At 3/5/10 10:21 PM, byteslinger wrote: That being said, I need to remind most of you why America is more awesome than England:

i don't agree

1) Our leader: A young, decent-looking and intelligent mixed-race gentleman with a lot of good ideas, a beautiful wife, great kids, and a cute puppy who can actively lead the most powerful country on the planet. Your leader: A kindly little old lady who is nothing more than a grandmotherly figurehead.

stupid puppy... that' doesn't count... and the queen isn't totally the leader in that way... kinda complicated.. it works different... you can't compare that
(and Obama is kinda new... you wouldn't say mixed-race a few time ago)

2) We have better dentists and dental care plans

¬¬... so...

3) We get to celebrate the 4th of July (and, at YOUR expense...hehehe)

fireworks!... but everybody celebrates something

4) We were the first country to put a man on the moon - multiple times. UK count: 0

ok... you can have the moon, don't worry, the rest of the world wasn't going to use it anyway..

5) The entire UK would fit in our little podunk state of Iowa

yet it is small.. is a pain in the ass for you guys... if it can be such great being such little... that's awsome (more awesome than having Alaska and Hawaii in my opinion)

6) We don't get fog and rain most of the year - except for Seattle.

so... again plz, who cares? both coutries have money... if i wanted ice, you can pay a trip somewhere with ice... and if you want sun, you guys can pay to go to a beachy country...

7) We drive on the RIGHT side of the road.

The left is sexier...

8) Our police force uses better weapons - because being nice to bad guys just doesn't seem to always work.

because you only can use the technology to win... that's alll you have, good weapon... because good officer, absolutely not

9) We have the Grand Canyon, the Mississippi River, Mt. McKinley, the Utah Salt Flats, the Everglades national park, half of Niagra Falls, the Rocky Mountains and Death Valley. The UK has some holes in the ground (Buttertubs), a few cliffs (Dover), and a few rocks of interest (the Logan Stone).

this is the FIRST one i agree with you

10) We have baseball and football. You have cricket and rugby, which are the crude basics for our games. We made them an art form and national passions.

welll this is a tie.. both coutries have silly sports... baseball and cricket are crap
football and rugby are nice... but there are better sports... so who cares...
anyway... football and baseball are pure imitations of the original ones...

11) We have Harley Davidson - don't even bother trying to top that

2nd i agree...

12) We have Chuck Norris - need I say more?

OMFG... USA totally won!
¬¬ seriously

1) English from england sounds 100 times better than USA english
2) They are more educated... more polite...
3) The average of intelligence is higher, that's for sure... (i didn't say USA didn't have greatest minds... just that, the rest of normal ppl is just too silly) you don't measure a "population" by it higher ppl, you measure it by the worst and lower ppl it has

and a few more things i won't say (because i am going to get banned if i continue with this XD)

sorry for double posting...

At 3/5/10 10:57 PM, Fro wrote: America is in my opinion the most ignorant country in the world.

Amen...
to that and to everything Fro said

We can debate this all night, but let me remind you of something very important about the USA:

Whenever there's a disaster ANYWHERE in the world, like earthquakes or hurricanes or such, WE usually are one of the FIRST COUNTRIES to lend a hand and offer aid. Some of you might claim it's politically motivated more than being altruistic, but so what? Despite our faults, who does the world lean on when disaster strikes?

Remember that when you're throwing stones at us, ok?

I hope to God this is friendly banter between citizens of different countries. It starts out funny, but watch it.

Also, PantyWipe your son is adorble, and cool name :3

At 3/5/10 11:44 PM, byteslinger wrote:

Whenever there's a disaster ANYWHERE in the world, like earthquakes or hurricanes or such, WE usually are one of the FIRST COUNTRIES to lend a hand and offer aid. Some of you might claim it's politically motivated more than being altruistic, but so what? Despite our faults, who does the world lean on when disaster strikes?

We should be. You wouldn't expect someone poor to help someone poor. You'd expect someone with money to help. It's the least that we could do. In fact we should have been helping to the point where these countries wouldn't need our aid.

At 3/5/10 11:44 PM, MultiCanimefan wrote: I hope to God this is friendly banter between citizens of different countries. It starts out funny, but watch it.

