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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Black Wolf on March 12, 2003, 08:06:37 pm
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/freedom.fries/index.html
Go the US Government.
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This is old.
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Oh god :rolleyes:
: An entire day old apparently :p :
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I thought so too, except apparently this is CONGRESS pushing for it. These are the resaturants in the House of Representatives.
Disgusting arrogance, no matter which side you're on. I'm going to revoke my US citizenship and emigrate back to Britain.
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Eh, but it's been beaten to death a thousand ways already. Talk about juvenile. And if the government's gonna be childish, it better damn well be childish and amusing.
Now- who wants a big, greasy bucket of freedom?
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Maybe its about time for another Revolution...
Haven't had one of those in a while.
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Maybe. Though the last one clearly didn't turn out so well...
On the other hand, if not for it we'd likely be led by Tony Blair. *shudder*
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Originally posted by Black Wolf
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/freedom.fries/index.html
Go the US Government.
:sigh: sadness.....
Now we can be fat and patriotic!:no:
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;7 :D
This is by no means limited to the government alone though; from what I am hearing, all of the usual fast food places also have done the same thing. This one is just funny, though. :D
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So i'm going to walk into mac donalds and order a simple order of French Fries and they'll still screw it up? :p
You know, if they are going to call it freedom, they better make them red white and blue. :D
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Just the probability that they could is downright disturbing. Bleah.
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boy am i glad that we call em "pommes frittes" :D
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Fried apples? :wtf:
[yes, yes, I know, pomme de terre means potato... :nervous:]
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I'm going to revoke my US citizenship and emigrate back to Britain.
I've been seriously considering a scenario like that, actually. Dunno where I'd go to, though.
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Problem with living in the modern world is, it's impossible to drop out. There's no more frontier, which means that wherever you go, you're gonna have to deal with the US. Personally, I'd rather face it down right now, and maybe deal with it directly.
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Originally posted by Goober5000
Fried apples? :wtf:
[yes, yes, I know, pomme de terre means potato... :nervous:]
erm actualy u should ask venom what that means we just borowed it i guess speaking it out as "pomm fritz" or more comonly "pommes"
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pomme de terre does mean potato.
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I want to see you dismantle the statue of liberty and send it back to france...
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Originally posted by kode
I want to see you dismantle the statue of liberty and send it back to france...
:lol:
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Originally posted by Alikchi
I've been seriously considering a scenario like that, actually. Dunno where I'd go to, though.
Not Britain... this place is a dump as far as most things go, at least the US has a developed transport system for goodness sake...:rolleyes:
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:lol: ow that's very laughable :D sounds like a child who is angry coz another one didn't lend him a toy :p
btw, do they think it'll have an impact or anything? for once, most french don't know the english name for "french" fries ( for those who do talk enough english, well, they've learned it was called fries, not french fries, I know about that "french" part thanks to the net :doubt: ). Finally, afaik, french didn't make the first fries ( maybe I'm wrong but I doubt it ), so it was just... well, nice to call 'em htat way :D
Originally posted by Fetty
boy am i glad that we call em "pommes frittes" :D
yeah, in france, it's "pommes frites", well, if you're from on of the oldest generations. pommes stands for "pommes de terre" indeed ( des "patates" :D ). But now, about everybody just calls them "frites", which is quite wrong on a gramatical level and must make academicians crazy :D
that was very exciting isn't it? next time I'll talk to you about beans :p
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This is so childish its funny. :lol:
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I just wish they would have come up with something better than freedom fries :rolleyes:
I mean the french may be pissing us off but there hardly senomenus with oppression (unless you live in the Ivory Coast :p )
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This sounds too funny to be reality, sad thing is that it is :lol:
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Originally posted by Bobboau
unless you live in the Ivory Coast
huh? what the hell are you talking about again? Have you any single damn idea of what's up there? France is there to protect french citizens, we haven't used force or anything. ****,
the one who pisses me off, right now, is you, you gotta realize that :o
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I'm sorry, I wasn't being serious, just a cheap shot :doubt:
all I know is the French are moveing it troops, they probly have a good reason, in all honesty Im giveing them the benefit of the doubt and there probly doing the right thing
I probly should have put a smiley in there or something
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Originally posted by Bobboau
I'm sorry, I wasn't being serious, just a cheap shot :doubt:
all I know is the French are moveing it troops, they probly have a good reason, in all honesty Im giveing them the benefit of the doubt and there probly doing the right thing
I probly should have put a smiley in there or something
oh, ok. we have soldiers in Ivory Coast to protect the french people that lives there, it's been agreed that we wouldn't interfere with either the government or the rebels. As a proof we aren't forcing everything, both the Ivory Coast gvt and the rebels agreed to come to Paris ( wonder why we offered that anyway, the outcome was so easily predictable ), and signed a document with several agreements. they read it and agreed, and signed. then back to their countries the rebels claimed they would follow some parts of the document, and disregard the rest. the gvt decided the same a few days later, iirc. well, fine, we tried to help, they don't want to, we didn't force them to respect the treaty. We DON'T take part in the conflict in any way, we're just there to protect our own people.
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Now this is entertainment! All I can say is, I hope we don't ever disagree with Russia.
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we did have a disagreement with Russia, it was called the cold war, we won... I think
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Originally posted by Bobboau
we did have a disagreement with Russia, it was called the cold war, we won... I think
Actually, Russia lost, but close enough.
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Originally posted by Black Wolf
Actually, Russia lost, but close enough.
In Soviet Russia, Freedom Fries eat you.
Anyway, still a stupid idea especially considering it was Belgium that invented chips anyway.
