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@TDWTF123 said:
You say 'revolution', we say 'traitorous secession'.
You say "traitorous secession", I say "nutjob King who bankrupted the Treasury and couldn't afford to put down an uprising of a few yokels."
Also, you probably (incorrectly) don't pronounce the second "r" in "traitorous secession", so we literally don't say it the same way.
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@morbiuswilters said:
Also, you probably (incorrectly) don't pronounce the second "r" in "traitorous secession", so we literally don't say it the same way.
Homestar? Homestar Runner?
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@Ben L. said:
@morbiuswilters said:
Also, you probably (incorrectly) don't pronounce the second "r" in "traitorous secession", so we literally don't say it the same way.
Homestar? Homestar Runner?The Brits are basically less cute, less understandable HRs.
'allo, guv, off ta a li'l traito'ous seccessy, are we?
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@morbiuswilters said:
@Ben L. said:
@morbiuswilters said:
Also, you probably (incorrectly) don't pronounce the second "r" in "traitorous secession", so we literally don't say it the same way.
Homestar? Homestar Runner?The Brits are basically less cute, less understandable HRs.
'allo, guv, off ta a li'l traito'ous seccessy, are we?
morbsipan, you're so smart
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@morbiuswilters said:
@Ben L. said:
I 'ave pwoblems with m' aws.@morbiuswilters said:
Also, you probably (incorrectly) don't pronounce the second "r" in "traitorous secession", so we literally don't say it the same way.
Homestar? Homestar Runner?The Brits are basically less cute, less understandable HRs.
'allo, guv, off ta a li'l traito'ous seccessy, are we?
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@morbiuswilters said:
Man, what the fuck is wrong with your fucking country? Do they let you guys have string? Because you might choke someone with string.
I will ignore you being trite and just say that the rules are pretty sensible when it comes to owning things that can be dangerous weapons; You have to have a good reason for owning it and the police normally come round and have a chat with you to make sure you aren't a psychopath.
@morbiuswilters said:
Wow, what the shit? Do you like getting mugged? If that was me it would read "I had four attempted muggings. All four ended up in the morgue." Of course, those muggers likely went on to mug other people, or commit more heinous crimes like rape or murder. If you had put them down, then their criminal behavior would have ended there.
No they attempted to mug me, 1 time I didn't have anything to give the guy so he asked me to if I wanted to help him mug someone else (he wasn't the brightest lad). The other 3 times I just ran for it. TBH except for the 1st time, it all involved being a bit drunk and taking a dubious short cut home from a house party while I was in University.
@morbiuswilters said:
I have never been in a fist fight in my life. I've been hit by women a few times in my life (just shoved them off of me or pinned them until they calmed the fuck down). I've never been mugged, robbed or the victim of any crime I can think of. I don't even lock my car (I don't think anyone steals from cars here.. too afraid of being shot.) Anyway, being a victim sucks. I don't know how you could tolerate living in a society that let shit like that happen and which gave you no options for fighting back.
It happens when there are drink, women and thickos are involved, it happens pretty much anywhere. I've been beaten up worse when sparring down the local boxing club. Fist fights normally last less than a minute because they are bloody knackering. To be honest the only time I have ever felt like a victim is when someone did a hit and run on me when I was cycling back from Uni (this was about 6 years ago now).
I don't know where you get this idea that the UK is a particularly violent place because it isn't. I work in Gibraltar and work with varying nationalities that are mostly European and nobody feels like they need a gun, we aren't interested in them. This isn't even talking about owning them.
I don't want trite but a lot of mis-conceptions about Europe is because most Americans haven't actually been over here. Also a lot of what you said so far is similar in tone to what I heard said about our NHS. Yes there are problems but they are vastly exaggerated.
And that is pretty much all I have to say about this subject.
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@morbiuswilters said:
You say FDR, I say "nutjob president who bankrupted the Treasury and couldn't afford to put down an uprising of a few banks."
FTFY. And they named a nice parkway after this despicable liberal.
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@lucas said:
The other 3 times I just ran for it.
You're lucky they didn't decide to chase you down and beat the crap out of you.
