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State one reason why America is the best
Posted by cookingasshole • 5/01/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: america rules
Okay everyone.
Let's all agree that America is the best.
So each of you state one reason why.
1. Freedom Fries
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I don't have to wear a veil. Unless I want to.-
Well, thanks, but it's not meant to be "funny," so I'm not sure what you mean by that!
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Sham-Wows!-
but not as "fifis", 'cause that is wrong -
I wonder which comment killed it... probably this one
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ShamWows are made in Germany, according to the commercials. "The Germans always make good stuff."
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TSR -- What about Snuggies?
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I applaud everyone for gracefully ignoring my "fifi" comment as was also done in the shamwow thread
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I can't attest to the manufacture of the Snuggie, sorry.
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2. Guns for everyone -
We invented sprayable cheese-food. -
Micro Brews
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oh yeah baby!
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wont find those in Germany... or at least unless they adhere to the Reinheitsgebot
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Your secret prison camps aren't secret.-
yeah, now memo's are circulating to all the BDSM sites
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hahahahaha -
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...along with advise on the use of shamwows as "fifis"
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at least the ones you know about...
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Why don't they just call "freedom fries" by "frites" like everyone else
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The Belgium people dispute the invention of the "frites" to the French but since the Americans decided to call them "french fries", we french were de facto the inventors of the famous potatoes
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Baseball.
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Don't forget apple pie! -
One of my earliest memories is of Jim Rice (of the Red Sox) cranking out a home run at Yankee Stadium. I can't say the same about the first apple pie a la mode I ate.
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I love BASEBALL.
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@mtyler
Ah, it appears we have something else in common then: Red Sox Nation does go far. -
I went to my first game of the year last Friday night. Awesome, against the Yanks--so sweet when Jason Bay hit that great homer off of Mo in the 9th to tie the game--and then of course, Youk hit it on out at the bottom of the 11th to put the Sox ahead for good.
The zen of baseball--such a great sport. GO SOX! -
@mtyler
Baseball is wonderful in another sense - victory need not belong to the fastest or the strongest, but it can belong to the cleverest. Tim Wakefield and his knuckleball springs to mind. -
I agree! And Wake is having one heck of a year--and it couldn't happen to a better guy. Without a doubt, he's my favorite Sox player. Total class.
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@mtyler
Curt Schilling will always be my favourite, given his blood sacrifice on the mound, which apparently ended the Curse. -
I appreciate Curt's contribution to the Sox--and particularly his bloody sock--but I don't miss his politics or his big mouth!
I was at Game 4, when Dave Roberts stole second. I turned to my husband at that moment and told him the Sox were going to win the World Series. And of cours, I was right! -
@mtyler
I don't look to sports stars for political wisdom. It's sort of like asking quantum physicists for dating tips.
I have a "rally cap" somewhere in this house, on which I've put all the pins associated with the 2004 World Series victory. A great moment. -
It certainly was. One of my favorite mementos from the 2004 WS is this beer bottle opener. When you open it the first time, you hear Joe Constiglione (sp?) calling the final out of the ALCS. When you use it the second time, you hear him calling the final out of the WS.
Good times . . . good times.
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Because Cooking Asshole lives here!-
damn skippy!
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Democracy -
All-American boys like Scott Peterson!
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there's nothing inherently American about cold-blooded killers (remember Jack the Ripper?) In totalitarian nations, such people are simply appointed to high offices
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It contains the majority of naughty americans in one place.-
Not all.
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Hee hee hee! We do manage to sneak out from time to time though!
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Some manage to get a passport and fly about with their bumbags and garish shirts, but that makes them easy to spot
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@crpitt
And some of us are clever enough to avoid wearing garish shirts. ha ha ha -
green's avatar might hint otherwise
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But not the bumbags?
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@crpitt
I've never owned a bumbag. -
the call bumbags that weird name, though...
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I don't think I even know what a bumbag is.
