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Post by whiplash on Apr 2, 2006 20:21:57 GMT -5
The term "illegal alien" is not PC. The term of choice now is "undocumented worker". So the UU must be something like Ghandi's fast worker.
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Post by salqadri on Apr 3, 2006 1:17:56 GMT -5
What abt legal aliens? US tech companies run on legal aliens (like me).
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Post by whiplash on Apr 3, 2006 9:46:21 GMT -5
Legal Aliens are great. It's what this country has a long tradition of. Unless you are a Native American (another PC turn) there is likely a Legal Alien somewhere in your lineage.
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Post by salqadri on Apr 3, 2006 19:53:18 GMT -5
And all we got to offer you there is Tim Hortons coffee. Damn I miss Tim Hortons. All they got here in the US is Starbucks. They dont even know what a double double is here. At Tim Hortons you just tell them what you want; Starbucks you have to make it yourself. And when I do its not enjoyable. Over time I've had so many different favorites at Tim Hortons. My cravings have moved through the following products (not in order): Butter Croissont, Chocolate Dip, Honey Dip, Butter Pecan Tart, Strawberry Tart, Butter Pecan Croissont, Chocolate Chroisson, Chocolate Chip Muffin, English Toffee (coffee), French Vanilla (coffee), Iced Capuccino, and I think best of all, Toasted Sesame Begal with lots of Butter. Mmmm. If there was to be just 1 Candian wonder of the world, I'd make it Tim Hortons, even over the CN Tower or Niagara Falls. Why on Earth dont they expand to LA!!!? Its a big city, they should come here. Get me outta here! I might visit it in the summer for my Graduation.
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Post by Canucksoldier on Apr 3, 2006 20:13:46 GMT -5
Tim Horton's has twice the market penetration of McDonalds in Canada, but it only has 300 outlets in the states. But it recently went public with it's stock, I'm thinking that the money raised from that will be used to expand in the states more. The only problem I see is that Canadian goto Tim Horton to get a good coffee and might buy a doughnut etc at the same time, in the states people goto doughnut shops to get a fat pill first and may get a coffee with it Timmies will have to appeal to the american customer if they are going to take on Starbucks et la. CS
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Post by MMV on Apr 3, 2006 20:25:35 GMT -5
Didja' know that Tim Horton's is owned by WENDY'S (yes, the hamburger place) and is based in Ohio? That didn't really surprise me when I saw that (some stock I had) but if that's the case, why does Wendy's coffee SUCK so much?
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Post by Canucksoldier on Apr 3, 2006 20:27:59 GMT -5
Yes I knew that, no idea why Wendy;s coffee sucks, I never order coffee at a burger joint, MickyD's coffee sucks too CS
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Post by Canucksoldier on Apr 3, 2006 20:36:45 GMT -5
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Post by zzZhenon on Apr 4, 2006 4:16:06 GMT -5
Starbuck's sucks, the true coffee drinkers treat them as bars that use jiggers (i.e. bars that measure shots exactly), while the your local coffee shops and/or growing corporations (Barney's, Coffee Beanery) aren't as precisely measuring to get every single cent they could possibly earn.
Of course that could just be my interpretation
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Post by zzZhenon on Apr 4, 2006 4:17:43 GMT -5
With that said, I buy usually love to buy Starbuck's beans in grocery stores. Mmmmm, f**k Foldgers
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Post by salqadri on Apr 4, 2006 16:02:44 GMT -5
Thanks CS. Checked it out, and unforunately no California. Should have gone to Columbia instead .
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Post by zerza on Apr 20, 2006 15:09:11 GMT -5
blah on StarCrack. Dunkin Donuts has some bomb coffee
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Post by zerza on Apr 20, 2006 17:04:48 GMT -5
Back to this expansion, they better prove they can produce a game that actually works before they go trying to expand on it.
As far as dumb post of the topic award, it goes to Sidhe
hehe our history actually goes back to about 20,000 BC further if you know about the land bridge that existed as the Ice sheet started to recede post ice age.
No Sidhe, the Eskimos history isn't Canadian history. Canadians are European immigrants that conquered the Eskimos, tho in a much nicer fashion then Americans conquered the native indians.
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Post by Avogadro on Apr 20, 2006 17:22:27 GMT -5
Sidhe meant his own country's history England.
And play nice Zerza.