@lucas said:
TBH except for the 1st time, it all involved being a bit drunk and taking a dubious short cut home from a house party while I was in University.
Still, I'd rather be armed in that situation than defenseless. Especially if I was, I dunno, with a lady friend and we got accosted by a gang that wanted to take more than our wallets.. Being like "Yeah, sorry I couldn't stop the brutal gang rape, but at least we don't have any icky guns around!" doesn't seem like the best response.
@lucas said:
I don't know where you get this idea that the UK is a particularly violent place because it isn't.
You just told numerous stories about you being beaten up and mugged. I don't think I even know anybody who's been battered or mugged. And I've walked home through a city in the middle of the night after drinking lots of times. I even got lost in Brooklyn with a scantily-clad lady friend and we wandered the streets at 4:00am, drunk and high, walking through some really super sketchy neighborhoods, and we got some weird looks from bums, but nobody bothered us. And you can believe I wish I'd at least had a knife then, if not a gun.
@lucas said:
I work in Gibraltar and work with varying nationalities that are mostly European and nobody feels like they need a gun, we aren't interested in them. This isn't even talking about owning them.
That's just a subjective feeling though; attitudes influenced by many Europeans' bizarre gun fetish. Objectively, you might need a means of self-defense more than I. Especially since apparently if you're attacked by a criminal in public, and fight back, you might end up in jail if the fight wasn't "fair", whatever the fuck that means.
@lucas said:
I don't want trite but a lot of mis-conceptions about Europe is because most Americans haven't actually been over here.
I don't have to go to India to know they have problems with poverty and I don't need to go to the UK to know you guys have a problem with crime and being forbidden from effective self-defense. Hell, Sweden, one of Europe's supposedly peaceful Socialist Workers' Paradises has had a lot of problems with rioting as of late. Now, the US has had problems with riots, but always in shithole cities run by incompetent, corrupt officials where citizens can't defend themselves. And even then it's usually just poor people setting fire to their own neighborhoods, so who gives a shit? I'd like to see those Stockholm rioters trying that shit here--after the first few get dropped, the rest would scatter and the riots would be over with. Problem solved.
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@Ronald said:
FTFY.
FDR wasn't a nutjob. He had a clear goal, and he worked to achieve it through any means necessary. It just happens that the goal was evil.
@Ronald said:
And they named a nice parkway after this despicable liberal.
Where? You can't possibly be talking about the elevated highway on the LES..
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@morbiuswilters said:
I don't have to go to India to know they have problems with poverty and I don't need to go to the UK to know you guys have a problem with crime and being forbidden from effective self-defense. Hell, Sweden, one of Europe's supposedly peaceful Socialist Workers' Paradises has had a lot of problems with rioting as of late.
And the attitude displayed here is why most of the world thinks of American's as being loud mouthed and ignorant, when I don't believe that is the case at all. With that I am out of this conversation.
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@lucas said:
@morbiuswilters said:
You're not helping our case with your barely literate punctuation, sir. "American's" is not the proper plural of "American".I don't have to go to India to know they have problems with poverty and I don't need to go to the UK to know you guys have a problem with crime and being forbidden from effective self-defense. Hell, Sweden, one of Europe's supposedly peaceful Socialist Workers' Paradises has had a lot of problems with rioting as of late.
And the attitude displayed here is why most of the world thinks of American's as being loud mouthed and ignorant, when I don't believe that is the case at all. With that I am out of this conversation.
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@Lorne Kates said:
I will grant you that IF the Columbine assailants had been spotted and IF the correct number of people reacted with the correct level-headedness and aim, they could have easily taken the threat out before it became a massacre. Ideally.
There actually was an armed guard at Columbine who did engage them for a bit, and arguably prevented a significant amount of carnage. The death mainly came in the first 15 minutes or so. It took the guard about 5 minutes before he could engage the shooters, and never from closer than 60 yards. Nevertheless, many people survived due to his actions. It's not hard to imagine that a quicker response would have been good.
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just wanted to get in on this before it devolves into a pointless argument about UK vs USA, school shootings and gun control
TRWTF is line numbers.
