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thepeel

Joined: 08 Aug 2004

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:35 am Post subject: Right now

Right now, as I type this, 12 of the 14 top topics on CE are about America. Of the other two, one is about an American (S.H.) and the other beer. Hows that for balance!

gang ah jee

Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:44 am Post subject:

Well, make that 11 out of 14 and add in a pointless metathread.

thepeel

Joined: 08 Aug 2004

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:46 am Post subject:

gang ah jee wrote:

Well, make that 11 out of 14 and add in a pointless metathread.

AMERICA IS EVIL.

There. Back up to twelve.

Carry on as you were girls. What did bush do today to upset all of your fragile little egos?

gang ah jee

Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:49 am Post subject:

By the way, Hawking is British.

thepeel

Joined: 08 Aug 2004

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:50 am Post subject:

Oh, my mistake. Of course he his. Now, back on to the evil Americans.

gang ah jee

Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:00 am Post subject:

Why not post some more Islam or global warming hoax threads?

thepeel

Joined: 08 Aug 2004

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:09 am Post subject:

gang ah jee wrote:

Why not post some more Islam or global warming hoax threads?

My last threads:

Hate crime in Maine
V-tech
trouble with islam
Estonia's flat tax
Moyers on Iraq
Photo distortion on the CBC
Russian radio
The Chinese Economy
The economic consequence of Kyoto
why I support gun laws
Israel/Pal
Vancouver Olympics
Chinese artificial snowfall
Canadian taxes
The Canadian green party not being in debates
Cho and old boy
muslims and the PC police
wikipedia on the VT
Chinese criticism of Canadian piracy.
Ken Eng
Obama/Rappers/Imus
Where the bees at?
drinking age in the UK
protests in Columbia
China scholars
UK boycott of Israel
Liberal arts and jobs
Sudan
Duke "rape"
UK parking laws
Why I'm going to move to Nevada
Global Warming
Montreal's red light areas
Iran/Israel
evolution
Kissinger on Iraq
fight at a korean hospital
Orwell in London
the 15 Brit sailors
Chavez banning alcohol (It has been a while sinice I've slammed uncle Hugo.. I'll have to get on that)
N.Ireland
Choc Jesus
the UN farce
USA ROK FTA

igotthisguitar

Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:27 am Post subject: Re: Right now

BJWD wrote:

Right now, as I type this, 12 of the 14 top topics on CE are about America. Of the other two, one is about an American (S.H.) and the other beer.

Hows that for balance!

If you feel such an injustice is being done, maybe you should lobby Dave for an "affirmative" action thread policy?

Pligganease

Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:13 am Post subject: Re: Right now

BJWD wrote:

Right now, as I type this, 12 of the 14 top topics on CE are about America. Of the other two, one is about an American (S.H.) and the other beer.

Hows that for balance!

And then, if someone posts topics about other countries, people start threads like "Has XXXX lost his mind?"

thepeel

Joined: 08 Aug 2004

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:54 am Post subject:

BJWD wrote:

gang ah jee wrote:

Why not post some more Islam or global warming hoax threads?

How does the pie taste?

VanIslander

Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 7:10 am Post subject: Re: Right now

BJWD wrote:

Right now, as I type this, 12 of the 14 top topics on CE are about America. Of the other two, one is about an American (S.H.) and the other beer.

What do you have against beer?

Adventurer

Joined: 28 Jan 2006

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 7:12 am Post subject:

[quote="BJWD"]

BJWD wrote:

gang ah jee wrote:

Why not post some more Islam or global warming hoax threads?

Chinese artificial snowfall (That one was mine)
UK boycott of Israel (mine too)
Sudan (I posted about that one)
Chavez banning alcohol (It has been a while sinice I've slammed uncle Hugo.. I'll have to get on that) -That was mine, too]
N.Ireland (I mainly post about Ireland and the North)

How does the pie taste?

I think there are a variety of threads on besides about the U.S.
There is about Somalia, Iran, Saudi Arabia (Porn), Israel,
one about beer as you said, one about China and a women's town, Richard Gere and that dumb kiss where he forgot about the customs there, making Buddhism the official religion in Thailand and the insurgency etc.... Most people here are from North America, so they are not going to focus as much on Africa or East Asia as they should, and if someone is going to claim someone slamming Bush is being anti-American that is ridiculous. A certain government isn't America per se.
We also had the threads about crazy British soccer fans. I think the forum has better variety than it did before. How about giving credit where credit is due? I think Gopher has also been pitching in with variety.

daskalos

Joined: 19 May 2006
Location: The Road to Ithaca

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:36 am Post subject:

Adventurer wrote:

... and if someone is going to claim someone slamming Bush is being anti-American that is ridiculous. A certain government isn't America per se.

Thank you. It really is possible to loathe that f***king moron in the White House and all his cronies and still love America. To the same extent that it's possible to believe radical Islam is the current major threat to the world, and still think that the Bush, et al, plan to meet that threat is idiotic.

If there are more anti-US threads going than meets someone's comfort level, in a time when the US, as a matter of national policy, is behaving in ways that present a clear impediment to the resolution of global conflicts, that seems to me to be a clear symptom of the aggregate health of humanity, even if some of those threads go over the top or are just a matter of knee jerk reaction to someone the posters believe to be all wrong, all the time. As many of the threads in defense of GWB's inanities go over the top, in defense of his being all right, all the time.

The greater number of anti-US threads on this board is merely a reflection of the fact that official US policy these days is not, for the most part, logically or ethically supportable.

Milwaukiedave

Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:12 pm Post subject:

Dask.....well said.

gang ah jee

Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject:

BJWD wrote:

gang ah jee wrote:

Why not post some more Islam or global warming hoax threads?

Ah, true. You must be off your game.

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