America Smarter than Spain [modified]
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brianwelsch wrote:
The other stuff is irrelevent bullsh*t.
It usually is in the SB. But whatever. I'd rather the right to defend myself over the ability to buy booze at McDonalds. And, as would already said, if the public really wanted that it would happen. Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
It usually is in the SB
:-D Good point. Pretty much the last place I want to drink a beer is in McDs, and I'm sure they'd offer beer if there was demand for it. BW
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Alcohol zoning is done on a local level. New Orleans (as I'm sure Mr. Falcon will point out) allows alcohol consumption in the streets. So does Savannah, Georgia and various other local municipalities. However, most people don't want a bunch of drunks and drug-addicts stumbling everywhere, so they choose (by enacting their freedoms) to restrict its consumption to certain areas.
espeir wrote:
New Orleans (as I'm sure Mr. Falcon will point out) allows alcohol consumption in the streets.
It depends on the street around here. For instance you could get plastered on Bourbon St. and it's perfectly legal if you're over 21. You can't piss on the side of the street though. :laugh: Jeremy Falcon
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No, in fact it is true that the US is strangely restrictive in many ways, despite its pretenstions of freedom. Particularly regarding alcohol. Nunc est bibendum
fat_boy wrote:
No, in fact it is true that the US is strangely restrictive in many ways
I agree with this for the most part. My point is that I don't much care about the petty stuff ya know. Start with what's important (to me) and we'll take it from there. Jeremy Falcon
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brianwelsch wrote:
The other stuff is irrelevent bullsh*t.
It usually is in the SB. But whatever. I'd rather the right to defend myself over the ability to buy booze at McDonalds. And, as would already said, if the public really wanted that it would happen. Jeremy Falcon
You could buy booze at McDonald's if they decided to sell it and got some liquor licenses. That's like walking into a Foot Locker and demanding a shot of whiskey because it's your right.
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espeir wrote:
New Orleans (as I'm sure Mr. Falcon will point out) allows alcohol consumption in the streets.
It depends on the street around here. For instance you could get plastered on Bourbon St. and it's perfectly legal if you're over 21. You can't piss on the side of the street though. :laugh: Jeremy Falcon
I thought it was pretty much the entire French Quarter. The last time I was there, my wife and I got drunk and carried our drinks into a police station. You could have drinking everywhere, but you choose not to. That's probably wise.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
big wanker
:wtf: That's the second time I've heard an American refer to someones trouser-snake as a "wanker". Is this common? Because, as you know, "wanker" is used in a slightly different context over here. :)
Hey, at least he's trying to learn. :)
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fat_boy wrote:
Free? You dont know the meaning of free.
You must be an arrogant asshole to tell that to an American, being from the UK yourself. In the UK you have "knife amnesites", and will put anyone in jail for 4 years for having a pocket knife. In the UK your police arrest young children of making "racist" remarks. The police in the UK can do pretty much whatever they like if they label someone a "terrorist". Wheras Americans have the right to free speech, the right to be armed (which i am), the right against unreasonable searches and confiscations by the police (but the police do violate this one sometimes). Freedom means more than petty little things like speed limits and holidays. Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir
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In the UK you have "knife amnesites"
We have gun amnesties too, your point being?
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put anyone in jail for 4 years for having a pocket knife
Simply not true. The most that is likely to happen is the knife being confiscated. Four years is the absolute maximum that a judge could pass down when there are serious concerns about the individual concerned (i.e. they were caught fighting outside a school or brandishing it.)
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police arrest young children of making "racist" remarks
If you knew the background of that single incident you would know that there was considerably more to it than the remarks exchanged.
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The police in the UK can do pretty much whatever they like if they label someone a "terrorist".
The first part requires significant proof however. It might not be shown in a public court, but it still needs to be shown before we can detain anyone. Most times the individuals are simply returned to their country of origin so long as we are sure they will come to no physical harm by doing so. Maybe we should just build camps in other countries and send them all there?
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Americans have the right to free speech
Ditto. It wasn't a concept you created either.
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the right to be armed
Yeah, it really sucks[^] to live in Britain.
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which i am
Thank God for the Atlantic.
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the right against unreasonable searches and confiscations by the police
We share that right, protected in law.
