A history of the Universe
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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by scary_jeff on Sat Mar 27th at 12:18pm 2004


I won't post a list of countires that don't want to be like america, because in my opinion, that list would include every country. There are no countries that try and copy america. If you have increasing credit card debt, and so do people in the UK, that doesn't mean everyone in the UK thought 'wow, they have card debt in america... I want that'. If you have starbucks and mcdonalds, we don't think 'wow, how cool, we want that in our country', the companies just expand over here to make money by selling something that people in general like. They like it because it satisfies their tastes, not because they want to be like americans. Two cars in the garage? I'm sure america invented that... and even if it did, people in other countries like that because guess what? It's nice to have a big house and two cars, not because they think 'wow, I want to be like an american and have two cars and a garage'. Lastly, picket fences? I don't really think anybody is 'copying' that, and even if they were, once again, white picket fences are not an american innovation.



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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by Orpheus on Sat Mar 27th at 5:12pm 2004


i knew you couldn't do it :/

OK, lets make it simple on poor Jeff, name 5 things unique to your country, things not American.

s**t Jeff, you are the one who seems hell bent on differences not i.. i didn't make a big deal about how America is only 200 and such... i couldn't give a rats ass if the UK became independent from the US totally

seriously tho, if you cannot convince me of the differences, then that must mean similarities exist.

remember this tho, this is YOUR discussion, i couldn't care less, my explaining myself, doesn't lend credence, nor retract from it either..

convince me Jeff, convince us all that the UK is more different, than the same as the US, then we can discuss whom copied whom

maybe, the bottom line is, the US is hell bent on copying everyone else we are just so f**king good at it that it appears as if everyone else is doing it instead

[edit] let me clarify this jeff, the 5 unique things, must be within the last 200 years, cause before that, goes beyond this discussion.

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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by matt on Sat Mar 27th at 5:46pm 2004


Suggestion for the site there, have a [edit] BB tag similar to the quote one. [addsig]



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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by Orpheus on Sat Mar 27th at 5:51pm 2004


? posted by matt
Suggestion for the site there, have a [edit] BB tag similar to the quote one.

good thought, but wrong topic..

i only use the words [edit] to draw attention to it, for those whom may have only read the previous post.

and to avoid additional post counts needlessly *glares* stop laughing, i DO try you know

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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by matt on Sat Mar 27th at 6:06pm 2004


Fair point, I'll add that to the relavent topic. [addsig]



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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by scary_jeff on Sat Mar 27th at 6:14pm 2004


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post some countries who are not


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I won't post a list of countires that don't want to be like america, because in my opinion, that list would include every country.


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i knew you couldn't do it :/


Explain to me how I failed to answer your question. You would have preffered it if I had posted a big list of every country?

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name 5 things unique to your country, things not American


Oh my god, you really don't get it do you! Whether we do things that are the same as some of the things you do is completely irrelevant. You are claiming that anything we do here that has been done in america, we are only doing it to try and copy/be like you! This notion is completely rediculous!! I am not claiming that there is nothing in the UK that is the same as something in america, I am telling you that the similarities are not because us in the UK, or people in any other country, want to be like america! Is this that hard a concept to grasp? That perhaps people who aren't in america don't want to turn their country into a copy of america?

But obviously you won't accept anything I have said unless I give an answer to your pointless question. What have we done over here that wasn't just copying america in the last 200 years (as I type this I can't believe how rediculous a question this is)... well... what about everything that has been invented here?

Theres the elctric motor. Or Depth charges, lightbulbs, jet engines, penicillin, submarines, radio, vacuum cleaners, the pointless list goes on and on. But I am not so foolish that I think you use these things in america to try and be like the UK, as this is a completely rediculous idea.

I'm sure you use lightbulbs in every day life Orph. You are not doing this to try and be like somebody from the UK any more than I am trying to copy america if I were to buy two cars and put them in a garage. Can't you see how much of a rediculous idea this is?




