Politics
-
-
Though the way we look down on Belgium is similar to the way the US does to Canada.
LOL, we also look down on Belgium in France. I can't count the number of Belgian jokes I heard in my life so far.
-
this is one side of my family
PTU2He2BIc0&showinfo=0this is the other
xkQ05gkrr4g&showinfo=0MIX THEM ETHNIC GROUPS YOU IGNORANT NIGGAS
SEA, FUCK A FRENCH
CHRISSIE FUCK A BRAZILLIAN
KAIOLINO FUCK A KOREA
DO IT YOU MOTHERFUIRHUB$YUGFHBS$#R@$
-
Very cool, but your health care, Fox News and rednecks still stink.
agreed about the health care, not about the other two.
-
I enjoy watching politics as I have no interest in them, but I do believe that America in general cares way to much about their own politics, to the point of almost obsession.
-
Totally related to politics:
Belgium just broke the record for the longest formation of a government ever! 249 days and counting!
-
agreed about the health care, not about the other two.
Fox News is fucking indefensiblly terrible. Unless you only watch Shepard Smith and ignore the rest of the trash on it.
Do you not even get what Steven Colbert is mocking?
-
The French and the Dutch like to make jokes on Belgium, because they're so freaking jealous of us.
-
Everyone wants Tintin.
-
B-but… whyyyyy a Braziliaaaan? D: How the heck Imma gonna find one in Greece?!
is already part British from her grandmother on dad's side anw
-
@JERK:
Fox News is fucking indefensiblly terrible. Unless you only watch Shepard Smith and ignore the rest of the trash on it.
Do you not even get what Steven Colbert is mocking?
As long as there is an MSNBC, I won't feel bad that Fox News exists. As for the whole redneck thing, there it is again, a popular stereotype. Don't like it.
I get what Stephen Colbert is mocking, I just never took him seriously. I probably never will, after his stupid stunt at that agricultural summit he was invited to and spoke at.
-
As long as there is an MSNBC, I won't feel bad that Fox News exists.
There is absolutely no equivalent and it's hilarious when conservatives achingly try and say "b-b-but msnbc!!", MSNBC is shrill, smarmy and in the case of the guy they thankfully kicked out, histrionically stupid.
But none of it compares with the likes of Hannity or Beck. Fox is twice as fringe, five times as disengenous, eight times as dumb, and ten times as useless.There is no left wing equivalent of Fox, nowhere near.
Though considering your hilarious NAACP rant you're obviously too delusional to notice.I get what Stephen Colbert is mocking, I just never took him seriously. I probably never will, after his stupid stunt at that agricultural summit he was invited to and spoke at.
Clearly you don't get what he's mocking if you somehow enjoy it but "don't take it seriously".
-
@JERK:
There is absolutely no equivalent and it's hilarious when conservatives achingly try and say "b-b-but msnbc!!", MSNBC is shrill, smarmy and in the case of the guy they thankfully kicked out, histrionically stupid.
But none of it compares with the likes of Hannity or Beck. Fox is twice as fringe, five times as disengenous, eight times as dumb, and ten times as useless.There is no left wing equivalent of Fox, nowhere near.
Though considering your hilarious NAACP rant you're obviously too delusional to notice.Clearly you don't get what he's mocking if you somehow enjoy it but "don't take it seriously".
You don't get a damn thing about me. And you know what? That's fine. You haven't seen what I've seen or experienced what I've experienced so of course you'd call me delusional and the like. I resent that and I resent you. I shouldn't, though.
-
Anyone with even a shred of reasoning wouldn't, and shouldn't, defend Fox.
It's unarguably indefensible.Even if you're a right-wing conservative, you shouldn't support them.
Seriously.
-
You don't get a damn thing about me. And you know what? That's fine. You haven't seen what I've seen or experienced what I've experienced so of course you'd call me delusional and the like. I resent that and I resent you. I shouldn't, though.
Everyone has their circumstances, you're not special and above criticism for having them.
Furthermore, the hell does that have to do with news stations and your patently delusional comments from before?
-
I hope that once the NAACP takes over the world, the first thing they do is destroy Fox News.
-
Anyone with even a shred of reasoning wouldn't, and shouldn't, defend Fox.
It's unarguably indefensible.Even if you're a right-wing conservative, you shouldn't support them.
Seriously.
Exactly, I wouldn't be caught dead defending MSNBC as anything but a lesser degree of bias. I was giddily happy when I heard Olberman was gone even.
Fox has serious deep fundamental issues that if you packaged them up and recolored them as left wing would still be the same issues.
I've seen into the abyss of Left Wing equivalents (actually far WORSE) then Fox. And it's shaken me bitterly and even depressed me for a year before I manned up and saw them for what they were.
I'd link you but they got quarantined by their own larger community because of how horrible they were thank god.
