do you love your country?
 

with the upcoming us election and all the flag waving that will involve and what with the olympics just having been and the kind of patriotism that throws up do you love your country?

extent

this is not an excuse to say you prefer western either.

To an extent.

There are things about this country I like and things I dislike.

Hell no

Then get the fuck out asshole!

i love america. but not enough that if the government pulled some total bullshit (ie john mccain winning the election) that i wouldn't leave. because i would.

To young to do so I'm afraid

I'm sorry, I don't know what got ahold of me.

I love my country music, and not being american means I don't really have to think of it in patriotic terms. So I just put YES.

Edit: Oh. I think I seriously misunderstood the entire point of this thread.

I'm somewhat ambivalent. In a contradicted way, not a wishy-washy-fence-sitting kinda way.

I love the sense of comfort I have in America.

But I'm not patriotic.

I love my home planet.

yrs be damned.

But you simply must stay! We need you to teach us of your compounds and plastics. Your spaceship, the way our bullets just bounced off of it back there. We have nothing like that. With your knowledge we could revolutionise the golf cart industry overnight.

did you know that "Klaatu barada nikto" translates into "yr avatar is fucked up"?

:)

No, but it's this kind of wisdom we need! You simply must stay. Our golf carts need you.

first, you must bring me a shrubbery.

ekke ekke ekke ekke p'tang zoo boing.

you been playing this too much:

i love my country but hate about 99% of the morons who live here.

it's funny you should say that, I'd love to play that game again, but the only copy I had was burned.

this game was responsible for my first "buy-it-now" e-bay disaster. you see, as soon as I saw it up for $9.99, my greed overcame me and I clicked. it was then that I realized that the seller was in Minsk, Russia.

two months, and a costly international money-order later, my photo-copied manual and cd-r game arrived.

fucking commie bastards. :mad:

I know that I've told this story before, but it still burns my ass to this day.

needless to say, they had the last laugh.

america rules. and i like many things about australia. i've spent much time in canada, and its cool for the most part.

Hmm I can't say I love my country. I love my city though. Lille is great

right on swa.

and i think 90% of the music i listen to is american. we do it better, y'all. sorry

Patriotism is pretty much the dumbest human character trait.
"Hmm, I can't find pride in something I've personally achieved, but hey, why not just be proud of the country I was born in!"

I really dont know why I should love any country in the whole world? cities yes, special spots yes, but a whole damn country? hahahaha

thats what patriotism is about.
if all those people could just put that kind of "love" into something else

I like the UK for many reasons, but I'd move elsewhere if the opportunity came about. There's plenty of people and things here I love, but like everyone else here, there's also plenty that pisses me off. And, no, I don't feel any patriotism towards the UK at all, really.

i can't stand the current political climate in my country.
but I love the country itself and the people living here.

Exactly

you people, and yr fences. :rolleyes:

I'm a big fan of being British. Today I measured myself in boxes of A4 paper (I'm 6 tall), started a war with the other side of the office, spoke like a pirate, had a conversation about which shoes are appropriate for Eid (the brown ones, if I get new laces), told an anecdote about a man in his wife's bra, got invited to a poetry reading, got invited to an acid fest and had at least 6 cups of tea and as many conversations about the weather.

Meanwhile, in France, fuck all happened.

i dont believe in countrys.

Incidentally, I prepared a list of my favourite people in Europe yesterday:

1. The Irish.
2. The Greeks
3. Fritz
4. Russians
5. Turks.

Isn't that a bit like being a creationist?

no. i mean i am aware that they exist in peoples minds and in words and maps and stuff but the concept just pisses me off.

i love capitalism.

as far as England goes, i don't love it, but it'll do.

I love England, very much so. It's such a great feeling to return to this country after I've been away, you have a greater appreciation of it's quirky ways, it's eccentricities. Unlike pretty much everyone I know, I have every intention of living here for the rest of my life. That said, I don't feel "patriotic" as such, I love England for entirely personal reasons, and I don't give a shit about the royal family, or whether our Rugby and Football teams win or loose.

Ignore my vote, I meant to vote for the last one. Also, I don't love any country as such.