Thread: You Could Have Heard a Pin Drop

Originally Posted by panama hat

I do. It's called education . . . and not living in the past, expecting the world to be grateful for events in the past.

I also speak german, having lived there for ten years. Expecting the world to be grtaeful is one thing, but learning the lessons of history and applying those lessons, is quite another.
Teach your children CSNY

Originally Posted by chassamui

Teach your children CSNY

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young?

Originally Posted by Norton

Aussies should be kissing French and German feet as well. No US, no reason to send "colonists" to Australia.

You'll have to explain that one . . . but not relevant to this discussion, though I don't think the US were to be used as a penal colony, though I could be wrong.

Anyhow, Camel Toe and his friends should also be kissing Spanish feet:

The following has been excerpted from that web site.
Few Americans are aware that Bernardo de Galvez was the Spanish governor of the Louisiana territory that encompassed thirteen of our present states. They are also unaware that long before any formal declaration of war, General Galvez sent gunpowder, rifles, bullets, blankets, medicine and other supplies to the armies of General George Washington and General George Rogers Clark. Once Spain entered the war against Great Britain in 1779, this dashing young officer raised an army in New Orleans and drove the British out of the Gulf of Mexico. General Galvez captured five British forts in the Lower Mississippi Valley. They repelled a British and Indian attack in St. Louis, Missouri, captured the British fort of St. Joseph in present-day Niles, Michigan. With reinforcements from Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, General Galvez captured Mobile and Pensacola, the capital of the British colony of West Florida.

At Pensacola, Galvez commanded a multinational army of over seven thousand soldiers. Most of these men were already serving in the areas known as Nueva España. This included all the land east of the Mississippi, including present day Southwest and southern states, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Hispanola, and other Spanish colonies such as Venezuela. The Spanish forces in the Americas were also joined by soldiers from Spain, other European nations, American colonists, indigenous, and blacks. It was this multi-ethnic force fighting together to achieve the goals of the American Revolution under the leadership of a remarkable general commander.

So . . .

. . . no Spanish = no USA
. . . no French = no USA
. . . no Germans = no USA


Do you know how many Spanish, French and Germans are part of SAR? Amazing.


Camel Toe . . . any comments, or are you now busy buying French wine, German bread and Spanish olives to even out the imbalance?

Originally Posted by panama hat

German allied troops in the North American war of independence, 1776-1783

Exactly . . .

I am now researching Italian contributions to the American war of Independence . . . then comes Greece, Holland, Zimbabwe and finally Thailand . . .

We'll have this thing sorted out yet!

Originally Posted by Norton

Originally Posted by panama hat

It seems that you are an ungrateful lot and should be kissing every Frenchman's and German's feet whenever you meet them, as without France and Germany, there may not be a United States of America.

Aussies should be kissing French and German feet as well. No US, no reason to send "colonists" to Australia.

Ozzies are a proud nation. They don't kiss anyone's feet, unless they're offered a beer.

I'm betting that Camel Toe has contacted his flag-waving friends and they are writing circulars to the all the heads of state of countries that helped the US gain independence from the British oppressors . . .

. . . because that's the kind of guy Camel Toe is . . . surely.

Originally Posted by panama hat

Exactly . . .

*twitch*

must. resist. temptation...

Just seems that the Revolutionary war was just another excuse for France and Germany to jump in and start killing Limeys again.
Never paid much attention to limey history as I was to busy trying to find jobs and work during my growing up years to worry what happened before I was born, but along about 1500 there was a war between The Frogs and Limeys that was called the 100 years war,, but anyway seems like the Krauts, Frogs and Limeys have been at each other since the beginning of written and recorded history, so if not for the US they would still have found a reason to kill each other off.

Originally Posted by Norton

Aussies should be kissing French and German feet as well. No US, no reason to send "colonists" to Australia.

Correct if you word it that way.

Originally Posted by FlyFree

^Stop taking credit for the efforts of your forefathers, and if you insist on doing it, also examine their fuckups. Then maybe you'll be given the respect you crave so much.

