Just returned after a holiday.
S'gooood.
Discuss.
um..............Discuss what? Food?
Cyprus I presume.
what is there to discuss, i have never been and do not wish to go.
Quote from: iron maiden on November 11, 2009, 11:45:25 PM
um..............Discuss what? Food?
What is your obsession with food?
@Raven, Welcome back. Where the hell is Cyprus?
QuoteWhat is your obsession with food?
@Raven, Welcome back. Where the hell is Cyprus?
A. Its a good thing to talk about
B.It is located off the South Eastern coast of Turkey
As the good lord once said, 'love thy neighbour as thyself... unless he's Turkish... in that case, kill the bastard!!!'.
*Falls out of chair laughing and goes to bible to find said quote, does not find it, pencil's it in there*
Britain held Cyprus for ages, then gave it back to Greece. Turks got pissed and invaded their greasy asses there around the 70's or something. Now, the southern half is Greek, northern is Turkish.
North = bad. South = good.
Well yes, I meant discuss Cyprus. And of course, you could only do that it you have BEEN! :lol:
Forgive the stereotype, but what is it with you Americans and not knowing where anything is if its outside your own borders? :lol:
(http://www.latindance.com.cy/Portals/1/cyprus_map.jpg)
Iron Maiden is right.
Yes, food is always a good thing to talk about. Their food is good for that matter.
I'll let you know I know an extensive amount of world Geography and History. :-D
Quote from: Raven on November 12, 2009, 12:11:33 AM
Forgive the stereotype, but what is it with you Americans and not knowing where anything is if its outside your own borders?
Probably because thanks to our current president we are so badly viewed no one cares much about killing us, even near the border but on our side. Get killed? No thanks. I know plenty about the world outside this country but I can tell you right now, if things keep going this way, it wont be safe to be out of the country and it wont be safe to be in it either. Have to pretend to be English or something...
Fortunately, i can create a wide variety of voices to impersonate several world cultures. Comes in handy from time to time.
As true as the stereotype may be, Boogie is Australian. :-P
Are they supposed to be smarter, or dumber, don't really know. Have to go with former.
Said stereotype is decades old.
The majority of the world has also hated America for decades. Nothing new there. Your'e just aware of it now. Granted, they play(ed) nice to your face :lol:
And if anything, people hate you less now that *Ammo*wad Bush isn't in charge. Why the bollocking hell did you lot vote that prick in again?
Then again, we voted Labour back in... Egh...
Lmao, whoops he's an Auzzie. Oh well.
I'm quite good at accents, ish. Well, the ones I can do, I can do well. Others; kinda hopeless. People aaaaalways think that everyone in the UK speaks in a certain way which is actually really annoying and ignorant. We all know that America has different accents, so why is it presumed that every British person speaks like prince-freakin'-Charles? Every city has its own damn accent, all VERY different. I can do about 4-5, plus other countries.
PS, I really don't mind if this goes off topic. I like to think of this thread as a chat thread :)
Trust me Raven, we have had much worse presidents than Bush and luckily i am wise enough not to get into detail or this post would be a mile and an eighth long..
There was nothing wrong with Bush. Just because he couldn't talk well (and neither can Obama, but he always follows his speeches so much to the letter without thinking that he doesn't even notice if the teleprompter has the wrong one one). I am tired of all the hoot Bush bashing, he DID NOT know anything that it is claimed he knew, HE DID NOT LIE, HE DID NOT GO TO WAR FOR OIL. He did everything he did because of information given to him by the people who should have known what was right and what was wrong.
The world did not hate us because of Bush, that is nothing more than a ludicrous claim used to help get Obama elected. Sure some of them might not of liked us, but we were not hated or thought down of. Now, with Obama, all he does is go around apologizing for the US for things we DID NOT DO WRONG. So the world NOW things down of us.
Note everything I said before about leaving the country for first hand experience being ill advised was not true at the time Bush was a president. And might I additionally put forth that many things Bush is blamed for are actually the thought of Clinton and the repercussions of things he did as president, or things done by other members of the government. Obama is actually the one going around making us look bad, 99% of things Bush is blamed for were not even his fault.
I am lead to wonder how many people simply blindly obey the media (so ridiculously left wing democrats can do no wrong all love Obama) instead of compiling facts themselves. Research is not a tool you use for a school report, it is what you are supposed to do about candidates before you vote god dammit.
Claims against the above, from all the evidence I have gathered, are just surmissions (see surmise) or hearsay.
I get very pissed off on this subject so it be best we stay away from further discussion in this area and go back to talking of Cyprus without mentioning the deplorable world view of America after all the ass saving we have done in years past.
EDIT:
And thank you AFV, thank you for showing me the most deplorable state of our society. A montage of children from the age of speech to 10 or maybe more all praising Obama and hating McCain even though their parents supported McCain. Does anyone yet understand the deplorable methods elections are won with that make even our kids stupidly enthralled with the candidates research proves are a bad idea.
This is as good a place as any to state that Democracy, Communism, Socialism and Capitalism are all equally crap.
