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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: funkedup on February 07, 2003, 02:20:32 AM
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We get pretty pissed off when people talk trash about the USA. However some of the stuff people have been posting about other countries is pretty bad, worse than what I see being said about the USA on this board since 9/11. Before you post more garbage, think about how you would feel if somebody said those things about your country.
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Thx Funked,
Unfortunately, it seems some have brough their true faces to the light (of this BBs). I'm pretty dissapointed, personally.
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Yeah, I know what you mean funked.
When someone says something bad about the Vikings, or Sweden in ww2, or something else that happened before my birth, I break down and cry for hours. They should be more sensitive to my feelings.
Just thinking about those old posts brings tears to my eyes actually..I mean...how can someone be so mean..
*runs away as eyes begins to tear up uncontrollably*
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the truth? you can't handle the truth.
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STOP IT!!!
Waaaaaaa *cries and cries*
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Good post funked.
Hortlund, in case you hadn't realised, I think the character assasination of entire nation by people ultra-sensitive to comments about their own country is a little bizarre.
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Funked.
Right, where's a frog I can hug?
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Point to Funkedup.
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Funked
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Very classy Funked
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Well said Funked! We're all guilty of saying stupid things at stupid times.
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Posting true historical information on France and Germany to shed light on their current behaviour is not "trashing" them funkedup.
If people from France (straffo) are pissed off it is because they do not like to hear these events. If they are angry then perhaps they are ashamed. If they are ashamed then perhaps their government has given reason for them to be.
The one thing about history is once you do something shamefull you have to live with it always. You can not go back in time and rewrite the facts. Despite the attempts of some here to try and do so.
I am not American BTW. But I know enough history to be amazed at how tolerant the US government and people are towards the French government despite the long history of France sticking their finger in the US's eye.
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Funked since when did you become so sensitive?
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Agreed funked.
Charon
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Very nice funked. Short and simple.
Class points +++
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I'll bash Californicate all to hell before I'll bash any country...we don't have to go overseas to find a "country" that has alot of problems..we have 'em in our own back yard! :p
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well... now i am really ashamed.. still.... it's not my fault that 87.66% of all vikings were gay.
lazs
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jeeezus freakin grapefruit.
do yah call a spade a spade? or is it better to simply remark with a polite nudge and wink that the digging implement is really just a damn dirty arsed toejam smeared shovel?
all this damn PC panzie bellybutton popsicle footin around about france being populated with frenchmen is givin me fits of hysterical laffs.
Straffo, Frenchy, Naso, Dowding and that pinhead beetle all are havin the time of their lives here... I don't hate 'em.. they don't hate us. We're just runnin around in the glow of our monitors venting some gawdamned steam..
if the sterotypical french pinheads decide to allow the sterotypical stufffed shirt brits and sterotypical arrogant and haughty spaniards and the sterotypical indignant lil hoppin mad incomprehensible italians to help 'em defend themselves against the stereotypical bloodthirsty american cowboys..
well; hell, all in a days insults...
:)
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This is the most sappy, pitiful, attention grabbing I want to be your buddy post I've read in over 30 minutes.
Funked is indeed a girlieman and I'm going to go throw up.
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Originally posted by lazs2
well... now i am really ashamed.. still.... it's not my fault that 87.66% of all vikings were gay.
lazs
Stop hurting my feelings!!
You should be more sensitive to other nations and their citizens. You are such a mean mean man lazs. I mean what if someone said something bad about the US huh? I bet that would make you feel pretty low and sad too.
As funked says, we must care more for eachother, only that way can we make this world a better place of sweet love and understanding.
(The rest of you should spend the night holding Kimberly or something)
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Originally posted by Fatty
This is the most sappy, pitiful, attention grabbing I want to be your buddy post I've read in over 30 minutes.
Funked is indeed a girlieman and I'm going to go throw up.
:cool:
I want him last, I'll ruin 'em for the rest of ya if I'm first.
