# USA is a shitty country, stop bombing everyone
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [December 16, 2013, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452 "2013-12-16T10:37:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/41 "2013-12-16T16:44:30Z")
> [@Smeghead](#):
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> Well, I, for one, find the OP’s argument and well-constructed logic to be undeniable, and hereby vow to completely stop my drone attacks against unarmed civilians. Well done, good sir!
Guess I’ll have to pick up the slack. Off to the drone store; hope I can get there before Bezos buys them all up.
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/42 "2013-12-16T16:45:56Z")
> [@Chimera](#):
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> Ben-wynyard, what is your address. We’d like to send you a [del]drone[/del] er, “Chrstmas package”.
“Honey? Did you order something from Amazon?”
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/43 "2013-12-16T16:48:21Z")
Ninja’d.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/44 "2013-12-16T16:51:14Z")
> [@Gyrate](#):
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> “Honey? Did you order something from Amazon?”
Yeah, I hear that new coffee maker is da bomb!
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/45 "2013-12-16T17:02:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#):
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> Better bomb them both, just to be sure.
No, no, [we’ll save Australia](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/randynewman/politicalscience.html). Don’t wanna hurt no kangaroo.
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### Author:  [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/46 "2013-12-16T17:07:31Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> No, no, [we’ll save Australia](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/randynewman/politicalscience.html). Don’t wanna hurt no kangaroo.
I hear tell kangaroo is good eatin…when we take over, we’ll have kangaroo burgers at Micky D’s with American cheese!
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/47 "2013-12-16T17:07:56Z")
Hey, **Wynyard** : Throw another shrimp on the barbie, would ya?
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### Author:  [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/48 "2013-12-16T17:09:10Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> Hey, **Wynyard** : Throw another shrimp on the barbie, would ya?
Oh man…that’s low.
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### Author:  [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/49 "2013-12-16T17:19:05Z")
> [@Ben-wynyard](#):
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> yip you heard it/ stop bombing everyone and making up lies to justify it!! The only terrorist are you and your army.
…wow. Turns out you just happen to be a dick! I’ll stop wasting my time debating NZ culture with you in Great Debates: it is obvious you don’t believe all that blather you’ve been writing. You bring shame to your whānau. Just stop posting this nonsense.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/50 "2013-12-16T18:32:16Z")
> [@Simplicio](#):
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> Isn’t it part of Australia? I think its the part with all the kangaroos.
New Zealand is Australia’s Canada.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/51 "2013-12-16T18:58:37Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> New Zealand is Australia’s Canada.
I’m not sure if you’re insulting New Zealand, Australia or Canada with that remark. 😃
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/52 "2013-12-16T19:01:30Z")
> [@Leaffan](#):
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> I’m not sure if you’re insulting New Zealand, Australia or Canada with that remark. 😃
Do we have to choose?
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/53 "2013-12-16T19:04:11Z")
> [@Leaffan](#):
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> I’m not sure if you’re insulting New Zealand, Australia or Canada with that remark.
They’re probably cool with it… I mean don’t they all use the same stamps?
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### Author:  [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/54 "2013-12-16T19:09:44Z")
Hell, I always thought _Australia_ was Australia’s Canada.
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### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/55 "2013-12-16T19:25:45Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> New Zealand is Australia’s Canada.
And the South Island is New Zealand’s Canada. It’s Canada all the way down.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/56 "2013-12-16T19:35:37Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#):
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> Silly, we don’t bomb _everyone_, just people we don’t like. And a few we do like but got in the way. Sorry about them.
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> OK, so that’s quite a lot of people, but still.
It’s true what they say. An enemy is just a friend I haven’t bombed yet.
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/57 "2013-12-16T19:38:53Z")
> [@](#):
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> Asia’s crowded and Europe’s too old
> Africa is far too hot
> And Canada’s too cold
> And South America stole our name
> Let’s drop the big one
> There’ll be no one left to blame us
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> We’ll save Australia
> Don’t wanna hurt no kangaroo
> We’ll build an All American amusement park there
> They got surfin’, too
–Randy Newman
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### Author:  [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/58 "2013-12-16T19:43:07Z")
I didn’t bomb nobody.
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/59 "2013-12-16T19:49:25Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#):
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> I didn’t bomb nobody.
Yeah? Can you account for your whereabouts on the night nobody was bombed?
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### Author:  [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2013, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-is-a-shitty-country-stop-bombing-everyone/676452/60 "2013-12-16T20:07:15Z")
Yes, because nobody was here with me. Or was it somebody? Or anybody? I can’t keep them straight, they all look alike to me.
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