However it does make me feel rrrrrrrrreeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaalllllllllyyyyyyyy good about myself that there are a LOT of people in this world that are incredibly stupider than I. :)
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Originally posted by 01010
Anyway, still a stupid idea especially considering it was Belgium that invented chips anyway.
Yeah! Why don't they just call them chips?! Instead of Freedom fries? I mean WTF? FREEDOM FRIES? What you think they'll call French Mustard? Liberty Mustard?! Thats just insane.
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The way things are going, Blighty will soon be the 51st State of America, and we will all be nice and "free", and obese.
Anyway, damn French Fries, long live proper chips!
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Anyway, damn French Fries, long live proper chips!
Amen!
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Originally posted by Dark_4ce
Amen!
Go Chippie Chips!
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Originally posted by Bobboau
we did have a disagreement with Russia
No, we didn't. You did.
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I would like one IRSwitch, with an order of dependent sized fries and a chocolate taxshake.
Sign here, here and here. Please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery.
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Well considering I'm doing it from memory, thats pretty close:)
Hehe, just about the only person who can take this seriously is an American (and not many of those take it seriously either).
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Technically, everyone not in the Soviet Bloc had a problem with Russia then, because if you didn't have a problem with Russia, and didn't become essentially a colony of it for protection, the US would be more than happy to have you assassinated and replaced with someone who did have a problem with Russia.
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This isn't the first time we've done this. We changed the name of hamburger to salisbury steak back during WWII. There have been several other instances that we've done this, but I'm too high to think of them right now. I'm sure it would be easy to search.
But I honestly think we can let this go already and think of other things to talk about.
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actualy coming to think of it english is a germanic language isnt it ? and borows a couple of "european terms"
RETURN OUR LANGUAGE!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol:
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By the way (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/orl-asecwaite13031303mar13.story)
Maybe just a tad too far. As in "has this country gone ****ing insane" too far.
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err... well english is a variant of indo-european languages so it's related to german/french/whatever but it's not really a germanic language as such
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click me (http://www.google.de/search?q=germanic+languages&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=de&meta=)
english is a west germanic language :)
dont forget england :D
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ok, digging up the dead is were I will draw the line,
the boycot I'm all for, but that does go a bit too far,
if some individual wants to dig up there old grand papy that's fine, but beond the shock value this is just... is that even ****ing real!?!
who the hell would do that, it would be political suicide!
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Actually
"As a freshman legislator, it's certainly a way to make a splash," he said. "It will probably be a fairly popular move publicly. French-bashing is all the rage right now."
This guy's completely right. Bombastic racism is in now.
If there was any doubt that this is true, the fact that any ape who pours a bottle of French wine down the gutter will get featured in the news is plenty enough to dispel it. Never mind the "First Iraq, Next France" sloganeering.
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even the boycot part makes no sense
ur not hurting the goverment of france ur hurting the poeple of france and your hurting yourself or u will smell bad ? :lol:
i mean wana change the name of parfume to err
freedom smell ?
or how about lets change the name of beer because we hate rest of europe now too
lets call it "free world libery drink with a bit alcohol"
and diging up the dead ? WTF
this might sound stuped but a country is simply a couple of lines on a map, we all live on earth or we all abuse earth pic ur fav
anyway u disagree with frace fine but doing all that **** that disgrasing (or however u spell that) urself and parcticaly making fun out of you
on the other hand if you wana be a cheap lough to everybody else i wont stop ya
of topic
i like you bob n all the others from what country you are i dont care :)
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The thing that interests me is thinking of how the history books are gonna handle this. I mean, really- in twenty years, how will the country be able to look back on itself and take itself seriously? Fifty years from now, will history lessons conveniently gloss this over, try to justify it, or will our grandkids be getting lessons in "The Great Stupidity of Ought-Three"?:D
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heh I knew I had idiots running my country, but not on this level. :doubt:
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Originally posted by Fetty
click me (http://www.google.de/search?q=germanic+languages&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=de&meta=)
english is a west germanic language :)
dont forget england :D
wiiierd... didn't know they categorised it that way...
I really think history books will conveniently ignore things... notice that the US (a rebellious part of a nation that refused to pay taxes...) is shown blatantly as a "good" cause in history books (or at least in those dumb childrens stuffs, maybe not so much in "higher" education). Also Abraham Lincoln is shown as some sort of highly ethical person.. hmm
Imagine Bush's big-eared, sad puppy face being preserved in the name of a hero who killed the evil Saddam regime in future children's picture history books... :shaking:
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I really think history books will conveniently ignore things... notice that the US (a rebellious part of a nation that refused to pay taxes...) is shown blatantly as a "good" cause in history books (or at least in those dumb childrens stuffs, maybe not so much in "higher" education). Also Abraham Lincoln is shown as some sort of highly ethical person.. hmm
lol yep; that's because the winners write the history books, as they say. :D
btw I just remembered, when I was in India, they called the things that we call (whatever) fries potato chips, the potato chips were called wafers and the wafers were simply chips. :D
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...:sigh:....Freedom fries :blah: i don't want to eat them anymore.
i'll stick to something more healthy like a t-bone steak and salad. mmmm T-Bone.
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I'm still curious as to what greasy food and freedom have to do with each other.
Or is this just one of those things that sounds clever until you realize it was really poorly thought out?
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"Please feel free to get highly obese and die" :D
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got anotherone
=> freedom kissing :D
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
I'm still curious as to what greasy food and freedom have to do with each other.
Or is this just one of those things that sounds clever until you realize it was really poorly thought out?
If I'd have been there for that meeting I would have laughed so hard I would have puked on them all.