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zexen_lowe on 12 June 2010
De85 said:
zexen_lowe said:

Hmmmm...ok, why not?. America is a continent, that we're taught in school was discovered in 1492 by Europe (and of course, the vikings predated that discovery). The continent was then named in honor of Americo Vespucio (don't know how you call him in English), and it's used to mean all the continent, from Canada to Tierra del Fuego. Since the continent is big and very diverse, it can be subdivided in subcontinents, you may say North and South America, here we say North (USA, Canada Mexico), Central America (from Guatemala till Panama, plus the Caribbean) and South America (Colombia down to Argentina). These are only subcontients, the bigger continent is still America, as you're taught in school. Thus, anyone born in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador or Haiti is as American as anyone born in the US


Geologically (which is the only proper way to classify such things) North and South America are not the same continent.  They both bear the name only because 15th and 16th century explorers didn't know about plate tectonics.

Well, geologically Europe and Asia are the same continent, and India is a different one, it really doesn't have much bearing on how we divide continents




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zexen_lowe on 12 June 2010

Anyway, let's stop derailing the thread, Scifi asked me to updated the scores, so hang on




Lord Flashheart on 12 June 2010
FootballFan said:

If Capello throws Gerrard on the Left Wing next game in order to accomodate Barry in Central midfield I will be annoyed. He is clearly our best player in that role......why doesn't he dump Lampard out on the left wing? I would love to see how he performs there! sarcasm/


The problem was finishing. None of the stirkers out there could. I'll give Coruch benefit of doubt as he was on for 5 mins. Getting, keeping the ball and getting to their goal was not a problem. Just scoring was.
Like the Argies it should have been 4 or 5 goals to us.



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zexen_lowe on 12 June 2010
Lord Flashheart said:


Like the Argies it should have been 4 or 5 goals to us.

Please never use that insult in front of me, next time I won't be as kind




Lord Flashheart on 12 June 2010

What? Oh come on. It's an abreviation. You can't be insulted by that.

You should never talk to an Aussie if thats the case.



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zexen_lowe on 12 June 2010

Fuck, I lost the points post I was preparing, I hate this reply system, it sucks




zexen_lowe on 12 June 2010
Lord Flashheart said:

What? Oh come on. It's an abreviation. You can't be insulted by that.

You should never talk to an Aussie if thats the case.


No, it's a slur, and a xenophobic one to boot...and unlike others, it clearly was born as a xenophobic insult (wiki it)




Lord Flashheart on 12 June 2010

I did. there's nothing on it being a slur



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Lord Flashheart on 12 June 2010

This was all I could find

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2898308/Anti-Brit-Argies-firebomb-HSBC.html



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zexen_lowe on 12 June 2010

Yeah, that's why when you type it it automatically redirects you to "list of ethnic slurs"