@super_etecoon

Damn man, you finally snapped :D. You know what bugs me about the USA and the people there? To be frank not all the crap you wrote, God knows that we need more laughs from Jay Leno or Lewis Black. To me, it's rather the fact that most americans seem already happy with the fact that their country is where it is right now. they know that there country rocks the whole world and because of it the feel that they don't need to...let's say improve. so yeah, ignorance, that's what bugs me :P.

Are you kidding? It would be a PREEMPTIVE strike!

Those kids are clearly all going to be serial killers because of the Wii Zapper, so it's a good thing Nintendo geared the Wii towards older people as well so they'll be excellent marksmen and women when their own grandchildren try to hunt them like animals.

Blue ocean, my ASS! Nintendo was just leveling the playing field. 

My good friend just moved to Oregon a couple weeks ago...he just needed a move I guess, and his brother had a place for him picked out...

Perhaps sometime within the year I'll get my friends and we'll visit...a road trip on the way...only takes about 30 hours on a straight drive haha.

I remember holding on to the Zapper and having the urge to kill people. Then I held on to the NES controller and had the urge to bash my head into bricks and squat down on green pipes.

I don't know why people think kids are that dumb. There are some dumb kids, but most of them know right from wrong and reality from fantasy. Why is Nintendo irresponsible? Haven't kids been playing cops and robbers for decades? Shouldn't they go after all toy gun makers?

That new Wii Zapper looks pretty cool, I am going to turn into a killing machine once they accept my NRA application.

 Wojitas...are you aware of the great divide in this country?  Do you understand that prior to 9/11 or 11/9 depending on where you are from, that the Americans were extremely divided. I would probably be considered Anti-American by most standards.  I am taking issue with this thread being a forum for hate unrelated to the thread title.  The stance against violence in video games spans the globe and does not just occur here.  Say what you want about people who assume that violence in the media equals real life violence, but this really isn't a reason to bash all of the United States for whatever our well documented and publicized shortcomings may be.  I am not mad.  I have not snapped.  I enjoy a good discussion as much as the next person, but I like it when there are well defined boundaries to that discussion.  And stereotypical hate or degreadation should always be off limits.  

Don't believe for a second that that's how all Americans feel.

There are still Americans who acknowledge the fact that this country was founded and is as great as it is because people had the balls to question authority and then to act upon it.

(I didn't even read the discussion, just saying that many Americans are just as unhappy) 

http://www.choicesmagazine.org/2004-3/obesity/2004-3-02.htm

 Yes its from 2004, but I can't imagine much of a change between then and now, but as you can see the UK is barely below the US (might even be within statistical insignificance)

 As for American Laziness:

 http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/02/news/economy/worker_productivity.ap/index.htm?section=money_topstories

 As an Educated, average weight, non-hillbilly american, I can say that the world view of the USA is highly skewed by innacurate stereotypes.  I know only a rare few obese people and almost everyone I know is college educated.

Besides the fact that anti-Americanism is an unfair stereotype, it also causes many people to dismiss legitimate criticisms as "just anti-Americanism."

Frankly, the US barely listens to the rest of the world as it is. Calling Americans names all the time isn't going to improve that situation at all. If you actually want to improve the situation, you'll engage Americans in a respectful manner. If you aren't going to give the US any respect, you really can't blame them for acting unilaterally if they feel like the whole world is against them anyway.

damn northerners, your war of aggression will never be forgot, we will defeat you with our mighty army of walmart, krispy kreme, gatorade, coke and pepsi.

seriously though its a nice place, gets a bit muggy in the summer, better to live here (knoxville, tennessee), than oklahoma where i was before. knoxville is kind of like a suburb of nothing, we have no real central planning its still very nice though, going to the appalachians on a whim

though i must admit i liked chicago more than ny,ny, (though i am a jets fan pennington had a 130 qb rating in the last game). on top of that though shanghai china is better than all of them