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[Tsuyu]

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If the offer was out there, would any of the staff go on a hunting trip with me?

Hunting for sport, or are we eating what we kill? As a Satanist I against all form of animal killing besides for food or self-defense.

On the EU issue, I am with Angel - what little cultural uniqueness there is in Sweden I want to preserve.

 

[Walker]

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I see... I really want to see how that whole thing turns out.

And Angel, I wasn't really going to insult the British. I don't really know WHAT I was going to say... here, lemme try: what you said just sounded incredibly arrogant. I also wonder why you complain that no one cares about your country, after saying that you don't care.

However, I do have a solution for lack of backbone: pay the US to invade. I'm sure we could come up with a reason. Then you would have a unifying force to fight against, and your conspiracy theorists would have something true to occupy yourselves with. And then you really WOULD hate us.

And in reference to--

Well, seeing as I know and care little about American history, it doesn't cause me any offence :lol:

I was just worried you might get insulted at the comparison of the EU to the US and European countries to the states. Or something.

On the EU issue, I am with Angel - what little cultural uniqueness there is in Sweden I want to preserve.

Well, I'm not sure that a federal EU government would eliminate the cultural diversity. After all, the US still has the Amish, still has the Louisiana creoles, still has (even though this is a touchy one) the assorted Native Americans, still has the (another touchy one) largely Hispanic/Mexican-influenced culture of the Southwest, and others.

Though yes, a federal government does have a homogenizing influence even in the absence of specific laws, and we did have some specific homogenizing laws.

 

[Tsuyu]

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I just don't like certain aspects of it - like the Euro. I have a hard time shopping even with the currency I've been raised with! :lol:

Sure the Euro might have it's advantages, but I just love my Swedish Crowns!

 

[FableFreak]

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Absolutely - I'd really enjoy that and nothing quite like eating freshly killed animal

:w00t: Awesome! I could rig your wheelchair for offroading and mount a really big gun on there! Maybe a 30.06!

 

[Angel]

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And Angel, I wasn't really going to insult the British. I don't really know WHAT I was going to say... here, lemme try: what you said just sounded incredibly arrogant. I also wonder why you complain that no one cares about your country, after saying that you don't care.

It's weird with me - like I say, it's not the current state of my country I care about or the way it is run or what have you - it's where it used to be and how hard people used to fight for it - for what? For it to become the mess it is now? There's nothing to respect, in my mind, about my country anymore...

And yes, it will sound arrogant my saying we went from being great and whatever to not so brilliant after all - but it's true. Whilst England did some horrendous things to others in the name of building her empire, no one can deny how successful it was... our industry and trade was fantastic, our sense of national pride was immense and yet what have we got to be proud of now? Highest rate of teen pregnancy in Europe? Most obese population in Europe? Highest rate of unemployment, for the majority of the time, in Europe? ASBOs'? The British National Party? So far, ain't nothing to shout about for me at least... but I am likely to be in the minority, as per

:w00t: Awesome! I could rig your wheelchair for offroading and mount a really big gun on there! Maybe a 30.06!

Me likey this idea...I also want bayonets strapped to each hand rest and mini spikey things sticking out of the wheels... :w00t:

Just don't put a gun in my hands as the last time I had one, I shot myself in the face. Wasn't my best idea, but there you go...

 

[Tsuyu]

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And yes, it will sound arrogant my saying we went from being great and whatever to not so brilliant after all - but it's true. Whilst England did some horrendous things to others in the name of building her empire, no one can deny how successful it was... our industry and trade was fantastic, our sense of national pride was immense and yet what have we got to be proud of now?

No offense, but that sounds awfully a lot like a Nazi describing the Third Reich.

*shrugs* As I said, no offense intended, just a creepy feeling.

Just don't put a gun in my hands as the last time I had one, I shot myself in the face. Wasn't my best idea, but there you go...

