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Title: Technology...
Post by: Liberator on May 03, 2002, 11:46:26 pm
Okay, we don't have a General Discussion forum so this seemed to be the best place to put this.

What, in your opinion, is the best and the worst application of modern (withing the last 45-50 years or so)technology in everyday life. :D  

I'm being serious, don't say the mass production of whoopee cushions or some other half-assed smart remark!:snipe:

My best three ...

1.  Television Remote Controls
2.  microwave ovens
3.  Automatic Flushing Toilets in Public Restrooms

My worst three...

1.  Remotes for everthing in the house(Why do you need a remote control for your microwave oven)
2.  Electronic Fuel Injection(if it ain't broke, don't fix it!)
3.  million-dollar Ink Pens(when a pencil works just fine, this just goes to show US Government usually = :doh:  , not stupid just dumb)
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Post by: vadar_1 on May 04, 2002, 12:06:30 am
um

probably MSPaint

so we could make things like

(http://fc.olaki.net/gilligan.gif)
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Post by: Top Gun on May 04, 2002, 03:58:33 am
Best - Toilet, Computer, fridge

Worst - Things that connect to the net that aren'y computers (think AOLers are annoying? just you wait until these things take off), SMS text messaging (forcing people to type in bastardized english "u" "ne1" "c u l8r" because the keypads on phones aren't efficient enough for people to type properly has destroyed more minds than Scientology),  the hold button on telephones.
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Post by: Ulundel on May 04, 2002, 04:07:56 am
Worst are...can't say.
Best are...computer, TV and miniskirt - it makes all days brighter heheheheh ;7
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Post by: Shrike on May 04, 2002, 04:14:02 am
Transistor chips
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Post by: Stunaep on May 04, 2002, 04:18:46 am
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Originally posted by Ten of Twelve
Worst are...can't say.
Best are...computer, TV and miniskirt - it makes all days brighter heheheheh ;7


Geee.... you've put miniskirt rather too far, have you not??? :p

anyway: Water closet, TV, cars

worst: AOL, Trespasser, japanese clocks that don't even last a day
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Post by: Ulundel on May 04, 2002, 04:23:17 am
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Originally posted by Stunaep

worst: AOL, Trespasser, japanese clocks that don't even last a day


That's why you're always late! :devilidea
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Post by: Stunaep on May 04, 2002, 04:26:07 am
Nah, I've got a good european watch. The problem is, that I seem to lose everything smaller than my head in 2-3 weeks. Go figure
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Post by: HotSnoJ on May 04, 2002, 05:04:02 am
Lets not forget graphics card that allow us to play realler and realler games!
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Post by: an0n on May 04, 2002, 07:47:10 am
Best:[/i]Worst:[/i]
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Post by: CP5670 on May 04, 2002, 10:16:57 am
Best:
The supercomputer
HST
interplanetary probes

Worst:
consumer gimmicks :p
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Post by: LtNarol on May 04, 2002, 10:30:57 am
best: computer, MS Word, MS Paint
worst: AOL, Bess, Juno
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Post by: wEvil on May 04, 2002, 11:19:49 am
Best:
Most electronics leading to high-level logic applications (IE, computers)

DARWIN!! (the 2003 mission, that is, not the evolution guy), although HST comes damn close.

Nuclear Fission power (in 30 years everyone had better get used to running off these or have no power.  simple.)

Worst:
Nuclear Bombs.  Isn't it just so HUMAN to go and completely pervert what could have pushed us to Alpha Centauri by now?

WIPO, or should I say, the large corporate movement that wants to change, through controls on intellectual property, the entire world into a big police state.

"MacDonaldisation".  I was talking to a friend a few days ago and he said the first word his counsins' son said was "donalds".  I find that repulsive in a really depressing kind of way.  Its just the general trend towards a rubbish, plasticy kind of society and the decay of moral fibre that really gets me.  Whether its processed cheese, britney spears and Nsync or fast food bars, it seems to unversally piss people off but they still buy it.  WAKE UP, WORLD for crying out loud!
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Post by: mikhael on May 04, 2002, 11:23:28 am
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Originally posted by wEvil
Best:
Most electronics leading to high-level logic applications (IE, computers)

DARWIN!! (the 2003 mission, that is, not the evolution guy), although HST comes damn close.

