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- GRTWHT, on 10/12/2007, -8/+159To save all the others the trouble (sites insanely slow), it says:
Be nice to America
Or we'll bring democracy
to your country. - dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -45/+187America is awesome regardless of our idiot president. I'm happy to live here even with GW in Office.
- sw10, on 10/12/2007, -2/+88mirror : http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/5098/127711758264244615aff8blo9.jpg
- aranyx, on 10/12/2007, -5/+78It's "articles" like this that seem appropriate for a Dimitri Martin quote:
“A lot of people don’t like bumper stickers. I don’t mind bumper stickers. To me a bumper sticker is a shortcut. It’s like a little sign that says ‘Hey, let’s never hang out.’” - Arkavus, on 10/12/2007, -14/+83Democracy is like two wolves and a lamb deciding what to eat for dinner.
- 0crabby0, on 10/12/2007, -34/+100America used to be a place of hope.
I hope we can be that place again - someday... - ShooterMcGavin, on 10/12/2007, -6/+54@skeeve
For the record, communism is not a form of government. It is a economic philosophy. We are capitalists, the former USSR were communists. - drg73, on 10/12/2007, -5/+53I, for one, am very very happy that the US decided to liberate my country 62 years ago and brought us democracy. Many thanks to our American friends and honour for the ones that died for *my* freedom. I am absolutely enjoying every minute of it, I wish more europeans would wake up and say this aloud.
I only hope that the people in the middle east will one day open their eyes and reach the same conclusion. - meatmcguffin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+49"So Newton invented gravity did he? So prior to then everyone just sort of floated around bumping into one another?"
Please don't tell me that Digg needs a laugh track for people to recognise jokes - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -64/+104America is awesome.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+48@GawtMilk
"Where do you think you get the inventions you're using right now? The internet? The computer? Digg?"
My laptop is from China,
No single person or country can be said to have 'invented' the internet, but it was a US gov/army thing, as far as I can tell
World Wide Web, however, was invented by a Brit, Berners-Lee
Computers? Charles Babbage, over 110 years ago. Brit also
Oh, and where do you think the language you used to form that sentence was invented?
I'll give you Digg, though. - catalysis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38Yes, that's the joke in case anyone didn't get it.
- scrimaxinc, on 10/12/2007, -5/+37@cliffyboro
you made that ***** up! didn't galileo invent the telescope???
edit: he did, and half of your list is amazingly wrong. am i not getting a joke? - floridiot2, on 10/12/2007, -18/+47America.. ***** Yeah!
- bpevans, on 10/12/2007, -7/+35Which is exactly why America is a Constitutional Republic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_republic - wonkavsn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30Ohh... How embarrassing :(
- MrEddy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25I've never understood why people have such short memories. America spent years as a developing nation. We did horrible things like slavery, wiping out Native Americans, horrible pollution caused by rapid industrial growth. We chose as a society that we were not going to accept these things in our country anymore. Try to imagine if England came over in 1825 and say women should be treated like men and should have the right to vote and make the money for the family. No way would we have accepted this. Or if some other country had come in trying to tell us that a monarchy was a better government.
The middle east and every other country on this planet has to find its own way. I wish we could go in and just magically make all the bad things stop. That's just not going to happen. If the people in a country didn't make it happen then there won't be support for it. That makes anything a temporary solution at best.
Countries of the middle east have hated each others guts for over 1000 years now. I simply do not think they are ready to change governments yet. Until they can unite under some kind of government then all they are ever going to do is just look for more ways to eliminate their enemies. 1000 years of hatred and revenge is difficult to get rid of. Especially when its back by religious beliefs. My god says I'm right. Well my god says I'm right... People can't ever agree on something if they believe their god to be right. - oddmanout, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23pic or it didn't happen
- Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25A Constitutional Republic is a form of democracy.
That's like saying "I'm not a Christian, I'm a Catholic." - thealliedhacker, on 10/12/2007, -9/+24"Be nice to America
Or else we'll bring democracy
to your country." - Decimit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15no. "quotes" don't make things "funny", they are just "things" that people put in "jokes" when they thing it "needs" to be "explained".
- cawpin, on 10/12/2007, -43/+56How about these?
Be nice to America or we'll send your people back.
Be nice to America or we'll send you our stupid people. - Decimit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13yes
- Grimshaw9, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16@cawpin
If American sent all its stupid people away who would be left to run the country? - meatmcguffin, on 10/12/2007, -9/+21"Where do you think you get the inventions you're using right now? The internet? The computer?"
The computer was invented by Charles Babbage, an Englishman, and the world wide wide and html were invented by the Brit Time Berners Lee.
Also, adding to cliffyboro's list, the Brits invented the internal combustion engine, video games (oxo) and, thanks to Newton, we invented gravity :) - guswatkins, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Yes, our national shame IS somehow funny, because sometimes a short quip can penetrate to the heart of the issue far better than any article or speech ever can.
Case in point: this post could've been much shorter: "Yes, sometimes humor is all we have." - brklynmark, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Fair enough.
