Should Australia, Canada, and USA Just Be Amalgamated

11 years ago

Nooooooo America is too different to Australia. I like my country.
Besides, we are so far from America that your idea is currently impossible.

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thunderbird 11 years ago

Originally Posted by laurencewins

Nooooooo America is too different to Australia. I like my country.
Besides, we are so far from America that your idea is currently impossible.

Yeah, I know. I was just trying my hand at satire. OK, I ain't no Jonathan Swift.
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Richard Van

11 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

A bonus is that it would help flush the UK royal family out of supposedly independent countries.

Of course you feel like that, you're technically French.

I have family in Australia, I visit every year and have for 14 years. I find the Aussies very similar to us, very similar sense of humour. I have many Aussie friends.

Also, seeing as your "satire" shot right over Laurences head (and mine), you clearly don't have satire in common.

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HeySal

11 years ago

LMAO

Tie me kangaroo down sport, God keep our land Glorious and free! Gimme a CHEESEBURGER.

Um.........I dunno. Just seems wrong somehow. :rolleyes:

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Alexa Smith

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

Should Australia, Canada, and USA Just Be Amalgamated

Yes, but not with each other. Australia should be amalgamated with porcelain and glass to produce a new dental filling mixture. Canada should be amalgamated with Jupiter and Saturn, to produce an extraterrestrial vacation zone. And the USA should be amalgamated with mashed potatoes and astrological fire-signs to produce a starchy, predictive, warm dinner. I'm just saying ...

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Claude Whitacre

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Yes, but not with each other. Australia should be amalgamated with porcelain and glass to produce a new dental filling mixture. Canada should be amalgamated with Jupiter and Saturn, to produce an extraterrestrial vacation zone. And the USA should be amalgamated with mashed potatoes and astrological fire-signs to produce a starchy, predictive, warm dinner. I'm just saying ...

Lexy;

Australia is a country. Porcelain isn't a country. It's a substance. There are several logical flaws to your argument.

And it would be way too expensive to move Canada to Jupiter or Saturn.

And America and mashed potatoes? That's a big potato. I'm looking up the largest potato..but I think it is smaller than America.

Really now, weren't you just kidding around?

I find it difficult to take these ideas seriously. Seriously.

If you are trying to use satire, study what Thunderbird first posted. He really has satire down cold. A Masterpiece, really.

No, really.

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Richard Van 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

And America and mashed potatoes? That's a big potato. I'm looking up the largest potato..but I think it is smaller than America.

Actually, they call New York the Big Apple and seeing that Thunderbird wants a bit of French around, apple in French is 'pomme' and a potato is "pomme de terre" so technically as a potato is an apple of the earth, she's not far off on that bit.

I think.
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laurencewins

11 years ago

Lexy, where do you live???

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Alexa Smith Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by laurencewins

Lexy, where do you live???

It was the north of England, but now I hear it's been amalgamated with roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, an alarm clock and Walton's first symphony to produce a startling, substantial, musical breakfast.
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laurencewins

11 years ago

Aha... Now I see why you're so quick to pick on other countries...but it is equally nice to know you will pick on the country of my birth.

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MissTerraK

11 years ago

Ha! We can't even amalgamate the Amalgamated States of America, I mean unite the United States of America, er, amalgamate the United States of America. We are always at opposite sides of the spectrum on everything. :p

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thunderbird

11 years ago

Originally Posted by MissTerraK

Ha! We can't even amalgamate the Amalgamated States of America, I mean unite the United States of America, er, amalgamate the United States of America. We are always at opposite sides of the spectrum on everything. :p

Terra

My ancestors fought bloody wars and lost lives to free the colonies from British rule. Their descendants moved to Canada. Go figure. My family always seems to do things the hard way. Good thing that you pointed out that "United" and "Amalgamated" mean the same thing, to avoid unnecessary complications. They already cancel each other out, and we avoided this kind of error message (and won't have to worry about replacing letterheads or changing Zip Code syntax):
Warning: Cannot modify nation information - definition already sent out

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seasoned

11 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

I find the people, culture, topics of discussion, and countries so similar, why not just amalgamate them? Quebec could help restore French culture to Louisiana. Canadian culture is always a shadow of the USA anyway, following exact same trends, politicians spewing out the exact same gibberish, almost word for word. Canadian, Australian, USA liberals and conservatives are almost interchangeable -- same words, same gripes, same bogymen -- just change the accent and one wouldn't know the difference A bonus is that it would help flush the UK royal family out of supposedly independent countries.

Canada and the US FOUGHT to be where they are. I don't think they really want to change. Never mind that americans go to canada to visit and maybe to work, and plenty of famous canadians got that way by working in the US.

As for louisiana? I think most there would be AGAINST it. The culture, like the language, is a creole.

As for the royal family? Well, they seem to like it.

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laurencewins

11 years ago

Is that why some Americans speak with funny accidents...oops...accents, even though they live in the same country.
I guess it's not even a country.. It's a collection of states that are all under one umbrella.

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Richard Van

11 years ago

Originally Posted by laurencewins

Is that why some Americans speak with funny accidents...oops...accents, even though they live in the same country.
I guess it's not even a country.. It's a collection of states that are all under one umbrella.

In all fairness Laurence, if I drive an hour north from London I can't understand a word anyone's saying.

If I go any further I need a translator.

Some of them probably arn't actually speaking English, so that might skew my theory a bit.

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11 years ago

Originally Posted by laurencewins

Is that why some Americans speak with funny accidents...oops...accents, even though they live in the same country.
I guess it's not even a country.. It's a collection of states that are all under one umbrella.

