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ArcticRaven
France1406 Posts
On January 22 2012 01:37 Heero wrote:To me the bashing is fair game, we bash the other country a lot and thats what you get when your president do a lot of stupid shit. I mean look how people bashed the american when bush was president. Well we have our bush now and people bash us a little more than before. So, so true. We mocked Berlusconi before. Now we have Sarkozy, and it's our turn. | ||
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SilentchiLL
Germany1405 Posts
On January 22 2012 01:28 DarkEnergy wrote: Hey hey now don't say we where overrun or (PWNT). Actually we surrendered. Because after the Germans got bogged down at the Nieuwe Maas river and other defensive strongholds. They got impatient and decided to level Rotterdam (killing civs) to force our surrender. We did not have the equipment to stop the bombers so we did the only sensible thing we surrendered. With the limited resources we had (WWI rifles and bicycles) we fought bravely and we where actually able to halt the advance of the most sophisticated army at the time. I for one tip my hat to those fellows and do not like this misconception. ontopic I do not know what to think of all the stereotypes. Tough i dislike the mindset of some country's. For example. The French and German for their inability to learn a second language like English. I think it is because everything on TV is German/French if its English or another language it gets replaced so it is in their native language. Even if you take news interviews instead of providing subtitles they just replace the audio track it or translate by voice. My classmate has been in Germany for a half a year to do a internship (at a school) there. He had fun but he confirmed that everybody was horrible at English the only persons with a somewhat decent level of understanding where the IT guys he worked with. So think of it when they come visit your country and they start talking in their language and expect you to answer it it just pisses me of so badly. The whole God bless America Fuck yea attitude aside that's about all the irks i have. Well that's some bullshit about Germans and languages you got there 0.o Yeah old people here do suck at english, but younger people and those around 40 should be fine(even if it get's worse the older they are I think) and people are usually good enough in english so you can understand them, even if the accent annoys me. And what the hell do you mean with "inability to learn languages"? We learn english in every school here and 2 languages in the better schools(learned english and latin because I didn't wanna learn french and didn't want to attend another school for spanish or another language) And I doubt that there are many Germans who "visit your country and they start talking in their language." even older people rather use their broken english than german in situations like that(honestly, there's not even a little bit of truth in that, the only situation were I imagine that that's possible is if they go to a country like the netherlands, where good German would be easier understandable than the bad english of a 65 year old lady from here). And German tv shows are dubbed in german because we are the biggest tv and music market in europe so it pays off for the media industry to do so here. Seriously man 'the fuck were you smokin' o.0? EDIT: Smiled when I read your post again and your first on-topic sentence was "I don't know what to think of all the stereotypes, though I dislike the mindset of some countries" | ||
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hitthat
Poland2267 Posts
On January 22 2012 01:28 sermokala wrote: lol vichy France being neutral. It was a puppet state and hitler pulled the strings however he wanted. The japanese attacked our major fleet in port before declaring war and invaded all our friends. It's hawaii btw (really not even an excuse on that one just sound it out and its easy) and alaska was also invaded (the islands near the end of the chain are closer to tokyo then the capital of AK to be fair). Not to mention mexico was getting frisky with the nazies. Haha! Have you seen some french armies invading any allied country? I mean true french armies, not some "anti-commies volunteers" shit. Vichy France was indeed puppet state, but this doesnt mean they joined the war on the axis side. The only one time I remmember you had to deal with the French was landing on north Africa (I dont count the british-french fleet incident). And whats with this "hitler pulled the strings however he wanted"? You Amies hadnt have your own country under the foreign control for long. How can you blame them for this? | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
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Bigpet
Germany533 Posts
On January 22 2012 01:44 SilentchiLL wrote: Well that's some bullshit about Germans and languages you got there 0.o ... Seriously man 'the fuck were you smokin' o.0? no he is right. When people come to the netherlands they realize that most people in the netherlands can speak german and they speak german to everybody in the netherlands instead of english. edit: of course you are right with most germans having an "ok" level of english available but that's not what they use when they go to the netherlands which is why the dutch have a good reason to think that. | ||
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GohgamX
Canada1096 Posts
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domovoi
United States1478 Posts
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Kuja
United States1759 Posts
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jj33
802 Posts
On January 21 2012 21:35 Euronyme wrote: Americans envy the French in every way possible, the English have them as rivals. There are also some irritation left as the French practically didn't fight in WW2, even though they practically caused it. I'm American, what do we envy about the French? Genuine question here, I don't know anybody here in the states who gives a damn about the French much less envy them. | ||
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DarkEnergy
Netherlands542 Posts
