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John Uskglass
Venerable Relic of the Wastes
Karkow said:
Your location says Porto, Portugal.....I remember it being Oporto from Crusader Kings, where I beat back the Elmoheads as Portugal, and I thought I was wrong, as your location says Porto...
Well, Porto is the same as Oporto, but Porto is the "Portuguese way" to say it, the English way is Oporto (dunno why).
Like, for example, "Italy" and "Italia" or "Lisbon" and "Lisboa".
I don't know "Crusader Kings"... but if the game describes historical events, then that would be the battle against the moors. All of Portugal was conquered by the moors, except the North, being Porto (or Oporto) the greatest town in the north of the country; we fight off the moors from it and re-conquered the country.
Like, for example, "Italy" and "Italia" or "Lisbon" and "Lisboa".
I don't know "Crusader Kings"... but if the game describes historical events, then that would be the battle against the moors. All of Portugal was conquered by the moors, except the North, being Porto (or Oporto) the greatest town in the north of the country; we fight off the moors from it and re-conquered the country.
To jump back in this thread again.
Of course Bush the Younger wasn't elected by the people, no United States president is! All presidents are elected by the Electoral College, which have an obligation to vote the same way their state does, but aren't forced too. A president doesn't need the popular vote, it's the way the system works.
How about this as an intellectual exercise, is there a single person who we could all agree upon should be the leader of the most powerful nation in the world?
Of course Bush the Younger wasn't elected by the people, no United States president is! All presidents are elected by the Electoral College, which have an obligation to vote the same way their state does, but aren't forced too. A president doesn't need the popular vote, it's the way the system works.
How about this as an intellectual exercise, is there a single person who we could all agree upon should be the leader of the most powerful nation in the world?
King of Creation
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I think what we should really do in America is make me King. I'm already the King of Creation, so what could the harm be? I have experience...
John Uskglass
Venerable Relic of the Wastes
Elmohead=Alamohad. Just a pun. CK is great, IMHO, but I'm biased, as any game where I can be an Armenian King of Iran is gotta be great in my opinion.Karkow said:
Grizzly~Adams
It Wandered In From the Wastes
Kotario said:
Everyone knows all this country needs is a good ralph.
ARRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! DIE!Kotario said:
Here we go again.
A) Bush ignored the UN, and thereby practically destroyed the use of the security council by going past them. (Even though he had a very old UN resolution. That's only technical).
B) He lied to everyone abnd everything about the WMD. There are no WMD.
C) He deceived the American public, got them to believe in him, and justified a war (ie. killings) with those lies.
D) By doing so, he also caused the general American public to stand up against anyone who disagreed with him. (Oh, no, the war has begun, now you must shut up you unpatriotic asshole.)
Right, and you say he is honest????
PS: On the Nader thing. If you were not going to vote for anyone in the first place, voting for Nader is not taking votes away.
*nods*
Welcome back, CCR.
Here I disagree, he is a smart man because he manages to not only divide the west, but cause fear and immense casualties at the same time. His goal currently is not to kill as many non-muslims he dislikes as possible, it is to stop America. The rest is of secondary importance.
Really, CCR, people say all sort of things about both Democrats and Republicans. People claim a lot of things, naturally a lot of those things are false.
John Uskglass
Venerable Relic of the Wastes
Nope. Everyone else did. Saddam still kicked out the wepons inspectors, remember? He just did it because he is a paranoid motherfucker.
Now. There are no WMD now. He certainly used them in the Iran-Iraq war, and odds are he had some and got them off somewhere. I just don't think a guy like Saddam Hussien is capable of thinking clearly beyond WEPONS=DEAD ENEMIES=GOOD.
Woodward says he was decived himself. And I think the Americans would have supported the war without WMD, we need to create an Arab democracy with a population above 1 million to insure shit like 9/11 stays infrequent.
Flat out wrong here. Ted Kennedy had the cojones to call it Bush's Vietnam, and quite a few of the less likeable lefties either agree or go farther then that.
Thanks. Though we disagree alot, I missed the disagreeing.
He has done some smart things (Spain, or at least taking credit for it, bombings in Turkey, the one democratic Muslim state), but overall he has, to date, killed alot more Muslims then Americans. I think. Remember that Indonesian night club? Combine that with the shit in Riyadh and Iraq, it's safe to say that he has killed more Muslims then Americans.
People are forgetting how much Bush has in common with Reagen. Anyone remember Atwood's rag The Hadmaiden's Tale, or how many people thought the world was going to end because of Reagen's brinkmanship? They where all wrong.
Granted, alot of Republicans thought the world was going down the shitter with Clinton, but it's safe to say that a majority did not think the world would end with him.
Damn, ConstinpatedCrapRunner, you took all the fun out of it. There's little left for me to say.
Thread Derail
BTW, we call it Porto in England, maybe it's an American way to say it? Or an outdated English way?
