[karajorma]

Hell most Americans probably couldn't even find the UK on a map anyway. You'd probably invade France by mistake

[aldo_14]

*Ssh!*

You'll spoil the plan!  They'd be all the way to Germany before they realised.........

[Taristin]

Oh joy... here we go again.

Can we drop the ethnocentrism, boys?

[Ghost]

Originally posted by karajorma
Hell most Americans probably couldn't even find the UK on a map anyway. You'd probably invade France by mistake

Just one more remark, Raa, then I'll be done...

The UK(read: Britain) is that little island with the ****ty weather and ugly women, isn't it?  Just joking, guys... I give you permission to hit me if you ever see me in real life.

[vyper]

Originally posted by Raa
Oh joy... here we go again.

Can we drop the ethnocentrism, boys?

I already have the government trying to control my thoughts, don't you start as well

[Ford Prefect]

That's alright, we'll just outsmart you with our university educations and grasp of irony.

Yeah, your grasp of irony really shines in gems like "Keeping Up Appearances" and "Are You Being Served?".

And the Ivy League is over here, I do believe.

[Ghost]

Didn't Bush go to an Ivy League school? That's not saying much, Ford.

[Scuddie]

Get your filthy teeth out of here, you damn dirty brits!  Seriously, stop eating scones and start brushing your teeth .  Look how beautiful my teeth are .  Plus, theres a reason Ivy League is mainly US...  And that reason is good oral hygiene.

[Unknown Target]

Originally posted by Ghost
Didn't Bush go to an Ivy League school? That's not saying much, Ford.

I don't think he did. And if he did, I know he got a degree in textiles, so he's just an idiot

[achtung]

Do you all realize that you have gotten completely gotten off topic and are not helping saturn at all?

[vyper]

Hush child, the racist grown ups are talking.

That's another thing - we produced the Spice Girls, you produced the KKK..  

We're sorry.

Edit:

On a more helpful note, Laptops...

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/featured_dotw_inspn?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

If you can afford $17/mo then you could have a nice Dell baby.

[Saturn2004]

lol ,i have to  say this is one of the weirdest  threads  i ever  started lol
thanks for the help  swantz and vyper

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Ford Prefect

Yeah, your grasp of irony really shines in gems like "Keeping Up Appearances" and "Are You Being Served?".

And the Ivy League is over here, I do believe.

*cough*  If we're comparing cultural nadirs here, that is (not forgetting the god-awful US remakes of Fawlty Towers, One Foot in the Grave, etc - AFAIK the BBC, ITV et al have never seen a need to remake succesfull US sitcoms).

Y'know, I don't actually know what the Ivy league is.  All I 'know'- genuinely speaking - is that it's some bunch of dorm-school like 'colleges' with a nice reputation.  And I have very little respect for reputation, because it's used as a stupid way to bias against people in terms of education.

[Ford Prefect]

Originally posted by aldo_14
*cough*  If we're comparing cultural nadirs here, that is (not forgetting the god-awful US remakes of Fawlty Towers, One Foot in the Grave, etc - AFAIK the BBC, ITV et al have never seen a need to remake succesfull US sitcoms).

Y'know, I don't actually know what the Ivy league is.  All I 'know'- genuinely speaking - is that it's some bunch of dorm-school like 'colleges' with a nice reputation.  And I have very little respect for reputation, because it's used as a stupid way to bias against people in terms of education.

Yeah, our television is pretty embarrassing, but that's only because we're a big country and we make more stuff. If the UK were as big as we are, you'd be spewing the same amount of crap.

The Ivy League is a group of universities that includes Harvard and Yale, and while they are very good schools, you're actually right that their reputations tend to blow them a bit out of proportion. HOWEVER, with that said, the US's educational facilities actually are a distinguishing feature of the country. We really do have a lot of excellent colleges and universities, (one of which I will begin attending in late August. ) Hell, we have MIT, arguably the greatest science school in the world.

[aldo_14]

Albeit you do have to get into ludicrous amounts of debt to go to uni in the Us, so I'd say it's about even.

Although I'm not sure what the relative comparison of Us-UK degrees (and the rest of the world for that matter).  All I know is that my exam results say I'm ****ing smart, my academic record says I'm ****ing smart, and my degree certificate says I'm very ****ing smart, so if some HR dickhead only wants graduates from Cambridge, Oxford, St. Andrews* et al they can shove their job up their arse for being so narrow minded.

*I don't know why St.Andrews was on that sort of 'top' list for applicants... their Cs department is very nice (It was just refurbed - I was up meeting one of the profs there a while back), but it's not AFAIK any better than anywhere else in Scotland.  More elitism, I suppose)

[Skippy]

Well, what was the thread about before going nowhere as usual?

I agree with vyper, Dell laptops are good

[vyper]

Originally posted by aldo_14
Albeit you do have to get into ludicrous amounts of debt to go to uni in the Us, so I'd say it's about even.

Although I'm not sure what the relative comparison of Us-UK degrees (and the rest of the world for that matter).  All I know is that my exam results say I'm ****ing smart, my academic record says I'm ****ing smart, and my degree certificate says I'm very ****ing smart, so if some HR dickhead only wants graduates from Cambridge, Oxford, St. Andrews* et al they can shove their job up their arse for being so narrow minded.

*I don't know why St.Andrews was on that sort of 'top' list for applicants... their Cs department is very nice (It was just refurbed - I was up meeting one of the profs there a while back), but it's not AFAIK any better than anywhere else in Scotland.  More elitism, I suppose)

You should try going to Caley. Then again, it wasn't that long ago Glasgow referred to you guys as "the tech". The irony is the one thing that has made places like Yale, MIT, Glasgow, Cambridge, Oxford, etc so "powerful" is the one thing that is going to kill them in the long term - research based institutions are black holes for money, since industry is usually ahead of them anyway.

Basically though, it's all simply class based in the UK.

Laptops
Then again, if you can get something on the cheap (i.e. a lesser known brand like iFriend), go for it.

[Knight Templar]

You ****tards, this is about laptops.

And America isn't the one who calls cookies 'bicuits', so try checking yourself next time before you get all high and mighty.

[vyper]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
You ****tards, this is about laptops.

And America isn't the one who calls cookies 'bicuits', so try checking yourself next time before you get all high and mighty.

You know, if I could invoke Gaelic (which no, I sadly can't speak)...