The European View on all things American

[Booze Zombie]

Oh and if there were a fight between the NYU and the London police force we'd win, 'cause we're allowed to carry guns...

But considering all we've done for Europe (i.e. preventing the continental language from changing to German and keeping that Communism shit where it belongs [away from actual people]) we get shit on by most Europeans I know. Sure we started late in WWII, but that was our policy ever since day 1. George Washington said it the day he left office and he couldn't have been more right. I guess you guys can also thank the Japanese for pissing us off enough to get involved.

First, the police in London are actually armed... you just don't need a gun to pull over a drunk driver, so the armed response unit are not usually called up for that sort of low-level stuff.

Second, America didn't stop Nazi Germany by it's self... it was called The Allied Forces, not The American Ass Kickers. Also, Communism has never been implemented, only Stalinism and Maoism, and what's more, Britain could have held out against Nazi Invasion without American assistance.

Also, what's wrong with speaking German? The English language is based on it, it wouldn't have been that much of a change.

There's also the fact that America charged us for the privilege of some aid and we only finished paying for it in 2006.

By the way, the American government at the time of WW2 cut off trade with the Japanese to force them to attack, so as to give them valid reason to attack the Japanese and engage the Nazis, with public support.

 

[Jinx_Dragon]

I am saddened Australia is turning more and more like America every day. I am seriously thinking I should move there and beat the rush....

 

[Booze Zombie]

We cut trading with Japan because of that whole Isolationist thing we were going for. The Japanese attacked us because they thought it was their right to own every island in the Pacific.

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1930

 

[Jinx_Dragon]

I just have to say one word in relation to Germany in WW2: RUSSIA

To explain, mostly to the historically challenged 'we are number 1' US: The Nazi forces where losing the war long before the US joined the war. Russia had stopped their march over East Europe dead in it's tracks and where beating a straight line for Berlin. Had Hitler not back stabbed Stalin, breaching a non-aggression treaty, then Europe would still be under German control. Russia not only opened a second front, it was that front which was the actual meat grinder that destroyed the Germans while the western front was considered a vacation by comparison.

One reason I liked COD5 as it didn't ignore Russia's involvement in WW2 and embraced the fact it was Russia kicking German arse. Now if it wasn't a purely scripted game, where you have to do things as the designers have laid out or eat a dozen grenades, I might actually enjoy it more. Yeah, I had one too many frustrating a time eating grenade sandwiches.

 

[sheic99]

The drinking age in America is hilarious.

The drinking age is when you have money to give a guy to buy it for you. I'm 18 and I can drive with BAL at .05 when I'm not even supposed to be drinking in the first place.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Winston Churchill helped concoct this scheme too you know. (I still am not 100% convinced).

Yeah, yeah. Just shows how bad the brainwashing with "Patriotism" is. Freedom's just a word, by the way.

Having a Royal Family and being subject doesn't make us any less free than you, y'know?

 

[Jinx_Dragon]

Cricket is simple:
You have a guy with a ball and his job is to hit a target behind the guy with the bat using said ball.
The batsman has to hit that ball away from the target.
Extra points are based on how far he can hit it: 6 for a 'home run' out of the field hit, 4 for a ball that hits the ground then goes out of the field.
If someone catches the ball before it hits the ground, then he is out.

That is the core of if, there is other things of course like scoring points by running between two points and hoping someone doesn't tap the target with the ball while you are running but enjoying the game doesn't need more then that knowledge that one side is trying to hit that target and the other is trying to stop them.

 

[Graustein]

This is that European ignorance I'm talking about. I'm pretty sure Australia is where the worst English criminals were sent.

My Australian pride prevents me from letting this go uncorrected.
People have been deported here for stealing hankerchiefs. It was more a convenient alternative to Britain's overcrowded prison system; the actual severity of the crime had very little to do with whether or not you were sent here. Granted, some of the "worst criminals" very well may have been sent here, but I assure you that it would have been entirely coincidental.
On the other hand, if stealing a hankerchief is punishable by deportment to the other side of the world, no wonder the British prisons were full to bursting.

 

[kaiZie]

Now, I'm on my University's American Football team, and I didn't really understand it, I just liked playing Madden NFL on the xbox, but after playing it you realise that its a damn fun game. Believe it or not America has made something very very intelligent, and it isn't a rocket to the moon or a jet fighter! It's one of the most tactical games I've ever played, maybe more so than Risk! Yeah, watching it is a bit slow seeing has each quarter is 15 minutes long but a game lasts 3 hours what with clock stopping and such, so it's not exactly fast, but once you know whats going on it's wicked.

Now I just wish the game was more publicised in the UK other than just on channel 5 at some stupid hour in the morning!