The Atrocities of Your National Heritage... This is a Fun Thread! :D

[AlwaystheUnlucky]

Us filipinos have no problem screwing over the lower class(as in people who are lower then us on the socio-economic rung). Also, we can be terribly racist. And look at all these children addicted to shoe glue!

 

[Cheesepower5]

Swedish here, sorry for this:

We kind of went around the known world fucking people's shit up and stealing all of their silver. Not really for any particular reason, just because we could.
In our defence, Christianity was kind of an condescending asshole religion, and you weren't really USING your silver for anything. Also we had nothing better to do during the summers, and we really really wanted your silver. But we totally get that for generations, being the monsters you use to scare your children into submission means we didn't give off a really good impression, even though we weren't really bad people at heart, we just had a different view on life and death that was more "liberal" if you will.
 

Also, we kind of enslaved quite a lot of you, especially the Irish... Our bad...

Did you get that image from the Mount & Blade mod "Brytenwalda"? It was pretty awesome. And if not, where, I'm curious, is it from?

 

[Lonan]

Mass Effect 3 Ending

That was just revenge for putting an innocent Canadian creation like Superman into a particular atrocity of an N64 game.

I'm German, so my answer should be obvious.

For anyone who still doesn't get it, yes, I am talking about this stuff; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauerkraut.

Absolutely atrocious. I'll never forgive my ancestors for popularizing this disgusting stuff.

You think that's bad?

Spoiler

I'm surprised we're not on trial for crimes against humanity.

You people disgust me. We Americans brought you hotdogs and you give us this horrendous shit!

Coming from the guys who made burger in a can.

Spoiler

You guys should go first

I think you just made me barf in my mouth a little.

Oh, it gets better.

Spoiler

Good luck sleeping tonight

Where do you find this shit!? Do you actively look for the most repulsive meals on the planet!?

Strawman!

Don't draw attention away from your heinous crimes against food!

New York and Chicago style pizza! Check mate mother fucker! >

Maple Syrup. Canadian Bacon. Poutine. Name one thing we've done wrong ************.

CLEARLY MY PEOPLE ARE SAINTS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER!

Some of your country speak French as a first language.


I win >

Curses, foiled again!

Bah, only one of the two Superman creators were Canadian! Besides, the Jews claimed responsibility for creating Superman long ago!

Oh yeah, blame the Jews. Typical American.

But I... but they... what!?

D:

As a Canadian who is currently behind on my government mandated 10,000 apologies per year quota, I must apologise with sincerity of the highest order for my countrymen's crass behaviour.

Whew, only 7943 more to go.

Excuse me sir, but I find your usage of the term "crass" to be dishonest and slanderous, and would humbly request that you take it back and apologize immediately. However, if you find something of offense in this message then I am sincerely sorry and would not wish to extend these grievances further.

Good day.

I did find "typical Americans" to be generalising an entire country in an insulting fashion, however, I may have misunderstood because we are communicating merely by text, and may have misread the atmosphere. If you did not intend to be malicious with that comment, I do apologise for calling it crass, and for any offence you may have taken.

 

[Anudeep Ravi]

Um, well, The governments and the narco I guess.

narco?

drug dealers.
I'm sorry it was late, if forget these things.
"Narcotraficante" means drug dealer.
THe mexican government works with them on several states.

no dude. India as in India in south Asia.we don't do drug stuff.

 

[Colour Scientist]

As for wanting it to happen, my friends gave me the impression that Irish Catholics in the mainland do want it to happen.

Based on the opinions of how many people? From what I gather, most people here are just glad that relations are good. Would they object if the North wanted to peacefully become part of the Republic? Probably not. That isn't the case though so I think most people are happy to keep improving relations and to keep crossing the border at Christmas time because everything is cheaper.

It was a huge mess that has only just started to finally go away so I don't think throwing around largely misinformed statements like you have helps the situation. As you can see, it's still a pretty hot topic for a lot of people and I think it's best that you either learn more about it (rather than basing your entire opinion on a romanticised view of Bobby Sands) or just don't comment on it.

 

[Cheesepower5]

Mass Effect 3 Ending

That was just revenge for putting an innocent Canadian creation like Superman into a particular atrocity of an N64 game.

I'm German, so my answer should be obvious.

For anyone who still doesn't get it, yes, I am talking about this stuff; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauerkraut.

Absolutely atrocious. I'll never forgive my ancestors for popularizing this disgusting stuff.

You think that's bad?

Spoiler

I'm surprised we're not on trial for crimes against humanity.

You people disgust me. We Americans brought you hotdogs and you give us this horrendous shit!

Coming from the guys who made burger in a can.

Spoiler

You guys should go first

I think you just made me barf in my mouth a little.

Oh, it gets better.

Spoiler

Good luck sleeping tonight

Where do you find this shit!? Do you actively look for the most repulsive meals on the planet!?

Strawman!

Don't draw attention away from your heinous crimes against food!