Nuclear Fission power (in 30 years everyone had better get used to running off these or have no power.  simple.)

Worst:
Nuclear Bombs.  Isn't it just so HUMAN to go and completely pervert what could have pushed us to Alpha Centauri by now?

WIPO, or should I say, the large corporate movement that wants to change, through controls on intellectual property, the entire world into a big police state.

"MacDonaldisation".  I was talking to a friend a few days ago and he said the first word his counsins' son said was "donalds".  I find that repulsive in a really depressing kind of way.  Its just the general trend towards a rubbish, plasticy kind of society and the decay of moral fibre that really gets me.  Whether its processed cheese, britney spears and Nsync or fast food bars, it seems to unversally piss people off but they still buy it.  WAKE UP, WORLD for crying out loud!

Exactly.
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Post by: Styxx on May 04, 2002, 12:02:36 pm
SMS Messaging is great, you just need a phone with smart typing (like mine).

Electronic Fuel Injection is also great. It lets you use less gas for the same distance and lets you turn on your car without any problems even if the temperature is -10C.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 04, 2002, 01:46:41 pm
Best technologies: 3D modeling programs (well, obviously), a fission system so simple you really CAN build one from home supplies, the helicopter (I dunno, I just like helicopters. So much better than cars, planes, etc. I want one. A big, ugly gray one.)\

Worst technologies: Chatrooms/IRCs/ICQ. No need for an explanation there- if you don't know why these things are an abomination worse than the feared Pepsi commercial, you're likely part of the reason I hate them. The new, largely Microsoft-spawned demons of the internet such as Macros, enabling script kiddies to hit me without me even opening the email and popup ads to dance obscenely about my screen and conceal their close buttons. And the TV.

My fourth worst would be the car, and my fifth the telephone (though it made the internet possible, the Plastic Bastard jams my DSL line and enables annoying, stupid people to harass me all night long. In fact, rank the answering machine right above the phone, 'cause it means I don't have a good excuse for never returning calls except "I can't stand you, burn in hell." Which isn't too good for business deals.) After that, put genetically engineered viruses and all the other things that make us die horribly along those lines. At least they kill the stupid telephone people, too.
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Post by: an0n on May 04, 2002, 01:59:48 pm
If you hate phone so much, make a Blotto-Box and electrocute every phone user in yer area.

They senda ****-load of electricity through the lines jumping the V to over 12, making all the phones ring. People pick the phones up and BAM!. Electroshock.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 04, 2002, 02:05:31 pm
'S possible. My plan was more a passive effect one. I'd have to keep the answering machine, but it'd be worth it...


"You have reached the 9 house. Please leave a message after the piercing 80Db shriek.":D
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Post by: an0n on May 04, 2002, 03:03:41 pm
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
"You have reached the 9 house. Please leave a message after the piercing 80Db shriek.":D

*goes to rewire answering machine*

You could make it emit the 'Brown Noise'. Or that frequency that makes you sick and dizzy.
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Post by: Top Gun on May 04, 2002, 03:46:37 pm
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Originally posted by an0n
If you hate phone so much, make a Blotto-Box and electrocute every phone user in yer area.They senda ****-load of electricity through the lines jumping the V to over 12, making all the phones ring. People pick the phones up and BAM!. Electroshock.

It's on my list of "100 things to do before I die" believe me ;)




 
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Originally posted by wEvil
WIPO, or should I say, the large corporate movement that wants to change, through controls on intellectual property, the entire world into a big police state.

WIPO are scumbags, along with Hilary Rosen, Jack Valenti and Michael Eisner. I swear never to buy anything that goes into the pockets of those bloodsucking leeches, ever. They would be happy to see the internet commons, a haven for free exchange of information and ideas turned into a content delivery system for couch potatoes.

