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Author Topic: If you don't do this, you are unamerican.  (Read 23837 times)

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Re: If you don't do this, you are unamerican.
« Reply #15 on: July 04, 2011, 03:42:25 pm »
Yeah, do try and avoid any strict-nationality jokes/ideas on here.  Or on any internet.  The World Wide Web isn't just in America.  Some basic respect for nationalities, timezones, and languages is essential on B12.
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Re: If you don't do this, you are unamerican.
« Reply #16 on: July 04, 2011, 03:45:05 pm »
canadians are just americans with health care instead of guns.

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Re: If you don't do this, you are unamerican.
« Reply #17 on: July 04, 2011, 03:46:28 pm »
Quote from: Poindexterity on July 04, 2011, 03:45:05 pm
canadians are just americans with health care instead of guns.

You got the poor end of that deal!
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Re: If you don't do this, you are unamerican.
« Reply #18 on: July 04, 2011, 04:05:52 pm »
A Dane here. Not many of those around i reckon
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Re: If you don't do this, you are unamerican.
« Reply #19 on: July 04, 2011, 04:12:37 pm »
Polish, which may or may not be better then American.

However, like around 90% of the intelligent Polish population our family emigrated, I'm living in Germany. Better then America for sure.
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Re: If you don't do this, you are unamerican.
« Reply #20 on: July 04, 2011, 04:37:16 pm »
Jerry here, and I resent the opening post. After all, we've been more vigorous at combating un-American behaviour than America itself in a fashion...
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Re: If you don't do this, you are unamerican.
« Reply #21 on: July 04, 2011, 04:42:05 pm »
Brazilian here, although, you could say I'm american, since I live in the american continent. I sugest the thread name be changed to undwarfy and the first post be changed accordingly.
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Re: If you don't do this, you are unamerican.
« Reply #22 on: July 04, 2011, 04:53:24 pm »
Quote from: greatorder on July 04, 2011, 04:01:48 pm
Quote from: Kilroy the Grand on July 04, 2011, 03:46:28 pm
Quote from: Poindexterity on July 04, 2011, 03:45:05 pm
canadians are just americans with health care instead of guns.

You got the poor end of that deal!
really? I'd prefer it if I didn't have to pay to go to hospital than be shot by a madman around every corner.

then again, I'd be the madman around the corner...

I must admit I've never really understood this train of thought. What is it about owning a firearm that's supposed to transform an ordinary citizen into either an unbalanced sociopath or cowboy vigilante?

Many people drive cars, but very few drive on the sidewalk to run down pedestrians. I'd wager many households have cooking cutlery, but we don't have a rash of stabbings. Everyone in Switzerland is armed, but they don't have daily gunfights, that I know of. What's the connection here?
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Quote from: Ieb on June 06, 2011, 12:42:48 pm
And then, they will be weaponized. Like everything in this game, from kittens to babies, everything is a potential device of murder.
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Re: If you don't do this, you are unamerican.
« Reply #23 on: July 04, 2011, 05:04:14 pm »
Quote from: Darkmere on July 04, 2011, 04:53:24 pm
I must admit I've never really understood this train of thought. What is it about owning a firearm that's supposed to transform an ordinary citizen into either an unbalanced sociopath or cowboy vigilante?

Many people drive cars, but very few drive on the sidewalk to run down pedestrians. I'd wager many households have cooking cutlery, but we don't have a rash of stabbings. Everyone in Switzerland is armed, but they don't have daily gunfights, that I know of. What's the connection here?

Canada is by far less violent than the U.S. and even if it was an exageration to say that there are madmen around every corners, you get the idea. In the U.S, there's more guns than people; in Canada, it's harder to get a Glock than 10kg of cannabis. Of course, it's more jokes than anything else. Americans mock canadians, but they don't realize how much canadians mock them, too. That's especially true in french regions like Québec.

Also, I'm surprised how many canadians are present on the forums. I am personally canadian and québecois, and I believed for long I was practically alone.
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Re: If you don't do this, you are unamerican.
« Reply #24 on: July 04, 2011, 05:18:08 pm »
As a scotsman, I find all of this completely irrelevant.

