Pearl Harbor

[drenrin2120]

Yeah, but pearl harbor was mroe than that, it was what got us americans involved in WWII, thus, kicknig Japan and Germany's ***. Of course, we just helped, we weren't the exact reason Hitler went under.

EDIT: Oh, and those other holidays, liek st patrick's day, someone already mentino this, but yeah, America is a big mixture of cultures, and the Irish take up a part of that because they emigrated from ireland the New York regions, I believe it was in the late 1800s mostly. lol, I'm taking World History and took American History last year. :p

[Drighton]

I'm killing this topic.  

edit: deleted that post, cause i didn't like it.

Originally posted by Moosetroop11
Pearl Harbor? You Americans dramatise it too much. We got bombed to hell, we should have a remembrance day for every day of the year.

No offense.

lol. Do people have the idea that this is some national holiday, where we all run around weeping, or perhaps the opposite where we have cake and grill and socialize with friends and shoot fireworks?

Its just a day in history that may mean more to some than others. It doesn't mean much to me on a personal level, which is why I forgot about it in conversation with the customer.

I'm just gonna stop trying now.

Almeidaboo, mind if I borrow your smiley? Thanks.

[Revolution911]

I dont really celebrate any holiday except thanksgiving, halloween, and valentines day(Yeah shutup...). Christmas is too jolly and bright for me. Easter..how is christ's birthday the celebration of a bunny who lays eggs. And all those war holidays, honestly, cmon now, its over and done. Stop bringing it up. Keep it in the textbooks.

[drenrin2120]

lol, so damn true abotu Jesus's birthday. We dont' even know exactly when he was born. But I think it's important to remember all of history, not jsut the good, even if that means bringing up dead emotions or w/e. It honors those who died for what they believed and is a way to try and prevent history from repeating its bleakest moments.

[Drighton]

I should note that Easter is supposedly the celebration of Jesus' death. I say celebration because people go and pick up eggs and sh!t and have a jolly good time.

The Easter holiday is just a sad representation of how lazy some people are. Instead of actually calculating the real date of Jesus' death, they just round it off to the nearest sunday. :rolleyes:

Easter is actually an Egytian(?) holiday devoted to worshipping Ester, the fertility goddess. Rabbits have long been associated with fertility (gee, i wonder why), hence the Easter Rabbit and Eggs bit. [I don't remember which king it was] incorporated the holiday, now known as Easter, into christian traditions to satisfy these people (if I remember correctly, because he conquered them).

The funny thing about Christmas is that many people are realizing that Jesus was, in fact, not born on December 25th, yet they continue to celebrate it, because its much easier than actually finding out the right way to do things.

edit: Easter history added. I did it from memory, so give me a little break.

[Archem]

Actually, I wouldn't say we dramatized the whole Pearl Harbor thing THAT much... I'm not saying we didn't (case in point, the Japanese  concentration camps), but there was something improtant about that. We got bombed for what didn't really seem like anything, and something else. I don't really remember what... Maybe someone can tell me. But most of all, as Homer's shirt says, "Just Try and Stop Us!" as Uncle Sam takes a big bite out of the Earth. I love that show's brutal honesty about the condition of the States.

[drenrin2120]

No, they kept celebrating it because big companies like to shovel the money into their pockets, the greedy bastards! But for some reasno, we still celebrate it, yes, you have a strange point. I think i like the spanish holiday, "Three King's Day" better. It doesn't seem as commercial, and there's no big fat guy in a red suit.

[Drace]

Oh sure, cry me a river for Pearl Harbor. I bet it was a sad day, but it sure doesn't cope(sp?) with what Europe had to take! And Japan! You threw two bloody A-bombs on them! Crazy Americans.

[Shady Ultima]

Funny fact bout Santa... The red suit was popularized by Coca Cola. They were the first to decide that Father Christmas' blue wasn't happy enough and made it red... hooray for commercialism

[Drighton]

Originally posted by Drace
And Japan! You threw two bloody A-bombs on them! Crazy Americans.

Holland is next. They've been asking for it for a while now.

My WWII history is hazy, but if I remember correctly, Europe had advance warning that Hitler was gonna F up the place.

Originally posted by Shady Ultima
Funny fact bout Santa... The red suit was popularized by Coca Cola. They were the first to decide that Father Christmas' blue wasn't happy enough and made it red... hooray for commercialism

That IS a fun fact.

[Archem]

That's right. Who else can make as much money from the insignificant past and milk anything for all it's worth? Who else can lick their wounds and turn their backs on the world around as it suffers as much as tenfold our problems? And who, I ask you, can spend and spend like we have it all despite our obvious record-setting national debt? Only in (The United States of) America. Don't we all love our capitalist, greedy, retarted-monkey government of corrupt politicians and puppets? God bless America, indeed.

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I'm moving to Canada as soon as I'm 21. Unless someone (I'm looking at YOU, God) stops the madness now.
Or we could see how I fare with a sniper rifle...
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[Drighton]

Originally posted by Archem2
I'm moving to Canada as soon as I'm 21. Unless someone (I'm looking at YOU, God) stops the madness now.
Or we could see how I fare with a sniper rifle...
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I didn't say that.

The FBI is watching you.   <-- Black FBI dude.

and, hey Houston buddy.

[drenrin2120]

um.... chill? Sure the government sucks in america, but it's not god's fault. And as much as it does suck, i think i'd still rather lvie here then fucken canada! Plus, we're all over the world, that's oen reason why we're in debt, because we spend so much money on others instead of us(mainly in war *cough* Iraq *Cough* Afghanistan *cough*)

[Drighton]

Debt keeps the economy running Drenrin. Thats why we're in debt.

[drenrin2120]

Um... I don't exactly know how debt keeps the economy running. I mean, if we came out of debt, the economy would suddenly fail. lol, that'd be kinda odd :p