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Freedom means more than petty little things like speed limits and holidays
Personal freedom is significant in its own right.
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fat_boy wrote:
Oh yes, I forgot, carying a gun makes you so free.
It does not make you free, but it does give a population recourse against a tyrannical government. Totalitarian governments always disarm the population, so they dont end up like the redocats did 200 years ago.
fat_boy wrote:
Bollocks.
Clickety[^] Ministers are also proposing to double the sentence for possessing a knife or offensive weapon from two years to four I was partly wrong, the sentence is two years, but they are trying to make it four. Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir
You do know that Scotland doesn't share all the same laws as England, Wales and Northen Ireland, right?
Ðavid Wulff Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (video)
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Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
I've seen and heard their leader speak. Scary man.
You're scared of the peaceful practice of religion? Given Europe's rich history of oppressing and even killing anybody who's religion differs with their own, and given that the religion du jour in Europe is atheism, I find the fact that you find such people scary in itself...scary.
It's not the religion itself I find scary, but the political ambition of these people. They're just as scary as left and right extremes. If you find me scary for thinking that, then you're one heck of a scaredy cat. Do you fear waking up too?
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I'd sooner live in a more open society like Afghanistan.
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Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
you twit.
I think i will go kill myself now. :((:((:(( Stand rigid for the next battle Peace means reloading your guns The love for life is all hatred in disguise - Dimmu Borgir
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In all fairness to Oxford's Dictionary, it does mention the american spelling. On the other hand, the american spelling for similar words is smarter, because it conveys the actual pronounciation better than the british counterparts. Definately more foreigner friendly. ;)
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
On the other hand, the american spelling for similar words is smarter, because it conveys the actual pronounciation better than the british counterparts.
But try the Yankee pronunciation. Those Three Wise Men They Had A Sem-Eye By The Sea. Or one of my favourite pronunciations s-eye-multaneous. Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
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Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
On the other hand, the american spelling for similar words is smarter, because it conveys the actual pronounciation better than the british counterparts.
But try the Yankee pronunciation. Those Three Wise Men They Had A Sem-Eye By The Sea. Or one of my favourite pronunciations s-eye-multaneous. Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
Michael Martin wrote:
Or one of my favourite pronunciations s-eye-multaneous.
I think that's a dialect thing. I've heard both sim.. and seyem.. pronounciations by americans. I have real problems with the British (and australian) pronounciation of "can't". It's easily mispronounced as cun't. Such mishaps raise too many eyebrowes for me to feel comfortable. :)
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Don't get me started on your use of "fag" and "twat"! :omg: :omg: ;P "The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass." - Martin Mull
Mike Mullikin wrote:
Don't get me started on your use of "fag" and "twat"! :omg: :omg: ;P
And your abomination of the word fanny is OK then? Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
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espeir wrote:
Spanish men also don't know how to please a woman. The average woman in the US has 2.09 children and in Spain they only have 1.28. Perhaps that chauvinism is masking something deeper.
Ummm, I'm gonna go ahead and point out the subtle comedy... "Spanish men also don't know how to please a woman" followed by "Perhaps that chauvinism is masking something deeper"... Like a french boyfriend with a big wanker...
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Like a french boyfriend with a big wanker...
A wanker is someone who tugs his tossle. Too wank is to masturbate. It is not his todger. Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
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RichardGrimmer wrote:
But by the soame token, you lot should be lumped in with Canada (a bonus) and all the south american countries (not so much) - well you're all in the Americas aren't you....wonder what THAT would do to the literacy figures
We're not part of a unified economic and political unit like the EU.
espeir wrote:
We're not part of a unified economic and political unit like the EU.
And the European Union does not encompass all of Europe you twat. Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
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We have the freedom to allow all that if we wished. However, not being a civilization in decline, we choose not to.
fat_boy wrote:
We have free health care
I hate to break it to you...but no it isn't.
espeir wrote:
We have the freedom to allow all that if we wished. However, not being a civilization in decline, we choose not to.
Nice attempt at a smokescreen twat. Explain how prohibition works into your freedom. Aside from communist countries such as the USSR and East Germany name another country beside the USA that has allowed spying on the general populace by the government and individuals like during the McCarthy era? Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