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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by Orpheus on Sat Mar 27th at 6:32pm 2004


sadly, you failed again Jeff, and as usual blamed your shortcomings upon me.

again let me stress this, I DON'T GIVE A RATS ASS WHOM COPIED WHOM.

all i am saying is similarities do exist, the persons whom seem to think its important of WHO, is people like YOU.

still you cannot goad me into a debate, because the priorities just are not there, we can and do discuss things i feel important enough to debate, but this topic *insert razz sound here*

Jeff, again lemme say, you failed miserably once more, you my friend are much like osmosis, you filter out the pieces you want, or THINK are relevant, to a point to where the actual topic no longer resembles my post at all. and much like osmosis, the filter you have works only in one direction, you fail miserably when it comes to new concepts, or stranger ones than you are used to hearing.

do yourself a favor, re-read my word, ZONE IN on the parts where i say, ITS NOT IMPORTANT, and you will have a much better day.

face it Jeff, you and i play on different fields, and yours will never look like mine nor mine yours.. your priority system just is way to weird for me.. and your methods of debating them are worse still.

till you can talk, or think like i do, you will lose every debate we have, at least so far as winning me over to your side. get a handle on things Jeff, and get back to me when something really important peaks your interests, cause this and other mundane issues like it... are a waste of MY TIME, and yours.

my advice, stop filtering my posts till they say what you want to hear, i wrote them all at once, i FULLY expect you to read them AND comprehend them that way as well :/

have a nice day Jeff.. I'm done with this subject, it already exceeded my daily allowance of absurdity :/

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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by scary_jeff on Sat Mar 27th at 6:39pm 2004


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I DON'T GIVE A RATS ASS WHOM COPIED WHOM.


Right. So that's why you were saying everybody tries to emulate america? You say you don't care 'who copies who', whatever. I am saying nobody is copying anybody. People just do what they want, and if it happens to have already been done somewhere else, it doesn't mean anything at all.

Now, I picked the big part in all capitals at the start of your post - I hope I'm not drawing on the parts you didn't see as important.




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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by Orpheus on Sat Mar 27th at 6:52pm 2004


fine then, no one copied no one, its all co-evolution at its best

jeez you guys.. get a life will'ya

lets talk about something important for a change, like, what brand diapers do you recommend..

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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by scary_jeff on Sat Mar 27th at 7:04pm 2004


Huggies.



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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by Orpheus on Sun Mar 28th at 12:41am 2004


? posted by scary_jeff
Huggies.

imagine, its been years since i actually, personally bought diapers..

i see this post, my first thought... jeff forgives me, my stupidness, and offers some hugs.. also imagine my shock... i remember my question too late from the previous post..

boy am i embarrassed *insert blushing smiley here*

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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by Leperous on Sun Mar 28th at 1:31am 2004


Ah I love it when someone makes a spelling mistake over and over again, using that word as the main 'point' for their arguement It's spelt 'ridiculous,' young Jeffrey



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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Mar 28th at 9:45am 2004


Oh well. We can't all be Oxbridge geniuses



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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by Orpheus on Sun Mar 28th at 10:03am 2004


? posted by scary_jeff
Oh well. We can't all be Oxbridge geniuses

isn't that an alcoholic beverage ?

/runs

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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by Gwil on Sun Mar 28th at 4:27pm 2004


yeah, im afraid the thing america pursues most vehemently (democracy) is fundamentally a british idea, and concept, pioneered by britain

you just broke away because you foresaw the future that the UK would turn into a binge drinking one party state (labour, who somehow remain in power!?) [addsig]




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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by Cash Car Star on Sun Mar 28th at 8:52pm 2004


Err, you ever heard of Athens, Greece?



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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by fishy on Sun Mar 28th at 9:31pm 2004


? posted by Cash Car Star
Err, you ever heard of Athens, Greece?

and look what happened there.

as soon as the people had a freeer (how do you spell free-er) society, they soon turned to teh evil ways of drunkery. all the drunkeryness and debouchery and other bodily desires led to the invention of the donner-kebab. soon all the people wanted to worship the great kebab, and the once proud empire fell.

and now it's all happening again i tells ya..........





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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by Campaignjunkie on Sun Mar 28th at 9:45pm 2004


The lesson is clear; cool people drink alcohol. [addsig]



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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Sun Mar 28th at 9:46pm 2004


It's freer, just two e's. Use dictionary.com if you're ever stuck for a spelling, it offers alternatives if you type in the gist of the word you want. [addsig]



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Re: A history of the Universe
Posted by OtZman on Mon Mar 29th at 1:58pm 2004


Four words and four smileys:
Bang --->

OtZman --->

Computer --->

Happiness --->

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