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OK. This is the "be fair to Americans" thread.

Discussion in 'Political Opinions & Beliefs' started by Awryly, Jan 7, 2011.

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  1. Awryly

    Awryly New Member Past Donor

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    I know it's hard but bear with it.

    Americans have given us some technological advances.

    They have given us some great music.

    They have given us sprinkles.

    What else have they given us?
     
    Awryly, Jan 7, 2011
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  2. Awryly

    Awryly New Member Past Donor

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    Try not to let it descend into a relitigation of WW2.
     
    Awryly, Jan 7, 2011
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  3. a777pilot

    a777pilot Well-Known Member

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    Nothing.

    So go about your own business and keep your opinions to yourself.

    You live in a beautiful but insignificant country where the men are men and sheep are very nervous.

    Have a long and fruitful life.
     
    a777pilot, Jan 7, 2011
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  4. a777pilot

    a777pilot Well-Known Member

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    Sir Edmund Hillary

    It took awhile but I finally found a person from New Zealand that others might have heard of too.
     
    a777pilot, Jan 7, 2011
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  5. a777pilot

    a777pilot Well-Known Member

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    FAMOUS NEW ZEALANDERS

    By Tim Lambert

    A

    Alexander Aitken 1895-1967 Mathematician

    Frances Alda 1879-1952 Singer

    Rita Angus 1908-1970 Artist

    Nathan Astle 1971- Cricketer

    Ian Athfield 1940- Architect

    B

    James K Baxter 1926-1972 Poet

    Jean Batten 1909-1982 Pilot

    Don Binney 1940- Artist

    C

    Chris Cairns 1970- Cricketer

    Michael Campbell 1969- Golfer

    Jane Campion 1954- Director

    Keisha Castle-Hughes 1990- Actor

    Russell Crowe 1964- Actor

    D

    Susan Devoy 1964- Squash player

    Dave Dobbyn 1957- Musician

    Emily Drumm 1974- Cricketer

    F

    Gareth Farr 1968- Composer

    Neil Finn 1958- Music

    Stephen Fleming 1973- Cricketer

    Tony Fomison 1939-1990 Artist

    Janet Frame 1924- Writer

    G

    Charles F Goldie 1870-1947 Artist

    Patricia Grace 1937- Writer

    H

    Richard Hadlee 1951- Cricketer

    Bill Hamilton 1899-1978 Engineer

    Pat Hanly 1932-2004 Artist

    Jeffrey Harris 1949- Artist

    Martin Henderson 1974- Actor

    Edmund Hillary 1919- Mountaineer

    Ralph Hotere 1931- Artist

    Michael Houston 1952- Musician

    Keri Hulme 1947- Writer

    J

    Peter Jackson 1961- Director

    Naomi James 1949- Sailor

    K

    Kiri Te Kanawa 1944- Singer

    L

    Lucy Lawless 1968- Actor

    Douglas Lilburn 1915-2001 Composer

    Elsie Locke 1912-2001 Writer

    Jack Lovelock 1910-1949 Athlete

    Arthur Lydiard 1917-2004 Coach

    Len Lye 1901-1980 Sculptor

    Melanie Lynskey 1977- Actor

    M

    Alan MacDiarmid 1927- Chemist

    Margaret Mahy 1936- Writer

    Kate Mansfield 188-1923 Writer

    Bruce Mason 1921-1982 Playwright

    Colin McCahon 1919-1987 Artist

    Tex Morton 1916-1983 Singer

    Milan Mrkusich 1925- Artist

    Colin Murdoch 1929- Pharmacist

    P

    Richard Pearse 1877-1953 Pilot

    William Pickering 1910-2004 Space Engineer

    R

    Chris Rankin 1983- Actor

    Ernest Rutherford 1871-1937 Physicist

    S

    Kevin Smith 1963-2002 Actor

    Michael Smither 1939- Artist

    T

    Blyth Tait 1961- Equestrian

    Mark Todd 1956- Equestrian

    Wendy Dawn Thompson 1975- Singer

    Beatrice Tinsley 1941-1981 Astronomer

    U

    Karl Urban 1972- Actor

    V

    Daniel Vettori 1979- Cricketer

    W

    John Walker 1952- Athlete

    Anthony Wilding 1883-1915

    Maurice Wilkins 1916- Biophysicist

    Yvette Williams 1929- Athlete

    Allan Wilson 1934-1991 Biologist

    Toss Woollaston 1910-1998 Artist

    Douglas Wright 1956- Dancer



    Sorry, I only knew one of these "famous" people. You are from there. Do you recognize any of them?
     
    a777pilot, Jan 7, 2011
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  6. a777pilot

    a777pilot Well-Known Member

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    Still it is an incredibly beautiful country with lots of friendly people.

