I don’t know, maybe because I don’t assume a guy is lying just because he looks foreign?

You’re right. It is a public forum... so where the hell do you get off telling me my post had no reason to be there? I didn’t read the rest. Not interested in someone who thinks that they have the freedom to say what they want but I don’t.

That would have been much easier to buy if the article you didn’t read didn’t have this in it:

Except I didn’t imply it either. However I’m pretty sure the statement you replied to was in response to something someone else, not you, said, so if anything had no reason to be in this thread, it would be your butting in to the conversation.

Except the testing they did was mostly useless.

Then I guess it’s a good thing I never said that.

Not to downplay Patricia Highsmith’s contribution (I think she’s a terrific writer), but I think the success of Strangers on a Train lies with Hitchcock inserting a homosexual subtext into the film which Highsmith herself said improved the story immensely. I think it would have been a rather middling film with a…

My five-year-old loves the iPad and knows the ins and outs of it very well, but I can’t picture a scenario where she would be using any of the internet that would get her to a part of it that would require filtering for her age. I think the device as a whole is a great idea, but I can’t imagine what Pre-K filtering…

You didn’t answer my question about his landspeeder: Namely, why did he take that to hunt for R2D2 when he could have covered more ground from the air in his T-16? What, is there a law against flying them when it isn’t womp rat hunting season?

You know, between this alien and Yoda living 900 years, you have to wonder why everyone in the Galaxy is rushing around all the time.

You think that the Habsburgs had something to do with the renaissance, which was mainly centered in Italy? You have very strange notions of European history, and the idea that Prussia was some sort of center of culture is just hilarious.

Too bad WWI ended in 1918 and the claim was, and I will quote again:

Got it. You’re going to ignore the whole other post I just quoted to you further expanding upon and explaining my point because you’d rather fight with someone. Find someone else to fight with, I’m not interested.

If you want to talk about history, Germany didn’t exist until 1871, so I have no idea why you think it was adored by the other major powers throughout Europe.

This is the statement I was responding to:

When did I say Japan didn’t suffer enough? As I already said to someone:

Okay, well re your edit, no, that is not what I was saying. I think there’s plenty of blame to go around for what happened in the aftermath of Unit 731 and the U.S. is just as complicit in the problems. There’s nothing about this that is in regards to Japanese people or their culture in general. Just that not only is…

Doesn’t change the fact that Germany was not widely considered the most civilized and cultivated country on the planet until 1939.

This article made the claim that a country wouldn’t do experiments on people like they did in this Anime when the nation of Japan (and I am not going to go down this semantic path with you of ‘let’s narrowly define what that means’) during WWII did exactly that, most of the people involved got immunity afterward (and…

A lot of what you said is debatable but none of it counters the fact that Germany simply wasn’t the cultural center of Europe before WWII. It was the Habsburgs until WWII and then continued to be Austria, or more specifically Vienna, afterwards. Sure, German culture did get a boost under the Weimars, but it was…