Hey Americans, our stereotype COULD be worse. At least we're not Eastern Europeans.

Hey Colombians, our stereotype COULD be worse. At least we're not Americans.

See, they ruin threads that they enter just like they ruin countries they enter.

@bleep: Yes the Spanish word for joke is 'broma'.

Maybe if the rest of the world wasn't so busy trashing American stupidity on the internet they'd have the time to file more patents than any other country, win half the world's Nobel Prizes, and make most of the major inventions of the 20th century

@Anonymous: Dear god so much is wrong here
Start with the airplane please
This must be the Brazillian you're referring to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-Dumont

@Anonymous: Also, if the 30 Years' War is any indication, Europe had perfected the art of the stupid war long before Americans got around to it

@Anonymous: Just because rockets put a satellite in orbit doesn't mean gravity isn't what's keeping it there. Just because a catapult put their plane in the air doesn't mean powered flight wasn't what kept it there.

Santos-Dumont didn't even work with airplanes until 1905. He worked with dirigibles.

@Anonymous: If you uses a catapult to throw a rock it will fly...

@Anonymous: Someone's never heard of the Assyrians, Adam Smith, or the Industrial Revolution

And also is maybe not entirely clear on the concept or spelling of "unregulated capitalism"