-
We don't have anything like Fox News in Canada :ninja:
Although I am scared that if something like it every gets established (as rumoured here), it will gain a lot of support.
-
Our News in Cyprus are kind of more… serious and simple... I think. .3. The news anchors just present the News and let the field reporters do the talking. They don't like, chat or say their opinion or talk between them like I see in News channels in the US. There's only the public TV station RIK1 doing that kind of political talk in the afternoon, and they usually just bring politicians from all sides, ask them some particular stuff and they let people call in to ask things they are interested about..
-
MSNBC is nothing like a liberal equivalent of Fox News if for no other reason than Joe Scarborough getting three hours of airtime Monday through Friday. The day Fox News hands over three hours a day to Alan Grayson is the day I view Fox and MSNBC as polar opposites.
-
@JERK:
I'd link you but they got quarantined by their own larger community because of how horrible they were thank god.
Going to guess… LF? LF's effort threads are oftentimes pretty good. But the forum as a whole is tripe. Which sucks because it was still better than D&D.
You seemed like an SA poster (or at least has a passing knowledge of it) based on the way you posted in the Manga forums haha.
-
@JERK:
SEA, FUCK A FRENCH
Most likely a German.
CHRISSIE FUCK A BRAZILLIAN
How about a New Englander?
-
im an italian, turkish with traces of canadian french from australia. My girlfriend is english with part greek.
Do I win.
I think that with my genepool that if i let myself grow a mustache (which would take a couple days), it'd be an impressive, huge, twirly bastard
-
im an italian, turkish with traces of canadian french and im from australia. My girlfriend is english with part greek.
Do I win.
I think that with my genepool that if i let myself grow a mustache (which would take a couple days), it'd be an impressive, huge, twirly bastard
-
@THE:
How about a New Englander?
Only if he'll give me curly haired, Italian babies.
@Portgas:
im an italian, turkish with traces of canadian french from australia. My girlfriend is english with part greek.
Do I win.
I think that with my genepool that if i let myself grow a mustache (which would take a couple days), it'd be an impressive, huge, twirly bastard
You guys win alright! And DO IT! We'll want pictures after.
-
Hmm… I'm intrigued by the ethnic roots discussion here. Why not:
I'm Quarter German, about Quarter Nordic (Can't accurately tell you what specific area of Scandanavia), and about half Brazilian. There's a little Spanish thrown in there somewhere, too.
-
My family is crazy big into Genealogy, so I know my genetic roots incredibly well.
Roughly speaking, I'm about half Dutch, 20% French, 20% Irish, and 10% Anglo-Saxon (English).
I really should be more thankful for my parents' constant work looking into our family history. This stuff really is interesting.
-
My family is crazy big into Genealogy, so I know my genetic roots incredibly well.
Roughly speaking, I'm about half Dutch, 20% French, 20% Irish, and 10% Anglo-Saxon (English).
I really should be more thankful for my parents' constant work looking into our family history. This stuff really is interesting.
I have to find my family's roots as well. Haaaave toooo O: I know my dad searched to find relatives in the UK but couldn't find much. We don't really know much about my grandmother's family bg since her parents disowned her after she got married to my grandfather and yeah… I was unfortunately quite young when she passed away else I would've asked her a lot. She was an extraordinary woman after all. People were impressed by her knowledge according to my parents and she had traveled to quite a lot of countries as an actress/singer, her last stop being Egypt where she met my grandfather who was a sailor... Handsome sailor meets beautiful, talented woman and they fall in love... Wish their story had turned out as romantic as that sounds. ;(
-
I have to find my family's roots as well. Haaaave toooo O: I know my dad searched to find relatives in the UK but couldn't find much. We don't really know much about my grandmother's family bg since her parents disowned her after she got married to my grandfather and yeah… I was unfortunately quite young when she passed away else I would've asked her a lot. She was an extraordinary woman after all. People were impressed by her knowledge according to my parents and she had traveled to quite a lot of countries as an actress/singer, her last stop being Egypt where she met my grandfather who was a sailor... Handsome sailor meets beautiful, talented woman and they fall in love... Wish their story had turned out as romantic as that sounds. ;(
If there is anything I've learned about history, nothing is ever as romantic as that. Granted it should be though.
But don't feel too bad about not knowing a whole lot about your roots. It's taken my family years, YEARS, to find out about our history with the smallest shred of clues via birth records and such.
I think my parents eventually referred to a massive Geneaology website near the end of their search for a few missing family members. I'll try to ask them in the next few days for that site name to see if I can help you out in some way.
Be aware though that if you're serious about looking through your family history, it's not going to be easy. It's like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the actual picture looks like.
-
Oh I know it's not gonna be easy! O: But I still wanna do it. =P Genealogy is quite interesting after all. And I am a very curious person. Very, very curious person.