Aw, but if we mounted that cannon on there, you'd save money on the return trip - just fire it once and you'll be in the UK again, leaving nothing but a crater behind! :lol:

 

[Angel]

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Well, maybe so - but it's the disintegration of certain aspects of our society has led to the increase of support of the British National Party - now those guys genuinely are Nazi's and as far as I am concerned, that is nothing to be proud of...and it is frightening just how many people support them too...

Cannons on wheelchairs? My kind of disability aid right there

 

[Walker]

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I just looked up that political party. Revolting. That's all I can say. And it IS revolting how much support Wikipedia says they have. Very similar to certain American nutjobs... at least ours are a bit more lunatic fringe, though.

Out of curiosity-- what do you mean, disintegration?

I think that I want to go on this hunting trip just so I can see the W1A2 Angel wheelchair.

 

[Angel]

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The BNP grows more powerful every day - the more our Government opens its doors to immigrants, the more people are turning to the one political party willing to do whatever it takes to remove immigration entirely... on paper, they make an excellent case - but as with the Nazi's of wartime Germany we all know that what happens on paper is not what happens in practice *shudder*

Perhaps disintegration is not the right word...I don't know... I just mean that 50 years ago or so, and definitely in the 19th century British society had a discernible culture, industry and national pride which was well founded - but somewhere along the line we have lost all these things and I just don't know how it happened. Maybe I'm just too old-fashioned but I remember being at school and having to bring in a national dish from a particular country. And what did the child lumbered with Britain bring in? Curry. I don't even know if we have a national dish - if we ever did. Same with national dress. The Irish, the Welsh and the Scots are fiercely proud of their heritage and rightly so - but England just seems to have thrown it all away...

Oh, and definitely come on the hunting trip - bring a camera too

 

[Tsuyu]

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Nazi party "Nationalsocialistisk Front"(National Socialistic Front) over here in Sweden got some extreme support.

National Socialist Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They almost made it into parliament in the last elections.... Which would mean they would have a say in the ruling of Sweden. Scary, scary thought....

 

[Angel]

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BNP is getting there - and whilst it used to be just made up of homophobic skinheads, it is now made up of skilled orators and clean-cut educated men and women who are able to charm their way into the voters' minds and convince them that their policies are the best...

Sure, there are economic and socio-economic reasons why the massive influx of immigrants should be capped or reduced somehow and our government have lied through their teeth about just how many have entered Britain. Minimum wage is set to go down, jobs are harder to find and homes are harder to buy thanks to relaxed immigration laws - all these factors make people edgy and want it stopped somehow and if the government won't do it, then perhaps the BNP will... it's scary stuff...

 

[Walker]

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I have no sympathy for anti-immigrationists. My views on immigration are so far to the left I'm almost to the right. Open borders are what mine boil down to.

I see... well, that's the thing, people have trouble seeing their own distinctive, national dish. If you asked me I'd say the US doesn't have any, because we're a hybrid. But, even though the UK isn't a hybrid like us, they still don't neccesarily have a discernible national culture.

Well, are you talking about the UK or about Britain or about England? Britain, after all, includes Scotland and Wales-- it just refers to the island, from what I know. The UK includes Northern Ireland. England would refer to just England. And I really don't see what anyone could come up for their own national dish. Whatever you eat always seems to just be what you eat-- nothing distinctive or unique there. And what do you mean by national dress?

Oh, I will-- I can assure you I'll get it all on tape. I can think of a couple TV shows which'd pay me for it.

 

[Tsuyu]

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The problem with immigrants, at least in Sweden, is that while we accept them with open arms we don't give a crap about what happens to them.

A doctor for example, a famous case, got offered nothing better than a janitor's job at a local hospital despite his education and diplomas.

Is there really a big surprise a lot of them isolate themselves, and turn to crime and stuff? No, it isn't, and that is what in turns fuels the hatred for immigrants.

 

[Walker]

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Well, I've never met any criminal immigrants. Maybe because I've lived in suburbia my whole life, but everyone I've known was upstanding middle/lower-middle class citizens. And this includes the handful of mostly African immigrants at my middle and elementary school with the handful of Asian immigrants at my high school and the assorted other immigrants I've met outside of school

I don't know much about their parents and qualifications, though, so for all I know the guy stereotypically cutting my neighbor's lawn could have a Ph.D, or the woman serving my soda could be a fighter pilot.

