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Recent Comments by dag

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Not much. But imagine - if we are mainly Americans, who are we supposed to complain about? What countries can we look up at and complain about their oppression and cultural imperialism towards us? We're in a monopolar world. America won - and the crown weighs heavy. That said, I whinge about Australians a lot.

In reply to this comment by smibbo:
let me ask you this dag, here on v9deosift, does anyone bitch about any other country? (teasing MINK excluded) does anyone ever say anything critical or even informational about any other country?

interesting that this site is for english speakers, has overwhelmingly american vids on it but all anyone will criticize is america.

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I think there's hypocracy all around. I'm huge consumer of American culture - and yet I never miss a chance to lambast my country for its shortcomings.

At the same time I do get a bit shirty when I hear Australians go off on the father land. Like the culture here is that much different. Australians are just as ugly abroad as Americans. Beer swilling provincial louts in many cases.

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Sift Sunday Crossword (Happy Talk Post)

*sticky!

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TED - Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child, 2 years on

I'm not trying to be diversionary - I'm just saying that "the money could be spent on something else" is not the right approach, because the money for this program probably wouldn't be there if it was a different project.

And recognising that there are a lot bigger and better things that could be done for aid, doesn't make this project bad.

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TED - Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child, 2 years on

^ You use the same argument that people use against the space program. "Wouldn't the money be spent better somewhere else".

These laptops are well inside the "teach a man to fish" field. It's hard to say what the long term effects of giving laptops like these to children will be, but it may very well inspire many to reach higher than they would otherwise.

The laptops have a complete snapshot of Wikipedia on them - that in itself would be a big asset to regions where books are scarce.

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TIGA - Sunglasses at night

scary, scary lips

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Husky sings along to Gwen Stephani's Sweet Escape

A huge improvement on that song.

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Playboy 55th Anniversary Playmate Search

I had to watch a couple times to be sure, but *ban

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pretty much how I feel about it these days... (Blog Entry by smibbo)

I think there's hypocracy all around. I'm huge consumer of American culture - and yet I never miss a chance to lambast my country for its shortcomings.

At the same time I do get a bit shirty when I hear Australians go off on the father land. Like the culture here is that much different. Australians are just as ugly abroad as Americans. Beer swilling provincial louts in many cases.

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