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#16 blitzkrg

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Posted 12 April 2002 - 15:16

BLOODY MOANING AMERICANS!!!!!!



Americans and Canadians are pathetic lazy whiners!



but try to remember how hard it is to make a lazy American even use a different gas station





those are the people i'm talking to.



yes i have been outside the U.S.A.



and i can tell you i'm glad i live here..



why do you think everything wants to come here?? because there country is so much better? uhh.. no i think not..



so.. people who live in glass houses should not throw stones as far as i'm concerned..



and after sept. 11th. i'm taking personal offense tword anybody who slanders my country or my countryman.



and should there be another attack.. i'll be heading down to my local recruiter and enlist so i can w00p some ass..


#17 blitzkrg

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Posted 12 April 2002 - 15:17

oh i see the person i was replying to has deleted his post..

#18 skooter

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Posted 12 April 2002 - 15:18

muhaha



i disagree with this, also:

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why do you think everything wants to come here?? because there country is so much better? uhh.. no i think not..

not everyone wants to live in the states :)



you get your fair share, but so do we and so does the uk and so does japan and so on...



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and after sept. 11th. i'm taking personal offense tword anybody who slanders my country or my countryman.



do you think that it was 100% US citizens that were killed on 11/9? You're running around with the sock pulled over your eyes if that's the case.



just take it on the chin

after all, all he did was say you moan :lick:



i'm going to bed:roll:

#19 blitzkrg

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Posted 12 April 2002 - 15:36

do people from your country really go around saying "g'day mate"?? just curious

#20 vetMr magoo

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Posted 12 April 2002 - 15:47

do people in america really say "have a nice day" 24/7 ?

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Posted 12 April 2002 - 15:50

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Originally posted by skooter

do you think that it was 100% US citizens that were killed on 11/9?



I missed the final percentage, you must know it right?

#22 blitzkrg

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Posted 12 April 2002 - 15:54

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Originally posted by Mr magoo

do people in america really say "have a nice day" 24/7 ?



no we dont..





i have never been to austraila.

my only knowledge of aussy people is from crock a dile dundee movies.. so i was wondering if aussy people are really like that..



it was a genuine question. not like your smart ass question.



mr. bloody this and bloody that and bloody bloody bloddy U.K.

#23 blitzkrg

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Posted 12 April 2002 - 15:55

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Originally posted by Hound

I missed the final percentage, you must know it right?



i had replied to him about that.. but deleted it, since i didnt figure it was worth arguing about..



fact of the matter is that yes alot of people from other countries were killed. but it was an attack on america and ment for americans.

#24 +Chicane-UK

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Posted 12 April 2002 - 15:56

Sure petrol prices are high.. this frustrates me a lot for a number of reasons.



My main grip is that gas costs waaay more over here in the UK than it does in the USA. Yet you guys plow through it with huge great petrol guzzling beast machines of cars.. a 4 or 5 litre V8 might sound pretty average to someone in the states, but I can tell you that even a 3.0 litre car would be considered pretty powerful here in the UK. I drive a 2 litre car - and it not only costs me a fortune to run in petrol prices (I set aside around £120 ($180) a month just to travel 10 miles per day) - but many people I know consider it to be a large engine.



But in some ways I can understand why petrol is as expensive as it is..



Firstly, the high price should be used as a deterrant to use alternative means. We are drinking the earth dry of petroleum - there are about 45/50 years of petrol left then its all gone.. so enjoy it while you can. Keeping the prices high forces people to use alternative means - such as bikes, or *gasp* their legs.



Secondly, the higher prices of petrol force car manufacturers to design more fuel efficient engines.. many companies are coming up with diesel based engines which can knock up to 50/60 miles per gallon out of a tank. Means you are at the petrol station less, and you save a fortune. Oh, and its better for the environment.



