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hmm apparently it was invented by a frenchy, thats what I get for listening to lectures by globalists

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

27 (edited by avogadro 11-Dec-2008 21:37:22)

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> Wild Flower Soul wrote:

> Exactly. "Inferiority" or "superiority" is culturally biased and is thus pointless.


its only pointless if you consider culture as pointless.

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if it doesnt agree with me, it is pointless!!

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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If it doesn't have a point, it is pointless...

Morbo: Morbo can't understand his teleprompter. He forgot how you say that letter that looks like a man with a hat.
Linda: It's a 't'. It goes "tuh".
Morbo: Hello, little man. I will destroy you!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpP7b2lUxVE

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wow, skoe, that was enlightening tongue really?

to extrapolate my point to fit skoe's language. WFS stated its pointless because all culture's view of civilized is biased by their culture, and because its biased by their culture, its pointless. and my point was that culture is an integral part of everyone's life, our culture is what separates us from men that first inhabited the earth, it gives us the knowledge and equipment we use every second of our life; our culture is essential and our culture's influence is everywhere that we are; to say something is pointless because our culture is biased, is in fact saying all our lives, everything we've ever experienced or thought, is pointless.

31 (edited by Simon 12-Dec-2008 07:42:10)

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I agree with avo.

We can thus view the world through our own lenses and apply notions of right and wrong, forming the basis of superiority and inferiority. No one else has to agree with our labels but I feel it's something we can do.

Brother Simon, Keeper of Ages, Defender of Faith.
~ ☭ Fokker

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@Simon
We can also poke our eyes out with our own penii...doesn't mean we have to, we should or even that anyone agrees with doing it.

@avogadro:
I like my phrasing tongue.

Morbo: Morbo can't understand his teleprompter. He forgot how you say that letter that looks like a man with a hat.
Linda: It's a 't'. It goes "tuh".
Morbo: Hello, little man. I will destroy you!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpP7b2lUxVE

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"its only pointless if you consider culture as pointless."

Not at all, it's pointless when you realise that ranking things that are not even rankable is silly. Culture has little to do with it, only selfrightiousness.

God: Behold ye angels, I have created the ass.. Throughout the ages to come men and women shall grab hold of these and shout my name...

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You can rank anything, thus everything is rankable.


Now replace the R in rank with a W big_smile.

Morbo: Morbo can't understand his teleprompter. He forgot how you say that letter that looks like a man with a hat.
Linda: It's a 't'. It goes "tuh".
Morbo: Hello, little man. I will destroy you!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpP7b2lUxVE

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get back in ranks! you ranker

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

36 (edited by Theodora 12-Dec-2008 16:23:50)

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> Wild Flower Soul wrote:

>Technically speaking, China is a 2nd world country.






Actually, they're an industrializing nation wink The term 2nd world comes from a day and age when it was still appropriate to call a retarded person retarded. Alas...those days are long gone sad Yay for PC!

To serve is to survive

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Most American's are cocky.
Just a few days ago I read in the Dutch Telegraaf (newspaper) that the Netherlands aids the most to 3rd world countries.
Compared to the US, the Netherlands is a tiny tiny country. You would find US somewhere 5th on the ladder.

So don't look at us, if you think why we say you're selfcentred, hated.

38 (edited by Gwynedd 13-Dec-2008 22:12:27)

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But some of us westerners have had it too easy in the past generation or few. This [w00f!] of a once great culture has resulted in pansies without values who want to be taken care of. Virtue has been replaced by whining about having the "right" to have no rights save be taken care of by an all powerful force in the universe... we'll call it "government."

Some of us are old fashioned and want a return to the individualism and freedom that has motivated hard work and innovation, giving us the lead in the world medically, militarily, economically, standard-of-living...ly? tongue

Others want to strive to achieve China's poverty standard of living because then at least it'd be fair. If they're too inept to take care of themselves and their families, you should be pulled down to share their failure.

Two schools of thought among these "westerners" who share the same nations pull in radically different directions. Right now our legislation is a mutt of what the two sides have managed to get passed, so each side blames failures on the other and claims credit for success. It looks like the pansies are increasing in number more quickly than us old fashioned kind of guys. History will tell this tale a few generations after we suffer it.

God save their queen!

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>>WFS stated its pointless because all culture's view of civilized is biased by their culture, and because its biased by their culture, its pointless.<<

There are still cultures which place no inherent value on human life. We do. Anyone who claims we're no better than those who do not is an ignorant prick.

Okay, I found ONE group worse than the socialist pansies who threaten the wealth of western society (they're already hurting Europe badly enough!).

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In regards to "giving" to third world countries, I'd like to squash this notion right away: (The road to hell is paved with things you think are braggable.)
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"while the EU has rather proudly given

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hmm maybe we should offer US Navy support to these countries in exchange for prisons

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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"We can also poke our eyes out with our own penii...doesn't mean we have to, we should or even that anyone agrees with doing it."

So what's the point of your post?

Brother Simon, Keeper of Ages, Defender of Faith.
~ &#9773; Fokker

43 (edited by avogadro 12-Dec-2008 23:10:53)

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> Joor wrote:

> Most American's are cocky.
Just a few days ago I read in the Dutch Telegraaf (newspaper) that the Netherlands aids the most to 3rd world countries.
Compared to the US, the Netherlands is a tiny tiny country. You would find US somewhere 5th on the ladder.

So don't look at us, if you think why we say you're selfcentred, hated.


im not sure what its like atm, but acouple years ago, the US civilians spent more per capita on charity then any other nation. also, maybe americans shy away from aiding 3rd world countries because most of the time some warlord hordes the aid and it does no good?

but you dutchies should be proud of aiding warlords that oppress impoverished people more then anyone else smile

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> Soth wrote:

> I agree but i think you would be hard pressed to get a European to agree with you on that.  they all think America has no culture to speak of.




LOL the the continent north america has plenty culture... just not the USA

<@Nolio> Ilu was the man back in the day,he even made monkeywrench and arganon look good for half a round =p
<@iluvatar> it is my grandest achievement
<@Nolio> *half a round  =p
<@iluvatar> still
* Final_Doom is now known as Thanks_Iluvatar

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Jealously rears its ugly head.

Now that colonization and military might don't force European culture on the rest of the world, the fact that so many love what Amerika turns out really burns deep!

*Goes and enjoys German music without crying because it didn't come from somewhere else*

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right you sit there in your denim trousers using a personal computer from a household phone connection denouncing America's lack of culture

and yes technology IS culture

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

47 (edited by =( sKoE )= 13-Dec-2008 09:15:07)

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>right you sit there

sif

The chair was invented before your American government was X(.
And don't tell me it wasn't X(.

Morbo: Morbo can't understand his teleprompter. He forgot how you say that letter that looks like a man with a hat.
Linda: It's a 't'. It goes "tuh".
Morbo: Hello, little man. I will destroy you!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpP7b2lUxVE

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Benjamin Franklin invented the chair! He also invented the chair that could capture lightning! He called it "the electric chair." And it was awesome.

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lol

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the way i think of it, American's ancestry comes from all over the world, so Americans infact invented everything.