 
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Chatrooms/IRCs/ICQ

I agree with you to some extent there but there are some limmited uses that Icq and IRC have.
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Post by: an0n on May 04, 2002, 03:52:07 pm
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Originally posted by Top Gun
I agree with you to some extent there but there are some limmited uses that Icq and IRC have.

Yeah like secure chatting (through modification), finding hackable n00bs and planning things.
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Post by: mikhael on May 04, 2002, 05:22:35 pm
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Best technologies: 3D modeling programs (well, obviously), a fission system so simple you really CAN build one from home supplies, the helicopter (I dunno, I just like helicopters. So much better than cars, planes, etc. I want one. A big, ugly gray one.)\

Worst technologies: Chatrooms/IRCs/ICQ. No need for an explanation there- if you don't know why these things are an abomination worse than the feared Pepsi commercial, you're likely part of the reason I hate them. The new, largely Microsoft-spawned demons of the internet such as Macros, enabling script kiddies to hit me without me even opening the email and popup ads to dance obscenely about my screen and conceal their close buttons. And the TV.

My fourth worst would be the car, and my fifth the telephone (though it made the internet possible, the Plastic Bastard jams my DSL line and enables annoying, stupid people to harass me all night long. In fact, rank the answering machine right above the phone, 'cause it means I don't have a good excuse for never returning calls except "I can't stand you, burn in hell." Which isn't too good for business deals.) After that, put genetically engineered viruses and all the other things that make us die horribly along those lines. At least they kill the stupid telephone people, too.


So many errors, so many screwed up assertions... I just don't know where to begin...
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Post by: Shrike on May 04, 2002, 05:30:36 pm
Quote
Originally posted by wEvil
Best:
Most electronics leading to high-level logic applications (IE, computers)

DARWIN!! (the 2003 mission, that is, not the evolution guy), although HST comes damn close.

Nuclear Fission power (in 30 years everyone had better get used to running off these or have no power.  simple.)

Worst:
Nuclear Bombs.  Isn't it just so HUMAN to go and completely pervert what could have pushed us to Alpha Centauri by now?

WIPO, or should I say, the large corporate movement that wants to change, through controls on intellectual property, the entire world into a big police state.

"MacDonaldisation".  I was talking to a friend a few days ago and he said the first word his counsins' son said was "donalds".  I find that repulsive in a really depressing kind of way.  Its just the general trend towards a rubbish, plasticy kind of society and the decay of moral fibre that really gets me.  Whether its processed cheese, britney spears and Nsync or fast food bars, it seems to unversally piss people off but they still buy it.  WAKE UP, WORLD for crying out loud!
Most of that isn't all that relevant to everyday life.....
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Post by: an0n on May 04, 2002, 05:36:24 pm
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Originally posted by wEvil
Nuclear Bombs

Quote
Originally posted by Shrike
Most of that isn't all that relevant to everyday life.....


Soon, my pretties. Soon.
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Post by: Corsair on May 04, 2002, 07:05:28 pm
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Originally posted by an0n
Soon, my pretties. Soon.
I don't want to know. I don't want to know. I don't want to know.

WHAT THE HELL??????
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Post by: CP5670 on May 05, 2002, 01:51:27 am
All things considered, I would say that the HST is the best of anything. ;) ;7
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Post by: wEvil on May 05, 2002, 12:03:06 pm
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Originally posted by Shrike
Most of that isn't all that relevant to everyday life.....


come back in a couple of years :p
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Post by: Top Gun on May 05, 2002, 12:51:34 pm
the WIPO is very related to everyday life, trying to force a corprate funded adn unfair US copyright law on the rest of the world wherther they like it or not.
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Post by: Zeronet on May 05, 2002, 02:00:33 pm
Quote
Originally posted by wEvil
Best:
Most electronics leading to high-level logic applications (IE, computers)

DARWIN!! (the 2003 mission, that is, not the evolution guy), although HST comes damn close.

