USA should be divided into 50 countries, or atleast California should become a country on its own.... :D ;) :p
What do you think?
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USA should be divided into 50 countries, or atleast California should become a country on its own.... :D ;) :p
What do you think?
ther's only 50 states i think
I don't think any country should be divided.
Dividing a country will not help it in any way.
Why 51? 50 is enough I think (unless we take over Australia and England ;) )
Doesn't Quebec want to become part of America.
Supposedly they think you won't make as much fun of their outrageous French accents as we Canadians do.
SD
Tell that to the Welsh and Scottish. As a jesture of goodwill, I am going to replace "Brighton, England" in my profile to "Worthing, West Sussex, UK". How's that for diplomacy??Quote:
I don't think any country should be divided.
Dividing a country will not help it in any way
I think they should for sports 'cos it seems the USA has won everything except the World Cup! It would be nice if the UK could win something for a change :)Quote:
Originally posted by cyberwarpy
USA should be divided into 51 countries :D
What do you think?
You are forgetting:Quote:
Originally posted by Pix
I think they should for sports 'cos it seems the USA has won everything except the World Cup! It would be nice if the UK could win something for a change :)
The Americas Cup
The World Cup in Rugby Union
International Sevens Series
Cricket World Cup -> Mens and Womens
Cathy Freeman -> GO GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Numerous other world titles which Beacon will no doubt post here in due course.
What has America won exactly, a few minor sporting events that no one outside of North America cares about.
Please don't break America into 50 countries, l spend too much time laughing at one company, give me a break l would end up with a rupture.
I think the constiution of america is quite safe for now. Not likely to see it broken up because a few members of VB World said it should!! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally posted by Jethro
Please don't break America into 50 countries, l spend too much time laughing at one company, give me a break l would end up with a rupture.
I thought America had 52 states? What about Alaska and Hawaii?
yeah, i was under the impression it was 52 states as well (Hawaii and Alaska)
America:
The only place to have a "World Series" that only lets people from its own country play!
I don't know if they don't actually allow teams from other countries to take part or whether it's just the case that no other countries want to take part!
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Originally posted by chrismitchell
America:
The only place to have a "World Series" that only lets people from its own country play!
LOL that's Funny..But they would say "We are the World !"
Well they have "the leader of the free world" so I guess they must be the free world :rolleyes:
Sorry Jethro :)Quote:
Originally posted by Jethro
You are forgetting:
The Americas Cup
The World Cup in Rugby Union
International Sevens Series
Cricket World Cup -> Mens and Womens
Cathy Freeman -> GO GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Numerous other world titles which Beacon will no doubt post here in due course.
What has America won exactly, a few minor sporting events that no one outside of North America cares about.
Please don't break America into 50 countries, l spend too much time laughing at one company, give me a break l would end up with a rupture.
Counting Alaska and Hawaii, we have 50 states. We also have a:Quote:
Originally posted by simonm
I thought America had 52 states? What about Alaska and Hawaii?
Federal District
The District of Columbia is not not part of Maryland, nor does it abide my any Maryland law. It is a seperate territory, without full state's rights. It has but one city, the Federal capital, Washington.
Puerto Rico, a territory that does not have statehood. It is pretty much a protectorate since it is allowed to govern itself to some degree.
U. S. Virgin Islands, again, a territory.
The State of Texas joined the union under the condition that it could leave at any time. That clause still stands, so far as I know. Texas has the ability to become a seperate Rebulic whenever the mood strikes.
simonm: the world series is just the final game of the playoffs in major league baseball. Canada has the toronto blue jays and montreal expos that are in the major league. the jays actually won it back in the days of joe carter and roberto.
SurfDemon: Quebec wants to separate from Canada to form its own country, but if they did, then they would have to pay their share of the national depicit.
cyberwarpy...for someone who "hates" Americans you sure do seem to be obsessed with us......any particular reason?
Yeah, I'm with Katie on that one. I'm hoping with this poor grammar you are not a native speaker. If you are upset about learning the English language, don't blame us, we got it from England.Quote:
A logically fact about USA
Funny how that works, English being from England and all.
True, but their are 3 major versions of English so whatever turns you on
At present their causing our national debt. People out West resent all of our filthy lucre going to the poorer provinces to support whacky schemes. People out East resent the fact that so few people live in the west and they have all the cash.Quote:
Originally posted by Kagey
SurfDemon: Quebec wants to separate from Canada to form its own country, but if they did, then they would have to pay their share of the national depicit.
I assume ther's some chap in the middle (Manitoba) who's happy.:)
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3???? Thats news to me. What 3?Quote:
Originally posted by chrisjk
True, but their are 3 major versions of English so whatever turns you on
SD
Yeah, what is the third, Aussie? I was just explaining to Goodreams in another thread a difference or two between British and American English.
