Dagobahn Eagle Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 It’s 8 o’ clock in the morning, in Baghdad, and Ali gets out of bed. He wakes up, today as many other days, about how the USA sucks. The world would be better, Ali thinks, if there was no US of A. Ali thinks this as he pulls on his jeans, an American invention, and heads for the bathroom. He thinks this as he pulls on the rest of his clothes and gets into his car to drive to work. It's raining. If American Henry Ford didn't invent the car back in the 30's, he would have been walking to work. Ali arrives to work. He cranks up the AC (which is a patent made by an American) as he walks into his office. He turns on his desktop computer, an item ingeniously invented in a garage by crafty Americans, and e-mails his friend next door about the project his company is doing. During lunch, Ali discusses how America should stay out of Iraq’s business. His friend informs him of a demonstation that is to take place downtown at five. Ali agrees to get down there with his friend. During the demonstration, Ali burns an American flag and shouts anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans, happily ignorant to the fact that by buying the American flag in the first place, he gave $2.50 to the company in the USA that exported the flags to the rest of the world. He also doesn't know that the demonstration will be broadcasted on US TV, fueling the hatred of Iraqi extremists that will eventually cause the invasion of Iraq and the end of Ali's beloved leader. Happily, Ali goes to sleep, knowing that he has been a good Iraqi citizen and supported his leader in hating America. -Eagle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy_dog no.3 Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfnshannon Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 heeeee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treacherous Mercenary Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 What a nice way of putting a view of an Iraqi DE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swphreak Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Said by guy below me: Ermmm.... I'm thinking he just made that character up. oh in that case.... nevermind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C'jais Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Originally posted by StarWarsPhreak Is that true? Wow. Speechless. Ermmm.... I'm thinking he just made that character up. This is a cheap shot. You can't say that it's hypocritical of a country to protest a goverment's actions, just because they're enjoying the benefits invented by some people of that country. Ambroise Paré (1510-1590): surgical instruments Blaise Pascal: mechanical calculator (1642) Metric system, proposed by Gabriel Mouton in 1670, worked out by the French Academy of Sciences in 1790 Nicolas Joseph Cugnot: steam-driven car (1769) George Louis Lesage used a single wire system to telegraph a message (1774) Joseph M.Jacquard - first industrially applicable automatic loom (late 18th century) Montgolfier (Joseph and Etienne): the hot-air balloon (1783) Louis Lenormand: the parachute (1783) Jean Baptiste Meusnier: lighter-than-air dirigible developed (1785) Claude Chappe: optical system telegraph (1791) Nicolas Appert - invented our canning process involving bactericide by boiling (1810) René T.H. Laennec - invented the stethoscope (1816) Joseph L. Gay-Lussac (1778-1850), chemist: the hydrometer and alcoholometer Jean-François Champollion - first deciphered the Rosetta Stone(1822) Louis Braille: printed language for the blind (1829) Joseph N.Niepce: the principle of the photographic process (1826) Xavier Progin (1833): a machine that used separate type bars for each letter or symbol that were activated by separate lever keys (forerunner of typewriter) Daguerre, Louis J. improved and patented photographic process (1839) French physicist Jean Foucault: the gyroscope (1852) Henri Deville: invented electrolysis to refine aluminum from bauxite (1852) Henri Giffard, engineer: first successful steam-powered steerable airship (1852) Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville: Phonautographe:1st machine to record sound (1857), with no playback Raymond Gaston Planté: the lead-acid battery (1860) Rouquayrol and Denayrouse: hard-hat deep-sea diving (1865) Pierre Lallement: rotary-pedal bicycle (1865) Frères Michaux: steam-driven bicycle (1868) Chemist Mège Mouriés: margarine (1869) Charles Cros (& Edison) simultaneously invented the phonograph (1877) Lumière brothers: first movie camera (1895) René Panhard & Emile Levassor: prototype for modern car (front engine, pedal clutch, 4 wheels, etc. - 1895) Jean J.E. Lenoir (1822-1900): the first practical internal combustion engine French engineer and chemist Georges Claude: the neon lamp (1902) Paul Cornu (1907): short flight of first helicopter prototype Edouard Benedictus: the process for making laminated safety glass (1909) Henri-M. Coanda: turbine engine airplane (1910) George de Mestral: the hook and loop fabric fastener system, Velcro (1941) Emile Gagnan and Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau: "Aqua Lung" for scuba diving (1943) Arthur Granjean: Etch-A-Sketch [toy] in 1958 François Gernelle: the first non-kit computer based on a microprocessor (1973) Philippe Kahn: the software or operating system for the above microcomputer Roland Moreno: the concept of installing silicon chip computer memory on a plastic card (1974) French launch Minitel (1980), first major public interactive computer network Robert Cailliau and Jean-François Groff, Swiss francophone co-inventors of the WWW with Tim Berners-Lee (1992) ATM asynchronous transfer