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Funked,
The intent is appreciated but you are shooting at the wrong target.
There is nothing wrong about saying bad things about other countries if the sufficient argumentation is presented and a person is willing to listen to counter-arguements. It's called constructive criticism.
Of course some of the statements are plain idiotic and irrarional, but people making such statement are not likely to heed your urging to be civil anyway...
miko
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Of course some of the statements are plain idiotic and irrarional, but people making such statement are not likely to heed your urging to be civil anyway...
Libertarain commie!! Burn Him!
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WTG Funked
(has an evil pod taken Funked?)
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Originally posted by midnight Target
WTG Funked
(has an evil pod taken Funked?)
Nah, its that California air, and the "feel-good-politics-that-do-nothing-for-society". Funked, time to move back to the Midwest so that your gonads grow back.
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Come on people now, smile on your brother. Everybody get together, try to love one another right now...
Pathetic Funked, I thought you were a real Amurrican. Report at once to The Wobble American Re-Education Camp! Some didactic training on shirtless marksmanship and big truck driving will cure that which ails you!
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Funked is right- instead of bashing the British, French or whatever we should start bashing really large sensitive men who drive really small imported cars with personalized license plates and have overdosed on their mothers' estrogen medication.
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it's that automatic tampon removal feature in the WRX...
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I thought the pink tutu was just a "spitfire" thing.
"We are the World, We are the Children...........blah blah blah"
Egalitarian nonsense.
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There's only two things I can't tolerate.
1. People who are intolerant of other people and cultures
and
2. The French
:D
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Originally posted by Raubvogel
Come on people now, smile on your brother. Everybody get together, try to love one another right now...
Are you a fan of HP Lovecraft (the Band?) Raubvogel?
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Come now, show some brotherly love.
I'll just go get the lubricates.
Funked, appreciated man.
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Originally posted by Raubvogel
Pathetic Funked, I thought you were a real Amurrican....
A real American is pathetic!!! ;)
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Originally posted by Hangtime
Straffo, Frenchy, Naso, Dowding and that pinhead beetle all are havin the time of their lives here...
ROFL! I hadn't even seen this thread until until Dickbrain mentioned my name. I do a search of my name (and various alternative spellings) to see when I'm being talked about.
Funked is right! And I am far from being anti-American. I don't agree that guns should be handed out like "Try AOL today" CDs at supermarket checkouts, and I wouldn't want to live in a place in which the only way I could feel safe was to carry a gun of my own. But that does not make me anti-American, and I can tell you that many Americans agree with my stance.
As to some of my threads - just redressing the balance really. Nothing anti-American. American cars were crap. American beer is... well, not to my taste - but now much better now that the microbreweries have sprung up. Some Americans are disoriented when they go abroad. American network TV does have a lot of commercials. But I don't think I have been anti-American. FunkedUp knows that, and he's a smart guy. :)
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Originally posted by beet1e
And I am far from being anti-American.
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Funked, I know you are angry about all the slurs against the Raider nation, but you have to realize, your team sucked in the Super Bowl.
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ROFL!!
I do a search of my name (and various alternative spellings) to see when I'm being talked about.
For some reason, this continues to crack me up.
hehehehhehe..
thats' freakin funny. I mean.. seaching the BBS for mentions of his name... man; I'm tempted to drop his name in every thread, and every forum here..
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Jolly good point FunkedUp.
After all, us Euros and the Americans are ALLIES.
That should be remembered.
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Originally posted by Udie
There's only two things I can't tolerate.
1. People who are intolerant of other people and cultures
and
2. The French
:D
Austin Powers movie, IIRC.
Great quote.
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geesh,,, o'club should be turned into the country bashing thread,,,every day same old thing,,nothing but hate and racism,,,but i guess we got nothing better to talk about?,,,lol
any way you could make a politics thread skuzzy? because oclub suppose to be less serious,,but every time i look at it,,its pure serious and fighting,,lol
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Originally posted by Toad
Austin Powers movie, IIRC.
