Google Criticized as "Anti-American" for Tetris Logo
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another british person here wishing to make it known that.... wait. balls to that. im not going to go for a "there were some of us there too /we werent losing/you were late" arguments im going for this:
Oi! BRITISH PEOPLE!
lets not criticise the intelligence of americans before we address the Daily Mail over here. and while were at it surely conservatives are mildly preferable to people who read and write such toilet paper as the Sun or the Daily Star.
as a wise man said dont point out the speck of wood in your brothers eye before dealing with the log in your own.
Oi! BRITISH PEOPLE!
lets not criticise the intelligence of americans before we address the Daily Mail over here. and while were at it surely conservatives are mildly preferable to people who read and write such toilet paper as the Sun or the Daily Star.
as a wise man said dont point out the speck of wood in your brothers eye before dealing with the log in your own.
What is this bull?
Its not like Google is going to make a logo with soldiers lying dead on a beach is it?
Its not like Google is going to make a logo with soldiers lying dead on a beach is it?
You guys. Go. Fuck. Yourselves. Little reminder for you. Germany never attacked us. The only real reason we had for going to war with Germany was because YOU asked us, and more Americans like the Brits than the Nazis. Our real beef was with Japan, a conflict you guys didn't offer much help in. In fact, if I recall correctly, Churchill got kicked out because he kept supporting lending America aid in the Pacific. "It isn't over here until its over everywhere?"Randall Savage said:
So I ask you, whcih is worse? Showing up late or not showing up at all?
As an American, I thank you, good sir. Most INTELLIGENT Americans are well aware that the U.S. only provided half the troops in the European theater, and we didn't do much to stop those bombs dropping on your homes (sorry 'bout that). As for you conservative newspeople (and I use that term loosely)(newspeople, not conservative) SHUT THE FUCK UP!! We're tired of listening to your bullshit, your half the reason the rest of the world hates us. Oh, and all you non-American posters who have made comments about how ignorant Americans are, SHUT THE FUCK UP! Not everyone in America thinks the same way, and in a democracy some people are bound to be very vocal about some very unpleasent beliefs. If you think all Americans are ignorant and blind to the rest of the world because of the comments of one man, then it is you who are truly ignorant.tmnnerd said:
What utter nonsense. Can I, by the way, criticise the people who complained about Google? They're clearly anti-British, anti-Canadian, anti-Australian, anti-everyone-who's-not-American since they talk about D-Day as a great American wotsit...
Choosing to memorialise something else doesn't in any way detract from the memory of D-Day. It just means that we like to remember happy things as well as things that involved thousands of deaths.
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we shall remember them. And Tetris is a bloody good game, too.
Choosing to memorialise something else doesn't in any way detract from the memory of D-Day. It just means that we like to remember happy things as well as things that involved thousands of deaths.
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we shall remember them. And Tetris is a bloody good game, too.
WHAT?!?! LIEK OH EM GEE MR GOOGLE, HOW COULD YOU NOT DEPRESS THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE THAT USE YOUR SITE A DAY!!!
Anyways, carrying on, this dude needs to go get a life. Stupid dip-shit he is.
Anyways, carrying on, this dude needs to go get a life. Stupid dip-shit he is.
Well that may be true but there is only one part of the world that is so fucking crazy it would kidnap people who even 'might' be American and cut their heads off from places as far away as Darfur.Pellucid said:
I'd much rather have Africans angry at us because that tends to just mean that they are upset, rather than a group of folks who not only are insane but we fully armed (in other words they have nice weapons on top of being crazy).
Though to clarify one more thing, I feel really bad for folks in Africa. If anyone is a perfect example of getting fucked sideways by religion, I'd say it would be them. Them or the Jewish community.
Wait, what? Many of the most religious countries in Africa are the most prosperous ones: Ethiopia, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco are all incredibly well-off comparatively speaking.theultimateend said:
If anything's fucking them sideways, it's a lack of religion. In fact, the most successful AIDS and poverty relief charities in Africa are all Christian charities that preach their faith alongside their relief programs. The problem is that organized religion is giving way to shamanism and superstition; people can't find anything to unite over, and are beginning to believe insane things again like "the limbs of albinos are good luck" and "having sex with a virgin will cure your AIDS."
Yeah and one of that largest influences in Africa (namely Catholicism) has been spreading propoganda that Condoms spread AIDS.Pellucid said:
They are also the same folks that introduced the Idea of Monogomy which was followed shortly by a plethora of other problems. Tribes that once lived peacefully began to form jealous ties and warring with one another.
There are plenty of other things but I'll just leave it at those two. I figure having entire regions that once were (relatively) peaceful turned into endless wars and misleading an entire nation into being almost entirely racked with AIDS is good enough.
I also appreciate that discernation between religion and superstition. Lord knows those are entirely different.
So you're saying that if Japan had never attacked America you would be find with the fact that Jewish people were being slaughtered in the millions and you were doing nothing to help. My friend the opposite to love is not hate... it's indifference.paragon1 said:
Who said anything about indifference? Hell, who said anything about indifference? So there's two problems with your statement. I wasn't around during WWII, but I'm told by my grandfather that most, if not all, Americans (including those fighting in Europe) were completely unaware of the Holocaust untill they started finding camps. Also, you seem to be inferring that I think America shouldn't have gone to the European theater. I'm very very very very very very very very glad we did for a number of reasons, the liberation of the concentration camps among them.Judgedread said:
If you'd actually bothered to read my entire statement, you'd know I was simply frustrated by certain Europeans trying to downplay Americas contributions to the world and the generalization and smearing of American character in general. So no, I would not be fine (I assume that's what you were trying to say, despite the fact that you typed "find") with millions of Jews being slaughtered. However, were I living were I am during World War 2, its doubtful I would even know about it before it would be too late to do anything about it. My friend, the opposite of brilliance isn't stupidity... it's ignorance.
No, that's not "one of the largest influences" (unless you discard Islam, tribalism, and shamanism first). Also, this is constantly misquoted. The Catholic church said that non-monogamous and/or casual sex, which is encouraged by the availability of contraception, spreads AIDS. They didn't say that condoms themselves somehow magically spread AIDS.theultimateend said:
What? That's a completely ridiculous, off-the-wall statement that I'm going to have to demand some kind of citation for. There's a lot of evidence that Australopithecus Afarensis was monogamous, so unless you have evidence that the ancient ancestors of man were somehow "religious" despite their limited critical thinking capacity, I'm calling BS.
