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  • Cree Nations
    Cree Nations Posts: 2,247
    jlew24asu wrote:
    you are so wrong. I travel abroad at least once a month and have always been very proud to be an american and would never hide it.

    you have seen many americans pu t canadian flags on their backpacks? wow, thats funny. any chance you think they might be canadians?


    I could never mistake a Canadian for an American.....unless they were from Toronto.....;)
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  • humanlight
    humanlight Posts: 271
    Thank you guys for all your comments. Regardless of our opions, I think we need to rejoice that we are all brought here together for the love of a band that stands for things that can be understood no matter where we live. Even though I do not always agree with you guys, I am proud that I can call you all my friends.

    Okay enough with the sappy stuff.....roll'n roll'n roll'n, keep the train a roll'n.
    "F**K you, I have laundry to do" -ed
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    humanlight wrote:
    Thank you guys for all your comments. Regardless of our opions, I think we need to rejoice that we are all brought here together for the love of a band that stands for things that can be understood no matter where we live. Even though I do not always agree with you guys, I am proud that I can call you all my friends.

    Okay enough with the sappy stuff.....roll'n roll'n roll'n, keep the train a roll'n.

    I'm your friend???? I feel so special, haha.

    Or do you mean to exclude me?
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  • humanlight
    humanlight Posts: 271
    Ahnimus wrote:
    I'm your friend???? I feel so special, haha.

    Or do you mean to exclude me?


    Never...anyone who loves PJ...is a friend to me!
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  • bigmuzz
    bigmuzz Posts: 299
    as an aussie, i personally couldnt give a fuck about the american elections.....it doesnt interest me at all.

    all politicians are the same anyway, theyre all assholes, no matter WHO gets elected...
    Sydney Wed 8 Nov 2006....

    when all are one and one is all, to be a rock and not to roll.........

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    keep on rockin!.......
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    bigmuzz wrote:
    as an aussie, i personally couldnt give a fuck about the american elections.....it doesnt interest me at all.

    all politicians are the same anyway, theyre all assholes, no matter WHO gets elected...

    Yea, but a Quaka would make a nice U.S. president.

    Also, Australia and the U.S. are buddies right now in the WoT.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Yea, but a Quaka would make a nice U.S. president.

    Also, Australia and the U.S. are buddies right now in the WoT.

    oh i wouldn't call us buddies ahnimus. it's more like a whore servicing a client in an alley.
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    catefrances wrote:
    oh i wouldn't call us buddies ahnimus. it's more like a whore servicing a client in an alley.

    lol, ok...

    I still think the Quaka would make a nice Pres.
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  • bigmuzz
    bigmuzz Posts: 299
    it's QUOKKA, not quaka......
    Sydney Wed 8 Nov 2006....

    when all are one and one is all, to be a rock and not to roll.........

    see me @ www.myspace.com/bigmuzz

    keep on rockin!.......
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    bigmuzz wrote:
    it's QUOKKA, not quaka......

    Cool, well I just heard of it yesterday :p

    Apparently they only exist on Rottness Island?
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Well I have to say I think you have a wonderful country over there, why you don't choose to KEEP it wonderful and peaceful and free... is beyond me. But the latest progressions have made me hopeful about the future. This election speaks volumes that the Americans are pissed off with the direction their country is going in, and it hasn't gone unnoticed by the rest of us.

    I've only been to New York and West Hollywood but I had a fab time, everybody we met were great. I was in NY when yas bombed Iraq and, while some people severely pissed me off with their gung ho cheering and clapping as the bombs dropped, many begged me to come home and tell people that they're not all in support of the war, others who WERE in support of the war were very open to discussion and were interested in my opinion. There's a lot more of your country I want to and plan to see but for now, I just want to thank you all for showing the rest of us that you DO care... however briefly it may be. There's a lot of hope in the air :)
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
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    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
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    What a different life
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  • Jammin909
    Jammin909 Posts: 888
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Why is there no holiday for Amerigo Vespucci?

