Your 3 most hated THINGS

[Kymizer]

1. My country (america)i\'d much rather live in canada
2. people who say that americans are just as bad as their country
3.people who as stupid questions

[ThomPhoenix]

You know, this all depends on where you live. Of all the places I go to regularly, none of this is true. Education is great, the schools are very competitive, and everyone can generally spell well. As far as murder goes, where I am currently living in Texas, I can\'t remember a murder in the last few years. And my previous home I\'m pretty sure there was NEVER a murder. Just use common sense (which I hope you would anyways), don\'t go in the bad part of town if there is one, etc..and you have absolutely nothing to fear. In fact probably less, depending on your age and gender. I go all over the place in Texas, and have never ran into any real trouble.

But ofcourse that\'s true for every part of the world. I just remember from the movie Bowling for Columbine that the murderrate in the US (even relatively seen) is much higher than any country in Europe. And the good schools, well, it\'s what you\'re used to ofcourse. I know that some schools in the US actually give bowling for gym class, I mean _bowling_ come on! And how much languages are you tought? In my country I got Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish and Latin, from what I\'ve heard you don\'t get as much languages on US schools.

By the way, is it ofcourse or of course?
Everyone says ofcourse but dictionary says of course, me spelling freak again yeah

[Kiern]

Originally posted by ThomPhoenix
But ofcourse that\'s true for every part of the world. I just remember from the movie Bowling for Columbine that the murderrate in the US (even relatively seen) is much higher than any country in Europe. And the good schools, well, it\'s what you\'re used to ofcourse. I know that some schools in the US actually give bowling for gym class, I mean _bowling_ come on! And how much languages are you tought? In my country I got Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish and Latin, from what I\'ve heard you don\'t get as much languages on US schools.

By the way, is it ofcourse or of course?
Everyone says ofcourse but dictionary says of course, me spelling freak again yeah

Yes, it is true for every part of the world, that is exactly what I\'m saying.  It\'s stupid to say you don\'t want to live in America because of what certain parts of the country are like when you can go somewhere else in America and never experience that.  Just as stupid as it would be for me to say France sucks because I had a bad experience in Paris.

And it is not \"what I\'m used to\", I\'ve met just as many idiots from other countries as I have from America on these boards. (I am not calling you an idiot, by the way)  However, if you\'re going to take what an EXTREMELY biased movie says as fact, I have to wonder...I am so sick of pseudo-intellectuals, which is unfortunatly the majority on the interweb.

I don\'t see how what GYM class teaches has any effect on the education of the school\'s students.  Neither does how many languages you speak.  Generally you can learn Spanish, French, or German maybe Italian or some other languages depending on the school...but you only have to learn Spanish as far as I know.  Latin may be nice to know, but is not required to actually speak to anyone, so it is a dying language and is no longer taught in most schools.

And it is \"of course\" I\'ve never even heard of the spelling \"ofcourse\". http://www.spellcheck.net

[nightstalian]

Originally posted by ThomPhoenix

You know, this all depends on where you live. Of all the places I go to regularly, none of this is true. Education is great, the schools are very competitive, and everyone can generally spell well. As far as murder goes, where I am currently living in Texas, I can\'t remember a murder in the last few years. And my previous home I\'m pretty sure there was NEVER a murder. Just use common sense (which I hope you would anyways), don\'t go in the bad part of town if there is one, etc..and you have absolutely nothing to fear. In fact probably less, depending on your age and gender. I go all over the place in Texas, and have never ran into any real trouble.

But ofcourse that\'s true for every part of the world. I just remember from the movie Bowling for Columbine that the murderrate in the US (even relatively seen) is much higher than any country in Europe. And the good schools, well, it\'s what you\'re used to ofcourse. I know that some schools in the US actually give bowling for gym class, I mean _bowling_ come on! And how much languages are you tought? In my country I got Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish and Latin, from what I\'ve heard you don\'t get as much languages on US schools.

By the way, is it ofcourse or of course?
Everyone says ofcourse but dictionary says of course, me spelling freak again yeah

Heres a though we might have more murders per year but we had less deaths through our first 2.1cens then any other country

and on topic
MMORPG\'s that classitfy spears and polearms in differnt categories, obviously a spear is a blade on the end of a pole which is what a polearm is!

[Sharakaz]

Originally posted by Kiern However, if you\'re going to take what an EXTREMELY biased movie says as fact, I have to wonder...I am so sick of pseudo-intellectuals, which is unfortunatly the majority on the interweb.

