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 Cheesecat wrote:

 kronk wrote:
Deep Fried turkey is fething awesome.

And this is why so many Americans are overweight.

Are you kidding me?!

it's the McDonalds on every street corner Wait you're telling me I can sit in a line for 10 minutes to get a burger that costs 5 cents to make? I mean you get better and quicker service walking in to the place lol

 Alfndrate wrote:

 Cheesecat wrote:

 kronk wrote:
Deep Fried turkey is fething awesome.

And this is why so many Americans are overweight.

Are you kidding me?!

it's the McDonalds on every street corner Wait you're telling me I can sit in a line for 10 minutes to get a burger that costs 5 cents to make? I mean you get better and quicker service walking in to the place lol

You can still eat crap and be thin so long as you're active enough to use up those calories, what's really causing obesity is a combination of inactivity and bad diets.

Fad Diets?

Yeah we got those here.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 Hedgehog wrote:
America isn't the greatest country in the world - I've tasted its chocolate (though I don't think you can call a Hershey bar actual chocolate).

On this measure therefore Switzerland leads the way, with Belgium not too far behind...

Italy wins on the ice cream front.

Well, if we want to really go down this road:

Italy wins Ice Cream
German wins beer
Switzerland wins watches
Scotland wins whisky (or whiskey if you prefer)




...and 'Murica wins in trucks

Jim Beam, Southern Comfort, and the entire nation of Ireland would like to have a word with you.

Don't forget Lynchburg, TN

 Alfndrate wrote:
Fad Diets?

Yeah we got those here.

I said bad diets not fad diets, but I don't think fad diets really work.

 Frazzled wrote:

Jim Beam, Southern Comfort, and the entire nation of Ireland would like to have a word with you.

let them come, I honestly prefer a good single malt to a blend, Irish, Bourbon, or Kentucky whiskey.

Although, I think we also win here in America with historical celebrities... I mean, it's hard to beat quotes from Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Colt and the like

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

Jim Beam, Southern Comfort, and the entire nation of Ireland would like to have a word with you.

let them come, I honestly prefer a good single malt to a blend, Irish, Bourbon, or Kentucky whiskey.

Although, I think we also win here in America with historical celebrities... I mean, it's hard to beat quotes from Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Colt and the like

I don't know. I'm not too familiar with whisky.

lets add a few.
Tequila: Mexico (derp derp!)
Rum: dark: Jamaica/Grenada
Rum: light: Spanish Carribean
Vodka: Russia (In Stalinist Russia, you don't drink vodka, vodka drinks you!) except for Titos - go Austin!

 AustonT wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

As I said earlier, when the Americans start making decent bread, cheese and beer, then they can lecture us on chow!!

And don't get me started on root beer

I've been to quite a few countries and I haven't really found any place that makes exceptionally better bread as here, especially the UK. Though I am rather partial to scones.
We literally have laws against good cheese.
And despite this constant bickering about beer I have yet to find a type of beer brewed on your silly island that isn't made here as well.

And also:

Spoiler:

That is all.

Well, there you go then.

The Scilly Isles have a population of not much over 2,000 and the entire United States just matches their beer output variety.

I think no more comment is needed here.

Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

Jim Beam, Southern Comfort, and the entire nation of Ireland would like to have a word with you.

let them come, I honestly prefer a good single malt to a blend, Irish, Bourbon, or Kentucky whiskey.

Although, I think we also win here in America with historical celebrities... I mean, it's hard to beat quotes from Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Colt and the like

Part 1: I genuinely prefer corn mash bourbons to single malts; it's a matter of personal taste. It's like coke and pepsi except in this case mine is cheaper than yours too :p

Part 2: I can think of more interesting historical celebrities than all of those both American and otherwise.


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@KK
/gential assault.

Shakespeare went to school with Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway and repeatedly humiliated them, made them do his maths homework and stole their lunch money.

 Glorioski wrote:
Shakespeare went to school with Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway and repeatedly humiliated them, made them do his maths homework and stole their lunch money.

Hemingway more like whooped the crap out of that fairy shakespeare, and wrestled a bear, whilst eating a bacon-wrapped steak all at the same time

Shakespeare was a woman.

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

With Britain, there would have been no USA. . .

I'm off to watch family guy whilst eating a krispy creme donought

And without the USA, there would be neither of those; we've come full circle!


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 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Shakespeare was a woman.

And worse, she was Jane Austen's bitch, too.

Not totting American literature, but Mark Twain was probably the greatest writer of all time - and there is evidence that Shakespeare may not have been a single person...

 ENOZONE wrote:
Not totting American literature, but Mark Twain was probably the greatest writer of all time - and there is evidence that Shakespeare may not have been a single person...

Thats kind of a dubious "may" though.

 Glorioski wrote:
Shakespeare went to school with Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway and repeatedly humiliated them, made them do his maths homework and stole their lunch money.

Twain made Shakespeare his jailhouse . Am I doing it right?

 AustonT wrote:

 ENOZONE wrote:
Not totting American literature, but Mark Twain was probably the greatest writer of all time - and there is evidence that Shakespeare may not have been a single person...

Thats kind of a dubious "may" though.