It was SUPPOSED to be kind of like switzerland was. And YEAH, you could tell what region people came from. But they THEN had similar ideals. NOW, some statesare like what we fought against.

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MissTerraK

11 years ago

Originally Posted by laurencewins

Is that why some Americans speak with funny accidents...oops...accents, even though they live in the same country.
I guess it's not even a country.. It's a collection of states that are all under one umbrella.

Yes Laurence, there are many accents from various regions. Some talk so fast, I can't understand them. Some talk so slow it drives me nuts!

I remember the first time I was in Georgia, I was just a little girl. It was on the way to Florida and we stopped for dinner at some diner. The waitress was naming off the options for the different types of potatoes I could choose from and she said "balled potatoes". I asked her what balled potatoes were and she said not balled potatoes, balled potatoes.

After a few times back and forth she spelled it...b-o-ah-l-e-d. Haha! She meant boiled potatoes.

The first time I was in Missouri, a cousin I had never met before was under an old pickup truck and asked me to hand him the warplers. I asked, what are warplers? He said warplers a few more times then crawled out from under the truck and said, Oh, yeah, you're a city slicker (I am not, I have always lived in the rural areas or northern suburbs!) then he said with very exaggeratedly drawn out long i sounds, wiiiire pliiiiers.(wire pliers)

They kept telling me to do all kinds of strange things like get on the car so we can go. I told them I wasn't going to get on the car, I was going to get in the car. They told me that "in" the car was the engine compartment under the hood! What the heck? They pronounced water as warter and wash as warsh. Strange!

Yeah, we all have different accents depending which part of the country we are from, lol!

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laurencewins

11 years ago

@Richard, I guess that's true too. I know there are all sorts of accents in the UK. I have lived in Australia since I was 3 and yet sometimes I still get told I have an English accent. Maybe because I speak well and clearly.

@Steve. Yes I guess life changes in the States and different folks believe in different things.

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Richard Van

11 years ago

Originally Posted by laurencewins

@Richard, I guess that's true too. I know there are all sorts of accents in the UK. I have lived in Australia since I was 3 and yet sometimes I still get told I have an English accent. Maybe because I speak well and clearly.

I really like the Aussie accent, my cousin is a stand up comedian in Sydney as it goes.

When I was much younger and I did my couple of years travelling I spent a year going round Australia (Like every Pom does nowadays) when I was there, everyone knew I was English but when I finally got back to my local in England, everyone was taking the piss out of me for sounding Aussie! (Not that there's anything wrong with it but imagine a pub in the bush and Jonny's just come back from Britain sounding like a cockney)

They're funny old things accents.

If you went there when you were 3, do you mind me asking, were you one of the £10 Poms? Looking at your very small photo with my bad eyesight made me wonder, though you could of course easily be 21.

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rondo

11 years ago

Australia is more like England, and less like Canada or the US.

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rondo

11 years ago

I've been wondering lately, why don't they play cricket in Canada?
Most other Commonwealth nations play it.

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hardraysnight 11 years ago

Originally Posted by rondo

I've been wondering lately, why don't they play cricket in Canada?
Most other Commonwealth nations play it.

maybe canada the lucky country, not australia
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Claude Whitacre 11 years ago

Originally Posted by rondo

I've been wondering lately, why don't they play cricket in Canada?
Most other Commonwealth nations play it.

Because Canada is too cold for crickets. Jeesh.
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- socialentry 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre
  
  Because Canada is too cold for crickets. Jeesh.
  
  But we play golf in Canada. How hot does a country have to be for cricket to be played there :confused:
  
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  thunderbird 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by socialentry
  
  But we play golf in Canada. How hot does a country have to be for cricket to be played there :confused:
  
  Been here for years and I have yet to see crickets playing golf in Canada.
  
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- candoit2 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre
  
  Because Canada is too cold for crickets. Jeesh.
  
  Just caught one yesterday. Came into the air conditioned house to get a way from the 91F temp outside.
  
  It had a Canadian accent so I know it was one of ours. It said Crikeh Crikeh and had a polite but sarcastic attitude.
  
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thunderbird

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Ken_Caudill

I don't think the Australians and Canadians would be too happy.

Can't make everybody happy. How does it look?

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Can't make everybody happy. How does it look?
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whateverpedia 11 years ago

Originally Posted by thunderbird

Can't make everybody happy. How does it look?

Where's the Southern Cross?
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Mikaedi88

11 years ago

@Rondo, are you serious,, hehe, Austarlia like England, not even, Aussies and Kiwi's can speak English, yet some dialects in the queens country, a 2 year old kiwi or aussie kid can speak a lot better..ie Coronation Street dialect.

No offense intended to any members from the queens country mind you.

Laurence, hi, I remember you from HWFH form, a smaller beast than here that's for sure..

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rondo 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Mikaedi88

@Rondo, are you serious,, hehe, Austarlia like England, not even...

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I said more like England than the other countries!

Speaking of amalgamation, when is NZ going to become part of Oz? We need your rugby players now!

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Richard Van 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Mikaedi88

a 2 year old kiwi or aussie kid can speak a lot better..ie Coronation Street dialect.

No offense intended to any members from the queens country mind you.

None taken, I completely agree.
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rondo

11 years ago

Heat is no prerequisite for Cricket. Just ask the English:

Ashes 2013: England v Australia, fifth Test, day two – in pictures

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jimbo13 11 years ago

Originally Posted by rondo

Heat is no prerequisite for Cricket. Just ask the English:

Andrew

Which reminds me. :

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SandraLarkin

Banned 11 years ago

Yes, let's create an even bigger monstrosity of a central government to govern 100 different time zones a millions more people. Should work out fine.

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