I'm am not taking credit for my fore fathers and not saying they never fcuked up
but if you don't hold it against me,I won't hold it against you being gay

Originally Posted by greg47

Originally Posted by FlyFree

^Stop taking credit for the efforts of your forefathers, and if you insist on doing it, also examine their fuckups. Then maybe you'll be given the respect you crave so much.

I'm am not taking credit for my fore fathers and not saying they never fcuked up
but if you don't hold it against me,I won't hold it against you being gay

not that there is anything wrong with it

Originally Posted by FlyFree

^Stop taking credit for the efforts of your forefathers, and if you insist on doing it, also examine their fuckups. Then maybe you'll be given the respect you crave so much.

I am not seeking any credit for anything or need respect from a frog ,France should have been left to the Germans the ungrateful bastards wouldn't have a country they would belong to Germany and as for the tunnel that should be sealed with them inside.

Originally Posted by FlyFree

Ozzies are a proud nation. They don't kiss anyone's feet, unless they're offered a beer.

Can't gvet prouder than that, FlyFree . . . cannot get ANY prouder than that

Originally Posted by slackula

*twitch*

must. resist. temptation...

Let it out, man! Slackula is tempted to, correctly, say that officially Germany was on the British side. Mea culpa

Originally Posted by Norton

I see. Thanks for setting me straight. Discussing how US should be grateful to France and Germany for something happened over 200 years ago is OK though.

It is not pertinent to the discussion started off by Camel Toe.

Originally Posted by Norton

BTW, Convict shipping to American colonies ceased in 1776. As British jails overflowed the government opted to ship convicts to Australia. Convict shipping to Australia began in 1787.

Damn, I had read that . . . apologies for not mentioning it . . . So, Yanks and Aussies are 'kin '?


Anyway Camel Toe, care to address your plans to kiss French arse? You may start with Butterfly

Originally Posted by panama hat

Yanks and Aussies are 'kin '?

Course we are. All the descendants of convicts, rejects and reprobates from the Empire and proud of it.

The French bashing by the usual American idiots is really a no story

they can't still get over the fact that a French General told them to fuck off at the end of WW2 and took the role of a popular head state instead of their "nominated" leader for France.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

All the Texpats, BGs, Jet etc... would become docile cooperators so they don't lose their american "privileges"

I thought Jet was Canadian...

Originally Posted by Butterfly

The French bashing by the usual American idiots is really a no story

they can't still get over the fact that a French General told them to fuck off at the end of WW2 and took the role of a popular head state instead of their "nominated" leader for France.

Indeed. But there again, De Gaulle was a right knob however you shape it.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

De Gaulle was a right knob

he was, but all military type are. He did avoid the civil war that France was about to face after the Americans were leaving,

Originally Posted by Camel Toe

He/She can do what he/she wants. After all a century ago GB was master of the seas. Another century and there will be nobody left on the island except the bleedin queen. Humanity is their biggest export.

Humility you kunt

Originally Posted by Butterfly

The French bashing by the usual American idiots is really a no story
.

I'm not American

Originally Posted by Norton

Course we are. All the descendants of convicts, rejects and reprobates from the Empire and proud of it

OI! I am not of convict stock . . . as for the rest . . . well . . .

Originally Posted by Butterfly

The French bashing by the usual American idiots is really a no story

It must really irk them that the most famous US national monument is: The Statue of Liberty!

Originally Posted by klongmaster

I thought Jet was Canadian...

Well, she is . . . got chucked out of her dearly loved USofA and can't get back in. Bitter and twisted ever since

Originally Posted by Butterfly

they can't still get over the fact that a French General told them to fuck off at the end of WW2 and took the role of a popular head state instead of their "nominated" leader for France.

Indeed, indeed

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Indeed. But there again, De Gaulle was a right knob however you shape it.

He was, with a huge French nose to boot, arrogant prick

Originally Posted by Butterfly

he was, but all military type are. He did avoid the civil war that France was about to face after the Americans were leaving,

Again, very true.

Originally Posted by panama hat

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Indeed. But there again, De Gaulle was a right knob however you shape it.

He was, with a huge French nose to boot, arrogant prick

Hmmmmm.

I admit to a poor choice of words