Author Topic: Is there anything in england that is better than in the states? (Read 4374 times)

lazs2 · « **Reply #150 on:** November 14, 2002, 10:05:48 PM »

every honest person here knows what drives it... it's like reading a friggin ayn rand novel in here.
lazs

Nash · « **Reply #151 on:** November 14, 2002, 10:20:09 PM »

Everyone loved REM when they first came out with Radio Free Europe, but hated them after they started actually getting radio play that went beyond the college stations.

Leonardo Dicaprio went from cool with the Basketball Diaries to total dork with Titanic.

The US is a pretty good country... And lately it's reaching out and really starting to touch stuff in a big way. For you Yanks... yer on top, so yer gonna get people tryin' to tear a strip or two off ya. Just the nature of things.

Don't be such freakin' whiners about it.

Dowding (Work) · « **Reply #152 on:** November 15, 2002, 12:26:29 AM »

Your own government says Britain has the fourth largest economy. Ask them who the other three are. Only guessing, but I think the US, Japan and China would be the top 3.

Who was asking you to be more British? I believe you started this thread in your usual antagonistic style based on a shaky foundation of mis-information and plain old ignorance. Your views on Northern Ireland and Scotland alone make this thread good for a laugh.

Nash · « **Reply #153 on:** November 15, 2002, 12:38:01 AM »

Guess who the absolute number one trading partner with the US is.... outta alla those countries makin' Italian cars and Japanese robots...

It's Canada.

Canada does 2 BILLION dollars in trade with the US...

... a day.

Tomorrow when we wake up we'll have done another 2 billion in trade.

Screw China.

Canada and the US is by far the largest trading partnership in the entire world, sharing the largest undefended border.

Kanth · « **Reply #154 on:** November 15, 2002, 01:51:17 AM »

Whats your name?

Puddintane, Ask me again and I'll tell you the same.

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Originally posted by H. Godwineson

puddinentain - A sign of affection...usually said by a mother to a small child. I believe it was part of a childhood poem...but I just don't remember.

H. Godwineson · « **Reply #155 on:** November 15, 2002, 08:25:49 AM »

Thanks Kanth,

Haven't heard that little refrain since I was a child!

Regards, Shuckins

lazs2 · « **Reply #156 on:** November 15, 2002, 10:45:04 AM »

dowding... I believe that I started this thread to end the all but endless "britsh xxx vs American xxx, which is better?" beetle threads... I just wanted to get em all out on the table. I wanted to see if there really was anything worth emulating. So far... I can see nothing.

I also wanted to see how being more british like and a "subject" was better for us. to give up our constitution is a big deal... there should be some big and obvious rewards. If throwing out the 2nd amendment has no more effect than setting us on the slippery british slope with no quantifiyable benifiets... why bother? no... why intrude on personal freedom if it is lose lose?
lazs

lazs2 · « **Reply #157 on:** November 15, 2002, 10:47:18 AM »

Oh.. and what study of the U.S. was that on GNP? I would be interested in seeing the GNP of the top 10 nations.

I had heard that California by itself was like the fifth largest economy in the world but who knows?
lazs

Wlfgng · « **Reply #158 on:** November 15, 2002, 10:50:37 AM »

Nash is right. Being no.1, or at least being perceived as no.1, means that everyone else is taking pot shots at ya'.

I revel in it myself

Nashwan · « **Reply #159 on:** November 15, 2002, 05:56:25 PM »

The Economist gives the following GDP figures:

US $10 trn

Japan $4.2 trn

Germany $1.8 trn

UK $1.4 trn

France $1.3 trn

China $1.2 trn

Italy $1.1 trn

Tumor · « **Reply #160 on:** November 15, 2002, 07:15:30 PM »

SHUTIT!! enough already!

lazs2 · « **Reply #161 on:** November 16, 2002, 11:03:13 AM »

three more fiat sales next year and italy will kick your ass.
lazs

Curval · « **Reply #162 on:** November 16, 2002, 11:51:42 AM »

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Originally posted by NUKE
Reading this board, I dont find this to be a prevailing American disposition.

I just wonder what it is inside some of you people that makes you feel you need to come on a board that you know is majority American, and start spouting off about how bad Americans are, how are guns laws suck, our cars suck, our lives suck, we such, our beer sucks.......etc.

What is the point? What drives it?

It is the very nature of a BB to be argumentative and combatative. Particularly in an off-topic board. What do you want, a bunch of "yes" men/women who come over here to praise everything American?

Hell...I've found myself using lazs' arguments on certain topics when playing the devils advocate in discussions outside these boards!:D Honestly....even on the topic of gun control.

That's what drives it for me at least, being as you used my quote. I'm sure you will find it the same for many others. The best way to destroy pre-conceived notions about any given topic is to have a good argument with people who know alot about it, or think they do. Everyone gets a little better educated..it is a win-win situation.

Thrawn · « **Reply #163 on:** November 16, 2002, 11:58:39 AM »

Thanks to Bush's "No Child Left Behind Act", the US military can now demand access to your children's confidential school files.

lazs2 · « **Reply #164 on:** November 16, 2002, 12:20:03 PM »

not yours thrawn... you live in canada and bush doesn't care about canada.... yet. besides... if you (we) send your kids to public school (in the U.S.) or... you can't figure out that you need to vote for vouchers... you deserve whatever happens to your kids in "school".

curval... give it up... just embrace my views now and save a lot of needless recanting later.
lazs