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/sighs
I will speak American or type it.
A fanny pack y'all -
so wrong!
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I for one would NEVER be caught dead wearing a fanny pack. My bum needs no additional padding!
And Claire--I don't wear 'garish shirts' either. I'm a big one for neutral colors and like black in particular (my old punk training in action). -
@siuil
fanny-packin' mean something different there? -
I'm a backpack sort of person, I'm afraid. Besides, as you may have gathered, I take my laptop most everywhere I go.
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@Agit8urbits A fanny means ladies bits this side of the pond
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@crpitt
LMAO! I love your use of the word "bits".
Kind of puts a different spin on that old Bee Gees song:
Fanny Be Tender (With my Love) -
Well I was trying to be a lady
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@crpitt
I realized that, hence my crude corruption...
I know, bad Agit8r -
Stateside, "bonk" means to hit something.
EX: "Ow! I just bonked my head!" -
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you meant that kind of packing!
Disgusting! I'm British, I don't want to hear to stuff like that. -
when I was in high school, a foriegn exchange student from Australia informed us what was gross about our "Rooter Bus" for athletic events
appearently "rooter" is a verb there -
In Canada "bonking" is a reference to having sex.
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I know. I once said I bonked my head to a British friend and she died laughing.
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I used to work in a shop with a Canadian guy who struggled to contain his laughter when I said I was going to hoover the shop...apparently 'hoover' means something rather sexual in Canada..?
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hoover is a brand of vacuum. Vacuums suck!
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we have so many states that one of them can be our australia. and 30 Rock for the win! -
Well, Agit8r, the difference is.......Jack the Ripper wasn't a hottie like Scott.
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now THAT is disturbing o_0
WAY worse than a ShamWOW "fifi"
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Why is it disturbing? Is it wrong for me to be more attracted to American men?
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I think agit8r is jealous
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Sweet potatoes!-
okay! enough is enough! I declare sweet potatoes officially nasty once and for all!
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Then I say, that by association, you're calling the US "nasty."
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I would never!
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Perhaps just the Deep South is nasty, then? 'Cuz down here sweet potatoes are like the base of the food pyramid.
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blech!
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Some people are so judgmental about other people's paramours!
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he needs to get off his high horse
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I guess he's unhappy with his own love life, and that's why he feels the need to criticize other people's relationships, like mine with Scott.
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That, plus the fact that you are (almost) a supermodel and that can be intimidating to some men.
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I know I am intimidated by your greatness!
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lol, Lisa, your blog is disturbingly funny
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What do you mean, funny. Funny like a clown?
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Where'd my post go?
Agit8r........thanks, but my blog isn't meant to be "funny," so I don't know what you mean by that!-
oh, i see... *slowly backs away*
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Ha ! that's what I was referring to!
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We are the most innovative, creative, entreprenurial, and bad*** country on the face of the earth and have been for 60 years. Our combination of sheer technological genius, deep faith and reason (Yes, I know, our schools aren't the best, but in the wonderful words of Pink Floyd, "We [clearly] don't need no education."), keen sense of responsibillity and solid sense of honor, vibrant abundant self-energy, tendency to question authority, extensive regional culture (South, Upper Midwest, Texas, California, and West especially) and EXTREME respect and love of individuality define a national character apart from anywhere else on earth.
We have defined the last few hundred years, and just as with the Greeks, will continue to define the next few hundred years even if we implode tomorrow simply out of all the seeds previously planted coming to fruit.-
"We have defined the last few hundred years"
Well if that isn't a chauvinistic attitude I don't know what is... -
last century, yes. couple hundred years before that... not so much
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Agit8r, sorry, that was misspeak. And yes, I do have a chauvinistic attitude, because WE'RE BETTER. (And I'm only partially kidding.)
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America defines the past few centuries for Americans...China defines the past few centuries for the Chinese, Germany for the Germans, Russia for the Russians, Peru for the Peruvians, Turkey for the Turkish...
