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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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 Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:40 am Post subject: 2006: A prediction |
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At this time next year, there will be the same posts on the same topics.
a) The Europeans will still be complaining that the US is too aggressive and arrogant and will still be doing nothing new to increase their military muscle to provide an alternative.
b) The NotAmericans will still be posting topic after topic about how their country is superior to the US and still unable to say anything positive about their country without reference to the US.
c) Everyone will still be wearing blue jeans and t-shirts and going to American movies and moaning about American cultural influence.
d) Everyone will agree that the US should withdraw its troops from Korea while deriding Korea's ambitions to play the balancing role in NE Asia.
e) Iraq will still be a mess and everyone will disagree on what to do about it. Staying on is bad and leaving is bad. Maybe someone will vote for Scottie just to beam everyone up.
f) There will be a new hotspot everyone is talking about. Maybe Asia, maybe Africa. No matter where it is, the majority will disagree with whatever the US does or does not do.
g) There will be several weather disasters and certain someones will swear it's a sign that global warming is here and we should do something about it...while they drive their SUV to work. And blame the US for it.
h) Their girlfriend will get pregnant because the condoms available here were too small or too big and they were drunk. Then they will blame the US military for prostitution existing everywhere in the world.
And so on. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:46 am Post subject: Re: 2006: A prediction |
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| You are just picking a fight now. I can respect the fact that you defend yourself against people who attack you for just your nationality, but you are asking for any and all the crap you now deserve! |
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Neil
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Location: Tokyo
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| The wannabe victims on here will scream 'Anti American' everytime someone says that the last season of Friends was crap or the coffee in Starbucks is overpriced. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 7:14 am Post subject: |
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but you are asking for any and all the crap you now deserve!
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So which one(s) is not true?
Actually, I think you make good and reasonable posts. Not extreme or overly nationalistic. Where am I wrong?
PS: I was hoping people would post their predictions for this time next year. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 3:03 pm Post subject: Re: 2006: A prediction |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
At this time next year, there will be the same posts on the same topics.
a) The Europeans will still be complaining that the US is too aggressive and arrogant and will still be doing nothing new to increase their military muscle to provide an alternative.
Two wrongs never make a right.
b) The NotAmericans will still be posting topic after topic about how their country is superior to the US and still unable to say anything positive about their country without reference to the US.
Not all Americans will disagree.
c) Everyone will still be wearing blue jeans and t-shirts and going to American movies and moaning about American cultural influence.
Most of my Korean students do neither- wear jeans and tee shirts nor go to many American movies. And most of my American friends do neither- apart from a few worthy exceptions, U.S. movies are overly produced, orverly focus grouped informercials.
d) Everyone will agree that the US should withdraw its troops from Korea while deriding Korea's ambitions to play the balancing role in NE Asia.
Again, from this American's perspective, neither- I am old school here- you break it, you fix it. The U.S. and the former Soviet Union created the mess, so we still have responsibilities here, until it is resolved.
e) Iraq will still be a mess and everyone will disagree on what to do about it. Staying on is bad and leaving is bad. Maybe someone will vote for Scottie just to beam everyone up.
See above.
f) There will be a new hotspot everyone is talking about. Maybe Asia, maybe Africa. No matter where it is, the majority will disagree with whatever the US does or does not do.
Whatever the U.S. does or does not do will be entirely dependent on what whichever administration is in power decides is in its self-interest.
g) There will be several weather disasters and certain someones will swear it's a sign that global warming is here and we should do something about it...while they drive their SUV to work. And blame the US for it.
I have no SUV, and I will always b1tch about global warming and responsibility.
h) Their girlfriend will get pregnant because the condoms available here were too small or too big and they were drunk. Then they will blame the US military for prostitution existing everywhere in the world.
This one is just not worthy of a respose.
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My prediction? The Bush apologists will find some conspiracy theory based on left wing lack of patriotism and inadequately hawkish genes to account for his downfall. I think it was Katrina that first finally revealed that the emperor has neither clothes nor brains. And that genie will not be put back in the bottle.
Second prediction- The same pro Bush1tes will become more rabidly defensive than ever about their rectitude, in the face of the ever mounting evidence to the contrary.
Whatever did happen to that "Weapons of Mass Destruction" thread? |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Neil wrote: |
| The wannabe victims on here will scream 'Anti American' everytime someone says that the last season of Friends was crap or the coffee in Starbucks is overpriced. |
Well, both of those things are all too true. As was said by, I believe, P.T. Barnum, you will never go broke underestimating the taste of the American public. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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And Ya-ta Boy will still be blasting every moehill of criticism with a mountain of apologetics concerning anything American.
A troll is a troll because he patrols his favorite bridge, ready to jump out and roar everytime someone walks over it. |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:14 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| PS: I was hoping people would post their predictions for this time next year. |
Someone need to review the use of "a/an/the" because *someone* specifically stated "A prediction..."
Not to be petty or anything.... 
My prediction? Why predict when the future is obvious:
more disasters
an impeachment proceding if the Democrats gain control of Congress, business as usual if they don't (i.e., over 1,000 investigations of Clinton/Democrats during the Demo WH years and 7 - oh, yes, count 'em, SEVEN during the Bush years.);
devolution of human existence o the point of collapse (Again, gotta read Batra, Kennedy and Chaos: The Making of a New Science.)
Etc.
Newsflash: World's heading for a nasty little fall. |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:21 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| ...make good and reasonable posts. Not extreme or overly nationalistic... |
May I remind you G. Wash and friends were "radicals." You ever read G? His friends? Those Federalist Papers were some damned radical stuff!!!
May I remind you Emancipation was "radical?"
May I remind you women voting was "radical?"
May I remind you that nationalistic used to mean doing what is BEST for your nation, not what is best ONLY for your nation?
May I remind you simple religious freedom was once "radical?"
May I remind you that there is nothing MORE nationalistic than, "You are with us or you are against us." No secret where I stand. (Hola, NSA!!! Bush, sir, you suck!!!!!!!!) |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 7:44 am Post subject: |
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Then they will blame the US military for prostitution existing everywhere in the world.
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Gotta say, I don't think there are too many Dave's posters who would blame the US military for prostitution in Korea. |
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Sooke
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Location: korea
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| Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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My prediction:
This time next year, the OP will still be a tool. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:19 am Post subject: |
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I predict that "EFL trainer" will continue to misANALyze grammatical constructions.
A Prediction: At this time next year there will be the same posts on the same topics.
a)...
b)...
c) ... etc.
I see no fault in using the article "A" before "Prediction" (although I would have ended the sentence with a colon...) |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| Well, I might as well pick on "Van Islander", too - What the hell is a "moehill"? (Is that where Moe Howard of the Three Stooges is buried?...) |
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riley
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: where creditors can find me
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| Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:25 am Post subject: |
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My predictions
None of us will find a life and will continue to post on here and attack each other over minutiae.
The server will crash forcing Dave's ESL Cafe to close and we will be forced to talk to our significant others.
I will finally get tired of those stupid phbbb error messages and will throw something through my computer screen. |
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