[QUOTE="legend26"][QUOTE="cool_baller"][QUOTE="legend26"]McLovinslorg_queen

Pfft, it's better than Juno.

A recent poll by centre-ground media 'the Economist' shows the difference between Britain (Europe) and the United States on political, economic, social and religious opinion. Here are the results:

I don't see whats wrong with buying designer clothes.

Is a hot girl gonna like you more if you are wearing attractive, good quality designers clothes or if you are wearing $20 worth of crap from Target or Walmart?

Memberino

I know I'd rather date a nice person wearing cheap clothes than a pleb in abercrombie clothes.

I live in China and I have to say that me as well as many other friends who have lived here do feel it was too early to give China the Olympics. Its human rights record really is atrocious. We all know that Britain and the USA have waged a few wars but those two countries allow the public to know what they are doing, to know they are waging wars. The fact that China has a government that locks people up for complaining when the government knocks down their house or who attempts cultural genoicde (in the case of Tibet) really needs to be improved before it is given such a prestigious gift as the Olympics.

On a city note, I live in Beijing and the pollution really is horrible. It also isn't globalized enough to support so much Olympic activity. Foreign language skills are very poor and traffic rules are disobeyed (not stopping at red lights). The city's public transport is also bursting at the seams.

So although I don't think we should boycott the Olympics, I do feel that it was too early to give China the Olympic games.

I also believe that the Olympic Games should only be given to countries in the free world.

Memberino

I don't believe you're from China. I doubt you'd have the guts to say that if you really were in Beijing.

[QUOTE="AlternatingCaps"]

Well, I'm not calling you a liar, I just haven't seen this news (I won't doubt its existence though).

However, if you're going to tell me that China's gonna have an Abrams or F-22 anytime soon, I'll start to doubt you.

Ninja-Hippo

Which i didn't say. :| It's simple; we shouldn't be criticising a nation's human rights abuses when we sell arms to said nation. We also shouldnt be complaining about human rights when we continue to sell arms to Sudan despite the fact that we know they're used in genocidal killings, and we certainly shouldn't be complaining about human rights when our wars have killed over 100,000 civilians and displaced many more.

Who are we to talk?

To be fair, it's not us selling the arms. It's our governments. If I were given the vote on how the UK should control Defense, I'd vote for a decision to reduce arms.

Who are we to talk? We have a GREAT right to talk. It's just too bad no-one's listening.