New York and Chicago style pizza! Check mate mother fucker! >

Maple Syrup. Canadian Bacon. Poutine. Name one thing we've done wrong ************.

CLEARLY MY PEOPLE ARE SAINTS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER!

Some of your country speak French as a first language.


I win >

Curses, foiled again!

Bah, only one of the two Superman creators were Canadian! Besides, the Jews claimed responsibility for creating Superman long ago!

Oh yeah, blame the Jews. Typical American.

But I... but they... what!?

D:

As a Canadian who is currently behind on my government mandated 10,000 apologies per year quota, I must apologise with sincerity of the highest order for my countrymen's crass behaviour.

Whew, only 7943 more to go.

Excuse me sir, but I find your usage of the term "crass" to be dishonest and slanderous, and would humbly request that you take it back and apologize immediately. However, if you find something of offense in this message then I am sincerely sorry and would not wish to extend these grievances further.

Good day.

I did find "typical Americans" to be generalising an entire country in an insulting fashion, however, I may have misunderstood because we are communicating merely by text, and may have misread the atmosphere. If you did not intend to be malicious with that comment, I do apologise for calling it crass, and for any offence you may have taken.

Then it would seem to be that we have both been the unfortunate victims of a misunderstanding. I would humbly accept your apologies and extend my own for not being clear in my use of sarcasm. Hopefully we can forget this whole fiasco and move on with our lives.

(And speak normally again, I'm starting to miss that)

 

[Muspelheim]

Swedish here, sorry for this:

We kind of went around the known world fucking people's shit up and stealing all of their silver. Not really for any particular reason, just because we could.
In our defence, Christianity was kind of an condescending asshole religion, and you weren't really USING your silver for anything. Also we had nothing better to do during the summers, and we really really wanted your silver. But we totally get that for generations, being the monsters you use to scare your children into submission means we didn't give off a really good impression, even though we weren't really bad people at heart, we just had a different view on life and death that was more "liberal" if you will.
 

Also, we kind of enslaved quite a lot of you, especially the Irish... Our bad...

Also, we were a bit of an expansionist dictatorship once we actually got a nation up and running. Our main contribution is propably the Swedish intervention in the 30 Years War, in a time where the last thing what-is-now-Germany needed was another swarm of soldiers wandering about looting and killing willy-nilly.
We also did operate a slave fort in Africa briefly. It was a pretty small operation, but it was still a contribution to the slave triangle, buying captured slaves off the local tribes that had conquered them and then selling them on to the British.

We did have a colony going in Delaware, but the dutch came and stole it before any Indian genocide action could commence.
We were also probably not very nice to either the Danish or the Russians on the many occasions we got a'brawling, but I think that the main victims of Dictatorship-era Sweden probably was other Swedes. Skåne, the southmost tip of modern Sweden was acquired from Denmark during the 17'th century (in the truce of Roskilde, I think it was called) and went through a long, horribly brutal campaign to bring the population into the fold.

But then, Karl XII got himself royally buttfucked in Ukraine and we sort of gave up on the world conquest, and things got ever so slightly less horridly brutal. However, one interesting thing of note is that in the 1840's, several European nations as well as the United States, wrote an official protest to the king where they complained about the backwards dictatorship, citing amongst other things that the religious persecution (It was "Lutherian or GTFO" back then, more or less) was unacceptable.
It certainly puts things into perspective, doesn't it?

And we did sort of leave the Finns to fend for themselves in the winter war, but honestly. A soviet bomber "got lost" and accidentally bombed Stockholm, just to show off what they could do. I think our contribution would have been less than useful. Plus, we did leave Raoul Wallenberg to rot, didn't we...

About the only recent thing I can remember is the sneaky, under-the-table sort of support the government gave the Iraq war, in spite of what the citizens thought of it. I do think the army lent their artillery guidance systems to the British forces in Basra, for instance. Little things like that.

Phew... At least with all those tussles with the Danes and Russians, we never had time to steal some country in Africa to ruin. Always something.

EDIT: Fun fact; we're currently holding one of Europe's largest collection of war trophies and other pillaged guff. It's not a huge collection, but apparently, we've just been very good at holding on to what we stole.

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/178/140/1316916365002.png

All things aside, we've been too busy lovingly ruining each other's shit (and hooking back up again, kiss) in the North to branch out in the world very much.

 

[Cowabungaa]

The Netherlands didn't make the nicest stroll through Indonesia after the Second World War. You'd think being occupied by the Germans for five years and seeing them commit genocide tells you something buuut nooo...

And of course there's the whole slave business during the 17th and 18th century.

 

[Colour Scientist]

All of his knowledge of Irish history and politics is based off what his 2 friends from NI told him.

Well, that's one more than I thought it would be.

