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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Location: working undercover for the Man
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| flotsam wrote: |
| Naive fool. |
i guess everyone is full of hate. a dialogue can't even be reached without it turning into name-calling.
in other news, i'll be running for UN Secretary-General in the next election. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| KWhitehead wrote: |
| flotsam wrote: |
| Naive fool. |
i guess everyone is full of hate. a dialogue can't even be reached without it turning into name-calling.
in other news, i'll be running for UN Secretary-General in the next election. |
Not full of hate per se, but certainly full of hate for TX. Christ, what a vile tip! Has anyone honestly ever met a Texan who wasn't a total idiot? I prefer the French and the Scots to Texans any day of the week and that's really saying something! |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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I've known some really sound people from Austin, TX. That sounds like a good place to be.
Also, some of my holdem buddies in Korea were Texan gyopos. Great fun. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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| gang ah jee wrote: |
I've known some really sound people from Austin, TX. That sounds like a good place to be.
Also, some of my holdem buddies in Korea were Texan gyopos. Great fun. |
I totally forgot about Austin. Yes, cool place. Not that I've ever been and probably never will. Any red state like TX is never getting any of my vast amounts of green. The reason why people usually cite Austin as cool is that it's completely different from the rest of Texas - in other words, has cool bars, has a professional class, educated, civilized populace, is a major education centre, has pretty ladies everywhere, has refreshingly few redneck idiots. |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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I'm a once-and-future Austinite. Deliverance was set in Alabama, wasn't it? The culture of texas is very different from the southern states. texas is more properly a western state. or a south-western state.
But hey, take a skinny English dude with rotten and missing teeth, knobby knees, and low testosterone from his stady diet of black bread. Put him up against a death-penalty-loving, 250 kilo (funny that the limeys gave up their measurement system for one invnted by the French, isn't it?) Texan, full of red meat from his mega burgers, and desensitized to violence from beating his wife and dragging niggers to their deaths behind his pick-up truck.
Who are you gonna put your money on?
Texas makes the world's best barb-b-que. What the heck do the english have to offer? |
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cwemory
Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:22 am Post subject: |
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| ChopChaeJoe wrote: |
| Deliverance was set in Alabama, wasn't it? |
Georgia
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Grimalkin
Joined: 22 May 2005
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:56 am Post subject: |
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| gang ah jee wrote: |
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I'm Texan. I like Canadians, Welsh, Irish, Scots, Aussies, Kiwis, all of them, except the British.
I just never met a brit I cared much about. |
Pro-tip: Brits = Welsh, Scots, Northern Irish and English |
Actually Northern Irish are not British. The UK consists of Great Britain (Scotland, England and Wales) and Northern Ireland The Northern Irish are UK citizens but not British.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that we did nothing to them. Why else did Tony Blair apologise for the Famine (which in effect wasn't a true famine. The potato crop failed but there was enough food in the country to feed the people, we simply exported to britain instead of feeding the people thus causing (between emigration and starvation) the population to fall from 8 million to about three million.
And I don't think they hate us in the South. I have Irish friends and although I do get occasional joshing about our country's past interference it's all in good fun. I think now that they are independant from us they resent us less unlike Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (where even the loyalists seem to resent us at times).
Certainly their is a certain dissing (on our part as well) but I think this happens with all nighbouring states |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:11 am Post subject: |
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| Grimalkin wrote: |
| Actually Northern Irish are not British. The UK consists of Great Britain (Scotland, England and Wales) and Northern Ireland The Northern Irish are UK citizens but not British. |
True, my mistake. As a side point though, do not at least some Northern Irish consider themselves British? |
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Grimalkin
Joined: 22 May 2005
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:39 am Post subject: |
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| gang ah jee wrote: |
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| Actually Northern Irish are not British. The UK consists of Great Britain (Scotland, England and Wales) and Northern Ireland The Northern Irish are UK citizens but not British. |
True, my mistake. As a side point though, do not at least some Northern Irish consider themselves British? |
In the past certainly some of the loyalists identified more with Britain than Ireland.