Great quote.
Busted :D I changed it from the Dutch to the French. That's my favorite line from the whole movie.
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In the words of a great American :rolleyes: :
"Why can't we all just get along"
LOL :)
funkedup, the bottle say to take one every six hours not 6 every hour :)
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Originally posted by Hangtime
ROFL!!
For some reason, this continues to crack me up.
hehehehhehe..
thats' freakin funny. I mean.. seaching the BBS for mentions of his name... man; I'm tempted to drop his name in every thread, and every forum here..
Beatlejuice! Beatlejuice! Beatlejuice!
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Originally posted by Lance
Funked, I know you are angry about all the slurs against the Raider nation, but you have to realize, your team sucked in the Super Bowl.
Only Gordo figures out the truth.
Raider Nation is joining NATO in 2004.
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Originally posted by Airhead
Beatlejuice! Beatlejuice! Beatlejuice!
Yep, Airhead! That's one of the alternative spellings I check for. :D:D
Oh, but wait - seeing as it's you...
... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :D :p
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Hey..it really works!!!:D
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Is Beetle the enemy of the state No1? WTF is going on?
What is the answer to this thread's topic? Yes or no? It looks pretty much like its YES, going all the way from gay Vikings to baddie Beetle (best friend of Saddam, no doubt).
Or are the Americans above criticism?
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Originally posted by Airhead
Beatlejuice! Beatlejuice! Beatlejuice!
Originally posted by Airhead
Hey..it really works!!!
LOL!!
ROTFL!!
That was one of the funniest in the last days :D
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Originally posted by Udie
There's only two things I can't tolerate.
1. People who are intolerant of other people and cultures
and
2. The French
:D
hehe :)
There is 3 kind of people : those who can count and the others :D
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There are actually 10 kinds of people. Those who understand Binary and those who don't.
:cool:
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Poor FunkedUp. Somebody must have made fun of Poland and the PollocksLOL !
The Polish were the first to fall. Do not get me started on that! ROFL!!!!:D :D
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Anyone have good pollock jokes???:D
I do...I could go on til I die LOL.
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Er how bout this one
Jackson Pollock.
Man that guy was a joke.
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Originally posted by beet1e
ROFL! I hadn't even seen this thread until until Dickbrain mentioned my name. I do a search of my name (and various alternative spellings) to see when I'm being talked about.
Dude... you need to get laid. Or something.
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Originally posted by Vulcan
Dude... you need to get laid. Or something.
I will look into "or something", as everything else is OK.
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February 2, 2003
Ah, Those Principled Europeans
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
RUSSELS -- Last week I went to lunch at the Hotel Schweizerhof in Davos, Switzerland, and discovered why America and Europe are at odds. At the bottom of the lunch menu was a list of the countries that the lamb, beef and chicken came from. But next to the meat imported from the U.S. was a tiny asterisk, which warned that it might contain genetically modified organisms G.M.O.'s.
My initial patriotic instinct was to order the U.S. beef and ask for it "tartare," just for spite. But then I and my lunch guest just looked at each other and had a good laugh. How quaint! we said. Europeans, out of some romantic rebellion against America and high technology, were shunning U.S.-grown food containing G.M.O.'s even though there is no scientific evidence that these are harmful. But practically everywhere we went in Davos, Europeans were smoking cigarettes with their meals, coffee or conversation even though there is indisputable scientific evidence that smoking can kill you. In fact, I got enough secondhand smoke just dining in Europe last week to make me want to have a chest X-ray.
So pardon me if I don't take seriously all the Euro-whining about the Bush policies toward Iraq for one very simple reason: It strikes me as deeply unserious. It's not that there are no serious arguments to be made against war in Iraq. There are plenty. It's just that so much of what one hears coming from German Chancellor Gerhard Schrφder and French President Jacques Chirac are not serious arguments. They are station identification.
