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Re: Vancouver Riots
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:34 am
by Ragdollmaster
Assaultman67 wrote:blah blah blah bullshit
Assaultman67 wrote:I guess I should have been a bit more clearer and added the phrase "even if it is sometimes wrong"
Assaultman67 wrote: should have been a bit more clearer
Assaultman67 wrote:more clearer
Assaultman67 wrote:Ragdollmaster wrote:That's so incredibly stupid, Assaultman. America is one country. Europe is dozens. The culture of each country is unique and the continent in general is extremely diverse.
Oh, there is another generalization ... you just generalized that all countries have the same culture. cultural borders =/= country borders
Re: Vancouver Riots
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:55 am
by Assaultman67
Ah, yea ...
when all else fails just be a dick ... I should have expected that.
What i meant to say was one culture per country not every country has the same culture.
either way both statements are wrong.
Things like this kinda piss me off ... I apologize about what I said earlier and you be a dick to me.
Why do i engage with these people?
Edit: Yea, fuck this forum ... I Think I might take a leave for a while.
Re: Vancouver Riots
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:21 pm
by zoidberg rules
I don't get whats going on here... This isn't the thread I expected to turn into a war... Oh well, best just make the most of it anyway! *Grabs tin hat and rifle* WWWAAAAAAAAARRRRRR!!!!!
Re: Vancouver Riots
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 6:40 pm
by Assaultman67
Assaultman67 wrote:Edit: Yea, fuck this forum ... I Think I might take a leave for a while.
Im back ... I guess that was a pretty short leave
... for some reason ragdoll's post made me both somewhat upset and just plain tired. That kind of tired where you have debated with someone for a week on something and the debate starts to turn into verbal insults rather than actual points.
Renegade_Turner wrote:Your rambling puzzles me. Are you arguing against me or Ragdollmaster or yourself? It's hard to decipher.
both really ... sometimes I don't tend to choose one specific side or another ... When you point out your own short comings it helps keep the conversation a little less heated ... well ... most the time.
People tend to turn conversations about subjects into debates about subjects when things get a bit heated and that's doesn't really solve anything.
Basically when I got verbally assaulted for lumping all the countries of Europe together in a casual statement, I started thinking about why I did that even though before I typed that I knew damn well not ALL the countries of europe have tons of riots and the conclusion I came to was people like to simplify, catagorize, and generalize.
So I posted about that and apologized reluctantly due to embarrassment and hurt pride after insulting me and basically my entire country.
Then he kinda railed me with a hostile post and I just haven't felt more trolled in my life ...
Re: Vancouver Riots
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:56 pm
by Renegade_Turner
I feel like I should apologise even though it was Ragdollmaster being annoying. The fact he tried to pick at your grammar when you clearly generally have a good grasp of it is a bit puzzling, particularly since it was something that you'd obviously have changed if you took a second look at it.
I wasn't trying to have a personal attack on you, or your country as far as I can remember...are you from Canada? Besides, Canada is generally awesome, just the actions of these Vancouver supporters was particularly bizarre. Also, it wasn't as if I was saying "Oh, people here are the only people to ever incite violence for a stupidly futile cause." I was just particularly enraged that people would fuck shit up in a city like Vancouver, which is apparently quite cool.
Did I insult America directly? i'm not sure I recall doing that, and I'm not so inclined as to go check if I did.
Re: Vancouver Riots
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 1:26 am
by Assaultman67
nah you shouldn't have to apologize ...
I probably was just being overly sensitive ... especially since I
am posting on the internet
I am an American and I can't help but consider it an insult sometimes when people say "America is full of idiots" or "Americans are arrogant". How could you not take it a bit personally if I said bad things about the people of your country? I would be talking about your friends, your family, and basically most of everyone you know.
And that's why I apologized, I realized that what I said was probably offensive to some people. I lumped the idiotic behavior of some soccer hooligans that is probably sparsely scattered in some countries to the entire continent of Europe. That's probably insulting for a few people.