who says europeans are "weak pussys" ?

go to your local library and look up "WWII" :winkwink:

Here we go again, crying foreigners.
Good for a laugh. LOL

:waaaaahh

?

How about you do that?
You have no idea what you are talking about.

Hey ControlFreak are you french?
You must be one of those smelly cheese eating bastards

there are no libraries in France apparently.
:(

Hello little one, you need some attention from big old rich European Controlthy?

Okay that was your 1 minute worth of attention time.

I am sure you have never been to a library so it would be impossible for you to indentify one even if you stood right in front of it.

I agree. When I was there, some smiles scared me LOL


Pleasurepays
Dont forget the brave french men during the war and their brave Vichy nazi government. Real heroes. LOL

I didnt know you were old. That's something, old cheese eating french prick. LOL
I wanna be just like you. You are my whining idol.

Don't wind me up :feels-hot http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/baird.html

I know what I am talking about. If the US had not put 16 million people in uniform, had not the industrial might to supply the allies and had not the economy to sustain the war, had not spent the forty years or so supplying the funds and large military forces around the world and had not provided a nuclear umbrella over its NATO allies and parts of Asia during the cold war, all of Europe would be speaking German or Russian.

i guess it all comes down to who was able to prove it to the patent office and who collected royalties on the invention.

it certainly was an American that got the patent and held it until it lapsed, at which point RCA renewed it.

:feels-hot :thumbsup :feels-hot

oh no... you had to do it!

you had to play the "Hitler Card"

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

The card was played because ControlThy asked for it to be played, when he thought he was making a fool of booker. It is not only the Hitler card but the ex Soviet card also.

Sorry if someone has already posted this but I can't be bothered to read 2 pages of bickering.

But Colin, this shows how much you know. TV was invented about 5 miles east of where I am sitting right now. John Logie Baird invented the TV and broadcast the first images right here in Hastings on the south coast of England in 1925. It isn't much but it is one of the only claims to fame this town has!

I'm not getting into any debate about which is better, USA or Europe, but I thought you should have your facts straight.

EDIT: Oops, sorry Kat, I guess I should have checked the last few posts before getting on my high horse. Incidentally, that's the same website I checked my dates with before posting!

And to Pleasurepays - You must remember that the US patent office is not the end all, be all of proof of invention.

neither is simply naming your town after an anonymous person and making false claims as to his achievements.
:(

if you guys need me, i will be in my hometown called MessageboardVille - named after the great Ferd Piddlepoo, who invented pixels then had the first idea of selling naked girls on the Internet. As we all know, after he began selling images of naked girls, he decided he needed a messageboard to unite people across the globe to argue about missinformation and British propoganda
:winkwink:

Ferd Piddlepoo

:1orglaugh

Meni told me

Hmmm, John Logie Baird - name of inventor, Hastings - name of a town on the south coast of England where Mr Baird first broadcast TV images to a TV. Did I miss something? Sorry that Kat and I proved you to not be omniscient but sometimes facts are facts. I won't continue to argue this small point of history. There is no point arguing with those people who KNOW that they are right all the time no matter what factual information is put under their noses.

BTW, I'm an American and like I said before, I won't argue the Euro/USA debate. Both places have their good and bad points. I like living here the same as I liked growing up and living in the States. I didn't know who invented the TV either until I moved here and read up on the subject. Same as many Americans (and probably many others across the globe) I naturally assumed that it was invented in the US as that is where it was most widely used and popularised.

I'm done here now. Hope you all have a lovely day. I've got to go find out whether my unborn baby is a boy or a girl!!:thumbsup

Sorry kiddies, I was specifically referring to ELECTRONIC television. You know, the kind you actually use in your home today. Must be a gap in my presentation. Calling Baird's invention modern television is like calling an abacus a computer. Don't ya know EVERYTHING in the past century was invented in America?

Damn, now I have to issue a correction since there is so much confusion.

"What could be bigger? Oh, yeah .. modern television! Born right here in the good old United States of Invention, my friend. Anyone that watches electronic television is partaking in American culture in the same way that anyone in America that eats Spaghetti is partaking in Italian culture."

So here ya go ...

