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He didn't say it only refers to the USA; he said it commonly refers to the USA.

I'm not sure I would agree with that but I would say that we seem to be a larger subject than, say the UK when topics arise involving "western world" subject matter. That could just be due to our size, our influence (good or bad), or in the case of this auto-ped incident, it just seemed to be who the comment was directed at due to the location of the original story matter.

I don't discount UK(ians? :unsure:) folks or Canadians when I think of the western world. I usually don't envision South America though. Regardless of their location on the globe, they hardly live the same lifestyle.

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Originally Posted by Squeamous

Anyone can make spurious claims but if you're the only one in support of them and the rest of the world doesn't have a clue what you're on about you should probably accept that you have a warped definition of reality.

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You could post that in Rafi's Muslim thread too about time zones and whatnot.

Two-fer! :01:

Western hemisphere, ftw. Cawk off, Brits. :snooty: This is our side.

I hear, like, in some South American countries :smilie4: They teach their kids that there's only 5 continents.

True story. :dabs:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...tal_models.gif

This makes a hella lot more sense, now.

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Originally Posted by Snee

This makes a hella lot more sense, now.

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:lol:

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Originally Posted by Barbarossa

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Originally Posted by j2k4

Whatever problems he may have, empathy is certainly not amongst them.

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I never realised empathy was a problem. Thanks for the clarification :cool:

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Not a problem for him insofar as he had none, Barbs. :whistling

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This makes a hella lot more sense, now.

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:lol: but :(

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Originally Posted by Skizo

He didn't say it only refers to the USA; he said it commonly refers to the USA.

I'm not sure I would agree with that but I would say that we seem to be a larger subject than, say the UK when topics arise involving "western world" subject matter. That could just be due to our size, our influence (good or bad), or in the case of this auto-ped incident, it just seemed to be who the comment was directed at due to the location of the original story matter.

I don't discount UK(ians? :unsure:) folks or Canadians when I think of the western world. I usually don't envision South America though. Regardless of their location on the globe, they hardly live the same lifestyle.

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To be honest, this whole argument feels as below me as discussing how the Earth could possibly be round, and why.

I've always been unconvinced by the US-bashing I hear all the time in the UK liberal media, but threads like this do you no favours.

As I understood it "the West was those countries on this side of the Iron Curtain including our antipodean chums.

However, that aside, the video is shocking. The driver that hit him is a disgrace. I can appreciate people didn't want to move him but ordinarily one would expect a little more moral support than that.

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This makes a hella lot more sense, now.

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That cannot be for real :O

Moral support is fine, but life-support would have been more appropriate, Shirley.

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Moral support is fine, but life-support would have been more appropriate, Shirley.

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To be fair I tend to leave that stuff at home.

:lol:

A bit of magic football injury spray is all you need. Like the physios.

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:lol:

A bit of magic football injury spray is all you need. Like the physios.

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That stuff only works on girly poofs (apparently)

If you look closely you can see that they've written "Iraq" on Australia on one of the maps, it's still pretty damned epic that they are falling for it, though.

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Originally Posted by Skizo

He didn't say it only refers to the USA; he said it commonly refers to the USA.

I'm not sure I would agree with that but I would say that we seem to be a larger subject than, say the UK when topics arise involving "western world" subject matter. That could just be due to our size, our influence (good or bad), or in the case of this auto-ped incident, it just seemed to be who the comment was directed at due to the location of the original story matter.

I don't discount UK(ians? :unsure:) folks or Canadians when I think of the western world. I usually don't envision South America though. Regardless of their location on the globe, they hardly live the same lifestyle.

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To be honest, this whole argument feels as below me as discussing how the Earth could possibly be round, and why.

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-bd :ermm:

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Originally Posted by Skizo

He didn't say it only refers to the USA; he said it commonly refers to the USA.

I'm not sure I would agree with that but I would say that we seem to be a larger subject than, say the UK when topics arise involving "western world" subject matter. That could just be due to our size, our influence (good or bad), or in the case of this auto-ped incident, it just seemed to be who the comment was directed at due to the location of the original story matter.

I don't discount UK(ians? :unsure:) folks or Canadians when I think of the western world. I usually don't envision South America though. Regardless of their location on the globe, they hardly live the same lifestyle.

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To be honest, this whole argument feels as below me as discussing how the Earth could possibly be round, and why.

I've always been unconvinced by the US-bashing I hear all the time in the UK liberal media, but threads like this do you no favours.