Yeah, British, American and Aussie. Each has it's own spelling of some things and even different words but they're still classed as English.
Except we spell everything correctly and the rest of you need to be re-educated:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally posted by chrisjk
Yeah, British, American and Aussie. Each has it's own spelling of some things and even different words but they're still classed as English.
Pix
Was expecting more of an arguement there.
Good News Americans
The Aussie Foreign Minister today demanded that the US crew of the spy plane be released by Chinese authorities immediatly as this had gone on to long. Expect immediate release of your crew....not...
Well no, because English came from England. Therefore anything spelt different to us is wrong, surely...Quote:
Originally posted by Jethro
Except we spell everything correctly and the rest of you need to be re-educated:rolleyes:
What about South African and Zimbabwean English? They are pretty distinct as well. :)
what about Newzealand English ? They definitely don't speak the Queen's English or the Americanese. :p
That was a joke... This is going on for more than 300 years. Quebec want to do that to separate French and English... I think that's just wrong... I'm French Canadian and I like English people (I'm talking about real English... Not americans...) more than French Canadian.Quote:
Quebec wants to separate from Canada to form its own country, but if they did, then they would have to pay their share of the national depicit.
Every man and his dog want independance these days.
I think countries should be looking for ways of increasing our cooperation and integration with other countries rather than seeking to distance ourselves.
Nope... No particular reason....I'm just exercising my basic rights: Freedom of Speech... And oh Yes, USA is not the only country in the world that has that as its basic rights, so does Australia... :DQuote:
cyberwarpy...for someone who "hates" Americans you sure do seem to be obsessed with us......any particular reason?
I think it's about time the rest of the world unites to show USA that USA is not the greatest power and never will be.... Every country should be treated equally and respected for its uniqueness. However, It is my firm belief that USA is just the odd-one-out. For e.g. Australia & NZ never calls itself as one of the greatest power... we only think we are lucky to have what we have...
Actually I was about to ask a different question regarding that topic, but division of states just blinked in my mind :) Sorry Americans, for any inconvinience it may have caused you.... :D I don't hate you, I just love debating about you... :)Quote:
Yeah, I'm with Katie on that one. I'm hoping with this poor grammar you are not a native speaker. If you are upset about learning the English language, don't blame us, we got it from England.
Yep! You are also right about my grammar...because: I'm orginially from India...a long long time ago... I speak many languages: English, Indian, French and a little bit of Russian... It's hard to perfect one of them.
You forgot Canada... they're quite wierd too.... ***'s up with the pronunciation of about? "aboot" :confused:Quote:
Originally posted by chrisjk
Yeah, British, American and Aussie. Each has it's own spelling of some things and even different words but they're still classed as English.
Ah yes weird pronounciation, but "correct" spelling. Canadian's spell colour and such the British way... weird!Quote:
Originally posted by denniswrenn
You forgot Canada... they're quite wierd too.... ***'s up with the pronunciation of about? "aboot" :confused:
SD
Pix:
Adding to Jethro's list:
VolleyBall
Rugby leauge(i maybe wrong)
Tae Kwon Doe(burnsie)
Surfing(at the moment) womens and mens
Lawn Bowls
Boulle(you know itallian game)
ummm more if ya want..
Why would you split it up you've already got too many states 51. Australia has 5 and 2 terirtories. And i think we have a greater land mass!
Who would have president bush?
;)
What r u talking about Australian + NZ?
Have you ever listen to 1 Australian and 1 NZender. Totally different!
E.g
English Aus NZ
Hello G'Day Hey
Friend Mate Bro
Fish Fish Foosh bro
Six Six Sex bro
Pants King G's Pents bro
Good Tops Choice bro
Child Tiger Child bro
Jethro:
Yeah i forgot Baseball to! and
Super 6's and
Table Tennis and
Doubles Tennis and
Davis Cup and
World Series Cricket...
I'm sorry, as I know this may offend Canadians, but Canadian english just sounds like an extension of American english to me.
My point being, I would struggle more to tell the difference between a 'Boston' and Canadian accent than I would a 'Boston' and 'Texan' accent.
I think the British Isles have the greatest diversity of english accents (especially considering it's size) out of anywhere. I, having an Essex accent, would have serious difficulty in catching one word in five of a native Glasweigan!
You're right though. I've lived here 2 years and I can just about tell the difference in the accents. But what does make them different (as I mentioned earlier) is that they use British spelling which is cool!Quote:
Originally posted by simonm
I'm sorry, as I know this may offend Canadians, but Canadian english just sounds like an extension of American english to me.
