for 35 years i envied americans huge, now i pity you fools

To my friend from Ireland I can say the US had potatoes when the old sod had none (it's what brough my grandparents here). I also know there wasn't anything but the dole going on in Ireland until it bent over and joined the EU (how's that been working out for you and the rest of the PIGS crew - and damn, man, lumped in with Portugal, Greece, and Spain it would make Robert Emmit Sullivan turn in his grave and state they should probably write an epitat for his grave because Ireland will never be free (although you're doing great with Gerry and Ian). Oh, and we kicked mad George out years ago but it seems my Irish kin still can't get clear of mommy Queen.

I don't think any western nation should envy the US now, but they should keep their mitts in their knickers when passing glass houses. Nrver as bad as the worse.

ohh wow, that spessssshhhhhhhhhaaaaaaalllllllll.

You hear this one a lot...

But I always wonder...
Envy over what exactly?

Please, do tell what does America have that other western nations do not that we should all envy so much?

I would remind you that without America, the whole world would be speaking German right now !

Sure, the US is not at its best right now, with Hussein Obummer in charge, but give it time, things will get better !

Hollow accusations of envy (over what? Weekly spree killings by citizens? That's all you have that we don't it seems) while resting on the laurels of WW2 (laurels which I suspect are pretty damned flat by now they've been rested on so long), a conflict I highly doubt anyone here actually fought in... this is pretty much the standard fare we hear when GLP descends into the "my tax farm is better than your tax farm" bickering.

Then we usually go down the road of "we have the nukes!", might making right and claiming to be the 'best' by virtue of having the bigger stick with which to beat the other kids with.

We know you have the nukes... we've seen you use them, twice, in that war you always drag up to show how great you are.
I've stood at ground zero in Hiroshima and seen what your greatness has done first hand... because I have a passport (sorry, cheap shot).

Look, the ideals and values that America as a nation claims to endorse are sound and very desirable for any society... however actions speak louder than words and talk is cheap.

America has not been the nation that valiantly defended global freedom from the likes of the Nazis for a very long time.

In fact I am reminded of an old saying... he who fights monsters should take care... It seems the US did not heed that advice.

:(

I'm not trying to be an asshole, I'm just trying to hold up a mirror for you to look at yourselves... it takes a real friend to be honest about how fucked up you've become right? A true friend is the one who says "Jesus Joe, maybe you should get a shower and shave and tidy up all the cum-rags lying around here, no wonder nobody wants to call over for a beer anymore, stop jerking off in front of that mirror and use it to see what a fucking monster you've become."

I dearly love America and everything it has given the world in the past, dude I fucking love that brash, innovative reach for the stars we're going to the Moon attitude... But that's long gone and right now, I really don't want to call over for a beer anymore.

Thanks dude, for the tip an all.

Wanna go grab a pint sometime?

Dude.

Whatever to your ineffectual batch of insults.

But, are you seriously saying CANADA is the world's greatest super power? Spin your globe, dude, there's a bunch of other countries on the other side.

now no one wants dick all to do with ya

Canada is the Cleveland of the world. A trailer park of web-fingered flunkies styling in cranberry doubleknit leisure suits, white belts, and practical shoes. Hell, Canada makes Newark look good, eh.

America is indeed good and well fucked, but at least it was something at one time.

The only thing good to come out of Canada was Robertson Davies and John Candy and both of them got out of Canada (and your mother) as soon as they could.

Canada is the Cleveland of the world. A trailer park of web-fingered flunkies styling in cranberry doubleknit leisure suits, white belts, and practical shoes. Hell, Canada makes Newark look good, eh.

America is indeed good and well fucked, but at least it was something at one time.

The only thing good to come out of Canada was Robertson Davies and John Candy and both of them got out of Canada (and your mother) as soon as they could.

You hear this one a lot...

But I always wonder...
Envy over what exactly?

Please, do tell what does America have that other western nations do not that we should all envy so much?

I envy the Canadian public schools excellent teaching of basic grammar, spelling and punctuation.

Hollow accusations of envy (over what? Weekly spree killings by citizens? BLAH BLAH BLAH BULLSHIT

I hate to tell you this, but from outside, Canadians and Americans are indistinguishable. You have the same languague and the same culture, with only the most superficial of differences.

This undeniable truth tends to enrage Canadians.

ahhhhh fuk yu slant, isnt it time to pick lice.

OP I still love you

I would remind you that without America, the whole world would be speaking German right now !

Sure, the US is not at its best right now, with Hussein Obummer in charge, but give it time, things will get better !

Yeah Ireland. Take that. And U2 and Sinnead O'Conner suck.

Glass houses and all that, eh OP?

“You won’t recognize Canada when I get through with it.”
-Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper

"As one of the most resource-rich countries on earth, and the largest single trading partner with the United States, Canada is strategically positioned to influence the changing nature of global power structures. Do we support – and siphon our resources for the benefit of – the American Empire, co-operating in the wholesale plundering of the world, the oppression and impoverishment of peoples, destruction of global ecology, all for the benefit of an increasingly small class of global corporations and banks… Or, do we become independent and free? Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper once said, “You won’t recognize Canada when I get through with it.” With multiple “free trade” agreements under way, expanded corporate rights, expropriation of vast amounts of natural resources, Canada is becoming one of the world’s foremost corporate colonies, unrecognizable from what Canadians once imagined our nation to be."

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Canada is the Cleveland of the world. A trailer park of web-fingered flunkies styling in cranberry doubleknit leisure suits, white belts, and practical shoes. Hell, Canada makes Newark look good, eh.

America is indeed good and well fucked, but at least it was something at one time.

The only thing good to come out of Canada was Robertson Davies and John Candy and both of them got out of Canada (and your mother) as soon as they could.

Robertson Davies lived in the UK in his college days and a little after but spent the vast majority of his life in Canada, where he died.

I would remind you that without America, the whole world would be speaking German right now !

Sure, the US is not at its best right now, with Hussein Obummer in charge, but give it time, things will get better !