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domovoi
United States1478 Posts
On June 21 2011 05:42 Nizaris wrote: funny u think your "technological entrepreneurship" is the best because you have one field (IT) on lockdown. Well IT is what I meant by "technological," sorry for not being specific, although the US also has a strong presence in biotech and medical devices. | ||
Manifesto7
Osaka27089 Posts
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Shagg
Finland825 Posts
On June 21 2011 05:16 USApwn wrote: America is the only super power in the world today China??? | ||
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domovoi
United States1478 Posts
China is not a super power. It has a lot of economic influence, but it has no military presence, nor much of a diplomatic one (many European countries are far more relevant diplomatically, e.g. Libya). People tend to forget that China is much poorer than even Mexico. Not to mention cultural and technological influence, which China does rather poorly. A lot of Chinese modern culture is in fact imported from Taiwan and Hong Kong. | ||
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GypsyBeast
Canada630 Posts
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Chaosvuistje
Netherlands2581 Posts
Its the Netherlands you unsuspecting fools! - After we got bored of invading and enslaving, we needed a new way to get land. Instead of doing things the mainstream way, we looked at the sea in anger. We built mills around the inland sea and put pumps in the water, using merely the power of the wind to bring the sea to its knees. Somewhere along the way we awoke C'thulhu, but our mighty herrings did fierce battle with the beast of total chaos and endless terror, scaring it away to the other side of the world. - While we battled the spanyards in our very own country, we lured them into the sea town of den Briel. Unbeknownst to them, the Dutch had a pact with the sea. Breaching the dykes and drowning every spanyard that dared to take on the madman living in that place that nobody but the merchants cared about. After the slaughter, the sea resided. The spanyards were dealt a heavy blow and it would help in the independance later on. - Even now, the Dutch are masters of the sea. Scientists are claiming that the global waterlevel will rise by tens of meters. However, they can't detect the sheer fear the mass of water has towards the Dutch. Global warming will never raise the waterlevel, even if the sea has to dig deeper to hold all the water from the icecaps. The sea knows better than to piss us off. - Before giving women rights, we gave them clumps. The women that were the strongest were able to kick off potentialy weak men by hitting them deadcenter in their most valuable places. The rich women were given iron clumps, to make the humiliation more brutal. - When we got bored of the mountains in our country, we rode out on our cows of manly fury. Charging directly at the base of the mountains. Our combined pride and strength pushed them all the way back to Switzerland, trapping them in. We apoligized to the strongwilled Swiss people and gave them iron and other valuable materials. They would later become the best watchmakers in the world. - When we needed a flag, instead of thinking of our own, we marched right into paris and slapped the ruling king. Stealing the flag from his castle and running away in delight. We later turned it 90 degrees and called it a day. The belgians, clearly in love with the idea, later decided to do the same thing to Germany. In celebration, we made pancakes and waffles. Looking over on top of the world, looking for more challenges to face. The belgians proceeded to teach themselves two languages, while the dutch proceeded to tame hemp. + Show Spoiler + All in good fun, nothing to be proud about in my country :D | ||
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FuzzyJAM
Scotland9300 Posts
On June 21 2011 05:41 domovoi wrote: Disappointed by no mention of David Hume. The Scottish are definitely overrepresented when it comes to great thinkers. Yeah, I probably should have mentioned the greatest Scottish philosopher. Ah well, have to cut some things out. | ||
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LlamaNamedOsama
United States1900 Posts
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Cadgers
United States514 Posts
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Stimp
South Africa780 Posts
We like to cook meat on a fire outside, which is the only way I can describe a Braai basically. We are good at Rugby and Cricket. Kinda terrible at everything else. edit: Apologies, it is 11 official languages | ||
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Wazabo
Italy124 Posts
BAD: - We have the pope. - We have Berlusconi. - We have italians in general, most of them are wannabe Berlusconi anyway. GOOD: There are a lot but for for me one stand above the others, the Dolomites, my personal tribute to them: | ||