Also, PantyWipe your son is adorble, and cool name :3

I'm sure it is. I'm American and have a couple of views about the country. I absolutely love the great life with virtually no worries, but I absolutely hate how blind people in our country our. Let's just say in America a bad day can be created by us not getting to eat what we wanted to eat that day, but a good day in another country might be being able to find food for the first time in a while. A lot of people say oh well, who cares, but it's the rich countries fault that these poor countries are like that more times than not.

A quick change in topic though. I've gotten wireless internet at home for the first time ever. I've had dial up since 04 and it's beautiful. I've reviewed about 10 flashes and I can't believe how I forgot how I loved to review. Now to go do some audio. :P

At 3/5/10 11:44 PM, MultiCanimefan wrote: I hope to God this is friendly banter between citizens of different countries. It starts out funny, but watch it.

Well for me, it is. That's what makes it great living here - we can all have different views, and maybe we don't agree on the details, or even with the current government - but we have the freedom to discuss and debate it intelligently. Let me go on record that just because some of my fellow Barracks members may disagree with what I write, I respect them for that and harbor no ill-will or bad feelings in any way.

With that being said, I am going to ease off on my POV for now - I really don't want any mod to think we've gone dangerously off-topic, and be responsible for derailing this thread.

So, to all here,

* Salutes*

Also, PantyWipe your son is adorable, and cool name :3

Now, THAT is something we ALL can agree on! Congrats again, PW!

At 3/5/10 11:44 PM, byteslinger wrote: We can debate this all night, but let me remind you of something very important about the USA:

Whenever there's a disaster ANYWHERE in the world, like earthquakes or hurricanes or such, WE usually are one of the FIRST COUNTRIES to lend a hand and offer aid. Some of you might claim it's politically motivated more than being altruistic, but so what? Despite our faults, who does the world lean on when disaster strikes?

Remember that when you're throwing stones at us, ok?

What about Katrina? That happened on your own soil and your government did fuck all about it. It's all well and good and commendable to rush out aid for foreigners but shouldn't a countries own citizens be more important? I hope Bush was hanging his head in fucking shame.

At 3/5/10 03:45 PM, Fro wrote:

At 3/5/10 09:25 AM, SlntCobra1 wrote: No offense Lizz or to you either Coop, but I'm enjoying this little back and forth of Americans vs. Britain

As an American I can honestly say we are the most ignorant country in the world. We will get what we have coming to us sooner or later.

Sadly, that means by pissing off the extremist Muslims, the UK is also in the firing line.

Buckfush.At 3/5/10 04:15 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote:

At 3/5/10 03:45 PM, Fro wrote: As an American I can honestly say we are the most ignorant country in the world. We will get what we have coming to us sooner or later.

Umm, did you forget that since we have the F-117A Nighthawk, F/A-18 Hornet, F/A-18 Super Hornet, F-14 Tomcat, the F/A-22 RAPTOR, all our Nimitz class aircraft carriers, and all our M1A1 Abrams tanks, we pretty much have our asses covered.

Yeah, that's the uninformed opinion. But if the opinion that you "have our asses covered" includes a certain percentage of colateral damage and friendly casualties and fatalities, I'd say it is right.

And as for the 11/9 jibe, pride comes before a fall. Let's have less of it, or we will have to consider that pissing up the tall trees is going to piss off the big dogs.

At 3/5/10 10:21 PM, byteslinger wrote: 1) Our leader: A young, decent-looking and intelligent mixed-race gentleman with a lot of good ideas, a beautiful wife, great kids, and a cute puppy who can actively lead the most powerful country on the planet. Your leader: A kindly little old lady who is nothing more than a grandmotherly figurehead.

In the UK, good looking people don't go into politics, they go on the X-Factor.

2) We have better dentists and dental care plans

My teeth aren't bad. Besides, look down there at theyum rednecks. Their teeth look mighty purty :P

3) We get to celebrate the 4th of July (and, at YOUR expense...hehehe)

I celebrate the 4th of July - not having to pay for running America. Now all we have to do is get separate from Europe.

4) We were the first country to put a man on the moon - multiple times. UK count: 0

Well, I think it was later than Armstrong et. al. Meh, our adventuring days were over when we sent people to the poles, up Everest and so forth.

5) The entire UK would fit in our little podunk state of Iowa

Good things come in small packages.

6) We don't get fog and rain most of the year - except for Seattle.

We get good weather too - Wales takes most of the brunt over here in the Midlands :P

7) We drive on the RIGHT side of the road.