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Considering as those big factories they're building in China and those airplanes they are building in Germany are almost entirely built off the framework of American design, and the arts throughout the globe are now dominated by American forms, and all foreign policy is dominated by American naval and air supremacy (13 major aircraft carriers vs. 1 for our nearest competitor, Russia, a massive nuclear arsenal, and the only nation that can fight multiple overseas wars) I observe no basis for your assertions.
Especially considering that China was, at best, a pawn of the Soviet Union, which itself was defined by it's relationship as antagonist to the United States, and Germany was only relevant for two brief intervals of time at the beginning and towards the middle of the American century. -
The world is not all factories and planes...and I think you over-estimate the influence of American art.
You think America dominates because you are American and surrounded by all things American. People in other places may have American influences, but they aren't defined by what America does, they have their own experience of the world that is more coloured by their own locale.
ooh dear...everyone else is only occasionally relevant in the American century? Come on...In Europe America is only relevant at certain times. -
Of course they're defined by their locales, but the fact of the matter is that America is a great civilization, of the kind that define histories, something of which there are no others today.
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This is getting embarrassing...is that really how history and international relations/politics is taught /understood in the US?
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What's your rebuttal?
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Well...short of giving you a history of the past century from a European/African/Asian/South American/Australasian perspective I don't know how I can offer you a rebuttal.
Yes, America is a super-power and possibly the only one at the moment...but does that mean you can call the 20th century the 'American century'? absolutely not! -
Might I just point out that this is kind of why the rest of the world consider Americans to be arrogant and conceited...
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America rules sucker!
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Keep telling yourself that...
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1. Aviation
2. Industry
3. Science except right towards the very beginning when Russia and Germany were major before World War I
4. Rebuilding the world after WWII.
5. Spreading democracy.
6. Fighting communism.
7. Hollywood.
8. Several styles of literature, including transcendentalist, finding root across the earth.
9. Rock Music
10. Jazz Music
11. Most Classical Music after 1920.
12. The proliferation of skyscrapers and the remaking of cities.
13. The ideals of suburbia.
14. Mass communications.
15. Every single nation hearing our call.
16. Environmentalism (Silent Spring.)
And this is what you claim is ridiculous. -
I will...every minute of every hour
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"Might I just point out that this is kind of why the rest of the world consider Americans to be arrogant and conceited..."
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More importantly, which nation will define the next century. China has a real shot at it. Violent collapse of Russia could define a few decades.
Every most powerful nation in history has eventually come not the most powerful. The U.S. will eventually follow that path. -
@xmarks: I'll believe it when I see it. For the moment, AMERICA RULES!
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Oh my god...I'm speechless!
I really can't believe that's how Americans think!
There's just too much wrong with that list to go into here...
You have single-handedly brought America down so far in my estimation! I hope some of the rest of you can point out what's wrong with that! -
Who are you talking to?
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@SAR: PUT UP OR SHUT UP. I've heard enough of your personal attacks now if you'll please get to the business of actually addressing what I said we can actually get somewhere. Otherwise, leave.
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Chill the f*ck out.
1. Aviation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aviation_pioneers
Contents
* 1 Argentina
* 2 Australia
* 3 Austria
* 4 France
* 5 Germany
* 6 Great Britain
* 7 Italy
* 8 Mexico
* 9 New Zealand
* 10 Russia
* 11 Sweden
* 12 Turkey
* 13 USA
* 14 Poland
2. Industry
-Be more specific, there's industry everywhere.
3. Science except right towards the very beginning when Russia and Germany were major before World War I
-What? no one else is doing science? No where else in the world? We all just stopped after World War I?
4. Rebuilding the world after WWII.
-the world? America rebuilt the world? America had more money and resources than most of the nations involved in WWII because America was hardly on the front-line and got in late. You think that makes America special? It makes America fortunate.
