26 PM »

nashwan... are you sure? armed populations are a deterent to tyranny and they are a deterent to invasion. The vietcong were only about half the countryu and had relatively primitive weapons but they resisted invasion quite well. The U.S. did not want to invade even a shattered japan because we expected to encounter stiff resistance by armed citizens.. Japan feared attacking the west coast for the same reasons. Successful or not... armed populations resist stronger invaders all the time. I would like to retain the ability. england does not have a sterling record for disarming a populace and then treating them well. I don't believe that I would be willing to trust them, or any other, government not to revert.
lazs

Thrawn · « **Reply #128 on:** November 13, 2002, 02:04:36 PM »

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Originally posted by 28sweep
Thrawn..

If you want to talk about accents....I once talked to a guy from NewFoundland. Didn't understand a damn word he said and he sounded like he was the dumbest person on Earth.

Well, it's like lazs said. He finds some English accents to be effeminate, and like the southern drawl. I find Tennessian and Mississippi accents to be ignorant sounding and difficult to follow, while the Newfie accent sounds lyrical to me.

It's one of those potato patahto things.

But it looks like most of this thread is about subjective things.

lazs2 · « **Reply #129 on:** November 13, 2002, 02:33:54 PM »

southern accents tend to range from pleasant and soothing to "i'm one dumb mo fo".... My accent is californian for the most part... Right or not....A ca accent has one advantage.... anyone who speaks english understands every word you say... the reverse is rarely true. canadians have california accents with some scott around the ou and the annoying habit of making every sentance into a question eh? Still... they are understandable. My brother is canadian and has totally gone over to canadian accent.
lazs

H. Godwineson · « **Reply #130 on:** November 13, 2002, 03:13:49 PM »

Lasz,

That may be true about the ca accent...but proper English is so sterile. Ya'll don't have words like:

larrapin
sho'nuff?
puddinentain
dem dere
Whaddat?
S'mo
landagoshen
deepeople
upbrangin

Just to name a few.

Shuckins

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #131 on:** November 13, 2002, 03:32:53 PM »

Shuckins

Translate please!

lol I think I understand two.

K98k · « **Reply #132 on:** November 13, 2002, 04:16:16 PM »

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The Empire died on the battlefields of WW1, when millions of British and Commonwealth men, the youth of the Empire, died. Who was going to administer and protect the Empire afterwards? WW2 was the final nail in the coffin, when Britain was virtually bankrupted by 3 years of unsupported conflict with Nazi Germany. I say unsupported - every ounce of help received from the US was paid, in full, in cash or in exchange for the shares British companies had in American business. I'm grateful that help was delivered, but it came at a cost.

yes indeed it is very expensive especially when one waits until there is no other choice but to wage war.

'This is the second time there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace in our time'

JB73 · « **Reply #133 on:** November 13, 2002, 05:05:20 PM »

didnt we get the band Tpau from europe?

Dowding (Work) · « **Reply #134 on:** November 14, 2002, 01:46:25 AM »

England has a more diverse range of accents than you Yanks are led to believe from films etc. There it is only Queen's English or cockney - not very representative. You think there isn't dialect in England? Come visit me sometime, and I'll take into a pub in Barnsley (Yorkshire) - I swear, you'll be lucky to understand 1 word in 10.

Laz - yet again you're showing your ignorance regarding Northern Ireland. But swoop already pointed this out so ably. You're just making a fool of yourself, to anyone who even knows a smidgeon about UK internal politics. Your opinions seem to be based on nothing more than a viewing of 'Braveheart'.

What's that about the Japanese? They are incapable of doing academic work? It was a proper study, not some half-arsed idiot babbling on about a subject he knows very little. There's some irony there somewhere.

Like I said before, WW1 + WW2 killed the Empire. Like I also said before, the Empire means nothing to me. I was born long after it's death.

Britain isn't in decline, we still have the fourth largest economy in the world. And by the way, we have less unemployment than the US.