Americans on Antimoon!

JGreco   Fri May 28, 2010 7:19 pm GMT
From Florida
Joe   Fri May 28, 2010 9:01 pm GMT
How is David Cameron not a native English speaker?
dewd   Fri May 28, 2010 11:49 pm GMT
This whole time I was thinking JGreco was from Greece...
Mexican   Sat May 29, 2010 12:03 am GMT
Fuck you, Yankees!

Mexico will take over your land and take all your women!
David Vincent   Sat May 29, 2010 2:33 am GMT
I am From California, but I spend all my time looking for Alien Invaders.
Franco   Sat May 29, 2010 2:49 am GMT
I am from Antarctica.
Fidel   Sat May 29, 2010 3:13 am GMT
I'm from Guantanamo !
Skippy   Sat May 29, 2010 3:38 am GMT
I'm from Texas, but I live in San Diego.
Eurotrash   Sat May 29, 2010 4:53 am GMT
I can accept that Americans don't know any foreign languages, but what makes them look really dumb and imperialistic in mye eyes is that although they invented the computer, most of them can't type an umlaut, accent or other diacritic on their computers.
San-g-real   Sat May 29, 2010 5:22 am GMT
While most Americans may be ignorant of the finer points of royalty, this is one field where Europeans like me may have quite ridiculously romantic/wrong/wild ideas. I have never been very into the lore of the Old West, but I remain absolutely fascinated by the idea that in Colonial America, the woods might not just have harboured wild bears, cougars and deadly ticks, but also alien, warlike, hostile races. No doubt it must have had an impact upon the American psyche. (Think of not only Bigfoot, but not at least the American obsession with extraterrestrials.... Really, the American obsession that anything "could be out there, watching you". BTW a similar theory is that the original Finno-Ugric or Sami inhabitants of Scandinavia, who lived in huts resembling beaver lodges, gave rise to the tales of subterrestrials!)

I know it must have happened decades before Jennie Jerome's birth, but exactly when did for example the Native Americans of her native New York State become "pacified". (The ones that were not exterminated, of course.)? I remain absolutely fascinated by the fact that more or less "wild Natives" may have lived on next to the mansions of the Gilded Age. (I was absolutely delightfully shocked when I discovered that there are still Native Americans remaining not only in placid New England, but also in such up-scale places as Nantucket and Martha's Vineyeard!)

Instead of French farmers destroying McDonald's resturants, I long to hear reports of Native Americans in full war paint bursting into a grotesque mall built on their tribal lands and just trashing everything with their tomahawks.... :-) And painting over all English and Spanish signs with Algonquin..... And start hunting the pets of NRA members with bows and arrows....

Disclaimer: I do know that many Native American tribes own and run a lot of casinos and as such are fully integrated in the capitalist economy. I also realize that while there is quite a lot of sad poverty on Indian reservations, many if not most Americans of Native American heritage are very integrated in modern US society. (The Sami situation in Northern Norway gives me quite a few clues about how complex the situation of an aboriginal minority can be.)

Interestlingly I gather that in modern America it's the Native Americans that provide the most significant example of the obsession with purity of blood and ancestors that we find in European royalty. I mean the regulations that decide how "many parts Native American" you have to be in order to be able to be a member of a tribe. (Which has an economic side, because of the casinos.)
Joshua Scanandore   Sat May 29, 2010 6:56 am GMT
<< Native Americans of her native New York State become "pacified". (The ones that were not exterminated, of course.)? I remain absolutely fascinated by the fact that more or less "wild Natives" may have lived on next to the mansions of the Gilded Age. (I was absolutely delightfully shocked when I discovered that there are still Native Americans remaining not only in placid New England, but also in such up-scale places as Nantucket and Martha's Vineyeard!) >>

The great majority of the 200,000 Native Americans east of the Mississippi distrusted the colonists and supported the British cause. The British provided funding and guns to attack American outposts. The only Iroquois tribe to ally with the colonials were the Oneida and Tuscarora.

By the way,
what's your opinion on the Republic of Lakotah?
http://www.republicoflakotah.com/steps-to-sovereignty/158-year-stuggle-for-justice/
eeuuian   Sat May 29, 2010 12:50 pm GMT
<<although they invented the computer, most of them can't type an umlaut, accent or other diacritic on their computers. >>

I'm no sure the US invented the computer, but it was developed and popularized here.

Until about 1970, we couldn't even type in lower case letters (or print them out on printers), so accent marks were of minimal concern.
AMERICANS   Sat May 29, 2010 1:14 pm GMT
AMERICANS ARE NOT DUMB!!!!!!


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


WE ONLY INVADE COUNTRIES FOR "WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION" NOT OIL!!


AMERICA IS THE LAND OF THE FREE!! REALLY IT IS!!
Jordan   Sat May 29, 2010 2:15 pm GMT
<<although they invented the computer, most of them can't type an umlaut, accent or other diacritic on their computers. >>

Wow, you completely forgot to consider that the English language doesn't USE any accents. Why would Americans need to be educated on how to use accents that they're never going to use?

I'm an American, and in my French class we did learn how to make accents on the computer. I've memorized all of them now.

<<I can accept that Americans don't know any foreign languages>>

Though a lot of older Americans are monoglots, many younger Americans do speak foreign languages. Most generally speak Spanish, because that's what taught in school. A few others learn French and German.
San-g-real   Sat May 29, 2010 3:04 pm GMT
@Joshua Scanandore:
I hope the Republic of Lakotah bombs all McDonalds on their territory.

@Jordan:
But they do need diacritics:
- when writing the foreign languages you claim they are so eagerly learning nowadays.
- when referring to any foreign name, like São Paulo, Jyväskylä or Besançon.