We Scots have a long history of violence and sociopathy, and not once have we had to tun to guns to make us better at either. :P
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Re: If you don't do this, you are unamerican.
« Reply #25 on: July 04, 2011, 05:22:40 pm »
Quote from: Darkmere on July 04, 2011, 04:53:24 pm
Quote from: greatorder on July 04, 2011, 04:01:48 pm
Quote from: Kilroy the Grand on July 04, 2011, 03:46:28 pm
Quote from: Poindexterity on July 04, 2011, 03:45:05 pm
canadians are just americans with health care instead of guns.

You got the poor end of that deal!
really? I'd prefer it if I didn't have to pay to go to hospital than be shot by a madman around every corner.

then again, I'd be the madman around the corner...

I must admit I've never really understood this train of thought. What is it about owning a firearm that's supposed to transform an ordinary citizen into either an unbalanced sociopath or cowboy vigilante?

Many people drive cars, but very few drive on the sidewalk to run down pedestrians. I'd wager many households have cooking cutlery, but we don't have a rash of stabbings. Everyone in Switzerland is armed, but they don't have daily gunfights, that I know of. What's the connection here?
The gunfights are a secret. You're probably just not invited.

Can't let just anybody know about it, or the news will be all up in that shit. You saw what happened to mexico a few months ago.
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Re: If you don't do this, you are unamerican.
« Reply #26 on: July 04, 2011, 05:36:32 pm »
Quote from: Shootandrun on July 04, 2011, 05:04:14 pm
Quote from: Darkmere on July 04, 2011, 04:53:24 pm
I must admit I've never really understood this train of thought. What is it about owning a firearm that's supposed to transform an ordinary citizen into either an unbalanced sociopath or cowboy vigilante?

Many people drive cars, but very few drive on the sidewalk to run down pedestrians. I'd wager many households have cooking cutlery, but we don't have a rash of stabbings. Everyone in Switzerland is armed, but they don't have daily gunfights, that I know of. What's the connection here?

Canada is by far less violent than the U.S. and even if it was an exageration to say that there are madmen around every corners, you get the idea. In the U.S, there's more guns than people; in Canada, it's harder to get a Glock than 10kg of cannabis. Of course, it's more jokes than anything else. Americans mock canadians, but they don't realize how much canadians mock them, too. That's especially true in french regions like Québec.

Also, I'm surprised how many canadians are present on the forums. I am personally canadian and québecois, and I believed for long I was practically alone.

Yeah that's just it, the implication that "more violence" is somehow the direct result of "more guns". I'm not arguing either case, I just don't know how that direct correlation seems to automatically get made. Ah well, life's a mystery.

Also, everyone mocks everyone, as long as people don't take it too seriously, there's no harm, in my opinion.
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Quote from: Ieb on June 06, 2011, 12:42:48 pm
And then, they will be weaponized. Like everything in this game, from kittens to babies, everything is a potential device of murder.
Quote from: penguinofhonor on June 11, 2015, 06:28:02 pm
So if baseless speculation is all we have, we might as well treat it like fact.

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Re: If you don't do this, you are unamerican.
« Reply #27 on: July 04, 2011, 05:56:43 pm »
I am an Australian. We only shoot the people the Americans tell us to. It gives them a figleaf of legitimacy.
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Re: If you don't do this, you are unamerican.
« Reply #28 on: July 04, 2011, 06:26:17 pm »
You guys get offended too easily sometimes. God forbid somebody acts like that on independence day, they're so ignant.
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Re: If you don't do this, you are unamerican.
« Reply #29 on: July 04, 2011, 06:58:52 pm »
Quote from: Deathsword on July 04, 2011, 04:42:05 pm
Brazilian here, although, you could say I'm american, since I live in the american continent. I sugest the thread name be changed to undwarfy and the first post be changed accordingly.

I'm from Brazil too! Você é o segundo brasileiro que eu conheci aqui! Vou te mandar uma mensagem! (You are the second brazilian I have met here! I will send you a message!)
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