I'm Angry

[Darkmoon]

^ I believe she's referring to the fact that the Founding Fathers kinda were British descendants, if not British themselves.

Edit: DM beat me to it. XD Though I wouldn't call them criminals. Defectors, perhaps. Not to be confused with defective... >_>;

In a similar move to Australia, a lot of the 'colonists' sent to America were actually criminals convicted for various petty crimes. So I sleep well knowing I have the blood of only successful criminals running in my veins.

[News Bot]

Nationalism is a typically human trait; made-up and misconstrued.

[Canas Renvall]

^ I believe she's referring to the fact that the Founding Fathers kinda were British descendants, if not British themselves.

Edit: DM beat me to it. XD Though I wouldn't call them criminals. Defectors, perhaps. Not to be confused with defective... >_>;

[Darkmoon]

Bah. America has never defeated Britain, and never shall. You won Independence because France and Spain's naval forces stopped troops getting into the conflict, and the 1812 War because we had bigger fish to fry - Napoleon.

And American history comes from the British because most of you have at least some British ancestors. Sure, they were all criminals, but if the Australians can overcome that character defect...

My wife is giving a scary look now.

[Ununoctium]

Well, a lot of American history comes from the UK so you could always come and look at London. I've seen tons of Americans. We went on a tour bus yesterday and two sat behind us. It's always weird how you see so many American accents on tv but when you see one in person it's like Americans! We were chatting to them and they said "We're from Califoooorniaa". Gareth asked if they had anything like this in America and she said you get big buildings in NYC but nothing with the architecture or history. She said "you can still see where George Washington used to live, but that's the thing with America, we tear our history down". It's very interesting to see where all our Monarchs have been crowned since 1066, where Anne Boleyn used to live, where she was imprisoned, where Henry VIII used to hunt. Lots of history here. Will upload pics when I'm home.

To be fair, American history only started in 1776, whereas English history started in 927 AD. What were you implying when you said "American history comes from the UK"? Other than the fact that we saved the UK several times in history (WW1, WW2, Cold War, etc.) and we also beat them at least twice (American Revolutionary War, War of 1812). And yes I am also poking a little fun at our earlier discussion on nationalism.

[Xander Ashford]

It's very interesting to see where all our Monarchs have been crowned since 1066, where Anne Boleyn used to live, where she was imprisoned, where Henry VIII used to hunt. Lots of history here. Will upload pics when I'm home.

Actually, yes, that would be very interesting to see; those are exactly the kinds of things I would love to see if I ever did visit England/United Kingdom. And please do post pictures when you get the chance.

I'm not really angry or annoyed about anything...Though I guess I'm not much in the mood to be starting another work week, but then again, I challenge you to find me someone who does.

[Darkmoon]

Annoyingly, I don't own any hats. My wife has loads. Whips, chains, crops, clamps, rubbery things, spiky things, paddles, dildos, vibrators a a 24 inch cast iron phallus powered by a diesel engine from a Australian land train I have though. I use all these things who make Indiana Jones references about me.

...those movies give me professional nerd rage.

[aris13]

Plus pictures of your hats and whips.

[Darkmoon]

One of these days I should upload some of my pictures...because of my degree I got into a lot of unusual places, into storerooms and labs within museums and got to see things you public folks don't get to, including some of the London museums and buildings. Although I think my favourite was walking among the stones at Stonehenge - I'm probably one of a handful of people who can actually say I've done that any day but the Solstice's and so in peace and quiet. Without cops. It was...memorable.

[Alexia_Ashford]

I wish we had something like that to celibate here in the US...Stupid MTV, congress, Obama, and Hollywood in general ruin everything.

All I can say is, I'm glad I didn't watch the video from China with the toddler getting hit by a van. I know I'd be in a rage after that don't need to put that on myself as there is already so much anger caused by a stupid selfish prick who was driving. Hes got himself a nice spot in hell though.

