Europe and trees...honestly it's a rant with no real direction (536 hits)
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Submitted by <theonlyfactor.at.yahoo.com> (View user info) at 2005-04-17 05:51:51 EDT
It pains me to no end to think that I'll probably never leave this shitty continent and go to a place with REAL history. I've been to the Bahamas. That place sucked. I want to go to Europe. I want to see Greece, Germany, Italy, Norway, hell even the fucking U.K. would be nice to visit. I want to see a real castle. I want to walk down a path that was walked down 1000 years ago. I want to stand in a spot that Caeser stood.
All around my office are pictures of places around the world. Every picture from Europe or somewhere NOT America is fucking amazing too look at. I mean, right in front of me is a picture of Big Ben. Next to that, a lake in Canada. Next to that, a sunset in Africa. Next to that...the Golden Gate Bridge. An impressive structure yes, but it's not even 100 years old.
What history our country has, isn't all that spectacular.
Think about this... one of the Great Pyramids was built in 2,560BC!!!! BC...soak it up...2,560 years BEFORE Jesus! The Parthenon... construction began in 447BC. The Roman Colleseum... construction began in 80AD (not as old but still way fucking older than ANYTHING here). How am I supposed to give a shit about Plymouth Rock when ALL of that is lurking half way across the world?
Even the recent histroy in Europe is cooler. I can go visit places that are STILL fucked up from World War 2! What can I go visit here? Alcatraz. Pretty neat but not good enough. The Brooklyn Bridge... woah! A hundred year old bridge you say?! I won't believe it! I refuse!
Another thing I find more appealing about Europe than America is the fact that we have to "set aside" land for national parks and shit like that so no one can build the new SUPER DUPER DELUXE EDITION NOW WITH A DRIVE UP WINDOW AND COMES WITH A BLOW-JOB WAL*MART/BURGER KING/FUCKING CRATE AND BARREL.
Look at Scotland. How much of that fucking place is just GRASS!!?? If that much grass existed in one place here in sunny Floriduh, it would have had a fucking car dealership or a $1,500 a month apartment complex on it already.
Now I realise that Europe has it's densly poplulated areas but it also has it's oh-so-big areas of just nothing. Fields, with a house like ever 6 miles. The West Palm Metropolitan area AOLNE has over a million people, and every 4'x4' space of grass already has a sign on it saying something about "this site is being developed by some company for something that there are already 25 of on Northlake but one more won't hurt". LEAVE A GOD DAMN TREE UP MAN!!! That's why we're getting all these Hurricanes. Mother Nature is trying to get all of this shit off of her fucking ass. She doesn't want all these palm trees lined up in nice rows along side our brand new 23.6 lane highway that they WILL NOT stop working on.
I sound like a hippie now... lovely.
I have no idea where this is going so I'm just going to stop now.
In closing I would like to say that America sucks because we have no history and we are uninteresting compared to the rest of the world, and I want to go to Europe and see things that were built BEFORE the 1700's.
If you look at a map of the Everglades showing it's depletion, you'll see that there is about 1/4 of them left, but god damnit Jan and Steve from New York are retiring this year and they need a fucking place in Floriduh to stay! Who gives a shit about the wildlife!!!??? I want a fucking screened in pattio around my pool!!!
I can't wait for the end of the world....
O.K. I'm going to go burn some insence, take off my shoes, listen to the grateful dead, take off my shoes and kiss a plant now
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Submitted by the_mysterious_stranger (user info) at 2005-04-18 08:54:39 EDT (#)
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Oh, come on, this is bullshit. In America, there is MUCH more open space than in Europe. I live in Germany, and you can't even walk one single fucking mile wothout bumping into some sign of civilization. In America on the other side...the great plains, the wheat belt, the rockys...Hell, you can get eaten by a bear or an alligator if you're not careful, that'd be impossible where I live.
Submitted by MarthaStewart (user info) at 2005-04-18 01:33:52 EDT (#)
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adding a few victorian vases and dark tapestries can give your room
the "gothic" feel.
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2005-04-18 01:08:02 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Shagabah_Jones (user info) at 2005-04-17 20:46:45 EDT (#)
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It's not very funny. You get 1 because I didn't quite smile but I smirked. Smirking is fun.
