What Has Your Country Ever Done For Us?!
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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.)
Some of the cooler Irish stuff,
Whiskey
Guinness
Modern Chemistry
Beaufort scale
Seismology
Brennan torpedo
The Boycott
Submarine
Reflector sight
Catalytic converter
Oh yeah, we pretty much saved Western civilization after the fall of the Roman Empire.
You're welcome.
Whiskey
Guinness
Modern Chemistry
Beaufort scale
Seismology
Brennan torpedo
The Boycott
Submarine
Reflector sight
Catalytic converter
Oh yeah, we pretty much saved Western civilization after the fall of the Roman Empire.
You're welcome.
Welp, if you're American, Australian, a New Zealander or one of the non-French parts of Canada, and you're not an aboriginal, then you owe my country your very culture, and your language, no matter how much you stretch it
Mind you, we did a lot of aggressive invasion, but hey, it's how we were brought up. You know how those kids that got bullied at elementary school can go off and be total douchebags at high school? Blame the Romans, the Vikings, the Normans, the Angles and the Saxons for us plucky Brits ramming our culture down your throats.
Wow, that really is me blaming pretty much the entire rest of Europe for the British Empire. Huh.
Mind you, we did a lot of aggressive invasion, but hey, it's how we were brought up. You know how those kids that got bullied at elementary school can go off and be total douchebags at high school? Blame the Romans, the Vikings, the Normans, the Angles and the Saxons for us plucky Brits ramming our culture down your throats.
Wow, that really is me blaming pretty much the entire rest of Europe for the British Empire. Huh.
I'm sure someone has said this before, but the British gave the world the English language. :|
But on a more serious note, I guess one could say that the British along with her Empire established many traditions, technologies and innovations.
To name but a few;
Anemometer, Disc Brakes, Tin Can, Cat Eyes, Portland Cement, Cordite, Corkscrews, Crossword Puzzles, Depth Charges, Diving Equipment/Scuba Gear, Electric Motor, Electromagnet, Fax Machine, Gas Mask, Jet Engines, Kelvin Scale, Metal Lathe, Lawn Mower, Locomotive, Power Loom, Penicillin, Periodic Table, Periscope, Polyester, Puckle Gun, Radar Locating of Aircraft, Rubber Bands, Seed Drill, Seismometer, Sewing Machines, Shrapnel, Steam Engine, Steel Production, Submarine, Spinning Jenny, Television, Thermos, Toilet Paper, Torpedo, Umbrella (steel-ribbed), Vacuum Cleaner..
..and last, but my no means least;
Viagra.
Edit HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN!!
Tim Berners-Lee's WORLD WIDE WEB *worships*
But on a more serious note, I guess one could say that the British along with her Empire established many traditions, technologies and innovations.
To name but a few;
Anemometer, Disc Brakes, Tin Can, Cat Eyes, Portland Cement, Cordite, Corkscrews, Crossword Puzzles, Depth Charges, Diving Equipment/Scuba Gear, Electric Motor, Electromagnet, Fax Machine, Gas Mask, Jet Engines, Kelvin Scale, Metal Lathe, Lawn Mower, Locomotive, Power Loom, Penicillin, Periodic Table, Periscope, Polyester, Puckle Gun, Radar Locating of Aircraft, Rubber Bands, Seed Drill, Seismometer, Sewing Machines, Shrapnel, Steam Engine, Steel Production, Submarine, Spinning Jenny, Television, Thermos, Toilet Paper, Torpedo, Umbrella (steel-ribbed), Vacuum Cleaner..
..and last, but my no means least;
Viagra.
Edit HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN!!
Tim Berners-Lee's WORLD WIDE WEB *worships*
Well, there was this guy called John Atanasoff who INVENTED THE FUCKING COMPUTER!!!! Ha! Top that, bastards! The guy was 100% Bulgarian! Well... Well, okay, he wasn't. But his parents were, and then they moved to America... So he was born there and so he wasn't technically... Oh shut-up it doesn't matter! We still have Berbatov, and that's setting the bar pretty high! Well, actually not since the guy's crap, but... OH SHUT-UP!!!
P.S. My conscience is a ***** =_=
P.S. My conscience is a ***** =_=
USA:
We're the reasons your not threatened by Nazis right now.
Also:
Peanut butter, the traffic light, modern democratic government, Song of Ice and Fire, automatic transmission, the cash register, the credit card, the electric guitar, the working airplane, Email, and Scrabble
We're the reasons your not threatened by Nazis right now.
Also:
Peanut butter, the traffic light, modern democratic government, Song of Ice and Fire, automatic transmission, the cash register, the credit card, the electric guitar, the working airplane, Email, and Scrabble
Justin Bieber... nuff said...King Toasty said:
...and the reason that Japan glows at night...Blackout62 said:
As for the Nazis - The USA wasn't even planning to join the war until we conviced you to help us, so you're welcome for the free glory
Actually, the British empire ended slavery at least thirty years beforehand - and it was that fact that pressurized the USA into following suitLamppenkeyboard said:
OT: As for the UK - we gave the world America - so you can decide for yourself if that's a benefit
Oh yeah, and the World Wide Web - You're welcome
I'm not 100% sure we should proudly proclaim that our bastardised language made from bits and bobs of pretty much every arm of the family tree of Western European languages are forced onto the world, despite its complete lack of logic and consistency...airlife101 said:
Oh god, my captcha is "weakest link". We let lose that upon the world. D: I'm very, very sorry for my country causing Anne Robinson