Monarchism is the way to go!! At least you see your eventual ruler grow up instead of just blindly electing some random guy off the streets that nobody had ever heard of a month ago.
@N1... People would hate America a lot less if you guys actually made some GOOD movies!!!
*cracks knuckles at movie remark*
I wouldn't know, I'm not American. All I see is him making a dumbass of himself every time he opens his mouth. You can't help but hate that. And I haven't seen anything of Obama. Which is surprising actually, I was expecting to never hear the last of your government.
AFV?
Oh, as for the world hating America, it isn't because of your government and never was. Its the stereotypes again. Because everybody simply believes that when they see a radical example, the entire country is the same. True for anywhere you go. Unfortunately, America has gained a lot of particularly bad ones.
Nobody has figured out a way that bloody works yet. They all suck in some respect, you gotta find the one that sucks least...
Good movies? Surely something that went through Hollywood is good? Maybe? :lol:
I'll give you that one Raven, America is constantly viewed with a generally negative steryotype. These exist in fact in each american person, Democrats paint Republicans as Redneck racists who ride around with white sheets while The democrats are viewed as the up tight, lets kill your kid before its born and take from the deserving and give to the undeserving type.
Its all a matter of which side you chose.
Ah... there is the reason.
If the country is torn in two, how can anyone outside it like what they see?
my point exactly, i mean, America the Beautiful was written by an English person who was astounded by the beauty of the country.
Well... at least the people are polarizing. Obama is getting a lot of funny looks from the black community now. Perhaps soon race wont matter, as it shouldn't.
It was said it was a great day in America when a man was elected president who was Black. I say it was a sad day in America, it will be a good day in America when a man is elected president and no one cares to take notice of his skin color.
Quote from: Raven on November 12, 2009, 01:06:06 AM
AFV?
America's Funniest home Videos, truly, not very funny.
except for cats, cats do the funniest things. :-D :-D :-D :mrgreen:
What the hell is it with this Republican - Democrat - Liberal crap anyway? Yeah, we have a bit of bickering over here with the Torys, Labour and that but you guys are practically at bloody war!
I keep hearing everyone go on and on and ON about evolution, religion all this 'pro___' stuff. I don't know anything about what you're all bitching about, but from what I can see its pretty screwed up. Seriously? Damn people, slightly over the top?
Heh that just reminded me. I was once told that Republicans put boxing gloves on their kids at night so they couldn't 'touch themselves' in bed.
I didn't believe it but I still laughed (and cringed) at the thought.
Ooooh right. Well we've got at least 3 different shows all portraying the same idiocy. As does every country. pretty much. I enjoy them though; a lot of them are hilarious. Some of the stuff some people manage to do... boggles the mind :lol:
The problem is that we disagree, one side commits slander against the other, the other side up the ante, and so on, it is essentially The Republicans the people, The democrats- for the money, the independents-......for the environment i guess
Well we disagree too, but it doesn't result in something resembling a *Ammo*ing typhoon.
Anyway, I'm off to bed, long-ass day with airports ad its 01:25 am :lol:
Picture a 2d graph.
We will call the locations thusly:
x- Democrat
x+ Republican
y- Liberal
y+ Conservative
There was once a time when plotting the values of politicians, you would find many dots in the +XY or the -XY. That being Republicans were Conservative and Democrats were Liberal. Now it is that most Republican dots are in the y-, and what is worse Democrats have fallen off the chart to approach negative infinity on the y axis as socialists.
There was once a balance, hell I once charted it to a statistical formula, a distribution. Sense that time the government has changed to not listen to the people. When the people call and make the phones useless by shear volume, the politicians say "but we know better" and go against the wishes of the people. The liberals rally support by offing 'help' to people, 'help' that after use they can never live without. They also have few morals, but are sure to hold anyone conservative to theirs, very strictly (this is often done with lies and slander). Conservatives stand for moral acts, for bringing back the past. And not the bad past, no, the past of a strong America. An America which builds its own things, which is highly regarded in the world not for bowing but for acting with high moral intent. But the Liberals have the media. :|
QuoteBut the Liberals have the media.
And that's what's killing us, the general populace is either to busy or to ignorant to view the Democratic party for what it has become and the modern generation holds that fact highly. Again, i reference Brave New World in which a select few knew what was really going on and used their power to control everything else. The Liberals promise, the Conservitives give, the Liberals mudd them, we get nowhere.
You need a revolution.
you are not the first to think so.
Quote from: bigbadbogie on November 12, 2009, 01:36:04 AM
You need a revolution.
Issue is the military is now trained in urban combat with high powered automatic weapons. And gun control laws ban Semi-Automatics in many cases, and they make ammo that expires now and soon that will be the only ammo you can legally own.
either would work well.
Reformations not as bloody, nor as immoral. Of course, that's a matter of debate that I do not intend to open up.
Revolution is not immoral, revolution is when reformation fails.
Quote from: Clavin12 on November 12, 2009, 03:16:29 AM
Reformations not as bloody, nor as immoral.
That is the reason that they don't tend to last.
If you say that mainstream politicians in the U.S. are socialist, you don't understand what socialism is.