5. Spreading democracy.
-That's a tricky subject..not everyone wants America's democracy.
6. Fighting communism.
-again...this makes America good because?
7. Hollywood.
-Hello Hollywood, meet the rest of the world's cinema - it's better.
8. Several styles of literature, including transcendentalist, finding root across the earth.
-I think you'll find everywhere has come up with several styles of literature.
9. Rock Music
-The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks etc. etc.
10. Jazz Music
-Salsa music! Wow...we all have music...
11. Most Classical Music after 1920.
-Tell that to Russia...
12. The proliferation of skyscrapers and the remaking of cities.
-Congratulations, you have ugly, soulless cities with really tall buildings. The rest of the world has character in their cities.
13. The ideals of suburbia.
-What the hell is that supposed to mean?
14. Mass communications.
-The internet...
15. Every single nation hearing our call.
-Which unfortunately sounds like "Look, we have a megaphone"
16. Environmentalism (Silent Spring.)
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"This is getting embarrassing...is that really how history and international relations/politics is taught /understood in the US?"
NO! it's not! jeremyjanson is the poorest representative of america. in many ways, he's the stereotypical american who's never traveled outside of america because he sold his horses in order to pay for his daughter's/niece's southern-themed wedding in the SOUTH. instead, he sits at home with his equally toothless buddies, discussing politics in the spirit of mccarthyism and the most humane form of lynching. -
Glad to hear...I was getting very worried that no one else chimed in...
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Technically Siuil, I don't think someone who flies the flag of the CSA can be said to represent the USA
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i clearly have my own biases, but what he describes doesn't correspond with my impression of americans.
i dislike when a person claims to be a proud american who has a "tendency to question authority" yet believes everything that is told to him by irrational, self-indulgent ideologues whose ideas only gain momentum by the sheer volume of their voice and not by the power of their ideas. -
SAR:
You called me conceited and arrogant, but last time I checked, I was not the one judging the intellect, character, and education of a fellow human being based on AGREEMENT WITH MY VIEWPOINT! You hold yourself as a god above men. You are the epitome of arrogance, conceit and manipulation. I am not going to chill out. You don't deserve a word better then this and I'm gonna speak out because I'm not scared of you. And gottlieb is just as delusional as you are.
Now as for all your statements and what not, I'll be more specific:
Industry - Assembly lines, Interchangeable parts, Systems Engineering, Supply Chains including the Dentzig Simplex Algorithm, all the basics of industry of the twentieth century. (not 19th century, however.)
Aviation - Wright Brothers, Aircraft Carriers, closed fuselage, our achievement.
Science - The greatest science schools of the twentieth century after WWI were generally in America. That's a hell of a basis.
Rebuilding the World - Fortunate or not, WE DID IT AND YOU SHOULD BE THANKFUL THAT SOMEONE COULD!
Beatles, Kinks, et cetera - All based off Elvis and the others before them.
And I don't care if they do it better now, we did it first, and that makes us the main protagonist here. So you just go home and cry little boy. America rules your ***. -
Rebuilding the World - Fortunate or not, WE DID IT AND YOU SHOULD BE THANKFUL THAT SOMEONE COULD!
Good grief! You have gone totally off the rails. What's next? Will it be that old canard that purports that America won WWII all by themselves?
Reality Check
The world over countries, corporations and individuals, directly and indirectly, assign their own fiscal strength based on the US dollar’s standard. The US public debt exceeded over $9 trillion dollars in 2007 and practically all of the US national debt owned by foreigners is held by private investors except for central banks, which hold 64%. In June 2007 the Federal Reserve reported its amount at US $755 billion. That means the size of the foreign owned portion of the amount owing was almost three times the total amount of currency in circulation.
