[UncleWede]

Possession is 9/10th of the law. . . especially once the walkers appear

[fecurtis]

Originally Posted by SenorFunkyPants

I'm not totally sure taking something from someone is ever "fair and square".
Consider it this way.
Person A owns a car.
Person B takes it from him.
Person C takes it from person B
Whose car is it?

Depends, who concedes first? Obviously this isn't an apples to apples comparison at all. Arguing over a car which has clear legal ownership rights, is different from disputes centuries ago over land ownership.

To be honest, your entire premise is pretty silly. By your logic I shouldn't call Arlington, VA "my" home since it belonged to native Americans first. Give me a break.

[csu87]

Originally Posted by SenorFunkyPants

I'm not totally sure taking something from someone is ever "fair and square".
Consider it this way.
Person A owns a car.
Person B takes it from him.
Person C takes it from person B
Whose car is it?



No idea....not that it matters - as I'm not claiming ownership of my country ( or yours).
Oh and you get that the photo is from a Brit comedy film right?

that would have nothing to do with what we are talking about. Nice try though.

Oh really?!?! That picture isnt real? Does that mean this isnt real either?

[SenorFunkyPants]

Originally Posted by fecurtis

To be honest, your entire premise is pretty silly. By your logic I shouldn't call Arlington, VA "my" home since it belonged to native Americans first. Give me a break.

Have a break.
There are some interesting themes:
How invested you guys are in ownership of the USA when your history is essentially a bunch of immigrants who recently moved there.
That the English beat up the native Americans, lost the war of independence and then went home....The vast majority of those people remained in the USA and are your ancestors....You can't disassociate yourselves from that.
I guess I also shouldn't have let myself be provoked in the first place by statements such as "Looks like someone is peanut butter and jealous of us pale skins. They hate us cause they ain't us".

[Delta0311]

Originally Posted by SenorFunkyPants

Have a break.
There are some interesting themes:
How invested you guys are in ownership of the USA when your history is essentially a bunch of immigrants who recently moved there.
That the English beat up the native Americans, lost the war of independence and then went home....The vast majority of those people remained in the USA and are your ancestors....You can't disassociate yourselves from that.
I guess I also shouldn't have let myself be provoked in the first place by statements such as "Looks like someone is peanut butter and jealous of us pale skins. They hate us cause they ain't us".

Minus the pale skins part, the rest was taken directly from the movie "The Interview". So take it up with James Franco and Seth Rogen. In the movie this was said in reference to North Korea. I guess joking is also no longer PC in the UK?

[RickFLM4]

Originally Posted by SenorFunkyPants

No idea....not that it matters - as I'm not claiming ownership of my country ( or yours).
Oh and you get that the photo is from a Brit comedy film right?

LOL at the irony of that statement about not claiming ownership of your country. How is that any different than the reference you originally criticized?

[csu87]

Originally Posted by Delta0311

Minus the pale skins part, the rest was taken directly from the movie "The Interview". So take it up with James Franco and Seth Rogen. In the movie this was said in reference to North Korea. I guess joking is also no longer PC in the UK?

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/no-joke-u...ed-in-england/

[Delta0311]

Originally Posted by csu87

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/no-joke-u...ed-in-england/

Oh my God dude you have to be kidding me!!! HAHA the UK does not have the PC police they have the God damn PC Gestapo..

[csu87]

Originally Posted by RickFLM4

LOL at the irony of that statement about not claiming ownership of your country. How is that any different than the reference you originally criticized?

+1 for grammar

[fecurtis]

Originally Posted by SenorFunkyPants

Have a break.
There are some interesting themes:
How invested you guys are in ownership of the USA when your history is essentially a bunch of immigrants who recently moved there.
That the English beat up the native Americans, lost the war of independence and then went home....The vast majority of those people remained in the USA and are your ancestors....You can't disassociate yourselves from that.
I guess I also shouldn't have let myself be provoked in the first place by statements such as "Looks like someone is peanut butter and jealous of us pale skins. They hate us cause they ain't us".

Easy answer to that? I grew up and was raised here, therefore it's "my home". No need to overthink it and make it some stupid thing about history and land ownership rights.

[V1.47fan]

Originally Posted by Ali Shiralian

See how much more comments I get on this

I was thinking of bringing my homemade digital clock with electrical wires sticking out with me at the airport.

Good idea or bad idea?

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by V1.47fan

I was thinking of bringing my homemade digital clock with electrical wires sticking out with me at the airport.

Good idea or bad idea?

Are you visiting the White House? Then good idea!!!

[V1.47fan]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

Are you visiting the White House? Then good idea!!!

Do you think the secret service agents will be impressed with my engineering skills?

[csu87]

Originally Posted by V1.47fan

Do you think the secret service agents will be impressed with my engineering skills?

NASA will probably call

[SenorFunkyPants]

Originally Posted by Delta0311

Minus the pale skins part, the rest was taken directly from the movie "The Interview". So take it up with James Franco and Seth Rogen. In the movie this was said in reference to North Korea. I guess joking is also no longer PC in the UK?

Ah Ok I'm supposed to know the script from every film ever made...got it.

[csu87]

Originally Posted by SenorFunkyPants

Ah Ok I'm supposed to know the script from every film ever made...got it.

One of the most highly controversial films made in the last decade. Even my parents and grandparents have seen it.

[fecurtis]

Originally Posted by SenorFunkyPants

Ah Ok I'm supposed to know the script from every film ever made...got it.

I bet you're a lot of fun at parties.

Someone would invite you to a party at "their" house and you'd then go on to say how it's not "their" house but rather the bank's house since they have a mortgage.

[V1.47fan]

^^

[Ali Shiralian]

Originally Posted by Delta0311

Nope came here when I was a kid. And I'm a US citizen/w military service under my belt. So I do believe I earned the right to say that this is my country. Do you tell people that you are British or is that no longer the PC thing to say?

Yes they were he first but then you came and hanged them their ass because they didn't yet quite get the handle on that whole gun powder and musket thing.. Then the colonist got pissed at you and decided to team up with France to hand you a nice ass whooping. The rest as they say is history. There is nothing racist in my post, dont get your vagina all up in tears because some of us dare to say it like it is.

"There's nothing racist in my post"

[Ali Shiralian]

Originally Posted by SenorFunkyPants

Have a break.
There are some interesting themes:
How invested you guys are in ownership of the USA when your history is essentially a bunch of immigrants who recently moved there.
That the English beat up the native Americans, lost the war of independence and then went home....The vast majority of those people remained in the USA and are your ancestors....You can't disassociate yourselves from that.
I guess I also shouldn't have let myself be provoked in the first place by statements such as "Looks like someone is peanut butter and jealous of us pale skins. They hate us cause they ain't us".

He just said there was no racist comment in his post, aren't you listening

[Ali Shiralian]

Originally Posted by V1.47fan

I was thinking of bringing my homemade digital clock with electrical wires sticking out with me at the airport.

Good idea or bad idea?

Well most definitely if you have Brown skin, you should think twice about it....

[RickFLM4]

Originally Posted by Ali Shiralian

Well most definitely if you have Brown skin, you should think twice about it....

But it would be OK to walk into a Canadian airport with it no matter what color your skin, right?