Nuclear Fission power (in 30 years everyone had better get used to running off these or have no power.  simple.)

Worst:
Nuclear Bombs.  Isn't it just so HUMAN to go and completely pervert what could have pushed us to Alpha Centauri by now?

WIPO, or should I say, the large corporate movement that wants to change, through controls on intellectual property, the entire world into a big police state.

"MacDonaldisation".  I was talking to a friend a few days ago and he said the first word his counsins' son said was "donalds".  I find that repulsive in a really depressing kind of way.  Its just the general trend towards a rubbish, plasticy kind of society and the decay of moral fibre that really gets me.  Whether its processed cheese, britney spears and Nsync or fast food bars, it seems to unversally piss people off but they still buy it.  WAKE UP, WORLD for crying out loud!


Yeah and when the aliens/asteriods come, will you still be complaining about nukes?
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Post by: Kellan on May 05, 2002, 02:18:04 pm
Well in that case, why didn't we keep smallpox rampant so it'd be easy to infect the aliens when they arrive here? It's a stupid argument...

Nukes are an effective deterrent for rational leaders of normal nuclear nations. For people like OBL, they're just another weapon. THAT is why they're unsafe. Move past the Cold War, man! :ha:
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Post by: Kellan on May 05, 2002, 02:35:01 pm
Oh, and my best/worst things are pretty much the same as wEvil's. Best:

* Computers - self-explanatory.
* Telephones - stay in touch with the people you love all the time!
* CDs - Mmmm, music.

Worst:

* Corporate culture - WIPO, erosion of rights, co-option of lifestlye as advertising etc all in the pursuit of profits at all cost.
* Free Market Economics - sure to garner a great big [laugh at Kellan] - I'm referring to one-way free trade, the aforemetioned corporate culture and the IMF, World Bank and so on.
* Cars - I know they're damn useful, and I rely on them, but I'm scared of what they can do, and how they make communities drift apart.

Commence the ripping apart, please. :doubt:
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Post by: an0n on May 05, 2002, 02:39:26 pm
I've condensed my list:

Good :-
Readily available weaponry (under my control)

Bad :-
Readily available weaponry (not under my control)
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Post by: Kellan on May 05, 2002, 02:43:58 pm
I'm not sure if I should be:

1) Amused :ha:
2) Afraid :nervous:
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Post by: Corsair on May 05, 2002, 03:03:53 pm
I think I'm amused and afraid at the same time. :shaking::lol:
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 05, 2002, 03:25:41 pm
Good way to be, that way you're always nice and confused...


You know, I was just watching TV for the first time in about 2 months (I should have waited longer), and I realized something- I'm in the first generation containing multiple countercultures with a really noticeable corporate sponsorship... I mean, really. Is most rap music/ ghetto culture nowadays more about being black, disenfranchised, and poor or about being white and trying to get a tan?
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Post by: Dark_4ce on May 05, 2002, 03:36:20 pm
GOOD
Internet
Computers
Special FX in movies
Progress in Medicine

BAD
Teletubbies
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Post by: an0n on May 05, 2002, 03:37:55 pm
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Originally posted by Dark_4ce
BAD
Teletubbies

*goes to find an axe*
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 05, 2002, 03:38:34 pm
Telletubies rule!:mad:

Death to Barney the Dinosaur, Antichrist of Childhood!
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Post by: Blue Lion on May 05, 2002, 03:38:55 pm
Good
Hilarious Comics about FS2
Kickass renders
Content!

Bad
Martha Stewart
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Post by: Dark_4ce on May 05, 2002, 03:42:51 pm
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Telletubies rule!:mad:

Death to Barney the Dinosaur, Antichrist of Childhood!


Hmm. You're right about Barney! Should have put that on my list too. But seriously, I had one whole summer in baby sitting my neice where she watched all day, every day the Telletubies, and I couldn't take it anymore, all that "eh oh... Bai baiiii...." or "Oooone.... Tuuuuuu.... Thweeeee!!!" *shudder*

Oh well, thats just me. :nervous:
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 05, 2002, 03:45:37 pm
Oh, come on, you're complaining about watching walking, babbling homoerotic televisions play with giant mutant psycho killer rabbits on the astroturf under a sun that for some reason looks exactly like the Devil's face?