More that 40 % of American families spend more than they earn. In fact, the average US family’s credit card balance is now almost 5 % of its annual income (with a median U.S. household income presently at $43,200), and personal bankruptcies in US have doubled in the last decade and the overall consumer debt has reached $2.46 Trillion as of June 2007 (excluding the $440 billion of revolving home equity loans, $600 Billion owed for second mortgages and an overall $9 Trillion in mortgage debt). As such, the total US consumer revolving debt grew to $904 Billion in 2008.
Whether or not jobs will go to US workers or instead be outsourced depends on whether the US can provide sufficient value in a global marketplace. Outsourcing has gone overseas because (1) it could - via the internet, and (2) it made economic sense for the corporation. Unless the US government imposes restrictions on the current model, you can expect that to prevail. -
"i dislike when a person claims to be a proud american who has a "tendency to question authority" yet believes everything that is told to him by irrational, self-indulgent ideologues..."
Something I have found you to be the epitome of. -
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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It's funny how obviously fake your laughter is SAR.
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And anyways, the confederate flag is a symbol of the South, rebellion, independence, standing up to establishment, and (though it may seem paradoxical) tradition. The Civil War is long over and I know that. But I know what it has come to represent and thus I make it my personal standard for what it means TODAY.
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It must be me trying to pretend to be a boy that makes it sound fake...
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what are you talking about "first"? you act like the big bang happened, or god spoke, "let there be america" and there was america. hahahaha. look again at historical developments that allowed america's "innovations" to happen. it doesn't take much to recognize that.
"cry little boy." hahahaha. i suddenly think you're the one crying. btw, i'm very amazed by your ability to use a computer. i always thought less of hicks, but i guess that's just symptomatic of my own delusions.
and what's with the ***. grow up, little boy. use your words.
"Something I have found you to be the epitome of."
if that's the case (which i certainly agree with you!), then shouldn't you be listening indiscriminately to what i say?
here's what i'm going to say: *in a whisper* it's bedtime, little boy. -
"anyways" with an "s," really? come on, now. hahaha. i guess my delusions of you as a hick aren't delusions after all. hahaha. you're so stupid, go away.
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Porno choices.
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Well, Agit8r, you're not the only one who finds the blog amusing, but I'm just not sure why!
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I will answer only to say I'm not answering. I don't need the grief. Their right tho, this is amusing.-
If you're not participating, don't participate. Otherwise it just looks like you're shouting, ala the peasant from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, "Help, help I'm being oppressed". How that looks to others, I leave to their judgement.
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do you think he's seen such things?
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Okay..................you talked me into playing. First, clarify the question, someone, anyone. "State one reason why America is the best". The best..............what? The best at..........what? Define what I'm comparing America to as far as best. Otherwise it's a loaded statement just waiting to go off.
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best at everything....like:
Oversized Belt Buckles
Rodeos
Hot dogs
BLM land
Particular genere of music
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the best at everything.
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nuclear power
the military
science and technology
iPods
Funny ringtones -
cinnabon
bacon
prescription drugs
non-prescription drugs
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oversized belt buckles ... lol ... been to Calgary lately?
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I suppose, then, that we are the best country for many reasons. Everyone will have their own handful to submit. I was born here, I work here, I live here, raise my kids here, and truly enjoy the variety of places to see and people to meet. I've been a few places in the world that I would not want to call home. America is my home.
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@softmelon
Because you are situated below the greatest country in the world
w00t! lol ...
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I stand corrected. Bow to the Canadians and repeat after me. We're not worthy. We're not worthy. We're not worthy.
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Canadian beer stinks.
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I don't drink beer but thanks for flying your true colours.
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Cooking wrote "Let's all agree that America is the best"
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everything, duh.
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The Best at proclaiming to be the best.-
better than proclaiming to be a loser country
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How about Hockey. Are you the best at Hockey? Or how about at being the best UFC Welterweight Champion?
America is not the best at everything.
Us good ole Canadians love our country as much as the good ole USA loves theirs. So do folks in England, Australia, Germany, etc... everyone thinks their country is the best country in the world. Been the the Netherlands lately? That's a pretty damn good country.
