(October 15, 2012 at 8:15 am)A Theist Wrote: It's 'Canadian Bacon' invasion time! ....we'll show those Canadians how to pronounce their ou's!....It's not Aboat!...it's About!...eh!

LOL
My dear American friend, as a person who was born into the end of a Empire, I admire your spunk, but have you not seen the writing on the wall. Your economy is fucked only kept alive by the Chinese giving you hand outs, even in your back yard the latinos no longer pay any attention to you. and in your own country immigrants can't be bothered to learn your version of english, You are a fat and lazy people who can't make cars that don't rust in a week, and nobody anywhere else in the world would bother to buy one. Your only hope would be if the Canadians came an sorted your problems out for you, and now your are even upsetting them. The British empire was short lived as Empires go only lasting just over 200 years but you didn't even manage 70. You have to face it your time in the sunshine is over, you had better start learning to be nice to other people.

Post script. In years to come when America is looked back on I wonder what will be remembered, The Egyptians Art. The Greeks philosophy. Romans Architecture, Even the French can boast a sophisticated culture, America all I can think of of the top of my head is the Hamburger.

(October 15, 2012 at 8:45 am)jonb Wrote:

(October 15, 2012 at 8:15 am)A Theist Wrote: It's 'Canadian Bacon' invasion time! ....we'll show those Canadians how to pronounce their ou's!....It's not Aboat!...it's About!...eh!

LOL
My dear American friend, as a person who was born into the end of a Empire, I admire your spunk, but have you not seen the writing on the wall. Your economy is fucked only kept alive by the Chinese giving you hand outs, even in your back yard the latinos no longer pay any attention to you. and in your own country immigrants can't be bothered to learn your version of english, You are a fat and lazy people who can't make cars that don't rust in a week, and nobody anywhere else in the world would bother to buy one. Your only hope would be if the Canadians came an sorted your problems out for you, and now your are even upsetting them. The British empire was short lived as Empires go only lasting just over 200 years but you didn't even manage 70. You have to face it your time in the sunshine is over, you had better start learning to be nice to other people.

Post script. In years to come when America is looked back on I wonder what will be remembered, The Egyptians Art. The Greeks philosophy. Romans Architecture, Even the French can boast a sophisticated culture, America all I can think of of the top of my head is the Hamburger.

...pssshhhttt.....the Canadians can't even pronounce their ou's...how are they going to sort anything out for anybody?!....as for cars, I'll take a Mustang GT over those cookie cutter European styled cars any day!...Toyotas seem to be running into a bit of bad luck these days...lots of recalls...and Volvos have deteriorated to pieces of junk....nope. I'll take American muscle over European scrap metal!....and how long do you think the European Union can keep bailing out Greece and Spain until your economy goes belly up?....you guys will go before we do....my friend!

Post Script. We were the first to put a man on the Moon...we put rovers on Mars and sent Voyager to Jupiter and beyond...what did you guys do?

To be fair, our relationship with the Chinese goes both ways (without us they would be where?).

(October 15, 2012 at 9:23 am)A Theist Wrote: Post Script. We were the first to put a man on the Moon...we put rovers on Mars and sent Voyager to Jupiter and beyond...what did you guys do?

Landing on the Moon? most Americans don't believe it, or any of that science stuff, They don't even like it being taught in schools. As for voyages of discovery all we did was go to america and we have regretted it ever since.
No honestly we of the old world admire you, the way you can persist with an idea, even when it is shown to be blatantly untrue. Yes the American mussel car, put a large engine in a box and forget about the steering. That is why so many people around the world buy American design.

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(October 15, 2012 at 9:35 am)Rhythm Wrote: To be fair, our relationship with the Chinese goes both ways (without us they would be where?).

Yes they would have to find somebody else to give their money too.

(October 15, 2012 at 10:38 am)jonb Wrote:

(October 15, 2012 at 9:23 am)A Theist Wrote: Post Script. We were the first to put a man on the Moon...we put rovers on Mars and sent Voyager to Jupiter and beyond...what did you guys do?

Landing on the Moon? most Americans don't believe it, or any of that science stuff, They don't even like it being taught in schools. As for voyages of discovery all we did was go to america and we have regretted it ever since.
No honestly we of the old world admire you, the way you can persist with an idea, even when it is shown to be blatantly untrue. Yes the American mussel car, put a large engine in a box and forget about the steering. That is why so many people around the world buy American design.

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....Ha ha!.....Jealously, my friend! Jealously!!!!....what do you guys think? Did we Americans put a man, (men), on the moon or not?....I say yes we did....and so do a lot of other Americans. I'll still take American muscle over those European hoopties you guys putter around in....

I admit that you followed the Germans instructions, put some men on the moon played golf and came home. I even admit that you managed to send one scientist, which is quite out of character for an american expedition. But I can't see you doing it again because you didn't find anybody to fight.
And it is lucky you like your mussel cars because who else would buy one?