With a living vacuum that looks like it got stolen from the set of a 70s sci-fi B-movie about the horrific results of mad doctors toying with nature?

OK, so I can sorta see that. Freaked the **** out of me when I first saw it with my friends...
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Post by: Dark_4ce on May 05, 2002, 03:48:47 pm
:lol: Heheheheh....
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Post by: Corsair on May 05, 2002, 03:55:57 pm
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Originally posted by Dark_4ce
:lol: Heheheheh....
Why did I read that and interpret it as evil and very ominous sounding?
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Post by: Blue Lion on May 05, 2002, 04:17:12 pm
:lol: :wakka: :lol:  


:devilidea
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Post by: Alikchi on May 05, 2002, 04:21:02 pm
Because you forgot to take your pills again, damn you!
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Post by: Grey Wolf on May 05, 2002, 04:22:15 pm
Best:
The Internet
Computers
FreeSpace
The Mustang GT coupe

Worst:
Anything that allows idiots to affect my enjoyment of the things on my other list.
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Post by: Blue Lion on May 05, 2002, 04:27:29 pm
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
Best:
The Internet
Computers

Worst:
Anything that allows idiots to affect my enjoyment of the things on my other list.


 Aren't those the same things then?
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Post by: Corsair on May 05, 2002, 04:34:11 pm
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Originally posted by Alikchi
Because you forgot to take your pills again, damn you!
oops :o
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Post by: Zeronet on May 05, 2002, 06:02:43 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Kellan
Well in that case, why didn't we keep smallpox rampant so it'd be easy to infect the aliens when they arrive here? It's a stupid argument...

Nukes are an effective deterrent for rational leaders of normal nuclear nations. For people like OBL, they're just another weapon. THAT is why they're unsafe. Move past the Cold War, man! :ha:


They do keep smallpox, why do you think our government is buying vaccines for it, although what you say is quite silly, to use it against aliens would not require infecting a planetery population and theres a very large chance it wouldnt effect them. A nuclear warhead is the only thing between us and them, whether it be a near earth asteroid or a alien warship.
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Post by: Kellan on May 06, 2002, 03:12:29 am
But if you look at the probabilities of aliens and asteroids, and then of nuclear-armed madmen, I think that madmen are more likely. :doh:
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Post by: Top Gun on May 06, 2002, 05:01:42 am
Or Nuclear armed alien madmen that live on asteriods :D

Anyway, I thought this thread was supposed to be about technology. What's so high tech about a guy dressed up as a big purple Dinosaur? Even though he's very irritating.

Just a question to those accross the pond (from the UK); Does Barney's accent sound as irritating to you as it does to us (mind bogglingly irritating beyond belief)? I would say that he is the principal cause of 90% of anti American feelings here because that he's set the steriotype of how an Average American would sound.
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Post by: CP5670 on May 06, 2002, 09:58:32 am
I have never actually heard the Barney accent (only seen some pictures of the guy), although most people in the world sound annoying to me, so my opinion wouldn't mean much. :p :D
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 06, 2002, 03:38:45 pm
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Originally posted by Top Gun
I would say that he is the principal cause of 90% of anti American feelings here because that he's set the steriotype of how an Average American would sound.


There are many, many better reasons to be anti-US than "because we talk funny". If people wanted to hate a group of people for their funny accents, the French would be the most despised people on Earth...

Wait a minure, bad example...:D

And he doesn't particularly have an identifiable accent in the first place. I'd think, if there was a globally recognized "U.S." accent, it'd be a country drawl or summat, not what sounds like a mixture of too much oral anesthetic and a bottle of Valium.
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Post by: EdrickV on May 06, 2002, 04:29:05 pm
Best application:
Rechargable batteries. :D

Worst application:
Telemarketing :mad:

:)