Nowadays loyalists consider themselves to be the original Irish and their stance is that the plantation that resulted in their modern day presence in Northern Ireland was more of a 'returning'. There was a thread about this a few months ago (I hadn't heard about this before) which explained this in some detail tho' for the life of me I can't remember what it was called.
I don't think the republicans consider themselves in any way to be British.
I don't know this 100% I just suspect the idea would be anathema to them. |
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Caledonian Craig
Joined: 13 Jan 2006
Location: Edinburgh
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:07 am Post subject: |
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Profit changes everything (especially if you're a Scot).
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Nice to see the old racial stereotypes are still strong.
Why not lead with an Englishman Scotsman and an Irishman joke next time?
Now where is that emoticon for '*beep*'? |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:00 am Post subject: |
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| Grimalkin wrote: |
Actually Northern Irish are not British. The Northern Irish are UK citizens but not British. |
Haha you're kidding, right? I think you better be the one to break it to them 
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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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my boyfriend and his high school rugby team (from Cardigan, Wales) went to the Republic of Ireland on some school trip. i guess the idiot admin chose the colour orange for their uniforms.
and it turns out that orange is the colour for Protestant loyalists in Northern Ireland.
the team got threatened, insulted, and were spat at while the RofI. (this would have been about 1996) |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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my boyfriend and his high school rugby team (from Cardigan, Wales) went to the Republic of Ireland on some school trip. i guess the idiot admin chose the colour orange for their uniforms.
and it turns out that orange is the colour for Protestant loyalists in Northern Ireland.
the team got threatened, insulted, and were spat at while the RofI. (this would have been about 1996) |
Haha! That's hilarious! But it's also evidence of the basic lack of knowledge/interest on the mainland about 'the troubles.' |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| ChopChaeJoe wrote: |
1. I'm a once-and-future Austinite. Deliverance was set in Alabama, wasn't it? The culture of texas is very different from the southern states. texas is more properly a western state. or a south-western state.
But hey, take a skinny English dude with rotten and missing teeth, knobby knees, and low testosterone from his stady diet of black bread. Put him up against a 2. death-penalty-loving, 250 kilo (funny that the limeys gave up their measurement system for one invnted by the French, isn't it?) Texan, full of red meat from his mega burgers, and desensitized to violence from beating his wife and dragging *beep* to their deaths behind his pick-up truck.
Who are you gonna put your money on?
3. Texas makes the world's best barb-b-que. What the heck do the english have to offer? |
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1. Culture is something that - by virtue of being from TX - you're unqualified to comment on. Even if you did come from a nice Clinton-loving state and (thus) your opinions were worthy of consideration, this view on Texan 'culture' would still be complete rubbish. The difference between Texas and Georgia or Alabama is about as significant and interesting as the difference between the North Pole and Greenland.
2. Why are you commenting on a country you OBVIOUSLY know nothing about? Dude, you're from Texas. You don't even know what's going on in the next state, let alone a country thousands of miles away. The English HAVE NOT dispensed with the Imperial system in favour of the metric system. We use both. I used the kilo analogy because I've got used to it in Korea and it's more universal anyway.
3. Outstanding English contributions to world cuisine like fish and chips, sunday roast, Cottage Pie, the invention of the computer, the discovery of Penicillin, Shakespeare, Charles Darwin (not to your Texan creationist views, I know, but he's an important fellow), Isaac Newton, Led Zeppelin....all pale into insignificance compared to a Texan BBQ I'm sure. Anyone can cook a steak on a barby. Maybe if y'all ate more healthily you wouldn't be the stupid, obese, sub-human scum that ALL Texans are! Let's say Texas seceeded from the Union, or the Union kicked it out because it's such a foul Republican stain on the very Earth, and Texas became a country. Who's gonna win out of England and Texas? England, all the way, obviously. Bigger population, access to hundreds of thermonuclear warheads....kiss goodbye to Texas, what a shame!  English soccer hooligans alone would smash it to bits!
How good's your Korean? 텍서스를 정말 파괴하고 싶다! sums it up for me. I've never had a problem with TX before but encountering yet another Texas twit with a bad attitude towards England is one too many. Nuke Texas into the Stone Age I say! |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:22 am Post subject: |
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| What the heck is a twit? |
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