    Besides that there is Christchurch which is a stagging point for the air bridge for supplying the research bases in Antarctica. That's important.
     
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  7. a777pilot

    a777pilot Well-Known Member

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    Let us not forget their great fly fishing for trout and salmon.
     
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  8. a777pilot

    a777pilot Well-Known Member

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    Yes, New Zealand. About the size of the State of Colorado with the population of the State of Kentucky. With the size of its economy almost the size of the State of Kansas.

    This is all good to know stuff.
     
    a777pilot, Jan 7, 2011
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  9. Jason Bourne

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    For a country that you claim to dislike you sure have a serious and daily obsession with the United States. I'd be inclined to say that you're masking jealousy by feigning disdain.

    Never a mention of China, Russia, Iran, Syria, N.Korea or any of the other repressive regimes that occupy the planet. Just the good 'ol evil USA day in and day out.

    I salute you. You've taken trolling and flamebait to a whole new level.
     
    Jason Bourne, Jan 7, 2011
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  10. a777pilot

    a777pilot Well-Known Member

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    Oh, let him go on about the USA. It doesn't bother us. It's good that there are those that question every thing we do. He performs a service and it amuses us.
     
    a777pilot, Jan 7, 2011
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  11. Jason Bourne

    Jason Bourne Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Not to mention that it's so bloody easy and fun to make him look like an inconsequential fool.
     
    Jason Bourne, Jan 7, 2011
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    mapleleafer8 New Member Past Donor

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    i like bashing america but i don't make threads about it, i just do it in everyone elses thread
     
    mapleleafer8, Jan 7, 2011
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  13. Jason Bourne

    Jason Bourne Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Why do you like bashing America?
     
    Jason Bourne, Jan 7, 2011
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    mapleleafer8 New Member Past Donor

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    why do people on here bash liberals, republicans, socialism, euro countries...countries with health care...I've stated my reasons on here dozens of times
     
    mapleleafer8, Jan 7, 2011
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  15. a777pilot

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    Excellent. Bash away.

    We love it when Canucks do that. It's funny. Sometimes Canucks see thing we miss being to close to the situation. so bash away. This is someone else's thread.

    p.s., I'm not sure but is the term Canuck a good term or a bad term. I would not want to be insulting to those that would insult us. Really I wouldn't. I just believe the term Canuck is like Yankee. Harmless.
     
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  16. a777pilot

    a777pilot Well-Known Member

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    I know....It's fun.
     
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    mapleleafer8 New Member Past Donor

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    well canadians don't call each other canucks, it's just something americans call us but no canuck is not insulting
     
    mapleleafer8, Jan 7, 2011
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  18. a777pilot

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    Good to know. Thanks.
     
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    The US gave us space flight!

    Oh wait, that was the Soviets.
     
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  20. Jason Bourne

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    I'm not criticizing you. Everyone is entitled to an opinion. I'm just curious as to, in your words, like to bash Americans? What have Americans done to warrant being bashed?
     
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    John1735 Banned Past Donor

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    That's demonstrable. You will note the lack of "thanks" for freedom by this posters commentary. This is because the socialists avoid the. Fact that without the United States the freedom to gripe the way this little jihadist lover does,,wouldn't exist.
     
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    John1735 Banned Past Donor

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    I was unaware that being an ungrateful hate mongering anti American pro jihadist thug liberal who hypocritically does nothing but denigrate the United States, even if they have to bold faced lie to do so. All the while using American inventions and excercising freedoms enjoyed in no small part due to that same United States while telling those lies about the United States, was a "service" "amusing" or otherwise.

    Sorry I have always seen that as being more of a pain in one's ass than "amusing". ;)
     
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    WHat nonsense...
     
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    just one thread?

    How about being fair and balanced ?
     
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    Which lies? That the freedom speech is truely limited? That your information about some ideologies is terribly limited, for example the socialism. Or that when someone talks about anarchism you think that anarchism is anarcho-capitalism, nothing more wrong than that. Anarchocapitalism isn't anarchism.

    The desinformation that you have about some social movements is enormous. It is fact. Later you consider socialist countries that don't have any kind of relation with the socialism, for example Denmark.

    Later is true that there is many people well informed and not so bigoted. But many people even showing in their faces the facts don't believe them.
     
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