Today of all Days...

What's so special about 4th July? It's not as if anyone listens to the supposed freedom and democratic greantess of the US any more... even US citizens are disillusioned by their nations apparant greatness, unless the media has flushed their minds with patriotism over impartiality and fact.

--Matt

Hadn't seen this post.

I agree, the USA sucks, but the fourth of July has becoome like our chrstmas, devoid of its original meaning. It was always a bit silly. Celebrating a statement that all men are created equal in a country where the pigmentation of people's skin affected which busses they could use and which schools they could attend. Its little wonder that "independance day" lost its meaning a long time ago.

People now say "happy fourth of July", I think we should adopt this policy with christmas, as nobody really s celebrating Jesus are they?

It would be a bit wierd saying "Happy 25th of December!" to each other.

I'll stick with 'Christmas', despite my lack of belief - just for traditional aesthetic reasons.

Sam

I quite fancy saying "happy 25th of december" that would be fun.
Also on people's birthdays, "happy 17th of January jez!"

ok maybe the idea isn't great

I suppose Christmas is so deep within our cultural roots (we sort of had it before the whole Jesus thing anyway, with the pagans) that it'd be hard to stop... That and it's quite fun usually.

But independence day is American and therefore wrong.

--Matt

I suppose so, we don't like anytinjg american at all. Of course HTML is american, as is linux and windows, an.. most software come to think of it. Your life would be empty without america, admit it!

HTML is a worldwide standard

Linux was invented by a Swedish man I think, called Linus Tolverdos or something.

Windows is American; but it has many more faults.

PHPBB is chiefly British programmed and the default language us UK-English

--Matt

And the IBM pc?
The Internet?
Originally Linux may have been invented by a swedish man, but all the current distribution were American wrtten.

The first computers were built just outside Milton Keynes during the 2nd World War - by Brtits. We just weren't allowed to tell anyone due to it being 'Secret' and the blueprints were burnt.

We'd have got there soon enough, with or without IBM's input.

Anti American Sam

Mandrake is French.
SuSe is German.
Debian has no centralised location
...

Anyway, this is a petty argument. The Internet was invented by a Swedish guy or something too. Stupid Americans claiming they invented it.

--Matt

Not to mention the first ever computer design was by a Cambridge professor, Babbage, who was so far ahead of his time that the computer (the analytical machine) couldn't be built back then due to the lack of engineering prescision. The industrial revolution changed this, and nearly eighty years later they built the machine according to his original blue-prints to find out that it worked!

Britian and Germany played an equal, if not a greater part in the invention of modern computers. Many ignore Germany because of political reasons in the 1930's and 1940's, but they really did invent some exciting stuff.

As you can tell, one of my papers in the first year was on the history of computing

--Matt

Ok you've convinced me

lets bomb the USA

With posts like that, the NSA will be onto Drunkit like a flash! They'll shut us down.

Let's see if we can entice them in by printing 'key' words:

Saddam
Osama
Terrorist
Bush
Taliban
Iraq

I expect they scan all our postsm unless Matt Day has encrypted this site with PGP or something similar!!!

Sam

Muslim
Towel-head
axis-of-evil
RIAA
COMMUNISM
SOCIALISM
FREEDOM
DEOMCRACY
MWA HA HA HA HA

--Matt

Free big mac

"Whoever get the most votes should win the election."

They'll be down on me like a ton of bricks with that statement.

Sam

Revolution starts in birmingham!!

The brummies are revolting!! (obvious)

We're good at causing 'revulsion'

Just have to open our mouths and people run for miles.

But on a more serious note, Primal Scream were going to release a song called bomb the pentagon but they decded not to a little while after somebody actually did.