That less cool black people in America stole from cooler Africans, that they made into slaves.
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Fellow Americans, do you realize how much people envy us?
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That less cool black people in America stole from cooler Africans, that they made into slaves.
ftw.
Go_Ly_Dow
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although my dream is to live in other countries throughout europe and asia and there are many small things that nag me about the uk, this is one fantastic post.
i've lived here all my life and don't dislike living here and most of the reasons for it are in this post.
You make it seem like World War Z over here. No hospitals, no doctors, people dying in the streets. smh.
Red Blaster's trolling is hilarious, anyone praising Kurt Cobain shouldn't be taken seriously
More Fun To Compute
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Harold Wilson if you mean North of England. Gordon Brown from the north in general.
John Prescott was deputy PM and was mocked a lot for the way he spoke and had to take elocution lessons to take the edge off his Hull accent. But Maggie Thatcher also took lessons to learn how to speak in a more authoritative way.
Thank God England didn't do anything like that.
el retorno
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Fixed.
Slave trade ended in 1808. One year after the british ended it.
We acquired our labour from the Caribbean thankyouverymuch.
el retorno
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All those native caribbean blacks?
Don't pretend to know what I feel. I am not bragging about the american military at all. just stating a fact. I am a person who is in favor of reducing military spending by a huge amount FYI, so...
I am fully aware that America is a result of British colonialism. You think I don't have bones about how america was founded?
hint, i'm not white and i'm the child of immigrants
The mayor of Toronto was born a hippo.
And how long till your forefathers stopped using them pray tell?
lol at the health care complaints. Yes, it's annoying but it's hardly an issue for most people. You all pay for health care through taxes, whereas we pay for it ourselves. We want it to change and it probably will at some point.
I enjoy living in the most powerful country on earth where western culture is defined. Wouldn't trade it for anything.
I enjoy living in the most powerful country on earth where western culture is defined. Wouldn't trade it for anything.
el retorno
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Can we get part of churchill?
Thats the ones.
My chest is swelling with pride. Set this post to an Edward Elgar soundtrack and nail it to a bulldog.
el retorno
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? Slave trade ended in 1808 hence forth the only slaves were born to other slaves.
Cool didn't really exist until The Beatles invented it, to be honest.
You can have him to be honest. Most overrated PM in history. Also, his mother was American.
Question: dodged.
Go for it, he's overrated anyway
VGChampion
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I am proud to be an American. I love almost everything about it. I know it's all random that this is where I was born but, well, that's where I was born. I love grilling out on July 4th, never had a problem saying the pledge of allegiance, whatever else people complain about on the Internet.
el retorno
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30 years after the mighty british
Red Blaster
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Lack of free healthcare in America is just god's way of saying nobody's perfect
Rock and roll existed in the early-mid 19th century? You'd better phone up Obama and alert him to his unfounded piece of American history. Either that or maybe you should get your money back for that 2nd-rate British education you received.
Rock and roll existed in the early-mid 19th century? You'd better phone up Obama and alert him to his unfounded piece of American history. Either that or maybe you should get your money back for that 2nd-rate British education you received.
As a Canadian I don't see why I'd envy the US. There are no religious nuts here, there are less fat people, education is cheap, health care is free, it's less prudish etc. On top of that I have access to all the American media I want. I guess the only really good thing about the US is how cheap electronics are and how awesome amazon.com is compared to .ca.
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Bedsides the point. If you didn't have insurance you would have. Maybe not bankrupt, just googled the cost of a broken arm to be between $15000-$20000, but still a life changing debt which I would have no worries about incurring at all in england thanks to the NHS.
Public healthcare is a deal-breaker for me. Besides that, as I say I'm an Americanaboo.
Persecution complex.
I feel sorry for all the Americans who are offered so little in life that they must define themselves through their national belonging. Most Americans I have met in life were obnoxious, self-entitled fucks who were ignorant about other cultures and would have been happy to never leave their own country.
And yeah, I guess if trashy food, cronyism and bad pop music make up "Western culture" nowadays I suppose it's true that all that is defined in America.
And yeah, I guess if trashy food, cronyism and bad pop music make up "Western culture" nowadays I suppose it's true that all that is defined in America.
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Nor free education smh...
el retorno
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I think this thread needs some music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f33KzjrjTg0
Someone's angry.
Also here's some bad pop music to make you feel better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSdARok2S8U&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f33KzjrjTg0
Someone's angry.
Also here's some bad pop music to make you feel better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSdARok2S8U&feature=fvst
You are trying to hard, tone it down some, I suggest study your betters for a while and learn to troll without being so aggressive.
C-
el retorno
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No. And if why would you not have insurance? BTW he have insurance for kids.
We live free.
Pretty much. We keep it trill for you over here.
The_Hitcher89
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And now the battle begins.
What's better, a city organised by blocks, or a city that's grown organically?
What's better, a city organised by blocks, or a city that's grown organically?
Phantast2k
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fixed?
In Germany we throw bananas at white people:
There are certainly a lot of aspects of the US I envy Americans for, but there are still more aspects I pity you for (even though most of them are not exclusive to the US). Just off the top of my head:
- huge & ever growing income inequality. It's bound to bite you in the ass at some point.
- poor social safety net, abysmal handling of the poorest among you (hobos, crazies, junkies)...just let them roam the streets and feed them cheezburgers at the end of the day, lol.
- poor to non-existent public services (transportation, health, education)
- poor regulation/inadequate competition in regards to:
- the telecommunications sector (getting ass raped by the cellular, internet & cable providers). Paying for receiving calls or text messages? I'm sure that's a US-only thing. Bandwidth caps, 56k-like speeds, etc - enough said. As for basic cable, I just thought it's expensive as hell compared to what it offers..
- the banking/financial sector: i.e. getting ass raped on all sorts of banking fees and not even having the ability to freely wire transfer around money between banks, like we all do in Europe for ages and soon will be doing be across borders too. People fiddling with cheques like back in the 50ies is just laughable..)
- Food/health: having to go to great strides to find organic/gmo free food (meat) - depends on where you live, I know, but for instance in Germany it doesn't. Paying premiums for fresh produce compared to gallons of lemonade, chips, cookies, sweets, some disgusting microwavable vomit. All thanks to the almighty corn and the high-fructose corn syrup.
Having to pay humongous hospital/doctor bills or going broke because of it ___despite of being insured___
- crime/(hidden) racism: high rates of homicides, murders, rapes etc. Existence of outright hell holes due to urban segregation. Disproportional amounts of blacks and hispanics in jails, etc.
- Batshit insane religious zealots who don't just hide somewhere in the woods, but actively try to change the course of the country.
- Circus politics, crazy fucking circus politics. Straight up nuts and petty and brainless and harmful and disgusting.....
Ok, I spent like 20mins listing all that and now I gotta go.
The envy is killing me..
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/19/us-usa-healthcare-insurance-idUSBRE83I17420120419
Apparently 48 million don't.
Yeah, that American niche for the aforementioned Western Culture is usually obsessed over by people who are not in the US. See: the entire world.
Well not every can have such a clean slate as us Germans.
the hate is strong in this one.
el retorno
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I want universal care. My question was just his point that his thesis was that his kids arm would bankrupt him I was just wondering why he wouldn't have care because has you link says
If he was working he'd be fine. And also there a lot of insurance plans for kids in states. It just is the michael more hyperbole. We need to fix it but its not mad max over here.
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