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Sovetsky Soyuz
Russian Federation905 Posts
On June 21 2011 05:53 Chaosvuistje wrote: What is this sound you are hearing, this manly burling coming from northern Europe. Its the Netherlands you unsuspecting fools! - After we got bored of invading and enslaving, we needed a new way to get land. Instead of doing things the mainstream way, we looked at the sea in anger. We built mills around the inland sea and put pumps in the water, using merely the power of the wind to bring the sea to its knees. Somewhere along the way we awoke C'thulhu, but our mighty herrings did fierce battle with the beast of total chaos and endless terror, scaring it away to the other side of the world. - While we battled the spanyards in our very own country, we lured them into the sea town of den Briel. Unbeknownst to them, the Dutch had a pact with the sea. Breaching the dykes and drowning every spanyard that dared to take on the madman living in that place that nobody but the merchants cared about. After the slaughter, the sea resided. The spanyards were dealt a heavy blow and it would help in the independance later on. - Even now, the Dutch are masters of the sea. Scientists are claiming that the global waterlevel will rise by tens of meters. However, they can't detect the sheer fear the mass of water has towards the Dutch. Global warming will never raise the waterlevel, even if the sea has to dig deeper to hold all the water from the icecaps. The sea knows better than to piss us off. - Before giving women rights, we gave them clumps. The women that were the strongest were able to kick off potentialy weak men by hitting them deadcenter in their most valuable places. The rich women were given iron clumps, to make the humiliation more brutal. - When we got bored of the mountains in our country, we rode out on our cows of manly fury. Charging directly at the base of the mountains. Our combined pride and strength pushed them all the way back to Switzerland, trapping them in. We apoligized to the strongwilled Swiss people and gave them iron and other valuable materials. They would later become the best watchmakers in the world. - When we needed a flag, instead of thinking of our own, we marched right into paris and slapped the ruling king. Stealing the flag from his castle and running away in delight. We later turned it 90 degrees and called it a day. The belgians, clearly in love with the idea, later decided to do the same thing to Germany. In celebration, we made pancakes and waffles. Looking over on top of the world, looking for more challenges to face. The belgians proceeded to teach themselves two languages, while the dutch proceeded to tame hemp. + Show Spoiler + All in good fun, nothing to be proud about in my country :D OMG so true, and so funny! Also don't forget, TOTAL FOOTBALL! | ||
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Deleted User 124618
1142 Posts
Sisu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu Mämmi: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D5YyCBkOo78/S7n0pgitY8I/AAAAAAAACeU/Ngb4gzRrKSM/s1600/blogmammi3.JPG Sauna: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauna | ||
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DrTZ
Switzerland49 Posts
On June 21 2011 05:20 FlopTurnReaver wrote: Looking forward to some more pages of American pride I don't really wanna write a lot so I'm just gonna post some pictures^^ I guess I'm supposed to show stuff like this: ![[image loading]](http://www.freaksforfood.ch/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/fondue_zum_sechsten.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://www.citypictures.org/data/media/227/Matterhorn_Stellisee_Valais_Switzerland.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://www.alfred-wittenauer.de/prod/wengiant.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewiki/115/swisschocolateinsupermarket.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://www.deviantart.com/download/103436042/SWATCH_Chrono_Custom_by_dangeruss.jpg) Some things that come to mind spontaniously. Oh and have I mentioned that we have the coolest democracy ever? Well now I have  Add some pictures : ![[image loading]](http://fabien.poje.fr/myblog/images/chapo/ubs.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://lesdelicesdevanessa.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/nespresso_what_else.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://carlmaxim.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/large-hadron-collider.jpg) | ||
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domovoi
United States1478 Posts
South Africa has 9 official languages. That brings up a rather unique thing about the US in that we don't have any official language. | ||
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Q.E.D.