Well that's some bullshit about Germans and languages you got there 0.o Yeah old people here do suck at english, but younger people and those around 40 should be fine(even if it get's worse the older they are I think) and people are usually good enough in english so you can understand them, even if the accent annoys me. And what the hell do you mean with "inability to learn languages"? We learn english in every school here and 2 languages in the better schools(learned english and latin because I didn't wanna learn french and didn't want to attend another school for spanish or another language) And I doubt that there are many Germans who "visit your country and they start talking in their language." even older people rather use their broken english than german in situations like that(honestly, there's not even a little bit of truth in that, the only situation were I imagine that that's possible is if they go to a country like the netherlands, where good German would be easier understandable than the bad english of a 65 year old lady from here). And German tv shows are dubbed in german because we are the biggest tv and music market in europe so it pays off for the media industry to do so here. Seriously man 'the fuck were you smokin' o.0? EDIT: Smiled when I read your post again and your first on-topic sentence was "I don't know what to think of all the stereotypes, though I dislike the mindset of some countries"[/QUOTE] I am dutch what do you think i am smoking  But yea that is my experience so far you come here to dig holes on our beaches sadly drown allot and you speak broken/no English. I do not see the point in dubbing a Hollywood movie or Starcraft II for that matter. | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On January 22 2012 01:52 jj33 wrote: I'm American, what do we envy about the French? Genuine question here, I don't know anybody here in the states who gives a damn about the French much less envy them. Presumably, a lot of people are like you and they don't know anything, then they post about it. Why don't you envy anyone else? Because you haven't bothered to educate yourself about countries which aren't your own. Edit: And you probably don't know all that much about the US either, in all likelihood. | ||
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gds
Iceland1391 Posts
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Soulforged
Latvia929 Posts
And no, they refuse speaking english even when they know it. Annoying and immature. | ||
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SilentchiLL
Germany1405 Posts
On January 22 2012 01:49 Bigpet wrote: no he is right. When people come to the netherlands they realize that most people in the netherlands can speak german and they speak german to everybody in the netherlands instead of english. edit: of course you are right with most germans having an "ok" level of english available but that's not what they use when they go to the netherlands which is why the dutch have a good reason to think that. Well ofc they do, it's teh fucking netherlands, but he didn't speak about netherland he said: "So think of it when they come visit your country and they start talking in their language and expect you to answer it it just pisses me of so badly." And Germans visit a lot more countries than just Netherland. And if they work hard enough to learn German where's the problem in using it? Of course you could speak english and talk in a language then which both parties of a conversation don't speak perfectly, or you speak in german which atleast one of them is fluent at. | ||
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Heweree
United Kingdom497 Posts
On January 22 2012 01:52 jj33 wrote: , I don't know anybody here in the states who gives a damn about the French Well then why in an election (eg Kerry), republicans use French as an insult? Same thing now with Romney on the other side. | ||
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jj33
802 Posts
On January 22 2012 01:53 Djzapz wrote: Presumably, a lot of people are like you and they don't know anything, then they post about it. Why don't you envy anyone else? Because you haven't bothered to educate yourself about countries which aren't your own. Edit: And you probably don't know all that much about the US either, in all likelihood. what a crap post. You assume alot about me, since I know plenty. Being knowledgeable doens't mean I'll envy something. Being envious has a negative connotation. He made it sound like american sit around hating on french, which is bs. And your post is even more, bs. obvious hate in your post. nice try though. | ||
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jj33
802 Posts
On January 22 2012 01:54 TanTzoR wrote: Well then why in an election (eg Kerry), republicans use French as an insult? Same thing now with Romney on the other side. because those politicians are dummies. American politics is a joke. | ||
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domovoi
United States1478 Posts
On January 22 2012 01:53 Djzapz wrote: Presumably, a lot of people are like you and they don't know anything, then they post about it. Why don't you envy anyone else? Because you haven't bothered to educate yourself about countries which aren't your own. Edit: And you probably don't know all that much about the US either, in all likelihood. Man, that's kind of unhealthy. Why should anyone envy anybody? His main point is correct, though. The US rarely talks about France in a serious setting, and French jokes are not very common, but can be used to great humorous because of our British-derived culture. I would guess the US bashes France no more and no less than most other English-speaking countries. | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On January 22 2012 01:56 jj33 wrote: what a crap post. You assume alot about me, since I know plenty. Being knowledgeable doens't mean I'll envy something. Being envious has a negative connotation. He made it sound like american sit around hating on french, which is bs. And your post is even more, bs. obvious hate in your post. nice try though. Ok let me help you figure something out. Envy has a negative connotation but that's when you're envious of someone. Saying "they have nothing to get envious about", however, means that they're doing so badly, there's absolutely no reason why anybody should give in to envy for that country. You're trying to spin this in your favor x_x... | ||
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SilentchiLL
Germany1405 Posts
On January 22 2012 01:53 DarkEnergy wrote: I am dutch what do you think i am smoking But yea that is my experience so far you come here to dig holes on our beaches sadly drown allot and you speak broken/no English. I do not see the point in dubbing a Hollywood movie or Starcraft II for that matter. Maybe you've only met uneducated idiots then and the reason why you dub a movie or a game is of course because people like things they are used to(like their language) And you'd probably see that point differently if you would've grown up with movies in your own language  it's a luxury and maybe not a desperately needed one(I watch a lot of movies and shows in english, sometimes because I don't want to wait until they are dubbed and sometimes because thsoe versions are better, but sometimes the german dub is superior, the movie 300 for example ), but I'm still happy to live in a country where it's profitable for the firms to dub their showsEDIT: Might be because AFAIK mostly old people go to the Netherlands for their vacation(if you ignore the idiots who make short visits there for weed) | ||
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