# Brave brave AMERICA, he he he **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 20, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689 "2002-04-20T18:00:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/81 "2002-04-22T19:07:15Z")
Dammit! You all have made me laugh so hard I woke the baby\* up! **Zut** , remind me never to get on your bad side. :lol: - My baby is really precious and I like spending time with her. But she needs her nappy. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/82 "2002-04-22T19:24:29Z")
**Truth Seeker** , truer words were never spoken. **IDIOT\_FACTORY** _could_ have been prevented - isn’t that the point? Esprix ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/83 "2002-04-22T19:24:31Z")
> [@](#): > > My baby is really precious and I like spending time with her. But she needs her nappy. Well, I should hope so. I’d like to think she’s not running around commando all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/84 "2002-04-23T02:47:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by POWER\_station \* > \*\* > Nope > > my goal was to illustrate a bad attitude (even if the story was false). \*\* All you have done is tapped a well of resentment growing among many Americans who are tired of snotty, elitist foreigners who go out of their way to point out pre-supposed faults of Americans. Congrats. :wally PS, I am heartened to see so many people respond as they did to this. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/85 "2002-04-23T02:58:49Z")
On second thought, I should not have said foreigners. For one thing, that word has a weird, negative, connotation these days. Besides, there are plenty of American jerks who post and say things like that. ---
**Author:** ![SpaceGhostofArrakis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@SpaceGhostofArrakis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpaceGhostofArrakis)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/86 "2002-04-23T03:50:32Z")
Oh yeah? Name one…oh wait… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/87 "2002-04-23T07:35:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Trion \* > \*\*Hey Fenris! I think we got another member for the SDBM “One Trick Pony” Chowder and Marching Society. \*\* Oh, no, no, no, **Trion**. Our esteemed **POWER\_station** is actually quite talented. He’s far from a one-trick pony. He’s [homophobic](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=107905), [anti-Semitic](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=107848), [and a M_A_S\*H fan](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=109705), in addition to being anti-American. That’s talent! jayjay ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/88 "2002-04-23T11:19:01Z")
So, I was right in my first post to this thread: someone did remove **power\_outage’s** brain. ---
**Author:** ![emmy66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85f322/32.png) [@emmy66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmy66)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/89 "2002-04-23T12:23:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by POWER\_station \* > \*\* > > I think you missed the point here \*\* The point between your ears? ---
**Author:** ![Bubba\_Ray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bubba\_Ray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubba_Ray)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/90 "2002-04-23T12:40:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > \*\*I think of **POWER\_station’s** post as being more of a sermon; a fable; a proverb. > > He is the Messiah!;j \*\* He isn’t the Messiah, he is a very naughty boy! 😃 Sorry couldnt resist. :: places another packet of troll food ™ on the floor and waits for the show to continue :: ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/91 "2002-04-23T12:53:03Z")
Holy Crap **jayjay** , you’re right! I had a memory of other anti-American posts from P\_s, but I had completely forgotten the others. Curse my feeble memory! ---
**Author:** ![Sparc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Sparc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparc)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/92 "2002-04-23T15:15:11Z")
I’m a little worried about the reputation of the continental population of Europe should anyone get the idea that POWER\_station is European… So let’s clear that out… He is not! It seems he is from the land of the fjords and they opted to not be part of Europe. I don’t know what continent Norway belongs to nowadays, but I am sure POWER\_station could help us with that one. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/93 "2002-04-23T23:19:49Z")
I get the point that POWER\_less is making! He’s trying to say that lighthouses should be fitted with engines and propellers so they can move out of the way - out of respect, of course - when an all powerful U.S. aircraft carrier comes along. Damn skippy. America is so fucking great that even the _continents_ get the fuck out of our way when we say so. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/94 "2002-05-02T02:53:45Z")
\*\* POWER\_station\*\*, did you ever think of getting yourself euthanized? No? . . . Think about it! It’s easy and it’s fun! ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/95 "2002-05-02T05:54:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sparculees \* > \*\*I’m a little worried about the reputation of the continental population of Europe should anyone get the idea that POWER\_station is European…He is not! It seems he is from the land of the fjords and they opted to not be part of Europe. I don’t know what continent Norway belongs to nowadays, but I am sure POWER\_station could help us with that one. \*\* **Sparculees,** I have enjoyed your posts in other threads, especially your responses to **POWER\_station,** but I’m not so sure about this one. It seems that you mean to suggest that any nation not willing to join the _political_ entity that is the European Union has no right to consider itself a part of the _cultural_ entity that is Europe, and furthermore that this makes the nation in question worth a laugh, and possibly even inferior. However big a tit **POWER\_station** may be (and he is most certainly a BIG one), needlessly talking shit about an entire nation just because they didn’t join your clubhouse isn’t cool. (Though I have considered the possibility that I am taking your comments too seriously in light of the fact that it is just a pit thread.) So I ask you: what does the fact that he is Norwegian have to do with the fact that he’s a fuckwad? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/96 "2002-05-02T08:14:53Z")
Europe as a _cultural_ entity? How about “continent”? But you’re right. **POWER\_station** ’s nationality is irrelevant. Well, I guess the fact that he’s not American is kind of relevant in this thread, but that’s as far as it goes. ---
**Author:** ![Sparc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Sparc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparc)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/97 "2002-05-02T09:58:06Z")
**Kyomara** and **Coldfire** ; Oh come on…what do you think of me? Of course I agree with both of you. I was trying to score a cheap comical point on **POWER\_station’s** home turf, namely absurd obsession with Nationality. This is the Pit, no? But…in case anyone more took me the wrong way: I do not think that **POWER\_station’s** character here displayed is typical, nor defining of Norway’s population nor any other nation. And I think I have a pretty clear idea about Norway’s geographical location and it’s geopolitical and state financial considerations in not being part of the European Union. As a NATO ally the Norwegian state pretty clearly defines were it stands anyway, I would say. Actually I have two trickier questions for anyone that cares: Is Greenland in Europe? And is Iceland? 😃 Last but not least I like Norway… Actually thanks to Sondre Norheim who was Norwegian before he became American and disappeared from history in 1870-something; I love Norway. (Sondre invented the Telemark binding and lay the foundation for alpine skiing - and Sparc without skiing is like…wow I don’t know, how do you express absolutely void in a good way?) Retractionally Sparc ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/98 "2002-05-02T11:17:08Z")
Baile átha Cliath —\> The Town of the Ford of Hurdles. you know who Power station reminds me of? bj0rn. in his anti-american senseless posting way. but bj0rn was never homophobic. I want bj0rn back. ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/99 "2002-05-02T11:45:32Z")
I want **bj0rn** back too. While **bj0rn** might not have always expressed his opinions succinctly, and least his opinions seemed to be ones which were heartfelt. I know that I’m reading these posts at a time when most of the admins are having a very well-deserved sleep, but it seems that of late we’ve had more than one poster starting threads which pretty much only relate to their own view of the universe and which are highly inflammatory, and specifically _intended_ to be such. And the US summer vacation is yet to come… BTW **Sparculees** , I STILL want to have your children. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689/100 "2002-05-02T12:00:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sparculees \* > **Actually I have two trickier questions for anyone that cares: Is Greenland in Europe? And is Iceland? 😃** I’m feeling bold. Yes and yes, the same way that we consider Hawaii a part of North America. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brave-brave-america-he-he-he/104689.md?page=6)