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SamuelRSmith on 16 March 2010
Samus Aran said:


Well, why would you want to ban libil for what he said? Your own politicians(UK) aren't better, in fact they're even worse.
How long will it take for some UK politician to insult Belgium again? I'm growing sick and tired of comments like "Belgium is not a real country". Or calling people a "natte dweil die naar de kapper moeten"
At least we don't live in a dreamworld thinking we're a superpower.  Wake up. You're America's *fill in the word of your liking here*

In no way is my post directed to the people of UK though, just some(a lot actually) politicians and political parties from the UK.

I want to say even worse things, but my post is probably already on the border of getting banned ;c

And yes, I hate Farage.

 

Growing sick and tired? The only occurrence I can think of (with UK politicians, of who I'm sure you were directing the post at) is the Farage one - and he was attacked by British media and politicians for saying so!



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Pyro as Bill on 16 March 2010
Samus Aran said:
Lol, someone really thinks UK has the biggest history in Europe?
I can think of quite a few countries that have a bigger and longer history.
They probably don't teach kids about the Angevin empire there eh?

We know all about Robin Hood, thanks.



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Samus Aran on 16 March 2010
SamuelRSmith said:
Samus Aran said:


Well, why would you want to ban libil for what he said? Your own politicians(UK) aren't better, in fact they're even worse.
How long will it take for some UK politician to insult Belgium again? I'm growing sick and tired of comments like "Belgium is not a real country". Or calling people a "natte dweil die naar de kapper moeten"
At least we don't live in a dreamworld thinking we're a superpower.  Wake up. You're America's *fill in the word of your liking here*

In no way is my post directed to the people of UK though, just some(a lot actually) politicians and political parties from the UK.

I want to say even worse things, but my post is probably already on the border of getting banned ;c

And yes, I hate Farage.

 

Growing sick and tired? The only occurrence I can think of (with UK politicians, of who I'm sure you were directing the post at) is the Farage one - and he was attacked by British media and politicians for saying so!

I said comments like that one, with that I mean comments as stupid as that one. Thinking only Farage is insulting Belgium is... well... not true.



Lord Flashheart on 16 March 2010
Kantor said:
Lord Flashheart said:
what did our politions say about Belgium?

And Blair wasn't bush's dog. He was his keeper.
he was keeping him in cheack. Stopping him from saying something stupid.

We were using Blair to stop somebody from being stupid?

That's a little like using Gabe Newell to stop somebody from eating.

To stop Pavarotti from eating.



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Final-Fan on 17 March 2010
Lord Flashheart said:
Kantor said:
Lord Flashheart said:
what did our politions say about Belgium?

And Blair wasn't bush's dog. He was his keeper.
he was keeping him in cheack. Stopping him from saying something stupid.

We were using Blair to stop somebody from being stupid?

That's a little like using Gabe Newell to stop somebody from eating.

To stop Pavarotti from eating.

To stop THEM from eating. 



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i love xbox360 on 17 March 2010
Kantor said:
i love xbox360 said:
at the end of the day people the eu is flawed and will never work in it current format, end o. for the eu to work the three big countries(france,uk and germany) have to lead the way and the rest of europe will have to follow

Because the EU is failing and on the brink of collapse, right?

did i say that?? no i dont think i did but the eu is flawed





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Stefl1504 on 17 March 2010
kowenicki said:
KylieDog said:
Because we ruled half the world.


oh yeah.. and this. lol

 

 

Austria did that ones too... there was the Netherlands, Spain, half of south america, Indonesia, Switzerland, North Italy, Hungary, a major part of Romania, a part of Poland...and a lot more

 

Now we are just some little country, giving up its independence in order to be ruled by germany, france, spain, UK, Poland and Italy... three of which once ruled by the Austrians!!!

But well... we lost some wars... divided our country into two (Spain and Austria - Spain got most of the colonies)... Had some plain stupid rulers who thought we belong to germany (YEAH! There is nothing like native germans in Austria, we are all austrians! Take that stupid right wing parties in Austria... okay there are some german imigrants... oooh and we speak Austrian too!!!)

 

Okay, now...

I did not even notice that they behave like not beeing a part of Europe. They are part of the EU, are a Schengen country...

Of course they differ from other countries but that is why Europe is more interesting continents. The variety of countries and their individualities, we don't need to be one united Europe to be part of Europe, and we don't need to call our selfs Europeans! We are whatever country we are from not some melted down standard.

 



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Lord Flashheart on 17 March 2010
Final-Fan said:
Lord Flashheart said:
Kantor said:
Lord Flashheart said:
what did our politions say about Belgium?

And Blair wasn't bush's dog. He was his keeper.
he was keeping him in cheack. Stopping him from saying something stupid.

We were using Blair to stop somebody from being stupid?

That's a little like using Gabe Newell to stop somebody from eating.

To stop Pavarotti from eating.

To stop THEM from eating. 

Yikes!

Are they all American?



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NKAJ on 17 March 2010

I think British people resent the fact that the countries that they have beaten joined forces and seem to be "europenising" british peoples way of life.



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Final-Fan on 17 March 2010
Lord Flashheart said:
Final-Fan said:
To stop THEM from eating. 

Yikes!
Are they all American?

I think the info they used was American media sources, so most likely. 



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