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LondonTiger
05-29-2010, 06:00 PM
Difficult to imagine USA gaining any more influence over the world, than it currently stands..

Read an interesting article on the rise and fall of the British empire and it seems very relevant to the US story.. Actually it's strikingly similar to USA right now.

http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/07/13/ten_lessons_on_empire
pwn
05-29-2010, 11:42 PM
On effective deceptions: "Tell them what they want to believe."
gzt
05-30-2010, 07:08 AM
Seriously, man, if there's one place to double-check all the stupid grammar stuff, it's the title of the thread.
LondonTiger
05-30-2010, 09:00 AM
Seriously, man, if there's one place to double-check all the stupid grammar stuff, it's the title of the thread.

elephant in the room anyone?
ColoWayno
05-30-2010, 09:16 AM
USA at the peak of it is power? <- BAD

vs.

Seriously, man, if there is one place to double-check all the stupid grammar stuff, it is the title of the thread. <- GOOD
NKT
05-30-2010, 09:19 AM
elephant in the room anyone?

it's = it is

"its" is the possessive adjective you were looking for...
LondonTiger
05-30-2010, 11:17 AM
it's = it is

"its" is the possessive adjective you were looking for...

Cool, man I gathered that..

But I don't understand what my grammer has anything to do with the article.. You guys are reacting like I wrote the article or something..

Again.. elephant in the room?
gzt
05-30-2010, 12:38 PM
The lesson to learn is that if you present yourself as an idiot, we won't take anything you say seriously or comment on it. Typos in the text are fine, as we all make them, but if you can't spare the time to quickly verify that the title of the thread is grammatically correct, we can't take the time to pay attention to you.
LondonTiger
05-30-2010, 01:23 PM
Yes, but you are paying attention to it, you're replying to the thread like a complete moron, and you're showing everyone what a pathetic imbecile you are by making a point of telling everyone you don't care.

If you really didn't care, you wouldn't respond to it.

You msut be really really desperate to attack someone personally, to stoop to pointing out grammatical errors in someone's posts.
LondonTiger
05-30-2010, 01:27 PM
The lesson to learn is that if you present yourself as an idiot, we won't take anything you say seriously or comment on it. Typos in the text are fine, as we all make them, but if you can't spare the time to quickly verify that the title of the thread is grammatically correct, we can't take the time to pay attention to you.

There is no lesson here, you are a grown man (as you have pointed out in the past) but you act like a child, and I cannot take lessons from someone as pathetic as you.

Who the fuck is "everyone", speak for yourself you fucking sheep.
gzt
05-30-2010, 01:56 PM
If you want to keep presenting yourself as the village idiot, feel free to do so.
Magnetotail
05-30-2010, 03:55 PM
Yeah, we get it, everybody is really cool for berating this guy. It's getting very dull now.
PVC
05-30-2010, 04:45 PM
Yeah, we get it, everybody is really cool for berating this guy. It's getting very dull now.

LondonTiger sucks.

Am I cool yet???? :D
TrackJunkie
05-30-2010, 09:17 PM
LondonTiger sucks.

Am I cool yet???? :D

Well you DO have a lot of posts...
Chewie_jrc
06-01-2010, 11:45 AM
Yeah, we get it, everybody is really cool for berating this guy. It's getting very dull now.

I disagree.