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Old Sep 4th 2006, 6:48 pm
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And isn't it a shame that they can't think of anything better to do than ******* it all up...
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Originally Posted by Chrisw1968
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Don't beat around the bush, why do you love America.
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Don't beat around the bush, why do you love America.
ohhh ok, Theres this woman .........................................
lol
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I thought John Wayne was dead ? ........ He should be.
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Default Re: My friends ask me why I love America

Originally Posted by Chrisw1968
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I often disagree on political issues, but it's a beautiful country with mostly wonderful people. Thanks to my work, I can live almost anywhere I choose, but I choose to stay here.
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Originally Posted by Chrisw1968
ohhh ok, Theres this woman .........................................
lol
Forget her mate, at your age there should be lots of Women
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Originally Posted by Chrisw1968
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That over the top patriotism makes me want to puke! Sorry. Nice pics though.....
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Default Re: My friends ask me why I love America

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That over the top patriotism makes me want to puke! Sorry. Nice pics though.....
I don't like it either, but:
A question; have you listened to the words of "Land of Hope and Glory", Jerusalem, The British Grenadiers, etc.They are just as jingoistic, just in a different way
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Default Re: My friends ask me why I love America

Originally Posted by Chrisw1968
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Pity you don't get any vacation time in this country to actually get to see all this shit isn't it!!

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Thats hilarious
you notice that pretty much everything featured was of the NATURAL beauty, nature and scenery that america has to offer. Nothing at all of the people or culture. The irony of being that plenty of people here do their best to wreck the nature as best they can, with their power boats on every lake every weekend, their hunting, development of huge cities like LA, oil drilling in alaskan refuges, pollution on an scale never seen before from giant cars belching out millions of tonnes of co2 and other noxious gasses, carpeting the countryside with freeways etc.

Now If you compare that promtional movie with something from say an english tourist board I bet the english one will feature both natural beauty but also culture history and people. It all goes to reaffirm my view that america is an inhumane place. A place with little human scale or identiy and represents a place where humans struggle to live together and find a place for themselves when faced with the enormous scale of nature here.
This sounds a bit garbled but my brain is still mushy after watching that thing

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Pity you don't get any vacation time in this country to actually get to see all this shit isn't it!!
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Originally Posted by Chrisw1968
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A British Version - Rule Britannia
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Originally Posted by Kate2112
I know it's a romantic version of Britain, but I just bawled me eyes out watching that. Especially as that music was played at my dad's funeral.
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I thought the yacht had been retired. Do they have another one by the way? Or is that just not done in these modern times?
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Default Re: My friends ask me why I love America

Originally Posted by ladyofthelake
I know it's a romantic version of Britain, but I just bawled me eyes out watching that. Especially as that music was played at my dad's funeral.
Nimrod.

Actually it's not that romantic really...pretty much everything on there still goes on in everyday life. Very good stuff.
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