/derail
Yeah, I hate the way we do that. I can understand doing it to unpronouncable words, but "Italia", is that hard to say?Karkow said:
BTW, we call it Porto in England, maybe it's an American way to say it? Or an outdated English way?
/derail
Grizzly~Adams
It Wandered In From the Wastes
Sander said:
Exactly, but try telling that to the Dems.
I think that Nader is also ahead of our time. Hes thinking about reform, which IMO his ideas would be best for our country. The media and the public however won't hear him out, they just think that Bush needs to be thrown out of office ASAP, which I agree with. But thats the kind of mentality that would cause people to vote for Hitler if he was running for the Dems.
I dont think Kerry's administration is going to be all that much better than Bush's. The only way I would have voted Democrat is if Kucinich, Clark, and Maybe Sharpton got the nomination.
But they didn't and a vote for Nader doesn't mean shit right now. This is why I'm going to do something more useful with my time when voting time comes around.
Big_T_UK said:
"they"? Name one language that *doesn't* do that. It's not exactly unique to the English.
Ancient Oldie
Still Mildly Glowing
Nader is a fucking Jimmy Carter in disguise. Nice guy, but several of his ideas are just not feasible. Also, no one in congress would have his back, so he would be just as good as useless in office.
This coming election is one of the bleakest looking ones in recent memory. You have extremely conservitive and elitist on one hand, and a total dickface on the other who's main claim to fame is that he's the guy you should vote for if you don't want Bush in office, which is never a reason to vote for someone.
Now Al Sharpton... that man has character.
I agree with the poster who said that Powell would be an excellent president. I wouldn't think twice about voting for him. It would have been nice of Gore would have run again. Even Hillary Clinton would make a better candidate than these two schmucks.
As for Micheal Moore, thank God you live in Portugal...
BTW, has anyone heard of that movie that has Al Gore running for office after the ice caps melt? I'm not making this up. He pretty much says that we fucked up the environment and that we should have originally voted for him so as to prevent this disaster. Good laugh.
This coming election is one of the bleakest looking ones in recent memory. You have extremely conservitive and elitist on one hand, and a total dickface on the other who's main claim to fame is that he's the guy you should vote for if you don't want Bush in office, which is never a reason to vote for someone.
Now Al Sharpton... that man has character.
I agree with the poster who said that Powell would be an excellent president. I wouldn't think twice about voting for him. It would have been nice of Gore would have run again. Even Hillary Clinton would make a better candidate than these two schmucks.
As for Micheal Moore, thank God you live in Portugal...
BTW, has anyone heard of that movie that has Al Gore running for office after the ice caps melt? I'm not making this up. He pretty much says that we fucked up the environment and that we should have originally voted for him so as to prevent this disaster. Good laugh.
You reminded me of the comic book "The Authority", Ancient Oldie.
In the story arc where the Team is fighting a government-created monster with all super-powers we could think off, the only think that could stop him was a sentence that the government people knew that no one would ever, ever say.
The sentence?
“Welcome to the Oval Office, President Gore.”
In the story arc where the Team is fighting a government-created monster with all super-powers we could think off, the only think that could stop him was a sentence that the government people knew that no one would ever, ever say.
The sentence?
“Welcome to the Oval Office, President Gore.”
Ancient Oldie said:BTW, has anyone heard of that movie that has Al Gore running for office after the ice caps melt? I'm not making this up. He pretty much says that we fucked up the environment and that we should have originally voted for him so as to prevent this disaster. Good laugh.
I...never heard of that?
But how many people know Al Gore's in Jet Li's The One
(in the same sense that George Bush is in the Big Lebowsky, tho')
Ancient Oldie
Still Mildly Glowing
Yeah, I heard it on the radio yesterday. It's a disaster flick that literally has Al Gore acting in it. I can't find it on IMDB though, maybe someone else has heard of it.
When did I say "they"? I said "We". I am English.Kharn said:
As to other languages doing it, I've no idea. Strictly Monoligual here.
English is llikely to be worse than others, I would think. Very few English people even try to pronounce foreign words. French, particularly, is funny when spoken by an Englishman, mostly we try to speak it as if it's English.
Big_T_UK said:
My bad on the they/we.
And other languages are worse in it. The more different a language is, the worse it is. Finnish tends to rape names, and Finnish name are completely fucked. Heck, the word Finnish isn't exactly "Finnish" in Finnish, it's 'suomalainen'
Germany languages are hell on names too. Brussel even has two official names, Brussel and Bruxelles (Dutch and Frenc). And what about the rest (for Dutch, a Germanic language)? Paris is Parijs, France is Frankrijk, Italia is Italie, Espania is Spanje, Roma is Rome, etc.
*reads last posts*
*laughs*
You know, "Italia" in Polish is called "Wlochy"
Which means "Nasty/pubic hair"
*laughs*
You know, "Italia" in Polish is called "Wlochy"
Which means "Nasty/pubic hair"