They are not the arguments of people who have really gotten beyond the distorted Arab press and tapped into what young Arabs are saying about their aspirations for democracy and how much they blame Saddam Hussein and his ilk for the poor state of their region. Rather, they are the diplomatic equivalent of smoking cancerous cigarettes while rejecting harmless G.M.O.'s an assertion of identity by trying to be whatever the Americans are not, regardless of the real interests or stakes.
And where this comes from, alas, is weakness. Being weak after being powerful is a terrible thing. It can make you stupid. It can make you reject U.S. policies simply to differentiate yourself from the world's only superpower. Or, in the case of Mr. Chirac, it can even prompt you to invite Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe a terrible tyrant to visit Paris just to spite Tony Blair. Ah, those principled French.
"Power corrupts, but so does weakness," said Josef Joffe, editor of Germany's Die Zeit newspaper. "And absolute weakness corrupts absolutely. We are now living through the most critical watershed of the postwar period, with enormous moral and strategic issues at stake, and the only answer many Europeans offer is to constrain and contain American power. So by default they end up on the side of Saddam, in an intellectually corrupt position."
The more one sees of this, the more one is convinced that the historian Robert Kagan, in his very smart new book "Of Paradise and Power," is right: "Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus." There is now a structural gap between America and Europe, which derives from the yawning power gap, and this produces all sorts of resentments, insecurities and diverging attitudes as to what constitutes the legitimate exercise of force.
I can live with this difference. But Europe's cynicism and insecurity, masquerading as moral superiority, is insufferable. Each year at the Davos economic forum protesters are allowed to march through the north end of town, where last year they broke shop windows. So this year, on demonstration day, all the shopkeepers on that end of town closed. But when I walked by their shops in the morning, I noticed that three of them had put up signs in their windows that said, "U.S.A. No War in Iraq."
I wondered to myself: Why did the shopkeepers at the lingerie store suddenly decide to express their antiwar sentiments? Well, the demonstrators came and left without getting near these shops. And guess what? As soon as they were gone, the antiwar signs disappeared. They had been put up simply as window insurance to placate the demonstrators so they wouldn't throw stones at them.
As I said, there are serious arguments against the war in Iraq, but they have weight only if they are made out of conviction, not out of expedience or petulance and if they are made by people with real beliefs, not identity crises.
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Wait a second... I thought this whole forum was based on the fact that bashing someone someone's views who bashed your views was perfectly acceptable when trying to prove a point or show how complex you are?
Oh.. and funked... I'd call you gay, but you live in S.F. and are a Raiders fan. There's only so many times it really needs to be said.
MiniD
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GAWD I'm from CANADA eh, and JEEEEZ we just love everybody. Probable 'cause we got good manners eh?
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Regards Blitz
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jeebuz... what choice do you have?
lazs
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Originally posted by beet1e
and I wouldn't want to live in a place in which the only way I could feel safe was to carry a gun of my own.
I dont have a problem with folks owning guns. Hell I even own a couple myself. But I dont feel the need to carry them around everywhere to "feel safe." The ideas you Brits come up with just crack me up.
And as for you Funky.....I cant believe you have turned into a raving popsicle.
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Originally posted by sling322
And as for you Funky.....I cant believe you have turned into a raving popsicle.
I can. I think he should quit........again! :)
Cobra
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Originally posted by beet1e
ROFL! I hadn't even seen this thread until until Dickbrain mentioned my name. I do a search of my name (and various alternative spellings) to see when I'm being talked about.
Wow, that is really sad...
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I do believe funkypants believed it when someone handed him a package of birth control pills and told him they were breath mints.
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Originally posted by Animal
Wow, that is really sad...
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :p
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Originally posted by straffo
hehe :)
There is 3 kind of people : those who can count and the others :D
:D :D :D Straffo