What Has Your Country Ever Done For Us?!
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The US, so an absolute fuckton of useful things.
We've fucked up a lot of things, but it would be silly to suggest that we haven't given the world an awful lot of great stuff too.
We've fucked up a lot of things, but it would be silly to suggest that we haven't given the world an awful lot of great stuff too.
Well, from the United States, we have...
All of that is prior to 1890.
Don't make fun of my country.
Swimming fins
Franklin Stove
Mail Order
Lightning Rod
Armonica
Swivel Chair
Bifocals
Automatic Flour Mill
Crackers
Cotton Gin
Rumford Fireplace
Cupcakes
Suspension Bridge
Fire hydrant
Amphibious Vehicles
Coffee Percolator
Lobster Trap
Circular Saw
Dental Floss
Milling Machine
Graham Crackers
Electric Doorbell
Morse Code
Sewing Machine
Combine Harvester
Steam Shovel
Wrench
Solar Compass
Gridiron (cooking)
Circuit Breaker
Corn Shelter
Vulcanized Rubber
Anesthesia
Ice Cream Maker
Rotary Printing Press
Pressure Sensitive Tape
Baseball
Printing Telegraph
Ring Shaped Doughnuts
Pin Tumbler Lock
Jackhammer
Safety Pins
Gas Mask
Fire Alarm Box
Elevator Brake
Potato Chips (or "crisps")
Clothespin
Toilet paper (You're welcome)
Pepper Shaker
Monkey Wrench
Pencil Eraser
Ironing Board
Burglar Alarm
Electric Stove
Escalators
Vacuum Cleaner
Repeating Rifles
Jellybeans
Postcards
Hand-Cranked Machine Guns
Cereal
Socket Wrench
Urinal
Motorcycles
Paper Clip
Barbed Wire
Pipe Wrench
Feather Duster
Jeans
Earmuffs
Sporks
Ice Cream Soda
QWERTY Keyboard layout
Synthesizers
Tattoo Machine
Phonograph
Cash Register
Electric Chair
Metal Detector
Solar Cell
Thermostat
Machine Gun (Non-Hand-Cranked)
Photographic Film
Dishwasher
Screen Door
Slot Machines
Drinking straw
Payphone
Franklin Stove
Mail Order
Lightning Rod
Armonica
Swivel Chair
Bifocals
Automatic Flour Mill
Crackers
Cotton Gin
Rumford Fireplace
Cupcakes
Suspension Bridge
Fire hydrant
Amphibious Vehicles
Coffee Percolator
Lobster Trap
Circular Saw
Dental Floss
Milling Machine
Graham Crackers
Electric Doorbell
Morse Code
Sewing Machine
Combine Harvester
Steam Shovel
Wrench
Solar Compass
Gridiron (cooking)
Circuit Breaker
Corn Shelter
Vulcanized Rubber
Anesthesia
Ice Cream Maker
Rotary Printing Press
Pressure Sensitive Tape
Baseball
Printing Telegraph
Ring Shaped Doughnuts
Pin Tumbler Lock
Jackhammer
Safety Pins
Gas Mask
Fire Alarm Box
Elevator Brake
Potato Chips (or "crisps")
Clothespin
Toilet paper (You're welcome)
Pepper Shaker
Monkey Wrench
Pencil Eraser
Ironing Board
Burglar Alarm
Electric Stove
Escalators
Vacuum Cleaner
Repeating Rifles
Jellybeans
Postcards
Hand-Cranked Machine Guns
Cereal
Socket Wrench
Urinal
Motorcycles
Paper Clip
Barbed Wire
Pipe Wrench
Feather Duster
Jeans
Earmuffs
Sporks
Ice Cream Soda
QWERTY Keyboard layout
Synthesizers
Tattoo Machine
Phonograph
Cash Register
Electric Chair
Metal Detector
Solar Cell
Thermostat
Machine Gun (Non-Hand-Cranked)
Photographic Film
Dishwasher
Screen Door
Slot Machines
Drinking straw
Payphone
All of that is prior to 1890.
Don't make fun of my country.
What has The US done for the world? hm... yep, its too large to list.
OH, I know. We gave you emoticons. Courtesy of Pittsburgh. You can go ahead and say thats not significant, but really, consider it. just go ahead, consider it. How many of you have ever actually used one? cause if you have, You are very welcome.
OH, I know. We gave you emoticons. Courtesy of Pittsburgh. You can go ahead and say thats not significant, but really, consider it. just go ahead, consider it. How many of you have ever actually used one? cause if you have, You are very welcome.
