oh crap! - Bystanders Ignore Hit-and-Run Victim

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:

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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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Originally Posted by Snee

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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Originally Posted by Snee

This makes a hella lot more sense, now.

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That cannot be for real :O