Boycott America!!
 

Okay, I'm jumping on the bandwagon and I'm boycotting American products! But, I don't think I'll stop there. If you're a man of your word, you should boycott EVERYTHING American.

So, what else I'm going to boycott besides McDonald's (which is easy since I don't eat there anyway)?

Let's see....

telephones
lightbulbs
computers
The Internet
cars
safety airbags
air conditioning
film
Viagra
Calculaters
Pacemaker (oh, wait, that's Canadian)
Mobile phones
Blue Jeans
Coca-cola
Credit cards
TV


Well, shit, that's a start. Can anyone help me add to my list?

all the movies and tv shows and porn thats made in america

telephones invented by Bell - Canadian guy

I know your post is sarcastic, but I do want to say that those morons that boycott another country's products etc, are fucking retards.

You may as well boycott everything and go outside on the grass and walk around naked. These days you can have one shoe that has parts built by 5 different companies in five different countries, not including who designed/invented it.

You show a good point though, what's with this shit? it's useless to boycott.

all they'd be left with is good cars, lol.

actually he was born in Scotland. moved to Ontario in 1870. Then moved to Boston in 1871. But he invented the phone in the U.S.

Exactly....

btw....I'm still drinking French wine and eating French cheese.
Boycotters are lame.

WELL Everyone in USA were Immigrants so You did not invent shit!!! :321GFY


he did not got smart in USA, he got smart wherever he studied....

Good luck finding any of those things that are actually made in America anyway. :mad:

Way to get As hhahahahahas attention! :helpme:

dude you're really boring posting all day long threads about the war.. get a fucking llife

Where the fuck were you born?
The Telephone was invented in the same place that Wayne Gretzky was born(and my sister coincidentally), Brandford Ontario

buhahhaha.......unconnected, I suggest you get connnected. The patents were filed in the U.S. He conceived of the idea probably when he was still in Scotland.



Alexander Graham Bell
1847-1922,
American scientist, inventor of the telephone,
b. Edinburgh, Scotland,

educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh and University College, London; son of Alexander Melville Bell. He worked in London with his father, whose system of visible speech he used in teaching the deaf to talk.

In 1870 he went to Canada, and in 1871 he lectured, chiefly to teachers of the deaf, in Boston and other cities. During the next few years he conducted his own school of vocal physiology in Boston, lectured at Boston Univ., and worked on his inventions.

His teaching methods were of lasting value in the improvement of education for the deaf. As early as 1865, Bell conceived the idea of transmitting speech by electric waves. In 1875, while he was experimenting with a multiple harmonic telegraph, the principle of transmission and reproduction came to him. By Mar. 10, 1876, his apparatus was so far developed that the first complete sentence transmitted, ?Watson, come here; I want you,? was distinctly heard by his assistant.

The first demonstration took place before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston on May 10, 1876, and a more significant one, at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition the same year, introduced the telephone to the world. The Bell Telephone Company was organized in July, 1877. A long period of patent litigation followed in which Bell's claims were completely upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. With the 50,000 francs awarded him as the Volta Prize for his invention, he established in Washington, D.C., the Volta Laboratory, where the first successful sound recorder, the Graphophone, was produced.

Bell invented the photophone, which transmitted speech by light rays; the audiometer, another invention for the deaf; the induction balance, used to locate metallic objects in the human body; and the flat and the cylindrical wax recorders for phonographs. He investigated the nature and causes of deafness and made an elaborate study of its heredity.

The magazine Science, which became the official organ for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, was founded (1880) largely through his influence. He was president of the National Geographic Society from 1898 to 1903 and was made a regent of the Smithsonian Institution in 1898. After 1895 his interest was occupied largely by aviation. He invented the tetrahedral kite. The Aerial Experiment Association, founded under his patronage in 1907, brought together G. H. Curtiss, F. W. Baldwin, and others, who invented the aileron principle and developed the hydroplane.

Too bad I've only been at my desk for 2 hours today.


LMFAO.....you've been following me around GFY all day. Stop following me around and get a life fag.

usa didn't invent telephones, computers, The Internet, cars, Viagra and TV as far as i know.

i posted about some of this somewhere else, go find it.

:eek7 :ticking :eek7

first computer was invented by british i think

babich or some shit like that

that poor dog :(

You're on a roll tonight. :1orglaugh

can't be very nice for that spotty animal either!

LOL.....I'm on a roly tonight....

shit, it's like having a stalker follow you around and say, "Geez, I don't know why I'm following you everywhere because you really aren't very interesting."


:thumbsup

roflmao holy shit!! i lost it when i read this!

Roly, buddy, are you still here? I thought you'd left by now. Why do you keep following me in my "boring" threads.

You've worn out your welcome. Now go home!