Germany134 Posts
On June 21 2011 05:59 domovoi wrote: That brings up a rather unique thing about the US in that we don't have any official language. English? | ||
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Madoga
Netherlands471 Posts
On June 21 2011 05:53 Chaosvuistje wrote: What is this sound you are hearing, this manly burling coming from northern Europe. Its the Netherlands you unsuspecting fools! - After we got bored of invading and enslaving, we needed a new way to get land. Instead of doing things the mainstream way, we looked at the sea in anger. We built mills around the inland sea and put pumps in the water, using merely the power of the wind to bring the sea to its knees. Somewhere along the way we awoke C'thulhu, but our mighty herrings did fierce battle with the beast of total chaos and endless terror, scaring it away to the other side of the world. - While we battled the spanyards in our very own country, we lured them into the sea town of den Briel. Unbeknownst to them, the Dutch had a pact with the sea. Breaching the dykes and drowning every spanyard that dared to take on the madman living in that place that nobody but the merchants cared about. After the slaughter, the sea resided. The spanyards were dealt a heavy blow and it would help in the independance later on. - Even now, the Dutch are masters of the sea. Scientists are claiming that the global waterlevel will rise by tens of meters. However, they can't detect the sheer fear the mass of water has towards the Dutch. Global warming will never raise the waterlevel, even if the sea has to dig deeper to hold all the water from the icecaps. The sea knows better than to piss us off. - Before giving women rights, we gave them clumps. The women that were the strongest were able to kick off potentialy weak men by hitting them deadcenter in their most valuable places. The rich women were given iron clumps, to make the humiliation more brutal. - When we got bored of the mountains in our country, we rode out on our cows of manly fury. Charging directly at the base of the mountains. Our combined pride and strength pushed them all the way back to Switzerland, trapping them in. We apoligized to the strongwilled Swiss people and gave them iron and other valuable materials. They would later become the best watchmakers in the world. - When we needed a flag, instead of thinking of our own, we marched right into paris and slapped the ruling king. Stealing the flag from his castle and running away in delight. We later turned it 90 degrees and called it a day. The belgians, clearly in love with the idea, later decided to do the same thing to Germany. In celebration, we made pancakes and waffles. Looking over on top of the world, looking for more challenges to face. The belgians proceeded to teach themselves two languages, while the dutch proceeded to tame hemp. + Show Spoiler + All in good fun, nothing to be proud about in my country :D You forgot to tell that all great dutch people are either pirates(piet hein), assassins(mata hari) or slave traders(V.O.C./W.I.C.) | ||
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domovoi
United States1478 Posts
In practice, yes, (and Spanish in many local jurisdictions), but officially at the federal level, there isn't one. And usually the people who lobby for English as the official language have anti-immigration tendencies. | ||
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FIStarcraft
United States154 Posts
On June 21 2011 04:16 Stroggoz wrote: new zealand is even less original than US. Special things about new zealand: -most peaceful country on planet -we invented aeroplane -we fathered nuclear physics, and our country is anti nuclear -first country where women were allowed to vote We used to be so ahead of the times, but now we are super lazy. without new zealand there could be no nuclear bomb, which i guess is the most significant thing our country has done. errrrrmmm... you sure? | ||
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shell
Portugal2722 Posts
On June 21 2011 03:28 ampson wrote: Here we go: The U.S. Constitution is the oldest written constitution (that is still in use) in the world. The United States (in conjunction with Britain) Have made the English language by far the leading language of international discourse. Some of the world's greatest cinema has come from the United States. The United Nations Headquarters is based out of New York City. The United States leads the world in scientific research papers. The United States was the first country to put a man on the moon. There is much more, but I won't get into it for now. Hmm if you consider that the true north americans are actually the americans indians then you haven't exported that much culture. USA are a melting pot of many ancient cultures like british, irish, italians, germans, portuguese, spanish bla bla.. so you exported the same of less then what you received from others! The same goes for cinema(you didn't invent it and many or almost all are/were immigrants from europe/world.. Almost all of USA's exports to the world have been bad..  User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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