WTF?! If we flipped it over, you'd be lording driving on the left over me. Poor argument, at best.

8) Our police force uses better weapons - because being nice to bad guys just doesn't seem to always work.

Because your police officers aren't fit enough to chase down criminals, so they just shoot them :P

9) We have the Grand Canyon, the Mississippi River, Mt. McKinley, the Utah Salt Flats, the Everglades national park, half of Niagra Falls, the Rocky Mountains and Death Valley. The UK has some holes in the ground (Buttertubs), a few cliffs (Dover), and a few rocks of interest (the Logan Stone).

Cheddar Gorge
River Severn
Ben Nevis
Norfolk Broads
Lake District
Eas a' Chual Aluinn - Yes, we own all of that :P
Snowdonia
Peak District

I'd say we're even on this one.

10) We have baseball and football. You have cricket and rugby, which are the crude basics for our games. We made them an art form and national passions.

Baseball - derived from Rounders, which was a game that English girls played. Yeah, only Manny Ramirez has ever gotten into the true spirit of that sport :P

American Football - I feel that this shirt sums up my feelings on the Rugby / NFL debate

11) We have Harley Davidson - don't even bother trying to top that

Why not? Triumph motorcycles are vastly superior. I believe that the Triumph Rocket III is the largest production motorcycle in the world.

12) We have Chuck Norris - need I say more?

Yes, I don't think he's particularly special.

We have Prince Phillip!

I could go on, but despite the few problems you've brought to light, I still think that the USA beats the UK hands down. In fact, we can just send Chuck over and let him do it for us.

Well, I could go on as well. We are both patriots here, byteslinger.

At 3/6/10 02:35 AM, sushi13 wrote:

At 3/5/10 11:44 PM, byteslinger wrote: Whenever there's a disaster ANYWHERE in the world, like earthquakes or hurricanes or such, WE usually are one of the FIRST COUNTRIES to lend a hand and offer aid.

What about Katrina? That happened on your own soil and your government did fuck all about it.

That's basically the entirety of the argument summed up. PWN3D :P

At 3/6/10 07:15 AM, Lizzardis wrote:

At 3/5/10 11:44 PM, byteslinger wrote: Remember that when you're throwing stones at us, ok?

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me"

Sticks and stone may break my bones, while chains and whips excite me :P

As it is now my civic duty to inject some rational thought etc into this place, I think that we'd better just calm down the borderline xenophobic ramblings, before someone does inadvertently start WWIII - has anyone ever seen Wargames? Oh, whatever happened to Matthew Broderick, to make his career suck so much arse after this fine film :'(

But, in the words of the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, "Alright, we'll call it a draw"

At 3/4/10 06:41 PM, PantyWipe wrote: PS. heres a pick of my son Midian from a few months ago... enjoy!

He's adorable, and he also has a cool name :)

At 3/6/10 07:06 AM, Lizzardis wrote:

At 3/5/10 10:21 PM, byteslinger wrote:

Not really. We get all our healthcare for free, dentist an all. I have braces, never had to have a filling, when they saw a problem they fixed it with the braces. To be honest... That's all I want from a dentist.

Contrary to popular belief, people in England have healthy teeth. I know that's a bit old, but I'm too lazy to look for more relevant links.

6) We don't get fog and rain most of the year - except for Seattle.

We don't get fog that often. The rain I can live with. I have waterproof hair gel, so I don't mind! Haha.

However, someone is going to reply to this with "I couldn't live with rain all the time". Well... no of course you couldn't... Just like I couldn't live with being in 45 Degree heat every bastarding day.

I completely love rain :3

Also, this whole discussion reminds me of this. That's a funny read, BTW.

And I really hope that I can make it to the top gainers this month :D

Apparently, my attempt at a semi-humorous tongue-in-cheek comparison of two fine countries has brought chaos, strife and discord to this forum.

Looks like my job here is done....

*whistles while disappearing out of sight, flipping a coin as it all fades to black...*

PS: Regarding Matthew Broderick: Well, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", although funny, really didn't help. "Inspector Gadget" was pathetic. Now all he really does is voice-overs for animated movies. My feeling: he wasn't goofy enough to be really funny, and not really handsome enough to be another "Tom Cruise" wanna-be. Now, if he had a time machine and a crazy professor friend that lived near by, well, that might just work...

At 3/5/10 11:44 PM, byteslinger wrote: We can debate this all night, but let me remind you of something very important about the USA:

hahaha.. that's right... so i am just going to add a final one about it...