 

[Angel]

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Having lived amongst immigrants most of my life, I have no issue with them as people. But I do see why others are getting het up about it and it's not really crime, it's the economy crashing that they are afraid of. Sure, we gots cheap labour from Poland and Romania - but we're losing jobs, money and housing in order to accommodate them. There's honestly nothing more frustrating than being homeless with a young family and watching all the available government housing being taken by someone who has just landed at the airport this morning whilst you've been waiting for months for an available place to live in...

Well, are you talking about the UK or about Britain or about England? Britain, after all, includes Scotland and Wales-- it just refers to the island, from what I know. The UK includes Northern Ireland. England would refer to just England. And I really don't see what anyone could come up for their own national dish. Whatever you eat always seems to just be what you eat-- nothing distinctive or unique there. And what do you mean by national dress?.

Sorry - I know I keep mish-mashing the UK and then England...

National dish..well, for many countries there is one discernible dish or maybe a couple which is used to define that culture. Ask your average bloke on the street over here what the French eat, for example, and he will instantly rattle off something along the lines of snails and frogs legs. A stereotype, perhaps, but easily defined. Italy it will be pasta or pizza. Portugal, it is Piri-piri chicken. Maybe they are stereotypes, but you get the gist of what I mean. Then you look at England and draw a blank. Maybe fish and chips perhaps? I dunno.

As for national dress - well, America may not have one I don't know - but if you watch opening ceremonies for things like the Olympics or something of that scale, you will often see countries like Austria, China, Japan, Russia, Holland etc sporting clothing which is particular to their history or society in some way. It's not something worn on a bay-to-day basis but when a country is representing themselves internationally, they will often dress up in whatever attire is representative or definitive of their country.

Am I making sense or just making a mess? :lol:

 

[Walker]

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Avoiding the immigrant subject--

About the food, maybe. But for America's food I would have said apple pie, hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza, BBQ chicken, fried chicken, and/or "Chinese" food. So, [shrugs]. And most of the ones you listed did seem to be stereotypes of outsiders, but I wouldn't know.

And if I had to come up with something for the UK in general it would be the fish and chips. Though our fries are better. And I couldn't come up with anything for the component Kingdoms of the UK.

About the national dress I see what you mean, but there are any number of countries that lack associated attire. Or at least as far as I know. For instance-- Tsuyu, does Sweden have some traditional dress?

Does France? How about Germany?

 

[blue crow]

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Am i the only human being that hates death metal? I mean jesus chirst i cant understand a word there singing more like screaming cause thats all they do. For example of death metal cannibal corpse"s I will kill you i can understand little of it cause of the fricken screaming.

 

[Angel]

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Avoiding the immigrant subject--

About the food, maybe. But for America's food I would have said apple pie, hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza, BBQ chicken, fried chicken, and/or "Chinese" food. So, [shrugs]. And most of the ones you listed did seem to be stereotypes of outsiders, but I wouldn't know.

And if I had to come up with something for the UK in general it would be the fish and chips. Though our fries are better. And I couldn't come up with anything for the component Kingdoms of the UK.

About the national dress I see what you mean, but there are any number of countries that lack associated attire. Or at least as far as I know. For instance-- Tsuyu, does Sweden have some traditional dress?

Does France? How about Germany?

Don't know about France but Germany does... other examples are here National Dress

I used national dish and dress as an example, really, of what we do not have in our country which others do and take great pride in them. Our national dish is now regarded as curry - something which is obviously not quintessentially English, however delicious it is (mmm...korma...). Maybe we never had one? I mean, we had so many odd things like potatoes and spices and what have you coming in from all over the world perhaps we never really got around to making the turnip something incredible. I don't know.

 

[Tanro]

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I would still like to know the exact value of π (pi)

 

[Angel]

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I always thought it was 3 point something or other. 3.14 or something? I dunno...