Islamic mosque to be built near ground zero

[Da1andonly]

I think it's quite common everywhere in the world to talk shit about your own country every now and then, and things being better elsewhere - us wealthy countries included. I do it on a daily basis :]


edit: went to a bar for the weekly quiz show yesterday, and the night ended up with me letting a 24 year old traveller dude from Colorado crash at my place for the night. He was cool

[Jerome Scuggs]

i dunno most people talk shit about our government, me included. it's hard to defend washington.

i love my state though, and the people in it.

edit: and c'mon, what european is going to listen to someone who "loves america", in order to have an international conversation you have to prove you're not a patriotic GW bush AMUR'CAN

[fLaReD]

i don't understand why it seems like so few americans have any american pride anymore. i have several friends who constantly talk shit about america and talk about how awesome europe is and i think they're fucking idiots, not because they think europe is awesome, but because they talk more highly about other countries than the one they were born in and will live their whole life in. just doesn't make sense to me.

[Zeebu]

i am thoroughly enjoying this thread

"get out of my office"

...56 translations later we get:

"Lunch"

[kthx]

One bad deed?

Last time I checked these Arabs aren't lining up in the desert behind our General and trying to kill the army from hell brought to us because we opened up the book of life and killed the scorpion king. Here, let me explain to you what Muslims are doing to people.

Hit it Antoine Dodson.

See man? Fucking muslims are raping everyone out there, I had to hide my kid and hide my wife already.

You are so dumb. For Real.

[kthx]

I would rather be known for shooting guns and raising cattle than working out, getting spray on tans, and being an otherwise guido ass fuck.

[Jones]

i do not deny what the history tells us about how brutal christians have been, particularly the crusades.

then again, people seem to forget the millions worldwide that christianity (as well as other religions) are helping on a daily basis. this seems to be the case of everything, do 100 good deeds, no one will notice. do 1 bad deed you shall suffer, eternally.

[Jerome Scuggs]

jersey shore =/= new york

jersey shore = new jersey

completely different state man

and very low blow.

i am just so happy that jersey shore exists. i mean, rednecks are ignorant and stupid but they are also capable of incredible feats, like owning a truck that is 50 years old and kept together with nothing but duct tape.

[Xog]

jersey shore =/= new york

jersey shore = new jersey

completely different state man

and very low blow.

a lot of new yorkers are dicks, in fact most are. Personally I've only been mugged once and that was when I was in middle school and the guys to jumped me were in the 10th grade wearing red bandanas over their faces.

experiences are nothing about money in new york. All the fun things you can do are actually inexpensive or even free. The things you pay for is to go to things that are actually outside the state and involves bus travel to get to/from there (like all the casinos). You can get broadway tickets fairly cheap but they try and sell you the expensive ones first, just ask for the cheaper ones and you'll just be sitting on the side instead of the center.

As for cigarettes, this place is very populated and it's VERY common for people to ask you for a cigarette. Here at work I go downstairs for smoke breaks every day and atleast 3 times per day someone comes up to me (usually a crackhead sitting down there waiting to bum off someone) asking for a cigarette. That's a lot of cigarettes man and I don't make a lot of money. A pack of smokes is $12.50 at the cheapest here in the city. Personally I leave my pack upstairs at my desk and take 1 cigarette down and tell the person that's asking me that it was my last one and pat my pockets.

I'd really like to be nice and everything but with more population comes more demand even from the general street goer. There's lots of people crowding the sidewalks walking different speeds, people are in a rush to get some where, some people have all the time in the world and both wind up getting pissed off at eachother. It's just how the city works, man. Not everyone can be nice and giddy like I am when visiting my family in Washington state.

[Jerome Scuggs]

itt we all agree that individuals are not representative of entire bodies of people

this europe = new york thing is really kinda funny, because it is obvious alot of you euros have never been to NYC. i mean, i have been a few times but all when i was less than 14 years old so i don't remember anything significant, but i do remember everyone being rude as fuck. i mean, downright fucking dicks. one of my ex's went to college in NYC for awhile and was mugged twice. two of my friends have been mugged there. on the flipside, i know people who are wealthier (or whose parents are wealthier), and they have had awesome stays in new york. so maybe my experiences are tainted by not being rich enough. :/

my best friends' cousins from the north, around NYC and in NYC, came down here and they thought everyone was stoned. they were amazed that you could stop and ask someone on the street, anyone, for a cigarette and a light. they also thought we all slept in beds surrounded by mosquito nets.

the charming thing about NYC is that it's the "melting pot" or whatever, culturally diverse, and here we have europeans (who ban burquas and clamp down on the free speech of muslims) comparing themselves to NYC? i mean c'mon. at that rate i could compare louisiana to new york and find some similarities, like what gen was saying.

for the record i'm not trying to hate on europe, but being as i am a southerner i feel compelled to talk shit about the north. say what you will, but i have two words for you: jersey shore.

[Zazu]

kthx really is the most narrow minded person I've ever met. Amazing...
I do hope you are not representing the majority of the Americans though, because I won't have much faith in this world anymore then.

[kthx]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_ground_zero_mosque_poll

The Siena College poll showed 63 percent of New York voters surveyed oppose the project, with 27 percent supporting it. That compares with 64 percent opposed and 28 percent in favor two weeks earlier, results that are within the polls' sampling margins.

Welcome to the 27% Eurotrash xog.

[Xog]

ok guys, I literally work within walking distance of ground zero, and I couldn't care less about a house of worship/prayer being built near it. I've discussed this topic with several friends and co-workers as well, and none of us give a shit. I think it's the rest of America that cares. Which is quite ironic. And Ara is mostly right about euros and new yorkers. There are other cities that share the same views though. The majority of new yorkers share similar views and opinions as many europeans, but you're always going to have people that disagree.

[Ilya]

drove along this for about 15 minutes. mines left over from a war with lebanon. every now and then a cow gets blown up

[Ilya]

ain't no street party like a tel-aviv street party




homg a mosque next to a church in jersualem!111111
the_paul i think your nicca jesus was resurrected there or something