Kind of pretentious to claim a country to be the best. Everyone who lives in a place that they can wake up, go to work, go to school, go to the park, go to the ballgame, make money, start a business, chat online, relax at the beach, go to the clubs, eat and drink till they puke, or whatever else lives in the best countries in the world.
It's like claiming to live in the best city in the world. NYC, Cleveland, Boston, LA, Toronto, Bombay, or London? It all depends on your point of view. We should just all be grateful we don't live in one of the "loser" countries. -
nope, we are the best.
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I smell something burning...I think your kitchen's calling you.
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funny you should say that I just got finished cooking the best food ever.
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Hey cookingasshole. Interesting thread. Where you been?
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cooking...
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1)clean
2)60% good people
3)major software companies
4)think beyond what they can
5)try do stuffs which may even be killed
Eg:like in TV we see people doing dangerous stunts and all.
6)sexy cars
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"isnt" is a contraction of is and not and deserves an apostrophe college boy
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hahahaha
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you got collegewarrior all excited, talking about "contraction"
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Just can't laugh, might happen to me!
*The best in concealing a secret vulcanizing shop - area 51! or atleast for quite a long time!
*And for creating Marlboro country! - up till now not one scientist could locate it in the map!
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"State one reason why America is the best"
Millions of Americans sacrificed their lives to save the inhabitants of Planet Earth from being exterminated by Hitler, Hirohito and associates...Many of us would not be alive today were it not for the courageous American World War Two Veterans who sacrificed their lives for the existence and freedom those of us in democracies enjoy today...
By the same token America murdered millions of Natives, condoned slavery until the 1860's and apartheid until the 1960's, exterminated 100 million buffalo, is the biggest polluter and consumer of the planet's resources including monetary capital...-
so you are saying America is 'killer?'
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There are several kinds of pride:
There is vicarious pride. This is the pride of identification with the achievements of others.
It is inherited pride, pride based on status, derived not by one’s own merit but from others. An example would be the pride of the blue blood, the Mayflower descendant or Daughter of the American Revolution or Son of the Confederacy who claims merit because of what an ancestor has done.
Another example is pride of identification with college and professional sports teams and of country. Indeed, the “we’re number one” mentality that seems to pervade our power relationships has much in common with our approach to football. This “we’re” (as in “we’re number one”) is an interesting phenomena. What’s with the “we’re” business? The guys on the field are number one. The fans are simply fans.
There is the pride that leads to arrogance. This pride and its associated arrogance have led America into our present difficulties in Iraq and in much of the rest of the world.
As Anok pointed out in another thread, I can’t take pride in my status as a citizen. I had nothing to do with the achieving of that status. My great grandparents could take pride because they earned it — active voice. I became a citizen by being born — passive voice.
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New York egg creams.
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what is an egg cream?
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Mallomars.
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what is a mallomar?
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WHAT WHAT WHAT WTF???!?!??! I take back my ode to Cooking Asshole on the other thread !
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I have never seen those before!
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I think they are a northeast only thing. They don't sell them in the summer either !
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Jon Hamm.
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oOo he's almost as good looking as Scott!
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How to make a NY egg cream:
Get a tall, chilled, straight-sided 8oz. glass.
Spoon 1 inch of U-bet Chocolate Flavor Syrup into the glass.
Add 1 inch of whole milk over the syrup.
Pour in cold seltzer making a nice foamy head to within 1 inch of the top of the glass. Use the spoon when pouring to prevent direct pouring into the syrup and milk.
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o that sounds yummy!
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seltzer is gross
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He's Don Draper on Mad Men.
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Jon Hamm or the egg cream?
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hmmmm
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It's not gross in an egg cream. Well, maybe a little.
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thanks for bumping my thread even though you are spam
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Sweet potatoes!
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No Sweet Potatoes!
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the best is subjective
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Is there really any such thing as BEST?
*shrugs and walks away*
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