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I agree. I'm quite embarrassed (for some of my fellow countrymen). Shame on you, Harry. You're a history major. Shirley, you should know where history has laid her head.


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Originally Posted by Detale

Where are you from may I ask??

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I thought I was from the western world, now I'm not so sure.

If the western world is the usa and the usa only, why the fuck would someone bother to call it the western world, surely it's easier just to say the usa. It makes no sense at all. The term western culture makes even less sense then as well like.

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Are you paying attention? I never said it refers to USA alone, but from what I have seen/heard it usually means the USA. Now you still failed to answer the question where are you from. If it makes sense or not it is still the term used.

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I agree. I'm quite embarrassed (for some of my fellow countrymen). Shame on you, Harry. You're a history major.

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yea ur right. there's one little bitty chunk of europe in the west.

http://www.state.gov/cms_images/fy07...plan_0507a.jpg

I'm totally not ashamed tho'.

it's history and american studies, btw.

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I thought only non-Americans did American studies :unsure:. Is that like 'putting one foot in front of the other = walking' studies, or 'what is your name?' studies?

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Somewhat.

My friend did American studies. She went to America to do it. She said the hardest thing was suddenly not being able to drink out there, and at one point got offered counselling for alcoholics. And she's practically teetotal :lol:.

And yes, I will be laughing on the other side of my face when I and all my friends die of cirrhosis :snooty:.

'least you'd be laughing.

Well, this is true...

I wouldn't of lied.

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I agree. I'm quite embarrassed (for some of my fellow countrymen). Shame on you, Harry. You're a history major.

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yea ur right. there's one little bitty chunk of europe in the west.

http://www.state.gov/cms_images/fy07...plan_0507a.jpg

I'm totally not ashamed tho'.

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You do know that the earth is round and that whatevers's denoted as west if you are going to be literal about it depends on where you are at, right, dumbarse?

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I thought I was from the western world, now I'm not so sure.

If the western world is the usa and the usa only, why the fuck would someone bother to call it the western world, surely it's easier just to say the usa. It makes no sense at all. The term western culture makes even less sense then as well like.

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Are you paying attention? I never said it refers to USA alone, but from what I have seen/heard it usually means the USA.

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Where have you seen/heard that?

Seriously.

Of all the people in the world I've run into in different ways before, where that term or variations thereof has been involved, it's a grand total of three people who didn't know what the term stands for, and you're all in this thread.

Pmsl!

wtf is pmsl

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wtf is pmsl

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I think it's pms with an extra letter. :whistling

That would be something to her liking.

Just hope she knows that she spelled it wrong.

And just blurted it out of nowhere.

In a rather surprising gesture (!).

^ Possibly tourette"s of the hands

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Originally Posted by Detale

Are you paying attention? I never said it refers to USA alone, but from what I have seen/heard it usually means the USA.

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Where have you seen/heard that?

Seriously.

Of all the people in the world I've run into in different ways before, where that term or variations thereof has been involved, it's a grand total of three people who didn't know what the term stands for, and you're all in this thread.

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:huh: what happened here? On one hand you said Where have you seen heard that and on the other you are saying only 3 people don't know of it, so I am perplexed on your exact point. I have seen/heard this phrase used on many TV shows Movies all over the news media BBC included and people holding convos. Not to mention the Wiki article I cited above. Also feel free to check out the google results

pmsl = piss my self laughing :dabs:

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Where have you seen/heard that?

Seriously.

Of all the people in the world I've run into in different ways before, where that term or variations thereof has been involved, it's a grand total of three people who didn't know what the term stands for, and you're all in this thread.

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:huh: what happened here? On one hand you said Where have you seen heard that and on the other you are saying only 3 people don't know of it, so I am perplexed on your exact point. I have seen/heard this phrase used on many TV shows Movies all over the news media BBC included and people holding convos. Not to mention the Wiki article I cited above. Also feel free to check out the google results

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Given what I was quoting I thought it was fairly obvious what I meant, ie people using it to refer to the U.S. alone :blink::dabs:

What I'm thinking here, to be blunt, is that the three of you made an assumption that it could refer to the U.S. alone, and that that's entirely your own doing, rather than it being a common thing.

Are you out of our mind?? I and Skizo have said over and over "not just the USA" but many people use the phrase to mean the USA alone. I personally don't think it does but the FACT is many people do. Are you drinking?

Speaking of being out of your mind, I'm kinda' wondering where you're posting from right now.

What I'm saying here is that I don't think people actually do that, I think it's just three of you who think they do.