Whenever there's a disaster ANYWHERE in the world, like earthquakes or hurricanes or such, WE usually are one of the FIRST COUNTRIES to lend a hand and offer aid. Some of you might claim it's politically motivated more than being altruistic, but so what? Despite our faults, who does the world lean on when disaster strikes?

yes you help, as Fro say... definitely the words riches country have money to help every other country in the world whenever they want
but if you just help when somebody is in problem... wouldn't that be kind of hypocrite
helping a country in problems, but the rest of poor countries that are "fine" right now, keep under your control... and our countries can get out... the external debt just increase and increase, and the poor countries keep getting more poor... and then we depend on you more and more

you know.. it's like some kind of politician...
let say, he goes with his family on the street, and he see a vagabond (i am not sure if this is the word... a poor guys that lives on the streets), all the ppl give to the vagabond money, like a few cents, of even some bucks
so the politician come, and give him 50 dollars... every would see him as, "ohh! he is such a good guy, what a nice person"

but when the politician goes back to work... he is corrupt, and he continue steeling the money from the government, that would be use to help that poor ppl on the streets

I think the main thing here is... USA, like every other country, have pros and cons... but i think you guys like to 'highlight' you goods more than your bads, and sometimes even act like you don't have bads... that's what the rest of the world can't stand... so the rest of the world do the opposite... and just 'highlight' you bad things...

Remember that when you're throwing stones at us, ok?

nah... is not like we hate you guys... if i had anything against USA, i wouldn't even use NG... XD

Thank you to everybody who said my son was cute! he loves you guys, too.

Man, I have slacked WAAAAY too hard on leveling up. With a 2001 sign up date, Im at the same level as people whove deposited every day that signed up in 07 and 08. I guess with such a head start I oughta be waaay further than this. Oh well, better late than never. At least Im gold badge with my B/P points.

On an odd note, I think NG log said Id be a gold hammer had I deposited every day. Im also pretty high on the list of most deposits missed. LOL.

At 3/6/10 04:20 PM, PantyWipe wrote: Man, I have slacked WAAAAY too hard on leveling up. With a 2001 sign up date, Im at the same level as people whove deposited every day that signed up in 07 and 08. I guess with such a head start I oughta be waaay further than this. Oh well, better late than never. At least Im gold badge with my B/P points.

Welcome to the club. My account is a few months older than yours and a few levels behind and I'm frustrated as hell to see kids with 08 sign up dates higher than me. I could at least have been depositing every day instead of barely using the site from 2002-2008. One day I'll catch up!

Its really nice to see some old members posting in here again like PantyWipe cute picture your son by the way. Hello TheNossinator I cant remember when you left it must have been a while ago. I missed lots of deposits over the years this account I would have been like. If you deposited every day, you would have 22070 EXP and you would be Level 45. I have an 2001 account not using like level 50 something.

Another chapter updated.

Yeah there's a fight with a Westboro punk disrupting a funeral mass for the Olympic gold medal hope after Team USA lost to Canada on men's hockey.

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When will people learn that admitting to stealing a flash in the author comments is a sure fire way to get it flagged?

Original on youtube.

At 3/7/10 09:01 AM, sushi13 wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/52 9705
When will people learn that admitting to stealing a flash in the author comments is a sure fire way to get it flagged? Original on youtube.

You can say that this particular fellow is a baka.

But then again they're all bakas.

Hey guys. I once was a member of the EGB and I would like to know if I could rejoin. Thanks :)

At 3/6/10 07:03 PM, TheNossinator wrote: Excuse me, kind sirs, might I be able to re-enlist in the EGB?
I left a while ago due to inactivity, but my B/Ping has gone up in recent months, so I thought I might re-join the fight.

I'll think about it. Let me get back to you in a speedy 8-12 weeks.

:-)

Welcome back! I'll get you back on the forums.

At 3/7/10 10:08 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: Hey guys. I once was a member of the EGB and I would like to know if I could rejoin. Thanks :)

You were killed off in my story. No.

:-)

Just kidding. I'll re-validate you on the forums. Welcome back!

At 3/8/10 04:09 PM, Lizzardis wrote:

At 3/8/10 12:40 PM, EagleRock wrote: Welcome back! I'll get you back on the forums.
Just kidding. I'll re-validate you on the forums. Welcome back!