-
I remember that when I went to an International school in Vienna, where we had people from everywhere, there was this American dude who said he was Scottish, and wore a kilt to school every once in a while.
The people who were actually Scottish HATED him.So unless I speak the language or actually lived or am only second generation, I refuse to say that I am _. If you went to my high school and said you were Italian, you should be prepared to have somebody come over to you and start talking Italian to you and if you couldn't talk back you got chewed out.
So even though I could talk about my genealogy, by habit I shut up. XD
-
comes in
eats toast
reads thread@THE:
Most likely a German.
chokes on toast
coughsHow about a New Englander?
chokes again
giggles
eh, I don't know about my roots. I never met my real producer and I don't plan to.
And I cut the the bond between my mother and me. I THINK my mother is german but I don't know her roots because her mother killed herself after my mother was born and the maker was just a random wooer, so it's a bit hard to figure that out.
I guess my mother knows a bit more but it's too late for me to ask her. Whatever. -
My family is crazy big into Genealogy, so I know my genetic roots incredibly well.
Roughly speaking, I'm about half Dutch, 20% French, 20% Irish, and 10% Anglo-Saxon (English).
I really should be more thankful for my parents' constant work looking into our family history. This stuff really is interesting.
Real Dutch or Pensylvania Dutch? Because the latter are actually Germans
-
I'm the New York Classic package (Italian-Irish).
-
@Cyan:
I'm the New York Classic package (Italian-Irish).
checks Cyan's age
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-
-
I am possibly the greatest Vietnamese ever.
-
Real Dutch or Pensylvania Dutch? Because the latter are actually Germans
Real Dutch.
My Dad actually managed to determine about 3 cities in the Netherlands where my family descended from. I can't remember offhand what cities they where though, but I know they are somewhere between North Brabant and South Holland.
Which is actually pretty unusual for my hometown. Despite our massive Dutch population (estimates put it at about 90-95% of the town's population are of Dutch heritage), most people from my town actually descend from the Drenthe and Groningen areas.
-
@THE:
I am possibly the greatest Vietnamese ever.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-
-
Oh and apparently my English ancestry contains very very very very distant ties to the royal family but is mostly composed of political dissidents. Fun times they've had.
My family and I still need to look into my French and Irish ancestry a little more though, all we can gather from my ancestors were the fact that they were mostly farmers.
Oh well, we'll get there eventually I suppose.
-
Oh and apparently my English ancestry contains very very very very distant ties to the royal family but is mostly composed of political dissidents. Fun times they've had.
Ha, bitch my Irish side had Blarney Castle.
-
My mom is 100% German. I don't know if there are any other roots but it's very unlikely. My dad's 100% Luo. Same goes for him. Pretty boring.
-
@Cyan:
Ha, bitch my Irish side had Blarney Castle.
Bitch I got ties to Winston Churchill.
-
-
Going to guess… LF? LF's effort threads are oftentimes pretty good. But the forum as a whole is tripe. Which sucks because it was still better than D&D.
You seemed like an SA poster (or at least has a passing knowledge of it) based on the way you posted in the Manga forums haha.
I've never posted there, just browsed.
And my debate style comes from the Gaia ED section. An unholy furnace where I was forged into the beast of today.
-
Real Dutch.
My Dad actually managed to determine about 3 cities in the Netherlands where my family descended from. I can't remember offhand what cities they where though, but I know they are somewhere between North Brabant and South Holland.
Which is actually pretty unusual for my hometown. Despite our massive Dutch population (estimates put it at about 90-95% of the town's population are of Dutch heritage), most people from my town actually descend from the Drenthe and Groningen areas.
Where do you live I'm going to visit.
-
My family is Russian with a mix of Ukrainian, Belorussian and Polish blood.
No, wait. Actually I am from the last generation of people of USSR. My father - even though it was a bit late - made them write in my birth sertificate: "Born in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialistic Republic".
Hell yeah.
-
Do you get a lot of discrimination for being Russian in Lithuania?
I've heard things can be tough for you guys living in the Baltic states. -
@JERK:
I've never posted there, just browsed.
And my debate style comes from the Gaia ED section. An unholy furnace where I was forged into the beast of today.
All I know about Gaia is some hardened veterans I know use it as an outlet to stop people who can't handle criticism from into heading into the world of webcomics.
@Cyan:
I'm the New York Classic package (Italian-Irish).
Who isn't?
-
My grandmother is from Hungary actually, she had to flee when the Russians came during WWII. She worked for a German family there who took their servants right with them (whether they wanted or not). The other half of my family is a lot more boring I guess, my mother's side is Bavarian. Although my mother told me interesting stories about her uncle who owned a mine and decided to hire Jews and hide them down there during the Third Reich. But other than that pretty ordinary.
Now my wife is Canadian so my daughter got at least a bit spiced up.
-
I am 100% ethnically Mangalorean.
Consider me enlightened.