It's Official: I come from a country full of peaceniks

[Diuretic]

Dr. Grump....for whatever its worth,i know 3-4 people who have been to NZ....they all said it was one of the best places they have ever been...PERIOD....Scenery is fabulous and the people were VERY friendly.....one girl i used to work with even had a son with one of your football players..(i wont call it Soccer).....

They fucked around with the formula for Steinlager. I MAY forgive them.....one day. I just hope they didn't stuff around with DB. I need to go back and check.

 

[Dr Grump]

I'd say the US owns everybody militarily...

 

[Xenophon]

You did your damage in the 19th century.

Perhaps someday the maori will have their land back from you 'progressive socialists'.

They are getting their land back...where have you been? Are the Native Americans getting their's back?

I don't claim to live in a utopain fantasy land, you do.

The Maori are getting their land back?

Funny that they don't seem to think so. The entire place was their's, not yours.

You see, one of my best friends who used to live next to me is from Christchurch, and filled me in quite well about this topic.

'They are' is what you like to tell the world when they critize your socilaist utopia fantasy.

The reality is they will never get back what you stole. You are just like the USA, or Israel or any other nation that took what you wanted and said fuck off to any native in the way, no matter how often you goose yourself and proclaim how 'nice' you are now.

 

[Epsilon Delta]

Iceland is to Denmark as Canada, Australia are to the UK

they are RELATED


BTW, its nearly the same type of relationship that Aruba has with Denmark
and similar to the relationship the USA has with Puerto Rico

Uhh, no, it's not. Not at all, as a matter of fact, in any of those cases. If you want any analogy it's closer to the relationship between the US and the UK, except independence was achieved through a referendum in 1944 during the Allied occupation of Iceland.

You guys just don't know what you're talking about.

wrong, it is YOU that, as usual, dont know what the fuck you are talking about
you keep showing what a fucking MORON you are


btw, try looking it up in the CIA Factbook site

DiveCon, I know that you're not SERIOUSLY retarded. It's just sad to see someone be SO stubborn that they refuse to just accept that they didn't know what they were talking about. Iceland had home rule under the Danish Crown from 1907 to 1944- THEN the Canada analogy might've held. Ever since, they are an independent *REPUBLIC* [key word- Republics don't have kings], with a president, a prime minister, and a parliament. They are NOT under the Danish Crown, they have not been under the Danish Crown since 1944, and that is exactly as it says on the World Factbook [check under government and independence]. Please, why do you have to make yourself look so stupid? Even when you claimed that the situation was like Aruba and Puerto Rico, that is ridiculous, as the relationship between Canada and the UK and the US and Puerto Rico are not at ALL analogous, which shows how much you know.

But ok, we'll let it rest.

 

[DiveCon]

Uhh, no, it's not. Not at all, as a matter of fact, in any of those cases. If you want any analogy it's closer to the relationship between the US and the UK, except independence was achieved through a referendum in 1944 during the Allied occupation of Iceland.

You guys just don't know what you're talking about.

wrong, it is YOU that, as usual, dont know what the fuck you are talking about
you keep showing what a fucking MORON you are


btw, try looking it up in the CIA Factbook site

DiveCon, I know that you're not SERIOUSLY retarded. It's just sad to see someone be SO stubborn that they refuse to just accept that they didn't know what they were talking about. Iceland had home rule under the Danish Crown from 1907 to 1944- THEN the Canada analogy might've held. Ever since, they are an independent *REPUBLIC* [key word- Republics don't have kings], with a president, a prime minister, and a parliament. They are NOT under the Danish Crown, they have not been under the Danish Crown since 1944, and that is exactly as it says on the World Factbook [check under government and independence]. Please, why do you have to make yourself look so stupid? Even when you claimed that the situation was like Aruba and Puerto Rico, that is ridiculous, as the relationship between Canada and the UK and the US and Puerto Rico are not at ALL analogous, which shows how much you know.

But ok, we'll let it rest.

i suggest you READ IT AGAIN

 

[José]

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[cunclusion]

Divecon it does say it became independent 17 June 1944

 

[Epsilon Delta]

i suggest you READ IT AGAIN

DiveCon, you are SOOOOO sad. SOOOO Sad.