:thumbsup

you have an opionion on every thread, it's impossible to avoid you :winkwink:

oh, I'm sorry mr. roly poly....from here on forward I'll keep my opinions to myself. In the meantime, :321GFY

This is funny...

i don't mind opinions, even yours.

you first accused flashfreak of stalking you in this thread and then you accuse me a few posts later. are you confused or paranoid?

lol,.....sorry, just trying to confuse you, b/c you sure as hell confused me with that statement that the Internet, TV, computers, etc.

i thought you were refering to all those items in your list being invented in the US and why you jokingly said you would boycot them. i was just pointing out they weren't all invented in the us. if you didn't mean that, then my mistake. :glugglug

I will gladly boycott your crappy movies and TV shows.

Thomas Alva Edison patented the light bulb in 1879 (three years after the telephone), but it was not a new invention. Various working versions of the lightbulb had been around for a good 50 years. A British inventor named Joseph Swan unveiled a carbon filament light bulb in New Castle, England, a full ten years before Edison's patent was issued.

Several sites in the Yahoo! Alexander Graham Bell category claim that the clever Scotsman invented the "electrical speech machine," or the telephone, in 1876. But he certainly benefited from the research of others before him, including a German inventor named Phillip Reis, who worked on early prototypes in the 1860s. But here's the difference -- Bell's phone actually worked.

Mobile phone was invented by Canadian Martin Cooper.

First computer invented by Englishman Charles Babbage.

Hehe I won't mind if we boycot most of the TV Shows from America!
Crap like Oprah and Dr. Phil PUKE, Ricky Lake and Jerry Springer should be banned worldwide.
There is one guy in the wolrd that I would do up his ass and that's Dr. Phil.
He deserves it.
And the bitches that even look at his crap deserve a fist up their ass. :1orglaugh

The two inventors behind Viagra, the anti-impotency drug that has taken the world by storm, are both Englishmen, it emerged today.

Peter Dunn and Albert Wood, both of Sandwich, Kent, are named as the inventors of the process by which sildenafil citrate - the chemical compound that is Viagra - is created.
THE LONDON EVENING STANDARD (ENGLAND), JULY 15, 1998

In 1885, German mechanical engineer, Karl Benz designed and built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine. On January 29, 1886, Benz received the first patent (DRP No. 37435) for a gas-fueled car.

she's at work at the moment, but one of those viagra guys is my girlfriends cousin, i'm not sure which. that's how i knew.
he got a big rise when he discovered it :)

john logi baird invented the televison in britain, either a french or german invented the first car (it depends what you call a car)

the first computer and the internet was also discovered/invented in britain and i'm not sure about the rest.

Australian inventions:

The electric drill
Disposable syringe (In Aust. by a Kiwi)
First car radio
The permanent crease
Black Box flight recorder
Inflatable aircraft escape slide
The "bionic" ear (cochlear implant)
The first utility vehicle
The wine cask
Ultrasound technology
the IVF freeze-thaw method for storing embryos
the Wiltshire Staysharp knife

and who could forget:
Controlled release oral morphine tablets
and
Worlds first underwater computer
:1orglaugh

Thank You Australia... I was on morphine after my neck surgery. :thumbsup I don't remember about a week of my life, but I know I had a good time and wasn't feeling any pain.

Well we didn't invent morphine... just the slow release oral morphine tablets. :winkwink:

Internet: www aplication by Tim Berners-Lee Switzerland 1991

TV:
John Logie Baird -Scotland
Philo Farnsworth-USA
Vladimir Zworykin- Russia

History of Cars(No Americans):
1680 - Dutch physicist, Christian Huygens designed (but never built) an internal combustion engine that was be fueled with gunpowder.
1807 - Francois Isaac de Rivaz of Switzerland invented an internal combustion engine that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen for fuel. Rivaz designed a car for his engine - the first internal combustion powered automobile. However, this was a very unsuccessful vehicle.
1824 - English engineer, Samuel Brown adapted an old Newcomen steam engine to burn gas, and he used it to briefly power a vehicle up Shooter's Hill in London.
1858 - Belgian-born engineer, Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir invented and patented (1860) a double-acting, electric spark-ignition internal combustion engine fueled by coal gas. In 1863, Lenoir attached an improved engine (using petroleum and a primitive carburetor) to a three-wheeled wagon that managed to complete an historic fifty-mile road trip. (See image at top)
1862 - Alphonse Beau de Rochas, a French civil engineer, patented but did not build a four-stroke engine (French patent #52,593, January 16, 1862).
1864 - Austrian engineer, Siegfried Marcus*, built a one-cylinder engine with a crude carburetor, and attached his engine to a cart for a rocky 500-foot drive. It was the world's first gasoline-powered vehicle. Several year later, Marcus was able to design a vehicle that briefly ran at 10 mph that some historians consider was the forerunner of the modern automobile.
1873 - George Brayton, an American engineer, developed an unsuccessful two-stroke kerosene engine (it used two external pumping cylinders). However, it was considered the first safe and practical oil engine.
1866 - German engineers, Eugen Langen and Nikolaus August Otto improved on Lenoir's and de Rochas' designs and invented a more efficient gas engine.
1876 - Nikolaus August Otto invented and later patented a successful four-stroke engine, known as the ?Otto cycle.?
1876 - The first successful two-stroke engine was invented by Sir Dougald Clerk.
1883 - French engineer, Edouard Delamare-Debouteville, built a single-cylinder four-stroke engine that ran on stove gas. It is not certain if he did indeed build a car, however, Delamare-Debouteville's designs were very advanced for the time - ahead of both Daimler and Benz in some ways at least on paper.
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler invented what is often recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine - with a vertical cylinder, and with gasoline injected through a carburetor (patented in 1887). Daimler first built a two-wheeled vehicle the "Reitwagen" (Riding Carriage) with this engine and a year later built the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle.
1886 - On January 29, Karl Benz received the first patent (DRP No. 37435) for a gas-fueled car.
1889 - Daimler built an improved four-stroke engine with mushroom-shaped valves and two V-slant cylinders.
1890 - Wilhelm Maybach built the first four-cylinder, four-stroke engine.


Photo:
Joseph Niepce
Daguerre-France

Moving film:
Louis Lumiere -France

Computer:
The Principal in a mechanic version- Babbage England
Holreit German-American

First programmable and electric version- Konrad Zuse -Germany

PC- USA


From the US though:
Transistor
Airplane
Toothbrush(dont forget to brush:Graucho )

Viagra was invented by Pfizer which is a US pharmaceutical company. US pharmaceutical companies invent more new innovative drugs than all of europe combined. Perhaps your life will be saved one day because the US doesn't have socialized medicine.
http://www.efpia.org/2_indust/europe_0.htm
edit: posted wrong link. fixed.

companies don't invent things, people do. yes US probably does discover a lot of new drugs, and that's a good thing for the world, although they don't do it for nothing.

Socialised medicine as you call it hasn't anything to do with innovation (were not communists), european countries heath services still have to buy the drugs from drugs companies just like in the US system. Free health care for everyone is a great idea and something to be proud of and is unrelated to innovation.

You perfer to watch Carrot Top?? please take him back those at&t commercials are driving me fucking nuts

http://www.ims-global.com/insight/ne...ory_010327.htm
The article above explains nicely why your comments are politically biased rubbish.

edit: Here's part of the article
This widening of the gap between the USA and the rest of the world will continue a trend that has prevailed throughout the 1990s. IMS HEALTH data show that the US pharmaceutical market was roughly the same size as the European market at the start of the 1990s, but has since grown to twice the size of the European market.

According to PPI, this trend looks set to continue, unless there are moves towards price deregulation in Europe and Japan. The data show that growth in the USA tends to be driven by value (price) rather than volume, due in part to the launch of innovative, premium-priced products. Europe and Japan have been unable to innovate to the same extent as the USA, and as a result have fallen behind.

According to PPI, "The bottom line is that the highly regulated and fragmented healthcare systems of Europe and Japan have failed to stimulate growth to the same extent as the deregulated US environment... greater price freedom for new products in Europe and Japan would be a significant boost for these markets and could provide some stimulus for R&D investment."

Some of you never cease to amaze me. You spend an incredible amount of energy attempting to dispute America's contribution to each of these inventions. For example, Que? contends the U.S. didn't have a role in the development of the automobile or Internet, claiming there were no Americans in the history of the automobile and that the first Internet application was developed by that the Internet was developed by a gentlemen from Switzerland. Give me a break.

Granted, the automobile was not invented by one single person. There were over 100,000 patents filed. The first automobiles were steam engine. But, the first car as we know cars today really began with Henry Ford, who improved the assembly line for automobile manufacturing (Model-T), invented a transmission mechanism, and popularized the gas-powered automobile.

The Internet was a project first created by the U.S. military during the cold war.

Or Viagra, which was not invented by an American, but did come from an American company.

YOU MISSED THE FUCKING POINT COMPLETELY.

The point is how ludicrous it is to boycott American products.

Imagine the world without our contributions to medicine, science, technology, etc.

To boycott American products is not only foolish but impossible.

Now children, carry on disputing who invented what. But, do realize you missed the point entirely.

Viagra was invented by a Frechman named Jacques Vigare (spelling?) but Pfizer but the rights for $50 Million or something like that

I wonder what the expression on the dogs face looks like :1orglaugh