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2005-09-19 Europe

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Posted by Korora 2005-09-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Compare/contrast:

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new media.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mindfuck America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
Well that's enough to argue.

Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along in the age of paranoia.
...

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information nation of hysteria.
It's going out to idiot America.
...
--Green Day "American Idiot"

Posted by Rafael 2005-09-19 01:04|| 2005-09-19 01:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, they both seem to have a penchant for homosexual imagery in their lyrics...

Posted by imoyaro">imoyaro 2005-09-19 01:12|| 2005-09-19 01:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Now you know why we need out of NATO. These people think it is OK. Get us out of Europe.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-09-19 03:05|| 2005-09-19 03:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Europe, Louisiana 'bout the same. When you want money or go get bailed out of something deep dark and stinky, the sceam is for Washington to be there yesterday. Having to push people to do the right thing any other time and Washington is just a bunch of Nazis. So what's new?

Posted by Chiger Shineng4673 2005-09-19 09:49|| 2005-09-19 09:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Oooooh. Better pay attention. He is Belgian you know...

Posted by tu3031 2005-09-19 10:36|| 2005-09-19 10:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, yes, Belgium... *frowning thoughtfully, trying to remember anything at all about the place*...They do chocolates there, and Battenburg lace doilies... and the biggest tourist attraction in the place was a statue of a little boy pissing into a fountain. Seems suitable, somehow.
Oh, and the Germans keep invading, but only because it's a short-cut to France.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2005-09-19 12:47|| www.sgtstryker.com]">[www.sgtstryker.com] 2005-09-19 12:47|| Front Page Top

#7 so easy to see how the Holocaust happened, is it not? Guess there were no lessons learned in Europe.

Posted by 2b 2005-09-19 13:31|| 2005-09-19 13:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Good looking guy too. I think I saw him on the off ramp this morning with a squeegee and a "Will sing anti American songs for food" sign.

Posted by tu3031 2005-09-19 13:34|| 2005-09-19 13:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Wow, they've discovered punk only 30 years after the English and Americans! That IS pretty exciting, especially for the world's most boring nation.

Posted by Secret Master 2005-09-19 17:23|| 2005-09-19 17:23|| Front Page Top

#10 I hope that no country in Western Europe (other than Britain) ever needs our help ...

Posted by DMFD 2005-09-19 21:33|| 2005-09-19 21:33|| Front Page Top

#11 "...The Most Gratuitous Use of the Word "Belgium" in a Serious Screenplay. It's very prestigious."
"The most gratuitous use of which word?" asked Arthur, with a determined attempt to keep his brain in neutral.
"Belgium," said the girl, "I hardly like to say it."
"Belgium?" exclaimed Arthur.
"Are we talking," said Arthur, "about the very flat country, with all the EEC and the fog?"
"What?" said the girl.
"Belgium," said Arthur.
"Raaaaaarrrchchchchch!" screeched the pterodactyl.
"Grrruuuuuurrrghhhh," agreed the seven-toed sloth.
"They must be thinking of Ostend Hoverport," muttered Arthur. He turned back to the girl.
"Have you ever been to Belgium in fact?" he asked brightly and she nearly hit him.
"I think," she said, restraining herself, "that you should restrict that sort of remark to something artistic."

Posted by Douglas Adams 2005-09-20 00:03|| 2005-09-20 00:03|| Front Page Top

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