Lucius

In your dreams fanboi <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes I'm sure they're in his dreams somewhere, but that doesn't make the statement false.

Now now, as much as I know you'd like to turn my own arguments against me ^_^, you did in fact mention "Europe" first as seen here, and I used it only to show you that this continent is as big as, and in my opinion more diverse than the US, which then leads me back to the initial point of my argument that "we" are not a single nations such as you, and how citizens of a different European nation behave after or during a football match really has nothing to do with me. I know you said that this wasn't what you meant, but this was how I understood your response at any rate. Yeah, I know of the cosmopolitan US cities (although I don't know as much as you, of course). It sounds like you live in one, however I've never even been to one, and I'm sure I'd get a culture shock if I ever did. (I hear the amounts of people in the streets can be terrifying at first). However I should have said that I was talking more 'state-to-state-' wise, since this is the closest you can get to comparing nations of Europe. I know that there are still various differencies in accents, political opinions etc. from state to state, but you still share a common language, traditions and what not that binds you all together somehow, yes? If I were to go to Germany, which is my southern neighbours, I'd better friggin' learn to speak German, and appriciate sausage. I have tried to communicate with Germans before, my skills are horrible. :D Who is Joe? And why is he more important than me? I know that most are good people, it's just so absurd to watch these gangs lurk in the streets and seeing these poor desperate people loot stuff in order to survive when the government is too slow to respond. Together with what Eldar wrote on this subject, I just want to say: Social Democracy; the distance between "poor" and "rich" is a lot shorter, the welfare state has its flaws (such as very high taxes), but there are far more good sides than bad in my biased opinion, however I don't know if such a government type could work in a nation as big as the US. Just how you like it

It's very late here so I'll postpone my response until tomorrow.

Ah, but I didn't. You said that you're larger and more diverse, I say that the USA and Europe are just as big in terms of landmass, and Europe has 700million people in some 48-50 (can't remember) different nations, in which there are vastly different cultures and languages. Now you know. Not even close, I'd still like to know why this 'subclass' even exists in the first place, though. I've only heard bad news here so far, even your National Guard is made out to be utterly incompetent, and the same goes for the Bush Administration. Now now, that would be telling.

Are you implying that you are more different than, say, a Dane and a Spaniard? Or an Austrian and a Greek? All whom does not only not share a mutually understandable language, they also have thousands of years of national history, culture and traditions. Seriously? :D The far south, I do know that societies vary within the states, even though you might not believe it. 1. I see, but why is this a "poor black" city? Why this 'subclass'? And are there really cities which, if a flood hit it, would have thousands upon thousands of poor white people standing and dying in the streets? 2. Yeah well, I just never understood the whole "its our god given right" thing and the NRA, I just can't see anything "good" in having these stores. (3) What was that? Freudian slip or are you trying tell me something ?

Then again, you come from near a place were they riot because of bad calls by a ref in a football match <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Our footballs fans are notoriously... peaceful, they're called "Roligans" for a reason. "Rolig" means calm, so I guess your jab at us wasn't as effective as you might have anticipated. Note that I said "Near You". I had no idea how the fans are in Denmark, I was referencing other spots in Europe. aka, Europe isn't some kind of magically peaceful place that isn't prone to dark moments. Hell, France to is having lots of racial issues currently. They just havn't had a big ole' flood in Paris yet. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well you really should have been more specific then, I really can't be bothered with what people do in football matches in nearby nations, since it has nothing to do with my nation, we're not a federation here, remember that. But sure, I'm not saying that there isn't problems in Europe, I'm just saying that the situation in New Orleans looks like a society in decay. Why all these poor black people? Why all these guns? Btw. Paris is above sea level. EDIT: Indeed Meta, the Turkish supporters were also known for their violent nature, if memory serves. And it's really positive that so many fan clubs are distancing themselves to the hardcore hooligans.

I guess a lot of them are banned from entering Copenhagen then, they wrecked half the city a few years ago when they went head to head with Turkish fans (who was also out of control, mind you).

Then again, you come from near a place were they riot because of bad calls by a ref in a football match <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Our footballs fans are notoriously... peaceful, they're called "Roligans" for a reason. "Rolig" means calm, so I guess your jab at us wasn't as effective as you might have anticipated. However English football has a notoriously violent hooligan movement, you might be thinking about them and not the Danish, who knows.

I saw some footage yesterday, of Australian citizens being evacuated by heavily armed police escorts, they were prepared to defend themselves against rampaging gangs and looters in the city. What kind of society is this? Do we have a shake head emoticon?

I never would have guessed. The action and acting were usually crappy, even my older brother who was a kid back then and loved every minute of these movies now think that they're just plain bad, and he's not at all a sucker for brainless Hollywood action movies, neither am I FYI. However I do like Sean Connery, make no mistake, he's got style. But seriously, every movie in the Bond series always end up in some over the top evil genious base, there's more entertaining spy flicks out there for sure.

Not at all... I'm not the type of person to do that Every scene she was in made me wish she got lightsabered... and to be almost completely controversial but honest here, I didn't even rate her performance in Leon DL <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I know exactly how you feel, her and JarJar should have been killed off. However having her dead before childbirth makes the story line kinda tricky. <_<

I prefer the accent used by the character "Inspector Barnaby" in the British "Midsomer Murders" TV series, can anyone who have seen it tell me what you'd call an accent like his? It sounds very solid and firm, so to speak. Also, as a non native English speaker, I can easily hear the difference between British accents and Kiwi/Aussie, however the difference between those two are somewhat more blurred to me.

Never tried it, I've seen enough screwed up potheads to make not smoking it into a principle.

They're gonna wish themselves back to New Orleans before long... - Kill Phil

That man is insane, and so are the people applauding him. He's not supposed to be crazy guy on stage, he's the CEO right?

Interesting, however I'm too tired to try and figure out how that stuff works. I'm off to bed, night night. ^_^

Ooops, I misread your post Ender. It's late and my eyes are failing me. :cool:

Is that good or bad? "TOMBS" sounds kinda morbid. :ph34r:

We may be ranked a bit high at 6, but I don't think it is beyond arguement to call the US squad a top-10 team. Top-10 in the world isn't bad. Again, I don't think it takes winning the WC to be considered a good team. People say we don't play soccer here, and yet apparently we do. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You mean winning the qualification, right? Winning the WC does indeed require an extraordinary performance from a team. We've won the EC (European cup, which is extremely difficult mind you) once, and dude that's like a national treasure.

Indeed, Womans football is almost completely ignored in Europe by the general population, I personally never give it any thought really, there is only one National Team here that can make the entire country go into a nationalism-like frenzy. ^_^

No, I really think I don't. Tell me, can you give me list of defeated nations to go with that rank? It has a lot to say about your chances, I'd like to see it.

Ezekiel 25:17 - "Sup y'all." Amen.

On the other hand, he got him elected, and Bush is the type of guy to pray back a favor. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Corrected.

The old Bond movies are overrated, they've been running all the old ones lately and they just plain suck in my opinion. I prefer the new ones with Brosnan, that dude has friggin' style.