*sigh*

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Posted 12 April 2002 - 15:58

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Originally posted by blitzkrg

no we dont..





i have never been to austraila.

my only knowledge of aussy people is from crock a dile dundee movies.. so i was wondering if aussy people are really like that..



it was a genuine question. not like your smart ass question.



mr. bloody this and bloody that and bloody bloody bloddy U.K.



Mkay.. man you just love every other country dont you! :)

#26 blitzkrg

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Posted 12 April 2002 - 15:58

to funny.. i dragged this from high gas prices to a sept. 11th discussion..





i dunno why i'm so hostile.. it's friday. it's a nice day out (70 and p/sunny) things should be good..



my computer crashed this morning though and i lost my entire inventory database.. which means my boss will make me re-capture our entire inventory.. and that really ****ed me off.. so maybe that is why i'm so hostile..



i think i'll go do some work..

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Posted 12 April 2002 - 16:05

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Originally posted by blitzkrg

to funny.. i dragged this from high gas prices to a sept. 11th discussion..





i dunno why i'm so hostile.. it's friday. it's a nice day out (70 and p/sunny) things should be good..



my computer crashed this morning though and i lost my entire inventory database.. which means my boss will make me re-capture our entire inventory.. and that really ****ed me off.. so maybe that is why i'm so hostile..



i think i'll go do some work..



Hehe.. I wondered why you were p*ssed.. computer problems always narc me for the rest of the day, so I guess you put your finger on it with that database problem.

#28 blitzkrg

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Posted 12 April 2002 - 16:07

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Mkay.. man you just love every other country dont you! :)





no it's not that.. my entire blood line is english..



matter of fact i have a very rich (not money wise) english heritage..



but i'm just sick of people bashing americans.. i see it day in and day out on the news.. and i'm tired of it..



i got middle eastern countries burning my flag, screaming death to americans.



we've got communist china building a butt load of missles to point at us.



we've got sadam and osama trying to figure out a way to nuke us off the planet..



internally. we've got blacks screaming they want payments because there ancestors were slaves (my tax dollars)



and i visit neowin (when i should be working) and i got canadians and euro's bashing us, calling us lazy.. and this and that..



i'm just sick of it.. i've never done anything to anybody..

i'm a normal white american male.. i pay my taxes and work hard.. i've never owned slaves. or done anything to sadam's people or any other middle eastern peoples..



yet they wanna kill me and blow me up simply because they dont like my country.. well.. i'll put a bullet in someone's skull before i let that happen..



i'm ****ed and i think i have good reason to be and i think all americans should be.. we have a rights not only as americans, but as human beings. and people are trashing us left and right and threating us left and right, and god for bid, blowing up our buildings and kill our people..



it's just not acceptable to me..



/end rant

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Posted 12 April 2002 - 16:40

Admittedly some people in the middle east are getting fanatical about religion - I share your concerns that they have so much against us that they are willing to kill themselves to do it. I like to think I have never intentionally made racist comments against any of them before - so why take it out on the western public?



I too pay my taxes like you.. I have worked ever since I was 15 (am now 21) and I too work hard as do you. I personally do not have a problem with America whatsoever.. but there are a great deal of Americans that give you 'a bad name' - now like I already said, I have no problem with America, but the amount of times you go to forums like these, you take a real bashing for being British or European.



I dunno what I am getting at here to be honest.. but I dont think you are alone in your concerns about these 'anti-american' countries. You, as people, are starting to reap the rewards for decisions made by your government(s) - its OK for them because should the sh!t ever hit the fan, they will be miles underground in concrete bunkers, whilst the public takes the pasting. Nice to know that they care so much about you.. :(

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Posted 12 April 2002 - 16:47

The reserves of petrollium oil will keep going lower and within my own lifetime, would dwindle, for which the price of petrollium oil will still rise due the amount left. In turn, an electric, hydrogen or gas car would be cheaper in the long run.

here, in the United Kingdom, the price of petrol is more expensive then in the US so our cars are designed so to efficient with the consumption of petrol.