- oesj, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15@drg73
i realise i'll be dugg down mercilessly for this but...
62 years ago was 1945, the americans weren't that late. :P
@everyone else
whilst we all recognise that the americans have done a lot of important things for the world, comments like "the US invented everything w00t !!1!11!!!1!!!" don't help the international community's already 'mixed' view about your country.
@cliffyboro
if you're going to list the (impressive) list of british inventions please don't include ones that are blatantly not e.g. telescope.
what was wrong with: the gun, the jet engine and the first electronic programmable computer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14nah, you invented the zzz after having a cup of tea
- missswiss, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Kind of on topic. Funniest bumper sticker I've ever seen said, "I'm only speeding because I really have to poop."
- cawpin, on 10/12/2007, -10/+20Please stop with the "Brits invented everything."
1806/07 - Francois Isaac de Rivaz of Switzerland invented an internal combustion engine that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen for fuel. Rivaz designed a car for his engine - the first internal combustion powered automobile. However, his was a very unsuccessful design.
There is also a previous internal combustion design (1680, Dutch physicist, Christian Huygens) that used gunpowder but it was never built. - SullonOne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11my favorite bumper sticker is "honk if you love peace and quiet"
- cordata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Sorry, we don't need your democracy.
We got our own (in a monarchy kinda way).
Don't mess with Australia!
(Or we'll bring BHP, Mel Gibson and AC/DC on yer sorry ass!) - VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I try not to put anything too controversial on my car, lest it be keyed or smashed or whatever.
- coditza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9make sure you ask for a refund!
- seanieb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I'll bet that most of the Diggers that are saying "America is awesome" have never been outside it (well maybe Canada or Mexico).
The US is unique as a country, it is almost self enclosed, it has most climates and terrains, in short it has everything anyone could need. This makes it very easy for people never to travel out side of it.
~22% of Americans own a passport(I've seen lots of figures). This lack of exposure leads to a vast lack of knowledge of other cultures and countries.
Give Europe, especially Scandinavia a try, who knows we might give out free gold bars every Thursday!! - dpdesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8There are countries that might be giving ***** away every day! Canada's one of those countries. You know what they give away? Health insurance!
- Lewis Black, from Black on Broadway - TheDreadDiggerD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8That's his point. We earned our independence (I'm American btw) through the barrel of a gun, but we went into Iraq and *gave* them "independence" at the end of our guns. There's a definite difference. It's not like Britain came over and said, "Okay, here's your Constitutional Republic. Sorry about that whole taxation without proper representation thing. Now let's have some tea as you sign this document at gunpoint."
- mk2ja, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10"95 comments on a goddamn bumper sticker?"
Crap... and I just read every frickin one.... what have I become?!! AAHHHH!!! - newelement, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Fine. We will ship David Hasselhoff your way...We tried Germany, but it backfired... :-)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7im pretty sure America invented China
- 2keysmatt, on 10/12/2007, -9/+16Coming again to save the ***** day yeah
- hoop311, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Am I missing something? Wasn't it CERN that developed the early RFCs for the internet? They don't really belong to any country. Either way Gawtmilk your list is quite erroneous.
- Yesplease, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Technically we didn't abandon anyone in the French revolution. The Monarchy in France was the government that helped us win our freedom under much protest from the French populace who saw large funds being diverted to a war far away while they starved. When those people revolted against the Monarchy that supported us we abandoned them in favor of neutrality, which in essence was tacit support for the revolutionaries who were our ideological brethren.
The reason the French supported the Americans in their rebellion (even though the French monarchy and American revolutionaries were dialectically opposed) was because it was seen as more important to stick it to the British (enemies of 700 years). - Ruarris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Britain invented the borders for the countries in the middle east...
...and the problems in northern Ireland
British imperialism FTL :( - sh0k, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13/puts on his serious face
Democracy has to be earned, not given at the barrel of a gun.
Case in point: France, America, England.. - scooter17, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9@cliffyboro
Also, the light bulb was a Canadian Invention, not British. Edison purchased the patent from two Canadians after the invention. - Alimack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I don't get it. Isn't sleeping more of a Spanish thing?
- MrKite, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12"America is awesome regardless of our idiot president. I'm happy to live here even with GW in Office."
Exactly. Please point me to a country where all the people love their government. It just doesn't happen. I've been all around the world for various reasons throughout my life, and I still haven't found a place that I'd rather live. Sure, Italy, France, and parts of Asia are nice places, but to have the lifestyle that I want, I'd need to be very wealthy to live there. In the US, I can be happy living in and within the middle class. You really can't say that about most other places. The US backbone is its middle class people. Without them (us), the place wouldn't even be close to what it is now. - neubs007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@wonkavsn
"It should read: 'Be nice to America or we'll further deprive our nation of decent social programs to fund wars against you that we can't possibly win.'"
With the government's track record with social programs maybe you should suggest something that would inspire us and not depress us. At least the war will stop being funded at some point, unlike more social programs. -
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