General

Canada: The 2nd largest country in the world xD Yes American's it's bigger than the USA
The US buys more oil from Canada than any other country.
National sports include Lacrosse and Hockey (of course) however Basketball was actually invented in Canada ;3
And for the coffee lovers out there in Canada getting 2 milks and 2 sugars in a coffee is actually referred to as a double double ;3 not a lot of American's know the term lol =_= I've found myself having to explain what it is countless of times while in the states on vacation

Pennsylvania, USA: A magical time-warped land where you know you're going to be late for work when you get behind an Amish horse and buggy. Also, there are chocolate factories, WAWAs, potholes and cheese steaks galore! There are four seasons:

1. Almost Winter
2. Winter
3. Still Winter
4. Construction

Geographically, you have Philadelphia to the east, Pittsburgh to the west, and Alabama in the middle.

Canada: the drive through line is longer at Tim Horton's than it is at Starbucks in the morning.

@fruitloopdingus : *eats maple FLAVOURED syrup*

https://gyazo.com/fe9d1c107df10f0c862f214b72cad244

In Canada, we got free health care! Unlike USA, you dont get bankrupt if you need a heart transplant

[quote=ashleyattacked]Woot, thanks!

So cool to see someone else that appreciates history xD

I love trying to share about it here because so many people really dunno what they themselves think they should know...so sharing some tidbits here and there catches a few peoples attn occasionally and I've had some really cool discussions in pm and in game originating from that sort of thing.

Thanks again for sharing =)[/quote]

yall forgot about israel/palestine.

free palestine

[quote=shiraokajinja]Continuing the timeline, during the cold war...

[b]1945[/b] Immediately after the the end of WWII, the Soviets and Americans start propping Mao and Chiang Kai-Shek against each other in Manchuria. By June 1946, open hostilities in the Chinese Civil War resume, leaving over 6 million dead, mostly civilians. Claiming victory in 1949, Mao set out to stomp out any counter-revolutionary movements, executing 5 million people.

[b]1947[/b] The British grant India and Pakistan independence as two separate countries-- one predominantly Hindu, the other Muslim. Mass migrations displace 15 million people, and the new governments, unprepared to handle such migrations, could not stop the massacres of a million people on both sides of the border.

Too tired to finish it...[/quote]

Woot, thanks!

So cool to see someone else that appreciates history xD

I love trying to share about it here because so many people really dunno what they themselves think they should know...so sharing some tidbits here and there catches a few peoples attn occasionally and I've had some really cool discussions in pm and in game originating from that sort of thing.

Thanks again for sharing =)

[quote=ashleyattacked]in the 70+ years following the end of ww2 to present day literally NOTHING has happened on earth that even remotely compares to a TENTH of the what happened between 1910 and 1945 alone.[/quote]

Continuing the timeline, during the cold war...

[b]1945[/b] Immediately after the the end of WWII, the Soviets and Americans start propping Mao and Chiang Kai-Shek against each other in Manchuria. By June 1946, open hostilities in the Chinese Civil War resume, leaving over 6 million dead, mostly civilians. Claiming victory in 1949, Mao set out to stomp out any counter-revolutionary movements, executing 5 million people.

[b]1947[/b] The British grant India and Pakistan independence as two separate countries-- one predominantly Hindu, the other Muslim. Mass migrations displace 15 million people, and the new governments, unprepared to handle such migrations, could not stop the massacres of a million people on both sides of the border.

[b]1950[/b] Since the US and Soviet partition of Korea after defeating Japan, tensions were brewing in the Korean peninsula. After the end of the Chinese Civil War, Kim Il-Sung, a staunch ally of Mao Zedong, receives permission from Stalin to invade South Korea. On June 25, the North Korean army crosses the 38th parallel, starting the Korean war, initially pushing back US-ROK forces. The US respond with full-scale war, pushing the North Koreans back to the Yalu river, even threatening use of nuclear force, causing the PRC to join the war. The ensuing 3 year stalemate resulted in little territorial changes, but a tremendous death toll of 3 million, mostly civilian. Due to the US policy of total warfare, North Korea's population was reduced from 9 to 6 million (mostly migration)-- as General Curtis Lemay put it, "We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea, too". Another several hundred thousand were executed by purges by both North and South Korea.

