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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
And the demonym for a person from America is still "American". Every Mexican is an American, like you or not.
Yes, I understand your point and I am nitpicking. But lordnyx was probably just making a joke, not need to call him obtuse. Specially because he is not wrong.
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Apparently it means those groups are now under the Supervision of the Federal Reserve.
Mexicans are North American.
Illinois allows concealed guns
edited 9th Jul '13 8:37:04 PM by deviantbraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016I think Fighteer's point is that nobody means Mexicans or Canadians when they say "American". If they did they'd say North Americans or some equivalent. While they are technically Americans they're not generally called that in general speech. It's like how the term "Asian" generally refers only to East Asians despite Indians, Russians, and Arabs also being native to the continent.
edit: As an aside that's partly why I prefer the term Oriental but I'm told that's considered offensive so I generally avoid using it.
edited 9th Jul '13 8:41:24 PM by Kostya
Only in Florida.
The most edgy person on the Internet.Occono: I didn't know that. Makes sense though since they had a history of colonizing the region while America primarily dealt with China and Japan.
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Reminds me of the time Greece accidentally banned video games. I assume that will either be changed or nobody will care and business will go one as usual.
edited 9th Jul '13 8:46:02 PM by Kostya
Basically the ban was a hastily and shittily put together attempt to further ban places that tried to use the front of an internet cafe to gamble online.
Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen FryThe Zombie Apocalypse occurred inside the Florida legislature. Nobody's noticed this yet.
Race is what's ultimately going to sink any larger ambitions Rand Paul might have. Whatever moderate libertarian tendencies may make him a possible mainstream darling, things like his disavowal of the Civil Rights Act (even though the Act does trample all over states' rights and the freedoms of private enterprise, it does these things for a very good reason) would make it utterly impossible for him to gain national traction

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