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Post by zerza on Apr 21, 2006 7:36:18 GMT -5
Back to this expansion, they better prove they can produce a game that actually works before they go trying to expand on it. As far as dumb post of the topic award, it goes to Sidhe hehe our history actually goes back to about 20,000 BC further if you know about the land bridge that existed as the Ice sheet started to recede post ice age.No Sidhe, the Eskimos history isn't Canadian history. Canadians are European immigrants that conquered the Eskimos, tho in a much nicer fashion then Americans conquered the native indians. LOL, zerza before you start talking about Canandian history, you might want to get the facts. We never conquered the Eskimos, and our treatment of our own Native people is not much better than that of the Americans. The "Eskimo's are actually now called the Inuit for the most part. We never actually fought them (landed english and/of french immigrants) more like we assimilated them into what is now Canada. LOL Nice try though DustyDragoon Assimilation is a form of conquering. I didn't say Canadians fought eskimos, read carefully I said they conquered them in a MUCH nicer fashion then the Americans conquered our natives. Subjegation is conquering, whether thru assimilation or war. Another fact is Eskimos are more peaceful then alot of American tribes, so Canadians had less scalping parties to get infuriated over. Couple this with the fact that much of Canada is barren, while the American Indians occupied much fertile land. The Canadians just had different variables on the situation. My post was only intended to refute the claim that Canadas national history started 20,000 years ago.
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Post by Tony on Apr 21, 2006 7:49:41 GMT -5
I dont know much about histroy, but i belive the canadians invited the eskimos round for some tea and biscuits, after this both sides wondered why there was a dispute in the first place.
Those canadians are soo good at diplomacy.
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Post by Avogadro on Apr 21, 2006 9:40:54 GMT -5
Wow. In all actualities the transgressors where the Europeens who in fact scalped the native folk. It was not of their traditions to do so. Another example of how "evolved" people can teach nice habits to new found races. Expansion pack question....Will the expansion pack have its own server or will we remain at the mercy of Gamespy?
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Post by MMV on Apr 21, 2006 12:05:16 GMT -5
Wow. In all actualities the transgressors where the Europeens who in fact scalped the native folk. It was not of their traditions to do so. Another example of how "evolved" people can teach nice habits to new found races. Expansion pack question....Will the expansion pack have its own server or will we remain at the mercy of Gamespy? A GS server outage this week prompted me to call GS Main Operations office and they CONTINUE to say "we have no control over that server, can't even tell you the status of it because we don't own or operate it."
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Post by Canucksoldier on Apr 21, 2006 23:41:06 GMT -5
Wow. In all actualities the transgressors where the Europeens who in fact scalped the native folk. It was not of their traditions to do so. Another example of how "evolved" people can teach nice habits to new found races. Expansion pack question....Will the expansion pack have its own server or will we remain at the mercy of Gamespy? A GS server outage this week prompted me to call GS Main Operations office and they CONTINUE to say "we have no control over that server, can't even tell you the status of it because we don't own or operate it." lmao, well then who is at the controls of the server? it's certainly using GS software, and even the box and MP interface says "powered by GS", me thinks we are caught in a legal/political situation between Take2 and GS. As to the other question....I know the answer but I don't think that has been released to the public, so I don't want to violate my NDA. But in the released info on Warlords, I don't see any mention of large scale changes to MP, just new leaders/civ, traits and Great Generals etc. CS
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Post by zerza on Apr 24, 2006 5:46:41 GMT -5
Wow. In all actualities the transgressors where the Europeens who in fact scalped the native folk. It was not of their traditions to do so. Another example of how "evolved" people can teach nice habits to new found races. Actually it was European custom to behead their victims to return for a bounty. Scalping was an Indian custom, tho not widely used at the time of European arrival. It was quickly realized however that a scalp (slang for indian scalp was "redskin") is much easier to carry then a head in the wilderness. "Scalps were not mere trophies or booty of war, however," Axtell wrote. "The whorl of hair on the crown and especially male scalp locks, braided and decorated with jewelry, paint, and feathers, represented the person's `soul' or living spirit. To lose that hair to an enemy was to lose control over one's life, to become socially and spiritually `dead', whether biological death resulted or not."It was rarely used by native indians out of respect for the slain warrior, and was used as a means of defiling an especially hated enemy of their dignity of dying in battle (dying in battle was one of the most sacred acts a male indian could do).
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