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I'm proud of teh interwebs


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Invented by an englishman I'm afraid...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

went to my college btw as well...

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Al Gore is an Englishmen?

Figures.

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since when is Al Gore an englishman named Tim bernes-lee?

I don't think this was the direction the OP meant for the thread to take, but I'm most proud of the constitution ( a document I'll readily admit I need to learn much more about) and the founding fathers, who created a government with the purpose of protecting the people's natural rights against tyranical rulers. Ruspekt.

Edit: damnit, you beat me to the Al Gore joke.

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you should be proud of the idea that the state needs limitations, and that checks and balances and divolving power to different parts of the state are all good ideas.

I mean, I'm not a huge fan of american politics or policy, over the last 50 years but just think what it would be like if you had a weaker constitution. You and the rest of the world would have been well and truly [censored] by now...

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I'm proud of teh interwebs


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Invented by an englishman I'm afraid...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

went to my college btw as well...

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Wow didn't know that, thanks! Ah, the W3C was started while he was at MIT, that's where my misunderstanding came from.

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Please describe the event occuring in this photo:

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Explain why this is okay in "football":

http://www.bqb-site.com/vince_throw.jpg

While in football, the biggest sport in the world, it gets you this:

http://www.joystiq.com/media/2006/06/wcredcardjoy.jpg

Maybe you should share names with this sport, instead?

http://library.thinkquest.org/27480/aug4_handball.jpg

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Good post. It's interesting to see what Americans are proud of.

I find it a bit amusing how many people mention American sports, such as "football" (the ball is primarily thrown, not kicked) and baseball (arguably the slowest and least entertaining sport to watch of all time).

Sorry, I just had to get that out.

I'm all for democracy, though.

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Actually the football is carried more than its kicked or thrown, unless youre in San Diego. But the game developed from soccer and rugby, where kicking are more predominant, and kept the European name.

you are right about baseball, but you'll raise the ire of Andyfox who still suffers under the delusion that the "complex strategies" that actually impact one game a season make the game interesting. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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So the keeper is not a football-player, as he will use his hands more than his feet when touching the ball?

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Actually the football is carried more than its kicked or thrown, unless youre in San Diego. But the game developed from soccer and rugby, where kicking are more predominant, and kept the European name.

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Carried - with your arms - I might add. I enjoy watching both football (the soccer kind) and American football, but get annoyed how the US named their American football "football" and changed the name of real football to "soccer".

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So the keeper is not a football-player, as he will use his hands more than his feet when touching the ball?

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While you are right, the goal keeper is allowed to save shots with his arms and then hold the ball for a limited time (a certain number of seconds?), do you really not see - and accept - my point?

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Oh, and Bedreviter, where are you from? Your alias and avatar strongly suggests that you are Scandinavian (Norwegian?), while your posts, i.e. the few I've read, suggest that you are American.