Not really, we spent some time talking about it in my high school AP English class. There were 2-3 writers at the time who wrote almost exactly the same material and style he did. Considering how much political clout Shakespeare had at the time, it wasn't far fetched for these writers to have donned him as a moniker to escape persecution for their satirical views of the king at the time - an offense that could get your head chopped off.

I enjoy living in Canada and laughing at Americans who think they're "The Greatest Nation on Earth" they don't know what they're missing out on, this gak is thoroughly good.

 Cheesecat wrote:
I enjoy living in Canada and laughing at Americans who think they're "The Greatest Nation on Earth" they don't know what they're missing out on, this gak is thoroughly good.

What gak?

?

I'm just joking, I just irks me a bit to see all these "my nation has a bigger dick than yours" -type comments, like you can somehow measure that just say you like your country and leave it that. You're not well traveled or experienced enough to know what the greatest nation is (Canada

obviously) besides every country has it's pros and cons (except Afghanistan it only has cons).

 Cheesecat wrote:
I enjoy living in Canada and laughing at Americans who think they're "The Greatest Nation on Earth" they don't know what they're missing out on, this gak is thoroughly good.

Canada is pretty cool. I enjoy it when work takes me up there for a week at at time.


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 Cheesecat wrote:
(except Afghanistan it only has cons).

Perhaps if you like collecting mines?

labmouse42 wrote:

 Cheesecat wrote:
(except Afghanistan it only has cons).

Perhaps if you like collecting mines?

Well, Canada actually had a shot at being the Greatest nation the Earth has ever seen.

We could have had British culture, French Cuisine, and American technology. Instead we ended up with American culture British Cuisine and French Technology.

 ENOZONE wrote:

 AustonT wrote:

 ENOZONE wrote:
Not totting American literature, but Mark Twain was probably the greatest writer of all time - and there is evidence that Shakespeare may not have been a single person...

Thats kind of a dubious "may" though.

Not really, we spent some time talking about it in my high school AP English class. There were 2-3 writers at the time who wrote almost exactly the same material and style he did. Considering how much political clout Shakespeare had at the time, it wasn't far fetched for these writers to have donned him as a moniker to escape persecution for their satirical views of the king at the time - an offense that could get your head chopped off.

Multi authorship is an even smaller fringe than anti-Stratford theories. What you are talking about has the same scholarly support as the aliens built the pyramids theory.
Good luck with that.

 Cheesecat wrote:
You can still eat crap and be thin so long as you're active enough to use up those calories, what's really causing obesity is a combination of inactivity and bad diets.

You can do enough to burn off the weight, but you'll still get the clogged arteries and other problems associated with high fat, high salt diets. Which is better than having that diet and sitting on the couch all day... but still a lot worse than eating right and exercising.


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 ENOZONE wrote:
Not totting American literature, but Mark Twain was probably the greatest writer of all time - and there is evidence that Shakespeare may not have been a single person...

Not really. There's some theories that basically run on 'we don't know that much so let's make some gak up for fun' but that's about it.


But I agree that Twain was a remarkable writer. The combination of wit and social conscience is a powerful thing. And to bring it back to the original topic, Twain is one of many great American writers. The US in general has its cultural achievements ignored, in part because everyone (Americans included) seems to love bashing the crappiest parts of American culture. But amidst the constant stream of terrible stuff there's also a steady release of great works of art, and great artists, and most of them are uniquely American artists.

Could Mark Twain have been anything but an American? What about Cormac McCarthy? Or Truman Capote?

 sebster wrote:

 Cheesecat wrote:
You can still eat crap and be thin so long as you're active enough to use up those calories, what's really causing obesity is a combination of inactivity and bad diets.

You can do enough to burn off the weight, but you'll still get the clogged arteries and other problems associated with high fat, high salt diets. Which is better than having that diet and sitting on the couch all day... but still a lot worse than eating right and exercising.

I agree, what you eat is still important.

 ENOZONE wrote:
Not really, we spent some time talking about it in my high school AP English class. There were 2-3 writers at the time who wrote almost exactly the same material and style he did. Considering how much political clout Shakespeare had at the time, it wasn't far fetched for these writers to have donned him as a moniker to escape persecution for their satirical views of the king at the time - an offense that could get your head chopped off.

This is a really good example of why you shouldn't just accept stuff you learned in highschool.

'Escaping persecution' just doesn't make sense. The plays weren't written, then distributed in secret. They were performed, the people involved in performing and financing the plays were known. They were in public by the sheer nature of putting on a play for the public. To think that the performers would perform the work of playwrights who were afraid to put their name to the work makes little sense. To think that the king might crack down on the performers, but have no means to discover the original author of the work... when he's got all these actors and stage hands under arrest makes absolutely none at all.

There's also the problem that Shakespeare's plays were written to support the existing monarchy. What is Richard II but a politcal attack on an old monarch, designed to shore up the present lineage?

 whembly wrote:

 Cheesecat wrote:
I enjoy living in Canada and laughing at Americans who think they're "The Greatest Nation on Earth" they don't know what they're missing out on, this gak is thoroughly good.

What gak?

Canada obviously (all of it even our STD's).