(October 15, 2012 at 9:23 am)A Theist Wrote: Post Script. We were the first to put a man on the Moon...we put rovers on Mars and sent Voyager to Jupiter and beyond...what did you guys do?

do you know the songlyrics:

"Once the rockets are up. Who carez where thzey comez down! Thzats not my department! Szays Werner van Braun!"

The amazing thing about american culture is, that there is no such thing as american culture. For centuries you have sucked up culture from imigrants and combined it with other culture from other imigrants and then repackaged and exported it throughout the world. The diversety resulting out of a imigrant population certainly gave you a up in technology and science. The power of your nation is the result of imigration from dutch sailors, british economists, german ingeners, italian bankers, jewish artists, and eaven a nazi war criminal.

Further, you may have sent rockets to the moon and beyond during the sixties, and the chinese and indians didnt.
But mainly because they were under bad policies.
China was in the middle of the cultural revolution and still recovering from the catastrophic "great leap forward", India under the rule of Lal Bahadur Shastri and later Indira Ghandi, engaged in policies leaning more to the left in solidarity to the Udssr, wich resulted in the banning of foreign investment and a sitback in science and technology.

But now since India has opened, and Deng Xiaoping has opened China, they have started to rise out of that intelectual dark era.
China sent a man into space 2 years ago, India has recently announced its Mars mission. And China is about to overhowl the USA in the number of released scientific publications. Although one must mention that indias qualety of scientific papers is better than those made in China:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ar...778366.ece

I have met a lot of islamists who talk about the grandure of their religion by constantly repeating how great the first caliphate was. Wich doesn`t change the reality that in the current muslim world, for example 30 % of the egyptian population is illeterate and that a great number of people in the muslim world live in poverty and under tyranny.
So constantly hailing ones great past is never going to be the right way to let your nation remain in the place it is.

The love of the mussel car.
With global warming being caused by Americans driving around in wasteful machines, and that coupled with their inherent hatred of Canadians, one can only laugh when we think of what these things will mean for them. As the Polar ice reduces caused by global warming, the North west passage will increasingly become a viable trade route so that Europe and china will be able to have a quick and efficient sea route on which to exchange goods. Canada will no doubt profit from this. The entire reason why Columbus set out in the first place to find a short means to get to china will be solved. The USA will be no more than a large dust bowl of little importance other than as an appendage to the important Canadian trade route.
You are bringing this on yourselves. You better keep Canada happy they will soon be your masters.

(October 15, 2012 at 12:16 pm)jonb Wrote: The love of the mussel car.
With global warming being caused by Americans driving around in wasteful machines, and that coupled with their inherent hatred of Canadians, one can only laugh when we think of what these things will mean for them. As the Polar ice reduces caused by global warming, the North west passage will increasingly become a viable trade route so that Europe and china will be able to have a quick and efficient sea route on which to exchange goods. Canada will no doubt profit from this. The entire reason why Columbus set out in the first place to find a short means to get to china will be solved. The USA will be no more than a large dust bowl of little importance other than as an appendage to the important Canadian trade route.
You are bringing this on yourselves. You better keep Canada happy they will soon be your masters.

...a Mustang GT is going to melt the Polar Ice Cap?....ahhhh, that's Chicken Little crap...global cooling and warming trends have always been a part of Earth's natural history...I don't have anything against Canadians...if we can get Barack Obama voted out we can make a sweet deal on the Canadian Pipeline that will benefit both our countries...we'll become more energy independent from the Middle East, build more American Muscle Cars, and really heat things up!....I know you want to buy one....there's nothing like the roar of a Mustang GT through a set of Magna Flows!...although the new GT is taking on some European styling this year....WHICH SUCKS!

(October 15, 2012 at 8:45 am)jonb Wrote: You are a fat and lazy people who can't make cars that don't rust in a week, and nobody anywhere else in the world would bother to buy one.

Jon, your assertion falls a little short of the facts.

1. Fat. I won’t argue that one.
2. Lazy. American workers are among the most productive in the world. In 2011 American workers ranked 4th in productivity behind only the Czech Republic, Taiwan and the Republic of Korea. Please note that our productivity is better than China, India, Japan and Germany.
3. Rusty cars. Please find below a just taken picture of the undercarriage of my 13 year old Chevrolet truck. During the 13 plus years I have owned this truck I have put 2 set of tires on it, replaced a $300 power window motor, a couple of running light bulbs and a $2.50 plastic catch in the tailgate latch mechanism. Other than that nothing but routine maintenance. I wouldn't think twice about using it to haul a 5000 lb trailer 1000 miles. In fact, I just did a few months ago.
4. US automobile exports. In 2011 the US exported nearly $50 billion worth of passenger vehicles. That number doesn’t include another $40 billion in automotive accessories.



Edited because I think the $50 billion number in vehicle sales does include commercial in about a 40% passenger / 60% commercial split.