Over the next quarter century, 20% of the island's population emigrated, mostly to Canada and the US. Limited home rule from Denmark was granted in 1874 and complete independence attained in 1944. Literacy, longevity, and social cohesion are first-rate by world standards.

Independence:​

1 December 1918 (became a sovereign state under the Danish Crown); 17 June 1944 (from Denmark)

On 31 December 1943, the Act of Union agreement expired after 25 years. Beginning on 20 May 1944, Icelanders voted in a four-day plebiscite on whether to terminate the union with Denmark and establish a republic.[27] The vote was 97% in favour of ending the union and 95% in favour of the new republican constitution. Iceland formally became an independent republic on 17 June 1944, with Sveinn Björnsson as the first president.

The president of Iceland is a largely ceremonial head of state and serves as a diplomat but can block a law voted by the parliament and put it to a national referendum. The current president is Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. The head of government is the prime minister, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, who, together with the cabinet, is responsible for executive government. The cabinet is appointed by the president after a general election to Althing; however, the appointment is usually negotiated by the leaders of the political parties, who decide among themselves after discussions which parties can form the cabinet and how its seats are to be distributed, under the condition that it has a majority support in Althing.

Feeling like an idiot yet or what?

[Culled from the Factbook and Wiki entry on Iceland.]

 

[DiveCon]

i suggest you READ IT AGAIN

DiveCon, you are SOOOOO sad. SOOOO Sad.

Over the next quarter century, 20% of the island's population emigrated, mostly to Canada and the US. Limited home rule from Denmark was granted in 1874 and complete independence attained in 1944. Literacy, longevity, and social cohesion are first-rate by world standards.

Independence:​

1 December 1918 (became a sovereign state under the Danish Crown); 17 June 1944 (from Denmark)

On 31 December 1943, the Act of Union agreement expired after 25 years. Beginning on 20 May 1944, Icelanders voted in a four-day plebiscite on whether to terminate the union with Denmark and establish a republic.[27] The vote was 97% in favour of ending the union and 95% in favour of the new republican constitution. Iceland formally became an independent republic on 17 June 1944, with Sveinn Björnsson as the first president.

The president of Iceland is a largely ceremonial head of state and serves as a diplomat but can block a law voted by the parliament and put it to a national referendum. The current president is Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. The head of government is the prime minister, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, who, together with the cabinet, is responsible for executive government. The cabinet is appointed by the president after a general election to Althing; however, the appointment is usually negotiated by the leaders of the political parties, who decide among themselves after discussions which parties can form the cabinet and how its seats are to be distributed, under the condition that it has a majority support in Althing.

Feeling like an idiot yet or what?

[Culled from the Factbook and Wiki entry on Iceland.]

no shit, asshole

tell me, is Canada still part of the UK?
hmmm?
its the SAME TYPE of relationship

 

[DiveCon]

Divecon it does say it became independent 17 June 1944

and i'm not saying it didnt
ED is being an asshole

 

[Epsilon Delta]

no shit, asshole

tell me, is Canada still part of the UK?
hmmm?
its the SAME TYPE of relationship

You're so much fun sometimes, DiveCon.

Ok, I'll do you a favour and explain it to you:

Canada: A parliamentary democracy but also a constitutional monarchy because it recognizes the Crown as the ceremonial executive . The Queen is the legal head of State in Canada, her appointed Governor-General is the acting head of state, but the real political executive is the Prime Minister and his cabinet.

Iceland: a parliamentary republic, it DOES NOT recognize the Danish Crown as the head of state, it has a PRESIDENT that acts as the ceremonial head of state, and a Prime Minister and his cabinet which represents the political executive. It DOES NOT recognize the Danish Crown, it is NOT in the currency [as it is in Canada].

In other words, it more like the US, which DOES NOT recognize the British Crown, does NOT have it on its currency, and whose PRESIDENT is head of state. It is NOT the same kind of relationship as Canada or Australia, and even LESS than that of Puerto Rico or Aruba. It is like the relationship between Mexico and Spain, for example, and NOT like Greenland and Denmark.

GET IT?