 

[TheAmokz]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_and_internment_camps#Continuation_War

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"When the Finnish Army during the Continuation War occupied East Karelia 1941?1944 that was inhabited by ethnically related Finnic Karelians (although it never had been a part of Finland ? or before 1809 of Swedish Finland), several concentration camps were set up for ethnically Russian civilians. The first camp was set up on October 24, 1941, in Petrozavodsk. The two largest groups were 6,000 Russian refugees and 3,000 inhabitants from the southern bank of River Svir forcibly evacuated because of the closeness of the front line. Around 4,000 of the prisoners perished due to malnourishment, 90% of them during the spring and summer 1942.[31] The ultimate goal was to move the Russian speaking population to German-occupied Russia in exchange for any Finnish population from these areas, and also help to watch civilians."

This is worst thing my country did as far as i know, if you don't count what we did to ourselves during civil war.

 

[Waaghpowa]

I'm Canadian and anything that happened in the past can be blamed on the British being imperialist douche bags.

Any and all things that we can be blamed for is immediately made up with the fact we invented Poutine.

Fries with cheese curds and smothered in gravy. It could end wars.

 

[Lonan]

Mass Effect 3 Ending

That was just revenge for putting an innocent Canadian creation like Superman into a particular atrocity of an N64 game.

I'm German, so my answer should be obvious.

For anyone who still doesn't get it, yes, I am talking about this stuff; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauerkraut.

Absolutely atrocious. I'll never forgive my ancestors for popularizing this disgusting stuff.

You think that's bad?

Spoiler

I'm surprised we're not on trial for crimes against humanity.

You people disgust me. We Americans brought you hotdogs and you give us this horrendous shit!

Coming from the guys who made burger in a can.

Spoiler

You guys should go first

I think you just made me barf in my mouth a little.

Oh, it gets better.

Spoiler

Good luck sleeping tonight

Where do you find this shit!? Do you actively look for the most repulsive meals on the planet!?

Strawman!

Don't draw attention away from your heinous crimes against food!

New York and Chicago style pizza! Check mate mother fucker! >

Maple Syrup. Canadian Bacon. Poutine. Name one thing we've done wrong ************.

CLEARLY MY PEOPLE ARE SAINTS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER!

Some of your country speak French as a first language.


I win >

Curses, foiled again!

Bah, only one of the two Superman creators were Canadian! Besides, the Jews claimed responsibility for creating Superman long ago!

Oh yeah, blame the Jews. Typical American.

But I... but they... what!?

D:

As a Canadian who is currently behind on my government mandated 10,000 apologies per year quota, I must apologise with sincerity of the highest order for my countrymen's crass behaviour.

Whew, only 7943 more to go.

Excuse me sir, but I find your usage of the term "crass" to be dishonest and slanderous, and would humbly request that you take it back and apologize immediately. However, if you find something of offense in this message then I am sincerely sorry and would not wish to extend these grievances further.

Good day.

I did find "typical Americans" to be generalising an entire country in an insulting fashion, however, I may have misunderstood because we are communicating merely by text, and may have misread the atmosphere. If you did not intend to be malicious with that comment, I do apologise for calling it crass, and for any offence you may have taken.

Then it would seem to be that we have both been the unfortunate victims of a misunderstanding. I would humbly accept your apologies and extend my own for not being clear in my use of sarcasm. Hopefully we can forget this whole fiasco and move on with our lives.

(And speak normally again, I'm starting to miss that)

lol, no problem (please don't ban me for short sentence)

 

[F'Angus]

Well we English, the fun little country we are, gave the world Oliver Cromwell... who saw it as his duty to go and cancel anything fun, including Christmas...bloody grinch.

(also he killed quite a few Irish and wrecked up their country)

 

[theSteamSupported]

Hey! America!

You know all those crazy Christian fundamentalists roaming around in your country? Sweden would like to apologize for sending you them.

 

[Scumpernickle]

Sorry about that whole "enslave the natives in South and Central America" thing guys. I guess us Spanish are really fond of gold and money.

As for my Mexican half, err... Sorry America for, uhh... tekin' ur jebs?

 

[Muspelheim]

Hey! America!

You know all those crazy Christian fundamentalists roaming around in your country? Sweden would like to apologize for sending you them.

Oh, that, too...

There's a reason why Minnesota is the way it is. Damn you, Kal Oska!

Hell, made sense on paper, America was really huge, and surely it'd have enough space to just absorb the lot of 'em without any ill effects? But we did leave procreation out of the equation, didn't we...

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Canadians, while not going out with calvary regiments and slaughtering the natives, did legislate them into a state of decline while we moved in. Then there is the whole Residential School thing.

Also, just prior to war in WWII, we turned back Jews escaping from Europe out of fear that accepting them would provoke war. When war happened anyway it made us look like terrible people, especially after the camps were discovered. Wish I could recall the name of the boat we sent back.

I wonder if any Americans will admit to the bombing of Laos...

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

SNIP

I'm willing to accept responsibility for our own, Canadian, douchebag past. Pass the poutine though.

 

[Waaghpowa]

SNIP

I'm willing to accept responsibility for our own, Canadian, douchebag past. Pass the poutine though.

Get your own!