Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 5:01 pm
"ethicks"...maybe (check spelling!)
Admired like celebrity. I won't flame your royalty, but you have to admit they are now nothing but figureheads with no real power. People flock to see them and where they live because of their celebrity.
True enough...
Backglass was responding to your insult. He didn't start it.
Which one was that?
Hmmm, lets see. I've spent U.S. CASH in Japan, Austrailia, Hong Kong (albeit before China took it back), Singapore, Thailand, Phillipines, Panama, Barbados, Italy, and Egypt. Just off the top of my head.
Panama is geographically very close, and probably get loads of US tourists, so understandable. Japan, Australia and Italy? I find that plausable. Developed countries accepting foriegn currency...Definately got to be only in large retail sections near the airports or something....When I went to Australia and Venice (which is pretty much solely a tourist city) they only accepted Euros and Aussie Dollars....
So U.S. universities cost more and yet more & more people choose to go to them.
You get what you pay for I guess.
People go to the better ones because you are close to guaranteed to get a very good paying job when you finish. I just find the amounts you have to pay to be ridiculous though. People are complaining about £3k a year here, I would hate it if my parents had to pay around your level.
You do get what you pay for I guess, and for education its worth it...
"Technically" if you wanted them back, you would be out of luck.
I know that. I never said differently.
Of course. Friendly fire has occurred in every military since time began, but thats not what you are saying. You are saying they "love it", which I am sure they do not.
USA has a higher rate of friendly fire then they should, especially considering the accuracy and technology in the missiles and bombs nowadays...
Also, I didn say they loved friendly fire, I said they were trigger happy. Big difference.
But to send him into Iraq, where he will be target #1 and needlessly put others at increased risk is foolish in my opinion.
The troops in Iraq are in support of him to fight atm. Also, to track him down will be very hard, and I cannot see any of the miliant groups delibately attacking him. If he does get involved in a fight, it will just be a routine attack imo.
Put others at risk, probably. The south is fairly safe atm though. The Iraqi troops and army now control all but 1 of the territories we were in charge of. The main goal in the south now is to stop Iranian interference and the supplied in IED's and other devices.
George W. Bush gets many invites and grand welcomes. He must be admired the world over!
Very funny...Thats because hes the US President, slightly different. Also, when he visits its different, its about politics. When the Queen visits its noramlly a visit/holiday kinda thing. Also, does he get a grand welcome? Isn it just a limo drive up to the front steps of wherever and a hand shake?
You mean like all Americans are fat idiots?
And when did I say that? Btw, America has the highest percentage of fat people, so in essence that stereotype comes from fact.
Sooo...the larger the population the better the schools? Great ! I'm sending my kids to Beijing University!
Nooooo. When you compare two very similar countries, if one has a substancially larger population you can expect it to better in most areas. Obviously you cant compare China, because there not as developed as us. On that note, did you see that Maths test entry to get into a Chinese university. Pretty tough. They got the right thing in making maths compulsary till 18....
Oh shit, I just saw that the UK has "the highest percentage of mobile phones per person in the world." Damn, looks like us Americans got our asses kicked. Even though the US is bigger, more powerful, with a better army, the financial capital of the world, and the banking capital of the world, the UK has a higher cell phone per person ratio!
That was just an example of one thing...talk about taking it out of proportion... I never said the UK was better or that America got its arse kicked or is piss-poor (its got a higher GDP per person ffs). Btw, banking capital of the world? You do know that the City of London actually has more American banks then NYC?
I dont really want to post much this weekend, so just to leave it at this, from me anyway. I dont hate the USA or w/e, I just really really hate American politics, the governments attitude and the foreign policy. You have loads of great things - NYC, Florida, California, technology, very strong army, strongest economy, make very good tv programmes, Hollywood, WWE, parts of your culture, Subway, Google, and loads of other stuff which I'm too lazy to type.
As I said earlier, I just think that as the worlds sole superpower you should be teaching everyone how to behave and be setting an example (Not many superpowers in the past really have behaved well tbh). Obviously it is up to your government to do this, but they are just too ignorant. It is from this that I get my "anti-american" attitude. I tend to see the bad parts of America before the good parts because of this, so it comes accross that I am fully anti-american. I agree the UK isn perfect, far from it, but I am proud that our government is not like yours in many ways. Also, I love Prime Ministers Questions and the Commons. Thats real debating .
As a conclusion, I am not anti-american, I am not extremely nationalist UK, I like America, naturally I prefer where I grew up as its "home", and I still like all of you, except that racist guy. O, and I'm terrible at debating on here without Guis
I felt lonely for the past day, probably because re-reading what I said, it was very nationalist and kinda bigoting... I fell like I was about to get the support of xtratabasco 
See you soon, I gotta work and sleep, or my teacher will rape me on Tuesday.