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-04-17 20:23:21 EDT (#)
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Some of the most historic places in the world have nothing left to see. D-Day for example. I'm not talking D-Day plus 5 or anything like that. I know they went on to the villages and stuff, but the actual beaches. They're just beaches! But I would give anything to be able to watch the invasions unfold. Or Hiroshima. Nothing at all. Big empty field now. Or look at Woodstock. Just a bunch of sheep now.
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-04-17 16:29:43 EDT (#)
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There's a fortress island right outside of Boston. I forget the name of it.
It was incredible. You can walk around this fort and almost feel the ghosts
of a time long past. You can gaze out the gun portal towards the sea.
There is plenty of history in America. You just haven't looked
hard enough. The country wasn't exactly empty of people before
the 1700's. Or even the 1300's.
I would love to see mayan or south/middle american ruins, or
the pyramids in egypt, or the temples in greece.
THAT"S what I would like to see.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2005-04-17 16:14:58 EDT (#)
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A thing's historical significance is not always directly related to its age, and is not always a product of man. There are sites in North America, for instance, where some dinosaurs roamed millions of years ago that lived nowhere else on earth. North America has some of the largest, most spectacular caves, gorges, canyons, mountains, valleys, old-growth forest, glaciers, hot springs and other natural wonders in the world. The world's largest living thing is in North America in Yosimite National Park... The list goes on and on...
Here are a couple examples of man-made structures in the Americas you can visit. I have yet to mark them off my list, but I will see them one day.
Chitchen Itza (Mayan city on Yucatan peninsula in Mexico) http://www.netshaman.com/maya/index.html
Cahokia (Ancient woodland indian city located near present day Collinsville, Illinois, which was the largest city in America during its time...as large as contemporary Paris and London.) http://www.state.il.us/hpa/hs/Mounds.htm
Machu Piccu (Fabled city of the incas. Was mysteriously abandoned by it's inhabitants.) http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/latinamerica/south/sites/machu_picchu.html
Submitted by G-prime (user info) at 2005-04-17 11:59:08 EDT (#)
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Canada has lots of open spaces. Look at that National Geographic picture of the world at night, and you see that the U.S. is almost all white, whereas Canada has 4 little patches of light that you can hardly see, and they're all right on the border. Our country rocks, it has lots of nature. Unfortunately, that nature is mostly ice and rocks.
Submitted by mikethescottish (user info) at 2005-04-17 11:50:34 EDT (#)
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Look at Scotland. How much of that fucking place is just GRASS!!?? If that much grass existed in one place here in sunny Floriduh, it would have had a fucking car dealership or a $1,500 a month apartment complex on it already.
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Well, not in central Scotland- the entire central belt is a grim, dreich midden. But the North East... I think you'd be quite jealous of that, if you ignored the shotgun-toting territorial farmers.
Submitted by AlwaysAnEagle (user info) at 2005-04-17 11:06:03 EDT (#)
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Maybe you should try getting out of a city once in a while?
Try hiking the AT. Go ride horses in Bryce Canyon. Visit Mesa Verde. Explore the Rockies. Check out the Great Salt Lake.
Or, even easier, stop taking everything in America for granted and look at it the way you look at Europe. I've seen Big Ben, I've seen the Acropolis, I've seen the Pyramids. I've also seen the skyscrapers in New York, the USS Constitution, the silver mines in Idaho, and wooden sidewalks in Virginia City, Montana. If history that doesn't predate Jesus doesn't do it for you, why don't you get a job that lets you save enough to travel or move to where you can see it?
Whiny. Irritating. Shut up.
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-04-17 10:15:24 EDT (#)
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You want history?
Make it!
Submitted by Phallic_Cymbals (user info) at 2005-04-17 10:03:23 EDT (#)
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Submitted by agulot (user info) at 2005-04-17 06:03:15 (#)
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Hmm well you want some history in america ... try visiting the alamo. or better yet stop marveling at man's works of history and visit the grand canyon. Talk about open space. and older then the pyramids.
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The Grand canyon was man-made? What the fuck did they need all that dirt for?
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Submitted by proofofpurchase (user info) at 2005-04-17 08:40:37 EDT (#)
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I agree. I live in Florida too and we have some major sprawl issues here. However, don't discount the history America *does* have.
This could have been easier to read and let me ask you this, how many feet do you have? You seem to be taking off a lot of shoes.
Submitted by agulot (user info) at 2005-04-17 06:03:15 EDT (#)
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Hmm well you want some history in america ... try visiting the alamo. or better yet stop marveling at man's works of history and visit the grand canyon. Talk about open space. and older then the pyramids.