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dogma wrote:

Ahtman wrote:

Typeline wrote:If Obama loses this election I will go to Atlanta wearing my Obama T-shirt and loot everything awesome in sight with the other thousands of pissed off people.

Becuase the best response, for democracies sake, is to riot if you don't like an election. Maybe a coup'd etat would be in order. You know, just to prove how much we like democracy.

Yep, and the best response is always to mock people. :S

Please.

I am embarrassed for you.

Whatever helps you sleep at night. I personally think threat of riot because an election doesn't have the outcome you want to be erratic and irresponsible in the extreme. If you think it is ok to riot in the streets if Obama loses please let us know why.

Good point Ahtman. threatening to riot because you lose an election is the antithesis of democracy, its positively French...

Frazzled wrote:Good point Ahtman. threatening to riot because you lose an election is the antithesis of democracy, its positively French...

Did you just come here to make a joke at the expense of the dirty French?

I'm embarrassed for you.

Find a need and fill it?

Look, when you've periodically given the French a few Chinese Burns over the years for lack of anyone else to bully, then you get to make sarky comments about them.

But the US hasn't. So there. Nyeh!

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Look, when you've periodically given the French a few Chinese Burns over the years for lack of anyone else to bully, then you get to make sarky comments about them.

But the US hasn't. So there. Nyeh!

Does FREEDOM FRIES COUNT FOR NOTHING?!?!

No.

But having a Hundred Year War against them, and wiping out their nobility does. (Agincourt anyone? COME ON THE PEASENTS!)

Hey, the French wiped out their own nobility.

We got there first I'm afraid. Between that and the Battle where they killed their Genoese Crossbowmen for nicking off (didn't bring Pavises, getting slaughtered by Longbows, decided they'd had enough) there wasn't a lot left. Allowed England to dominate for quite a while, as the eldest sons were all dead!

Railguns wrote:Hey, the French wiped out their own nobility.

Besides the French nicked the idea of revolutions and getting rid of kings from our English Civil War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cr%C3%A9cy

All right all right, just remember the French invented Freech wine and French women Enough said.

They also helped us in the Revolutionary War, though everyone seems to forget that bit.

What have the French ever given us? Oh yeah, critical military support to win our independence. And that terrible status in New York that we hate so much. Oh wait.

Ragnar I'm shocked you didn't recognize the awesome cultural contribution of French wine and women. Nothing else needs to be said.

But then again we had to shoot it out with them in Quasi War in 1798. So thats 2-0 vs. Brits, 1-0 vs. France. Looks like the French are beating you Grotsnik.

EDIT: I'm going to have to give myself a warning for trolling pretty soon I think...

Ah, but I asked rhetorically what they’ve GIVEN us. Not what we pay for. Though they are pretty awesome.

Cheese.

and French bread. Freshly baked French bread is awesome. Stale French breaad can be used as a clkub in case the Germans cross the frontier (again).

Foie gras.

French kissing.

..letters ?


... They have that slang stateside right ?

The French and the US like to poke fun at eachother as much as the British and the US do. It's nothing personal, except for a few "special" people.

We named a lot of stuff after the French because of the Revolutionary War and one of our favorite heroes, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette.

In the end we joke but the only people everyone truly dislikes are French-Canadians.

Even they play good hockey though eh?

Ahtman wrote:In the end we joke but the only people everyone truly dislikes are French-Canadians.

Shut. Your. Mouth.

#66, "Le Magnifique" = best ever.

Ahtman wrote:
Whatever helps you sleep at night. I personally think threat of riot because an election doesn't have the outcome you want to be erratic and irresponsible in the extreme. If you think it is ok to riot in the streets if Obama loses please let us know why.

I don't, that isn't the point. The point is that mockery is deleterious to discourse. And I have never seen a post from you that begins with anything but condescension.

Hey I'm part French, and finally learning French. Can't wait to actually visit the place. I hear they take a special liking to Louisianians.

Ahtman wrote:

dogma wrote:

Ahtman wrote:

Typeline wrote:If Obama loses this election I will go to Atlanta wearing my Obama T-shirt and loot everything awesome in sight with the other thousands of pissed off people.

Becuase the best response, for democracies sake, is to riot if you don't like an election. Maybe a coup'd etat would be in order. You know, just to prove how much we like democracy.

Yep, and the best response is always to mock people. :S

Please.

I am embarrassed for you.

Whatever helps you sleep at night. I personally think threat of riot because an election doesn't have the outcome you want to be erratic and irresponsible in the extreme. If you think it is ok to riot in the streets if Obama loses please let us know why.

I wasn't threatening to riot I was just letting you know that if he loses it will occur and I will be getting some free stuff out of it.

There is no distinction. Both are reprehensible.

Reprehensible it may be (and it is), but I predict riots that make those after the Rodney King verdict look like the proverbial Sunday school picnic, in the event of a McCain victory. Obama is either ahead or way ahead in every major poll. If he loses, it will appear that the election was fixed.