    Columbus ran a better lobbying campaign.
    The less you know, the more you believe.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    miller8966 wrote:
    why should i care what the rest of the worlds thinks of me?

    Is this highschool or something.

    are you america??? i thought the question was along the lines of how does the rest of the worlds view america.... not americans
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • UKDave
    UKDave Posts: 5,557
    mrwalkerb wrote:
    exactly if you worry what the world thinks about you the terrorists have won. .

    On the flipside... if you don't care about what the world thinks about you, you CREATE terrorists.... :rolleyes: we all live on this planet we need to work together, not in isolation, that is the frightening perception of the US right now...
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  • Kushikushun
    Kushikushun Posts: 1,263
    Firstly let me say that I am not the rest of the world and I can never have a generalizing opinion on America, because a country is made up of many different parts that make up the whole. And America has some beautiful parts!!!!

    The main problem I have with America is its politics, its very paternalizing! Doesn't matter if we are talking about dropping bombs on a country or providing development aid. I always feel that "america" thinks it knows best and that there are no other ways of living life besides "democratic", "liberal" and "free". There are other ways of 'managing' your life that work perfectly for other people. Often social bands are forgotten about when meddling in foreign affairs and people should become like us...o sooo individual and...alone!
    Also often "help" is provided with preconceived ideas that dont harmonize with the local culture or without thinking about social consequences. Now I must say that that isnt only an American problem, but we "westerners" all seem to suffer from it.

    Of course, there are things going on in countries that I absolutely resent and I feel that other countries should intervene, but the goal nowadays is more selfish than altruistic!!!
    Now I would like to say million things about mister Bush and I cannot believe he was elected for the SECOND time??????....but hee, we got Balkenende, so I am just going to keep quiet about that slip-up ;)

    All in all, I am more scared about the tension that the American Politics are raising in the world than I have fear for terrorism...I am truly serious here!

    But heee, I love you guys! A *free hug* from a Dutchie.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    CaterinaA wrote:
    your country is much too heterogenous to really assess some kind of general opinion about America, except for the fact that is a huge and beautiful country with lots of great different landscapes.

    I agree. There are places and people in America that may aswell be a million miles away from the East and West coasts. I got chatting to some chicken-kicker in Florida last year who hailed out of Mississipi, and he mentioned New York during the conversation, and it occured to me that he'd have been just as lost and out of place in New York as he would have been in Tehran.
    America is too big and broad a place to be easily summed up. And that's part of it's attraction.
    As for it's politics, and especially foreign policy, and the understanding that many Americans have of the wider world; in my experience, it's pretty fucked up.
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    miller8966 wrote:
    why should i care what the rest of the worlds thinks of me?

    Is this highschool or something.

    Highschool? Why do so many Republicans have issues with highschool? Anyone would get the impression that they were all bullied at school, or something!
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Nazis

    Hey man, you said Nazis, and yet your signature is a quote from Mark Twain, and your favourite band is Pearl Jam. Therefore, I assume that was a tongue in cheek comment? :confused:
  • qwerty1
    qwerty1 Posts: 142
    America needs a government as good as the people it serves. Its as simple as that! I have met some American assholes, but must i meet are great, genuine and good people.

    I think that Americans who say that the rest of the world hates them, need to realize that most people in the world like Americans, but its the actions of the government that they loathe.

    And the rest of the world must not fall into the "I hate America" trap. "I dislike the actions and policies of the American Government" is the response should be said instead.
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  • BogoEN
    BogoEN Posts: 65
    I like this thread. I'm American so I can't offer any outside perspective, but I have traveled abroad and I was amazed at how worldly their news is, not just about their country's politics and celebrities and weather. And then people would even ask me what I thought of the X issue in Y country, about Israel and Palestine, and did I support the US and it's sole support of Israel. I was speechless, literally. I felt so uninformed, and I watched the news here!
    It's a great barometer for just how isolated we are. I think it goes hand in hand, with the narcisism and nationalism we all suffer from here. Go America, definitely. But let's be realistic, in the end we all live on the same ball of dirt.
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