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@drurowin said:
@lucas said:
@morbiuswilters said:
You're not helping our case with your barely literate punctuation, sir. "American's" is not the proper plural of "American".I don't have to go to India to know they have problems with poverty and I don't need to go to the UK to know you guys have a problem with crime and being forbidden from effective self-defense. Hell, Sweden, one of Europe's supposedly peaceful Socialist Workers' Paradises has had a lot of problems with rioting as of late.
And the attitude displayed here is why most of the world thinks of American's as being loud mouthed and ignorant, when I don't believe that is the case at all. With that I am out of this conversation.
Grammar has never been my strong point, it is a good thing I program computers for a living instead of writing books.
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@lucas said:
Grammar has never been my strong point, it is a good thing I program computers for a living instead of writing books.
Hitler used grammar.
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@lucas said:
I don't want trite but a lot of mis-conceptions about Europe is because most Americans haven't actually been over here.
Yep. I feel the same way being from Alabama, everyone wondering if siblings really do get married. And I gotta clarify that they're thinking about Mississippi. We marry cousins down here.
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@Liquid Egg Product said:
@lucas said:
Isn't it "Alamabama"?I don't want trite but a lot of mis-conceptions about Europe is because most Americans haven't actually been over here.
Yep. I feel the same way being from Alabama, everyone wondering if siblings really do get married. And I gotta clarify that they're thinking about Mississippi. We marry cousins down here.
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@drurowin said:
Isn't it "Alamabama"?
Depends on the quality of English teachers in the school district.
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@Liquid Egg Product said:
...everyone wondering if siblings really do get married.
My sister is married, and I'm not even from Alabama. Or did you mean to each other?
@Liquid Egg Product said:
We marry cousins down here.
Plus, you never have to pick your own cotton.
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Now this is proper work for a taser.
When Scooter the llama busted out of his penned-in yard in Tallahassee, it took three county sheriff's deputies and a taser gun to get him back in again.
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@Liquid Egg Product said:
@drurowin said:
Isn't it "Alamabama"?
Depends on the quality of English teachers in the school district.
I thought it was Alabamalama.
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@dhromed said:
I thought it was Alabamalama.
No, no, no, "Mississippi" is the one that's supposed to be hard to spell! But it's easier if you remember it has a "p", "i", "s", and "s" in it.
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@boomzilla said:
Now this is proper work for a taser.
When Scooter the llama busted out of his penned-in yard in Tallahassee, it took three county sheriff's deputies and a taser gun to get him back in again.
That's poor negotiating skills. Now the sheriff has to hire three new deputies, and Scooter's got a taser.
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@morbiuswilters said:
Plus, you never have to pick your own cotton.
Being a quarter black, not sure how true that would have been at various points in history.
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@Liquid Egg Product said:
@dhromed said:
I'd been spelling it "Missippippi." FML.I thought it was Alabamalama.
No, no, no, "Mississippi" is the one that's supposed to be hard to spell! But it's easier if you remember it has a "p", "i", "s", and "s" in it.
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Pippi Longstocking?
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@Liquid Egg Product said:
@dhromed said:
I thought it was Alabamalama.
No, no, no, "Mississippi" is the one that's supposed to be hard to spell! But it's easier if you remember it has a "p", "i", "s", and "s" in it.
Missepissy?
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@dhromed said:
@Liquid Egg Product said:
@dhromed said:
I thought it was Alabamalama.
No, no, no, "Mississippi" is the one that's supposed to be hard to spell! But it's easier if you remember it has a "p", "i", "s", and "s" in it.
Missepissy?
Mpisspissp?
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@dhromed said:
@Liquid Egg Product said:
@dhromed said:
I thought it was Alabamalama.
No, no, no, "Mississippi" is the one that's supposed to be hard to spell! But it's easier if you remember it has a "p", "i", "s", and "s" in it.
Missepissy?
Pissymissy?
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@joe.edwards said:
@dhromed said:
.com?@Liquid Egg Product said:
@dhromed said:
I thought it was Alabamalama.
No, no, no, "Mississippi" is the one that's supposed to be hard to spell! But it's easier if you remember it has a "p", "i", "s", and "s" in it.
Missepissy?
Pissymissy?