mode - high-speed internet (not sure of details) And don't get me started on the Chinese or Arabs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannibal Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 I doubt your average Iraqi owns a car, has a job, has internet acess, or an air conditioning. I know some do but not your average person. It's not like it is here. Also as C'jais pointed out important inventions have come from all around the world. It's kind of short sighted to only look at one country's inventions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagobahn Eagle Posted March 29, 2003 Author Share Posted March 29, 2003 Yeah, well, the point is he has a dislike of Americans, but is still dependent of American accessories. I have a confession to make: The original story (which I "borrowed" tihs concept from) was about a neo-nazi and listed inventions from the countries the nazi hated. The nazi, however, was totally dependent on the products from that country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
another_trooper Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 Its pretty ironic though i agree with the guy who said that the average Iraqui doesnt all that but its true! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthfergie Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 During the demonstration, Ali burns an American flag and shouts anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans, happily ignorant to the fact that by buying the American flag in the first place, he gave $2.50 to the company in the USA that exported the flags to the rest of the world. Only 2.50? Dang those guys over there sell stuff cheap. The big flags that they like to burn are almost in the $10-15 range. They are probably a big prop for the flag making industry. Most Americans might buy a flag, hang it out a few times a year and keep it for 4-10 years, where as the normal Middle Easterner has many flag burnings a day and must buy all those flags. I bet they even get birthday cards from the companies since they are such good customers;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagobahn Eagle Posted March 29, 2003 Author Share Posted March 29, 2003 Only 2.50? Dang those guys over there sell stuff cheap. The big flags that they like to burn are almost in the $10-15 range. They are probably a big prop for the flag making industry. Most Americans might buy a flag, hang it out a few times a year and keep it for 4-10 years, where as the normal Middle Easterner has many flag burnings a day and must buy all those flags. I bet they even get birthday cards from the companies since they are such good customers LOL, yeah, the US flag companies must love people who burn flags . Anyway, I figured something like the US company sold the flags to Iraqi stores to sell them, and then got part of the profit. So they'd earn $10 on export, then a $2,50 revenue for every flag sold by the store. I'm no expert on economics, so I might be way off. Another hilarious fact: The Red Cross also sells flag, as a side income, and some of them actually got exported to Iraq (and most likely burned). Some might have been burned by demonstrators hating Israel and US involvement in Israel. Now, the income the RC got from the flags went straight to relief efforts to the Israeli people. . Burn a US flag for America Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Treacherous Mercenary Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 Originally posted by C'jais Ermmm.... I'm thinking he just made that character up. This is a cheap shot. You can't say that it's hypocritical of a country to protest a goverment's actions, just because they're enjoying the benefits invented by some people of that country. I would have to agree with C'jais though as we aren't the only ones whom have made some of this stuff and such.... Heh. Still a nice little joke none of the less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Originally posted by Dagobahn Eagle It’s 8 o’ clock in the morning, in Baghdad, and Ali gets out of bed. He wakes up, today as many other days, about how the USA sucks. The world would be better, Ali thinks, if there was no US of A. Ali thinks this as he pulls on his jeans, an American invention, and heads for the bathroom. He thinks this as he pulls on the rest of his clothes and gets into his car to drive to work. It's raining. If American Henry Ford didn't invent the car back in the 30's, he would have been walking to work. Ali arrives to work. He cranks up the AC (which is a patent made by an American) as he walks into his office. He turns on his desktop computer, an item ingeniously invented in a garage by crafty Americans, and e-mails his friend next door about the project his company is doing. During lunch, Ali discusses how America should stay out of Iraq’s business. His friend informs him of a demonstation that is to take place downtown at five. Ali agrees to get down there with his friend. During the demonstration, Ali burns an American flag and shouts anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans, happily ignorant to the fact that by buying the American flag in the first place, he gave $2.50 to the company in the USA that exported the flags to the rest of the world. He also doesn't know that the demonstration will be broadcasted on US TV, fueling the hatred of Iraqi extremists that will eventually cause the invasion of Iraq and the end of Ali's beloved leader. Happily, Ali goes to sleep, knowing that he has been a good Iraqi citizen and supported his leader in hating America. -Eagle LOL!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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