Quote from: sabrebattletank on November 12, 2009, 04:31:48 AM
If you say that mainstream politicians in the U.S. are socialist, you don't understand what socialism is.
I classic flashy argument with no actual meaning.
I know very well what it is. Done several reports on it. I challenge that YOU do not know.
There are also levels of socialism, but I don't really agree with any of them. Self reliance is what should matter. You should get what you deserve and earn your keep.
Well you know, I think everyone has a right to a steak dinner. As such I think that the government should start a Gazillion dollar plan to get steak dinners to everyone.
quite a few different accents where i live (devon). Cornish accent comes through pretty strong if you get too close :P
Hahah, I used to spend a lot of time in Devon when I was younger. We went every year on holiday around the Woolacomb (spelling?) area. We always used to go to the Ruda caravan park in Croyd Bay. Loved it. Clotted cream ice creams :D
So in all, you guys are pretty *Ammo*ed up, aye?
I have a burning hatred of the media, and thus, am not going into it because I will be here all day, and I'm meant to be doing my work.
Quote from: Clavin12 on November 12, 2009, 01:44:37 PM
Well you know, I think everyone has a right to a steak dinner. As such I think that the government should start a Gazillion dollar plan to get steak dinners to everyone.
Great, next Democratic campaign promise.
So how was Cyprus? Any pictures?
Great. I couldn't get over how hot it was despite it being November. We got really lucky, as our plane took off to go home, it started raining for the 1st time that week :lol:
Beautiful place, really laid back too.
Yeah loads of pictures, haven't taken them off the camera yet though. I'll throw them up after I've had dinner.
Were there fir trees?
probably.
Not that I can remember now that you mention it. I guess the whole evergreen thing isn't really a requirement in Cyprus, considering palm trees are everywhere and every plant had leaves even in November.
Fir trees all over the UK though.
Quote from: TheJamsh on November 12, 2009, 02:04:59 PM
quite a few different accents where i live (devon). Cornish accent comes through pretty strong if you get too close :P
Went to see Muse on tuesday, Matt Bellamy's devon accent is hilarious :lol:
You can't have Cyprus without fir trees. They where used to build the temple.
Quote from: AHadley on November 12, 2009, 10:48:17 PM
Went to see Muse on tuesday...
Git :P
Meh I could well be wrong, there more than likely were. I'm used to them so they don't stand out to me.
Was my avatar there?
Of course.
Mine was too. But which one? oooo
Well, it was defiantly one of them, but i do not watch much anime.
i iz a Muslim (for americans who were from the 70s, 80s, and 90s moslem)
um................................................thank you .......................for sharing that..........................................with us Rabbit Police. not sure why you said it though. :|
Maybe he said it because Cyprus reminded him of the middle east and thus islam
Still kinda out of the blue, don't you think.
I saw muse a couple years ago.
I know its out of da blue because I do that sort of thing
for example when my brothers and sisters are bothing me Ill just keep saying fuzzy cats eaten
cheese then they will go away because they will get annoyed by it
I've never seen Muse.
They're good.
greek food is awesome
haloumi is awesome.
the turkish are sly bastards
Muse are goooood.
Greek food is tasty. Mousaka (spelling?) is awesome.
What Rabbit said wasn't that random considering half of Cyprus is (now) Turkish, who are predominantly Muslim.
Baklava
That was random.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baklava
Not really :P
I really need glasses... I read balaklava... :lol:
That sounds like some crazy chant-thing :lol:
A balaklava is a middle eastern type head cloth. Kind of like a ski mask
Bank robberies.
Quote from: Clavin12 on November 13, 2009, 05:41:50 PM
A balaklava is a middle eastern type head cloth.
*headdesk*
No, it's not. It's a facemask. They were invented by the british for the Crimean war, hence the russian-sounding name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaclava_%28clothing%29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaclava_%28clothing%29)
Shall we not forget the Battle of Balaclava, charge of the light brigade and iron maiden "The trooper" sound familiar here?
Oops, I misread it. I know full well what one is xD
Well, with this sitation turned slightly awkward, anyone see any good movies lately?
Errrrrr TWILIGHT. (Joking)
Recently I've seen Up which is actually very good and the Imaginarium of Dr.Parnassus - thats freaking strange. Brother has been to see that Disney's Christmas Carol thing which he said was also very good.
Gonna go see 2012 at some point I guess.
I could do with going to see that. Last good film I watched was District 9.
I love District 9! Such a good movie!
Saw part of Pineapple Express last night.
District 9 was weird. But good nonetheless.
Going to see 2012 soon, will win award for best graphics.
I'll wait until 2013 to watch that.
Ha!
I didn't put up the "I can't wait for 2008!" bumper sticker (the year Geore Bush got out of office) until October 2008.
?
The film is about how the world is meant to end in 2012. So he's going to watch it in 2013.
so why did you say "this"?
As in, I agree with it - "yes, this"
Ah, movie was spectacular, nothing like seeing an aircraft carrier slamming into the white house and yellowstone exploding.....good times. :-D :evil: