[BigTex]

Jackie Chan, for being a cool dude

Vietnam, for being tenacious fighters

Taiwan, for defying China

China, for building that PHAT wall

Siberia, for having the cool meteor/comet/alien crash site

Japan, for being a bunch of neurotic and productive people

South Korea, for being entrepreneurial

North Korea, for keeping hope alive for Communists and short dictators everywhere

[Dukkha]

Thailand, for being my home and for producing khao soi gai, which, amongst several million truly fantastic Thai dishes, is one of the finest meals known to man:

[Plantagenet]

Mao photo (huge)

[Arkwright]

So many great musicians, but I take this moment to thank James P. Johnson, pioneer of stride piano jazz (or New York ragtime). I'm not fond of most jazz as its usually too slow or quirky to my taste, but this subgenre is good. Here's a great cover of one of his hits.

[btu2012]

Plantagenet, why not start a "mass murderers appreciation thread" ?

Btu

[I_Like_Plants]

Isao Tomita. I love his adaptations of music. Great stuff and a synth pioneer.

Vietnamese - that's right, all of 'em. For inventing ca phe sua da.

Confucious - for making my older bro' come up with Confucius jokes. "Man who fall asleep on railroad track, wake up with split personality" stuff like that, including the great, "Man who fall asleep with itchy butt, wake up with smelly finger" lol!

[I_Like_Plants]

Clifford Brown was good too, good feeling to his playing.

He died at something like age 30, if that old, but it's all OK, he died in an auto accident, the most patriotic way to die!

[I_Like_Plants]

OK someone felt that if we're appreciating Asians, we might as well appreciate mass murderers, so here's your thread!

I'm going to put in my props for Jeffery Dahmer, because I can't think of the name of that California guy who drove a VW. Dahmer was cool, man, cool enough that Derf or someone did a comic book about him. Anyone done a comic book about you? I didn't think so. And, he worked in a candy factory, now how cool is that? Oh yeah and he looked a bit like Bill Gates as a kid, so it's not like he didn't warn us about his being evil. He also tried to make young men into "zombies" or something, which very few try, unless they're running banks and making debt-zombies.

So, hats off to you, Jeffery Dahmer!

[Ayame]

I like the takeaway value box they do at the local chinese restaurant.

You get your box and then go to the buffet and choose what you want and put it in your box. Then you put the lid on your box so it won't spill out in your bag and the nice chinese lady takes your money and gives you some pawn crackers.

You can also get a sit-down stuff your face deal but it's more expensive and I've only bothered a couple of times.

[I_Like_Plants]

Mmm, pawn crackers. They must have some cool pawn shops where you are, the ones around here have mints if you're lucky.

[I_Like_Plants]

Carlos Hathcock III - one of our greatest snipers, ever.

And, Slobodan Milosovich. Great leader, great man.

[emersonbiggins]

BUMP for this melange of intellect and wit

[I_Like_Plants]

Diversity reception is indeed a great method for combating fading and other comms problems.

Once you have say a square-four array, you have a great setup for your diversity reception capable rig. Even a phased pair is very useful in this respect.

[worrier]

This is the funniest thread I've read in a long time. Then, when I've stopped laughing I can amuse myself by trying to figure which of the posts are taking the piss or not.

I appreciate murderers (mass and otherwise) for providing inspiration for thousands of murder mysteries. Fiction would be a much duller genre if it wasn't for murder.

[I_Like_Plants]

I like how in Thai restaurants, a lot of the dishes have "meow" in the name. You know those are cat!

Cat, it's what's for dinner!

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'M')icki,

Finns are a bit different from the Lapps, who live in the north. My ancestry is Lapp, so this has always interested me.

Wiki claims Lapps are related to Berbers genetically, but from their faces it seems they're more Mongol in appearance.

If anyone wants some interesting reading google Lapp or Sami. These are Europeans who really aren't, well, European.

[I_Like_Plants]

I thought whites in general are adapted for cold, the pale skin, more hair, and a different mentality, the deferred-reward and work-ethic things which are positive adaptations to places with real winters.

[Micki]

I am pale, blond and hairy as a monkey and I hate cold.
There are native indians living in the ANdes mountain range who can sleep nakes in snow. So once again, no consitency.

[I_Like_Plants]

I met a very pale, very very Nordic, guy in Hawaii, he was wearing a jacket on a warm day, this was in Waikiki mind you. We got talking and he grew up in Guam, where 115F is a fairly normal temperature. He was born there and his white parents may well have been. I'm not real crazy about the cold myself, frankly. I'd love living in New Orleans or someplace swampy where you can catch crawdads in any puddle. But I've learned there are tradeoffs. Most of the warm areas have a N---- problem.

Remove the whites from Guam though and you can forget about any tech more advanced than the oyster-shell fishhook and the stone adze.

True primitivists will say, Who cares? Who needs more than the fish hook and the adze? But we Whites being thinkers, and the product of hard ecological conditions, I like to think we're the hope for humans to live on the Earth with both high intelligence and sustainability.

Which is why I"m for nuking everyone else

[Micki]

Well the Chinese invented toilet paper.
Where would we be without that?

They also say necessity is the mother of invention.
Perhaps the native Guamians didn't invent so much simply because there wasn't much need.
And to tell you the truth, I'd rather spend my days lying on the beach drinking coconut liquor than inventing stuff to keep me warm in the arctic.