Couldn't agree more about the diversity of British accents as well.
:D
All in all, I'm in a pretty agreeable mood this morning!
SD
EAST Worthing or WEST WorthingQuote:
Originally posted by chrisjk
Tell that to the Welsh and Scottish. As a jesture of goodwill, I am going to replace "Brighton, England" in my profile to "Worthing, West Sussex, UK". How's that for diplomacy??
(I guess the demilitarised zone would be between the piers):p
Nope only 50.....you're thinking of a deck of cards....which don't need to be shuffled by you Brits or anyone else thank you. It might be nice to at least get your facts straight....or learn to count. Even I as a member of a "loser" country can do that:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally posted by Jamagei
yeah, i was under the impression it was 52 states as well (Hawaii and Alaska)
I would count up the number of states in America if only I could find a USA map (or flag) that hadn't been burned! :p
Actually, I couldn't even tell you how many counties there are in Britain (let alone states in America). :o
See Simon...now that's funny! :) :p
You can take the piss all you want, we probably deserve it!...just cut the venom! :(
I guess when you live in the might British Empire, you kind of loose count of--....
Oh... they tell me that the sun has set on the Empire. Oh... Oh.... they lost South Africa.. it is the RSA.. ahh... they lost India? They gave back Hong Kong? They still kind of have Australia, what do you mean kinda? They have the Falklands (sp?), some Virgin Isles, Scotland, Wales, and North Ireland.
I'm sorry, Simon... but you don't know how many counties are in England? Wow... do they not go over that in primary school, in maybe a civics class? :P
J/K
North Carolina, the thirteenth state (though the first with a bill of rights), has 100 counties. I could actually probably name a good number of them, at least half.
Well, okay, maybe only a quarter.
All you have to do is make up words and add ex to the end and you'll probably come up with most of the county names.Quote:
Originally posted by CiberTHuG
I'm sorry, Simon... but you don't know how many counties are in England? Wow... do they not go over that in primary school, in maybe a civics class? :P
Essex
Wessex
Sussex
shiftex
knittex...
and so on
SD
No, they don't go over the counties in school (at least they didn't in my school). Besides they change that frequently that it's hard to keep up. e.g. We used to have a county called 'Rutland' that eventually got absorbed by Yorkshire (I think!).
Dude, that's cool. We have cities that absorb other cities, and counties that will yeild some land as a neighboring county's city encroaches, but the 100 counties North Carolina has are the 100 it had when it was a colony.
I don't know about the other 50 states. The idea behind the union was that each state was to be allowed to do what ever it wanted within its own borders.
Neither. I'm nearer West Worthing but as nobody apart from the people who live here have heard of East Preston, I said Worthing.Quote:
Originally posted by Kzin
EAST Worthing or WEST Worthing
...........have no problems telling a Canadian from a seppo, might be the politeness thing, or Canadians don't chew gum all day, or Canadians aren't as *ahem* out going, or Canadians are very civilised in their use of English, or Canadians produce the best maple syrup in the world, or Canadians actually eat something resembling food. Don't know maybe a combination of the above.
ciberthug:
They still have Australia!!
Yippee. I finally figured out why we stayed a part of the British Empire so we could still beat you's at the Commonwealth Games.
Didn't canada get blown up?
Or saw it in a film about South Park!
"Shut your f&*king Face Uncle F*&er"
:)
Apparently no one else bothered putting up a bid, so bleak city gets the games. Wonder where Manchester is when you really need them.
Orginially quotted by Simonm:
ROFL !!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :o :o :o :pQuote:
I would count up the number of states in America if only I could find a USA map (or flag) that hadn't been burned!
This is a true story: There is a hotel in Melbourne City that welcomes ambassadors & high authority people from all over the world. Outside the hotel are flags from 10 major countries and I swear I observed the American one pole-bent and half-ripped !!!
:D
I wouldn't know why you would want to takeover England for...? What's there to takeover..?Quote:
Originally posted by SteveCRM
Why 51? 50 is enough I think (unless we take over Australia and England ;) )
Australia is too big to be taken over...(I think?) Australia might actually be biger than USA in terms of land mass and ofcourse in terms of Intelligence.
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :) :) :) :) :o
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Originally posted by barrk
Nope only 50.....you're thinking of a deck of cards....which don't need to be shuffled by you Brits or anyone else thank you. It might be nice to at least get your facts straight....or learn to count. Even I as a member of a "loser" country can do that:rolleyes:
If you took over England + AUS, wouldn't it become 52 not 51...? ROFL :DQuote:
Originally posted by SteveCRM (USA)
Why 51? 50 is enough I think (unless we take over Australia and England ;) )
And you thought we were the ones that were not able to COUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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