ScramJets.
Boomerangs.
AFL.
Hilltop Hoods.
Parkway Drive.
I Killed the Prom Queen.
Advances in Melanoma and other Cancer research.
Good Beaches.
ANZAC Biscuits (That might have been a Kiwi though, but you can't have ANZAC without Australia).
LA Niore.
Vegemite.
Damper.
The best Beef out.
Boomerangs.
AFL.
Hilltop Hoods.
Parkway Drive.
I Killed the Prom Queen.
Advances in Melanoma and other Cancer research.
Good Beaches.
ANZAC Biscuits (That might have been a Kiwi though, but you can't have ANZAC without Australia).
LA Niore.
Vegemite.
Damper.
The best Beef out.
Ok, let's start at a point. It's than, not then. South Africa was a racist state, not an oppressive state though there was oppression as well but there's a significant difference warranting the definition between racist and oppressive. It was similar to what Israel is today, very similar.Warforger said:
Also, the communists won nothing,they sustained grievous losses, I'm talking about tens of thousands versus singular thousands on the opposing side. They didn't win you ignoramus, no one won. I bet you don't know about Botswana or Namibia or the 27 year civil war following the SA army's pull out. I bet you don't know about the political pressures that ended apartheid do you?
Let me summarize it for you. The US protected South Africa and Israel by vetoing every bill the UN proposed that would have damaged those governments. The US threatened the apartheid regime with sanctions if they didn't fight the communists in Angola. Each time the US pulled some bullshit like refusing to provide anti-Mig weapons the government of the time got a little more resentful. The SA government refused to pull out for a long time because of the unstable political atmosphere; the same reasons the US aren't pulling out of Iraq today but who the fuck cared about Angola?
Eventually the SA government said Fuck You to the Americans and suddenly a bunch of sanctions went through when South Africa continued to protect Namibian and Botswana borders from the communists(something the US did not want); these sanctions were one of the big reasons that apartheid ended. But this ONLY happened after the US had been vetoing bills for more than a decade.
So let's look at this again. The US, uncaring, left an unstable Angola(millions died in the resulting civil war), refused to help an ally fight a US conflict and prolonged the lifespan of a racist regime; helping to end it only after it rebelled against its bullshit.
I labelled it a debatable contribution because the only thing that no one cared about was the lives of millions of Angolans. But hey, communists died as well so that justifies everything.
tl;dr Don't be an ignorant twat. There's more to history than America is the good guy and anyone who opposes it is the bad guy.
America made a terrible new Top Gear which I imagine made many people appreciate the real Top Gear and enjoy it more.
emeraldrafael said:
Now, I'll start out by saying that this is nothing personal but this thread has started to get on my nerves on one specific detail and your post just happened to be the last one I read before deciding to comment on it. Sorry if you take offense to this, that's not how it's meant.
America is NOT a country!
The United States of America, the USA or US for short, is a country but it has never been named America.
America is the two continents, upon the north of which, the US is located.
I know it seems petty to react like this on such a trivial thing, but it bugs me.
Again, nothing personal to you emeraldafael your post was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Romanian_inventors_and_discoverers
Edited my post. Here is the complete list, acording to wikipedia. Enjoy.
In the list you will not find Transylvania, because it's not a person, it's a place sheltering all the cool vampires. Not the gay fayries.
Edited my post. Here is the complete list, acording to wikipedia. Enjoy.
In the list you will not find Transylvania, because it's not a person, it's a place sheltering all the cool vampires. Not the gay fayries.
your avy is so appropriate for this comment.tokae said:
and yeah, thats the story of my life.
And thats fine. I should get out of the habit of that, I'll admit it. I'll edit the post.
I'm not a fan of this entire "patiotism" thing so I don't believe that a country could've given the world anything. Therefore we need to specify the matter. Let's talk about individuals with said nationality that had done something for the world. the country itself is not being given any credit for this.
so there was this guy who invented parachute (?tefan Banič, the person who came up with Krav Maga (the military martial art) was also born in here and so were the parents of Andy Warhol (although they were a different nationality- Rusinian, I reckon. And Andy himself never even visited the country.)
so there was this guy who invented parachute (?tefan Banič
, the person who came up with Krav Maga (the military martial art) was also born in here and so were the parents of Andy Warhol (although they were a different nationality- Rusinian, I reckon. And Andy himself never even visited the country.)