Sadly Michael Moore productions seems very appealing to european citizens. He raises a few good points or three. But he overdoes the american-critism by explicitly including his own opinion everywhere. If he had stayed 100% objective i would think he actually would be quite believable.

Conclussion: I don\'t believe any conclussion comming from a michael moore film.
That said, i\'m a follower of strict gun control and i don\'t like the current American governments foreign policy

Regards Jeppe

damn.. seems i broke my promise of not speaking anymore about anti-americanism in this thread

[dragonfire999]

Originally posted by Kiern

Originally posted by ThomPhoenix
1 Education there is really bad compared to Europe,
Bush even proposed in his State of the Union to cut down on the education expenses to increase the defense expenses! Wow, that\'ll really do the US good...
2 The huge and enormous murder rate, watch Bowling for Columbine for more info. Really, in the 17 years that I live I can only think of 1 guy being killed in my region.

You know, this all depends on where you live.  Of all the places I go to regularly, none of this is true.  Education is great, the schools are very competitive, and everyone can generally spell well.  As far as murder goes, where I am currently living in Texas, I can\'t remember a murder in the last few years.  And my previous home I\'m pretty sure there was NEVER a murder.  Just use common sense (which I hope you would anyways), don\'t go in the bad part of town if there is one, etc..and you have absolutely nothing to fear.  In fact probably less, depending on your age and gender.  I go all over the place in Texas, and have never ran into any real trouble.

Unfortunately people like to listen to biased statistics that wouldn\'t effect you if you actually came here, or listen to the television.

The Boston School system is poor if you arent smart, but there are 2 schools, Boston Latin Academy (2nd best high school in city) and Boston Latin School (considered to be best in country by some) that are free to intelligent people. One person from BLA (where I go) gets a full scholarship to Harvard, 6- 8 get full scholarships to Berklee College of Music. At BLS about 2-3 people make it to harvard, and half the music classes make it to Berklee. It depends on area, luckily I was educated at a young age and made it into Latin Academy.

[nightstalian]

Originally posted by dragonfire999

Originally posted by Kiern

Originally posted by ThomPhoenix
1 Education there is really bad compared to Europe,
Bush even proposed in his State of the Union to cut down on the education expenses to increase the defense expenses! Wow, that\'ll really do the US good...
2 The huge and enormous murder rate, watch Bowling for Columbine for more info. Really, in the 17 years that I live I can only think of 1 guy being killed in my region.

You know, this all depends on where you live.  Of all the places I go to regularly, none of this is true.  Education is great, the schools are very competitive, and everyone can generally spell well.  As far as murder goes, where I am currently living in Texas, I can\'t remember a murder in the last few years.  And my previous home I\'m pretty sure there was NEVER a murder.  Just use common sense (which I hope you would anyways), don\'t go in the bad part of town if there is one, etc..and you have absolutely nothing to fear.  In fact probably less, depending on your age and gender.  I go all over the place in Texas, and have never ran into any real trouble.

Unfortunately people like to listen to biased statistics that wouldn\'t effect you if you actually came here, or listen to the television.

The Boston School system is poor if you arent smart, but there are 2 schools, Boston Latin Academy (2nd best high school in city) and Boston Latin School (considered to be best in country by some) that are free to intelligent people. One person from BLA (where I go) gets a full scholarship to Harvard, 6- 8 get full scholarships to Berklee College of Music. At BLS about 2-3 people make it to harvard, and half the music classes make it to Berklee. It depends on area, luckily I was educated at a young age and made it into Latin Academy.

I fortunitly live in a small city,in Texas, that is by Arlington, Dallas, and Fort Worth, We get reconized every couple of years nation wide, most of the time for good, which is pretty cool.  Little hint American idol
And actually I do believed we have best education world wide because why else would alot people come to USA to leARN AND GET DEGREES

AND on topic
BEST FREIND SYNDROME
-then ruining it by go telling her you love her and you have an akward friendship then out.

[Kiern]

Originally posted by nightstalian
I fortunitly live in a small city,in Texas, that is by Arlington, Dallas, and Fort Worth, We get reconized every couple of years nation wide, most of the time for good, which is pretty cool.  

Would that be Mansfield?  That\'s where I used to live.

[nightstalian]

Originally posted by Kiern

Originally posted by nightstalian
I fortunitly live in a small city,in Texas, that is by Arlington, Dallas, and Fort Worth, We get reconized every couple of years nation wide, most of the time for good, which is pretty cool.  

Would that be Mansfield?  That\'s where I used to live.

no think of American Idol


And on topic
-Who think everythhing in america is bad

[Keyaz]

reverse order of importance

1. leaving behind the people who care, be it reasons of a personal nature, or that of being pushed to limits by others.

2. not being able to talk to friends left behind, for unwanted attention and harrassment.

3. arguing with the one person I care about most and upsetting her.

[davo]

hahaaha if you wanna know why people dontlike americans or think some of themare stupid

http://www.campusbreak.com/?x=moviewatch&media=americanmorons

this video just highlights american stupididy.

they think australia is alot of other countries lol.

I dont have anything against america,i think its a great country, though their accent and some stupididy can be annoying.

[nightstalian]

Originally posted by davo
hahaaha if you wanna know why people dontlike americans or think some of themare stupid

http://www.campusbreak.com/?x=moviewatch&media=americanmorons

this video just highlights american stupididy.

they think australia is alot of other countries lol.

I dont have anything against america,i think its a great country, though their accent and some stupididy can be annoying.

no we don\'t lets all go to a country find a ignorant/stupid group of people and flim them and lets see how it reflects on the country

[davo]

i know, i wasnt speaking on behalf of myself.

all countries have idiots, i was just poiting out a possible reason why.

btw, the video is kinda scarey and pretty damn stupid :S

lol those particular americans in a war would bomb australia for godds sake....:S

[derwoodly]

Wouldn\'t you know it, the USA came up in the 3 most hated things thread.  Now really, out of all the ills of the world the USA is in the top three?

Number one, not knowing what I don\'t know.  I really hate that.  Just does not seem to be anyway of knowing what I don\'t know.

Two, when evil sneaks up behind me and catchs me off gaurd.  Pretending to be my friend then, stabbing me in the back.  I hate that.  I need to grow eyes in the back of my head!

Three, greed, we all learned how to share in Kindergarden, even our flawed public school system taught that.  What happened?

[ThomPhoenix]

Yes, it is true for every part of the world, that is exactly what I\'m saying. It\'s stupid to say you don\'t want to live in America because of what certain parts of the country are like when you can go somewhere else in America and never experience that. Just as stupid as it would be for me to say France sucks because I had a bad experience in Paris.

Well, I didn\'t say the entire US is bad, just because some parts are bad. I just don\'t like the fact that you can go to your local supermarket and buy some bullets. Still I do not hate the US. When I said that education there is bad I mean the High Schools. US\'s universities are probably the best in the world. I\'m studying economy and I\'m hoping to go to Harvard Business School one day (really hoping). I\'m not saying the US sucks, I thinks it\'s a great country, but I wouldn\'t like to live there, because of certain aspects.

And it is not \"what I\'m used to\", I\'ve met just as many idiots from other countries as I have from America on these boards. (I am not calling you an idiot, by the way) However, if you\'re going to take what an EXTREMELY biased movie says as fact, I have to wonder...I am so sick of pseudo-intellectuals, which is unfortunatly the majority on the interweb.

I didn\'t call Americans idiots.
Your opinion might be that BfC is a biased movie, I think it\'s not. I\'m really not just copying Michael Moore\'s ideas, I think he has some really valid points, especially about the fact that you can buy guns everywhere. As a european who has never in his life seen or heard a gun, that just scares me.

don\'t see how what GYM class teaches has any effect on the education of the school\'s students. Neither does how many languages you speak. Generally you can learn Spanish, French, or German maybe Italian or some other languages depending on the school...but you only have to learn Spanish as far as I know. Latin may be nice to know, but is not required to actually speak to anyone, so it is a dying language and is no longer taught in most schools.

About the gym classes, you can tell from them how much the school cares for its students. In my opinion every self-respecting school shouldn\'t give bowling as gym class, I mean, you wouldn\'t want to make people fat and unhealthy, do you? And the languages, it\'s really handy you know, even latin, you can derive many words from Latin and you\'ll finally know what those strange words on a medicine mean. But the most important thing about latin of course is that you\'ll be able to translate Acraigs signature

And it is \"of course\" I\'ve never even heard of the spelling \"ofcourse\". http://www.spellcheck.net

Just google ofcourse, and you\'ll see how many people use ofcourse, that confused me. I searched a dictionary for of course, but it automatically ignored the of and searched for course. Thanks for the answer and the website.