Well, a lot of American history comes from the UK so you could always come and look at London. I've seen tons of Americans. We went on a tour bus yesterday and two sat behind us. It's always weird how you see so many American accents on tv but when you see one in person it's like Americans! We were chatting to them and they said "We're from Califoooorniaa". Gareth asked if they had anything like this in America and she said you get big buildings in NYC but nothing with the architecture or history. She said "you can still see where George Washington used to live, but that's the thing with America, we tear our history down". It's very interesting to see where all our Monarchs have been crowned since 1066, where Anne Boleyn used to live, where she was imprisoned, where Henry VIII used to hunt. Lots of history here. Will upload pics when I'm home.

[Ununoctium]

An organization has a history, just as a person does. And since you are a part of that organization, why can't you be glad and/or proud of your organization's achievements? Please, answer me this Spencer. Also, do you believe that the Fourth of July should be banned? What about other holidays?

[Inferno04]

Your entire idea is based on utilitarian globalism. "Humans don't need to take pride in anything, especially not where they grew up or their history, so we will remove that" and so you ban nationalism and all other forms of pride. Of course you don't need to use a computer or be happy either, that is not pertinent to human survival. In fact ban everything in this world except for work, eating, and sleeping. Every human will work on a farm and create food to feed themselves and the entire planet, there isn't a need for anything else in humanity. Of course we can't have sex or procreation be legal, since it's not most utilitarian way to have kids, instead we will have test tube babies who are genetically modified to be great workers, really dumb as not to question the Great Leader (Barack Obama), and will have the same genes as everyone else. In fact let's just remove all forms of individuality from humanity, since it is not pertinent to human survival. Instead let's just have everyone look the same, work exactly as hard as everyone else, and we'll have truly achieved communism! A workers paradise, indeed.

Wooooow. Way to take a simple belief and turn it into that.
That takes talent.

I rather agree with Spencer, I don't want to be lumped in with everyone else when our not-so-good moments happen. I for one wasn't jumping for joy like an idiot celebrating a death when Osama died. I found it sickening and wondered exactly how many of those drunk frat boys in the street were REALLY affected by 9/11. I was actually terrified, expecting an immediate retalitation attack. Just because someone dies doesn't mean it is over, and at that moment? I felt a little ashamed to be American.

These "99%" protests? Making me facepalm. I think it's fine to love your country but yeah, I am not one who claims credit for something bigger.

[Trent]

Proud of what? I mean, you yourself didn't do anything. Neither have I. We're proud of things we haven't done, that's what nationalism is.

Be proud of yourself, what you have accomplished instead of being proud of what others have done.

What others have done before you opens wide possibilities for you today, which in turn gives you the chance to do things to be proud of. If you're not proud of - or at least thankful for - the people before you, how may you be proud of anything that you do today?

[Ununoctium]

Your entire idea is based on utilitarian globalism. "Humans don't need to take pride in anything, especially not where they grew up or their history, so we will remove that" and so you ban nationalism and all other forms of pride. Of course you don't need to use a computer or be happy either, that is not pertinent to human survival. In fact ban everything in this world except for work, eating, and sleeping. Every human will work on a farm and create food to feed themselves and the entire planet, there isn't a need for anything else in humanity. Of course we can't have sex or procreation be legal, since it's not most utilitarian way to have kids, instead we will have test tube babies who are genetically modified to be great workers, really dumb as not to question the Great Leader (Barack Obama), and will have the same genes as everyone else. In fact let's just remove all forms of individuality from humanity, since it is not pertinent to human survival. Instead let's just have everyone look the same, work exactly as hard as everyone else, and we'll have truly achieved communism! A workers paradise, indeed.

[Darkmoon]

Oh, that I am. I'm 27 and bar two life goals I've gotten everything I want out of life. Most people can't say that.

The two remaining? Write and publish, and work out a way to kill people using only HTML. I'm close on the second...