Note to self: Add these guys back onto the roster as new members when I get a free piece of time.

Note to self: Stop making so many notes.

Note to self: I have too much to do!

Bleh! I'll add them soon.... Before the next roster anyway. Haha.

The first sign of insanity: you talk to yourself too much.

The second sign: you argue with yourself..

The third: you lose all the arguments...

I do not suffer from insanity - in fact, I enjoy every moment of it! I just wish the toaster would stop giving me insider-trading stock tips and warning me that the dryer is on a mission to eat one of every sock I ever owned...

...They're coming to take me away, HAHA, today, HAHA.....

</insane rant>

;)

At 3/8/10 04:20 PM, byteslinger wrote: The first sign of insanity: you talk to yourself too much.

Well, it's only the first si--

The second sign: you argue with yourself..

...Well, at least I don't spend all my time trying to wi--

The third: you lose all the arguments...

.........FFFFFFFFFFFFF---!!!

Excuse me while I go laugh AND cry (at the same time) in a corner.
*Turns to mirror* THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!!

At 3/8/10 04:20 PM, byteslinger wrote: The first sign of insanity: you talk to yourself too much.

Hey, it helps me have ideas and/or helpful insights.

The second sign: you argue with yourself..

*whistles innocently*.
*looks around suspiciously*

The third: you lose all the arguments...

YOU'RE ARGUING WITH YOURSELF!! AND LOSING!!!

At 3/7/10 09:01 AM, sushi13 wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/52 9705
When will people learn that admitting to stealing a flash in the author comments is a sure fire way to get it flagged? Original on youtube.

My dislike of Touhou thieves now officially applies to Vocaloid thieves too. "Triple Baka" is right: thieves like him are idiots not just once or twice, but three times over:
1. All thieves are morons.
2. "Triple baka" is a pretty well-known song and video in the Vocaloid fandom. Well, kinda. Someone out there has probably seen it, I know I have, and I'm sure I'm not the only NG user to have run across the Vocaloids before.
3. He admitted to stealing?! What an idiot!

There ya go. Triple baka.

Wow lots of old member coming back hello HeavenDuff welcome back. I think I going to stop using Firefox I'm sick of it the stupid fucking thing keeps crashing and its quite slow. I have used it for two weeks and the trouble I had before is happening again. Shame but I'm fed up with it. I cannot use Google Chrome my Mac too old. Still I may try Safari that is the default browser. I talk to myself so I must have gone mad LOL.

Stolen:

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http://www.maxgames.com/play/more-mindle ss-violence.html

At 3/6/10 09:54 PM, phantomlassuk wrote: Its really nice to see some old members posting in here again like PantyWipe cute picture your son by the way. Hello TheNossinator I cant remember when you left it must have been a while ago. I missed lots of deposits over the years this account I would have been like. If you deposited every day, you would have 22070 EXP and you would be Level 45. I have an 2001 account not using like level 50 something.

Thanks and good to see you too man! Shit phantom, yer an old schooler with not that high of a lvl, too. lol, its like the pre-2005 cats had no idea how fun this was til years later.

Hey guys, just thought I'd swing by to let y'all know I still have a pulse, given I've not posted, well, anywhere, in well over a month. Combo of lack of time to spend on NG and lacking motivation to post when I am on. Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere, I still lurk the thread every day, just haven't had much of anything to contribute given how quiet things in the Portal have gotten, in contrast to the spam floods and regular malicious contributions that the latter half of 2009 threw up. Plus since I gotta come on to deposit every day, you can always get me via PM.

Keep up the good work guys, until my next fleeting appearance, farewell!
*throws smoke bomb*
*sneaks out back way while everyone's distracted*

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Advertisement.

Wow.... it's been REAL quiet here. Portal has been slow, too. Is everyone okay?

Come on, boys, let's hear some chatter...remember, we're the Elite Guard - NOT NINJAS!

It's no fun making wise-cracks to an empty room. But I'll do it anyway:

"What do you get when you cross Chuck Norris with an alligator? You get a beat-down, because you should NEVER cross Chuck Norris!"

Yeah, it's a little lame - but it was cute when my 12 year old nephew told it to me!

*Salutes the empty room, and goes back to the portal to wait for the grass to start growing*

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Can anyone get this to work? It looks (to me at least) like some noob's tried to upload a stolen video, but all he ended up stealing was the framework of the player itself. Fail.