Checkpoint

Because what happened in America happened on a systematically much larger scale with the objective of conquering a vast area through organized means, leading to demographic change of a nature not entirely comparable to a whole lot of other historical examples. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> As Meta pointed out, plenty of folks to blame. The Spainards managed to wipe out several civilizations in Central America and Mexico, and plop their own genetic profile in its stead. The Porteguese took care of those pesky natives in and around much of South America. The French wiped out most of the natives in Florida and what is now Central-Western USA, along with a healthy dollop of what is now Canada before the blood-thirsty Brits landed and began to wipe out those tribes along the east coast. Of course the Brits were behind France, Spain and Portugal in the North-South American native-slaughtering business because they were stretched a bit thin, having to liberate an entire continent (Australia) from those naughty aboriginal folks, not to mention the effort it took for them to claim one of the most populated countries in Asia (India) as its own. This all happened long before there was any population known as "American", because it was long before there was even a country known as America or the USA. So tell me again, why is North America... specifically the territory now known as the USA... being singled out for criticism and contempt here? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I don't really have anything to add. Note that I never spoke a word of Englishmen or any American people. I reiterate: What happened in America happened on a systematically much larger scale with the objective of conquering a vast area through organized means, leading to demographic change of a nature not entirely comparable to a whole lot of other historical examples. I'm essentially talking about both North and South America, and the people ending up on the wrong end of said demographic change were the natives. I really can't think of anything similar in the history of mankind; the only thing that would come close would be the forced immigration of Africans turned slaves, but that merely served to drain an already badly underpolutaed area further without any intent of keeping the territory for colonizing purposes. Sure, one shouldn't specifically "pick on North America," but the truth of the matter is that the point at hand is very much valid when it comes to the white man versus the natives in the New World on a larger scale than "the Yanks weren't as bad as some other people around the world."

The secret about Swedes is the alcohol. We sit around saying squat, but as soon as we get some booze into our bodies there's a total change of scenery, all part of a devious master plan of epic proportions! :ph34r:

Because what happened in America happened on a systematically much larger scale with the objective of conquering a vast area through organized means, leading to demographic change of a nature not entirely comparable to a whole lot of other historical examples.

What if two people come there to burn it at the same time? Like, "Hey, I was here first!", and the other one goes "Like hell you were" etc. Then they would finally embrace each other in some brotherly burning, only to realise they've drenched the thing in some sort of anti-burning stuff that's immune to anything short of the very fires of Hell. Or Mt Doom.

Really?

Er... WTF?

That's just a fluke if you only did it once.

I've got smoke coming from my brain.

You just had to break my heart, now didn't you?

Yay! 0.167! I'm a Rocketing Rabbit! Yay me, I rulez!

I play male. Then I play male again. And again. And again, and again, and again until I run out of ideas and want to be really alternative or politically correct and play a chick or a black dude (OR a black chick!). Actually I do tend to play male most of the time. I really am not secure enough in my sexuality to feel that androgynous for 60-ish hours.

0.202. Don't play straight outta bed.

You'll grow old doing this, Alan.

It's just raining here right now.

TSN says he won't. This lenience has to stop. Even if the dirty play wasn't "intentional" (whatever that means) he could still have put Ryan Smyth in a bleeding wheelchair. Sometimes I wonder what they're actually doing at the top level of this league. If the message is that it's a-okay going about kneeing people left and right this league is gonna go nuts.

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

I'm now shaking my fist angrily in a north-easterly direction... damn you! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hey! Point that fist some other direction, Ms!

Good thing Smytty only appears to have sustained a charley horse from that idiot Liles.

*Picture sadly removed by Walsingham for swearing* NO, WINNAGE

Hahaha, it looks like a joke people didn't get.

I'm studying, but this little task I've got is boring in the Biblical sense of the word at best. Statistics, people. Statistics.

Particularly people who seem to be in a real hurry getting ahead of you onto the escalator only to just stand there, on the wrong side, as if they had all the time in the world.