"German, Paul Nipkow developed a rotating-disc technology to transmit pictures over wire in 1884 called the Nipkow disk. "

"John Logie Baird is remembered as being an inventor of mechanical television."

"Philo T. Farnsworth .. invented modern television."

So if you use a television from the 1890's, it is German.
If you have to wind your television up, it is Scottish/British.
If you use a television made in Japan, it is American.

Now, let's talk America. The first image transmitted by Farnsworth was a dollar sign. Gotta love this place. We Americans have the idea down pat. Build a huge consumer/producing society, make lots of money, design better weapons than anyone else, and then taunt everyone on messageboards. It's in the Constitution.

Next thing you know, you're gonna tell me America didn't invent soccer which of course we did. It was invented in 1842 by Samuel Slocum and some friends in Braintree, Mass. They were bored because television hadn't been invented yet. So anyway, they were playing rugby one day and decided to alter some of the rules. After a few weeks of tweaking, they finally decided on calling their new game "foot ball". In 1848, Slocum (sounds funny, doesn't it?) moved to Britain to get a little closer to some of the action because there were a series of revolutions in Europe at the time and he was interested in a bloodbath. You have to remember he was American and we are particularly interested in violence and blood, much like the Romans were. Slocum taught some kids at a local University his version of the game and it quickly caught on becaming a staple of the European diet to be consumed both before and after any large meal. 150 years later Europeans are mad at Americans for calling their game soccer. Soccer, for the record, is just an abbreviation of Association invented by lazy Cambridge students who were, to be honest too busy debating on the various merits of British vs. Irish beers to waste precious breaths on that pentasyllabic word.

Let`s all be friends...

I vote this the worst thread ever.
http://www.lamer.net/buddychrist-sucks.jpg

TGF,

Better to be worst than lost in the marshmallowy middle.

I found your brother's website funny!
http://www.co.jyu.fi/~np/hate/USAHate.html

especially the "World According to America" map.

Actually beer was invented in Egypt. They call it Stella there and it sucks, but they invented it. So that would be Africa.

DG

what about Soccer/football?
wasnt that invented in America too?
i think it was.

thats more wide-spread than anything else.

we are weak pathetic pussies living with the support of americans

:(

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Just say ozzy

Not my creation...

http://www.co.jyu.fi/~np/hate/america.gif

Most of you people are rather pathetic. Taking pride in the actions of others merely because they live(d) in the same area as you do.
Newsflash: even if your neighbour is a genius, it is still quite possible that you yourself are a stupid fuck. (it doesn't matter if you're american or european either)

Be proud of what you do, not of what others do.

Labret,

That map is funny as shit.

Punkworld, I've missed you! Here is from last month. I took your test, please be fair and take mine. People are interested in your knowledge.

Here is the thread to remind you:
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...pagenu mber=4


10 Question Quiz for Punkworld:

1. What was Socrates' mom's name?
2. Did Rousseau masturbate?
3. Are rainbows real?
4. Name three philosophers whose works burned in the Library of Alexandria.
5. Are UFOs visiting Earth?
6. Why does Voltaire begin his poem "A Horace" by discussing pussy?
7. Are atoms real?
8. Can we consider the Rolling Stones to be philosophers?
Example:

You can't always get what you want
but if you try sometime
you just might find
you get what you need

9. What is Labret's philosophy of existentialism?
(No cheating)
10. Why are most people bored by philosophy?

that map was on the wall in the office of Spinchat in Regensburg Germany, next to one of the programmers desks.

i thought it was very funny.
:thumbsup

That map doesn't do America justice. They forgot Hawaii.

Ah, sorry I didn't respond earlier. I was away for a while and didn't have time to check the board.
However, here's my answer:
I will not indulge in such foolishness.

Regards

Punkworld,

I indulged in YOUR foolishness, you felon. Ahh, well. Maybe you are the wise one after all. I did anticipate that you wouldn't participate. No play. No loss to pay. A wretchedly rigged game. The fellas in Vegas will no longer make odds for your games.

Of course, "Are rainbows real?" is a much deeper philosophical question than any of the ones you asked of me. Where I boldly strike, you hide behind a veil of smoke and mirrors which you have named "foolishness". Run, my friend. Run. Effective but obvious.

Surely you are aware of the great Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu who said "Great wisdom may resemble foolishness".