[b]1958[/b] Mao Zedong initiates the Great Leap Forward, to create a communist model, central government controlled economy. It proved to be a disaster and a mass starvation and resulting unrest kills over 36 million Chinese people, covertly targeting the 5% possible counter-revolutionaries Mao called 'enemies of the people'.

[b]1965[/b] After the failed Sept 30 coup, Suharto purges a million communists while covertly supported by the CIA.

[b]1954-1975[/b] Transition from French colonial rule to the newly partitioned states of North and South Vietnam prove even messier than in Korea. War ensues in a series of open conflict and truces, until the NVA capture Saigon in April 1975, leaving 3 million dead.

[b]1971[/b] Bangladesh, supported by India, declares independence from Pakistan, leading to a bloody war for independence, leading to the 3rd Indo-Pakistani war. As many as 3 million civilians were killed by the Pakistani military and their militia in Bangladesh, coupled with ethnic violence between the Bengali and Bahiris.

[b]1975[/b]Democides ensue after the Vietnam war. In Cambodia, Pol Pot purges over 2 million people, from his country of 8 million. Purges and migrations in Vietnam lead to the deaths of an additional 3 million.

Too tired to finish it...

[quote=mickyo]@ashleyattacked: im honestly learning a lot from what you're posting, i had no idea what had gone on before this so thank you. im sorry about your family though.[/quote]

Ya. If you ever get a chance to look into it deeper...do so...so much from that period is extremely important not to forget and to remember. Here's just a quick timeline of the first 45 years of the 1900s highlighting just the most important things and you'll be SHOCKED how much there is and how it all blended together in the history taught in school...so much so that it lost its impact and ppl come away from those classes not having any appreciation for just how astonishingly bad it all was....in the 70+ years following the end of ww2 to present day literally NOTHING has happened on earth that even remotely compares to a TENTH of the what happened between 1910 and 1945 alone. It's mindblowing.

[B]1914 - 1918:[/B] WW1 happened. Literally 40+ million people died from this war worldwide.

[B]1918:[/B] Literally just MONTHS after the first world war ended...while the soldiers that didnt die were heading home, the biggest plague/viral outbreak in the history of the world happened. It was called the Spanish Influenza and its death toll DWARFED the death toll of any other plague in human history. something like 25+ million people died from that disease in just a year...most of them in just 6 months.

[B]1920s:[/B] The global market crashed around the entire world. People in the Weimar Republic went from buying a loaf of bread for like 20 German Marks - to having to buy that same loaf of bread only a month or two later for, im not joking, MILLIONS of German Marks. People couldn't afford anything all around the world. People were starving to death from China, to Russia to Britain and Germany and the USA. 30-50% of the world lost their jobs and stayed unable to find another for years on end. It may not have caused the highest number of deaths ever....but its widely considered to be essentially the period in time when the world was the most completely in misery. No one had money for anything.

[B]1930-37ish:[/B] Stalin intentionally triggered several different massive famines across Russia and Eastern Europe. The biggest is the one I mentioned in the Ukraine, but millions of people were also starved to death all over the place in that region. Cannibalism, even parents killing and eating their children, was literally reported accurately in numerous situations.

[B]1937-1945.[/B] Hitler Invades Poland. After a 3 week war the country fell and he took over. Hitler then put in place a programme with the goal to systematically kill virtually every 'unneeded' citizen of the form Poland. 'Unneeded' was defined as those individuals not fit for slave labour so that Germany could use them to make weapons for the war. When those people were burnt out from overwork...they were shot and starved. Millions died...most of it is unknown because finding accurate figures is next to impossible. Essentially Hitler wanted to kill every non German in Poland so that he could claim the empty houses and land and rehouse Germans in their place. A huge percentage of the population was killed. Next to zero Polish Jews were alive at the end.

[B]1930s:[/B] This time on the other side of the globe...Japan was systematically invading China and other Asian countries. At the end of the war America chose to alliance Japan and what happened during this time was largely covered up...but essentially Japan killed as many people as Hitler did. They focused on the mass murder of the Chinese especially. I think China experienced on order of 20+ million murders at the hands of the Japanese. This is still largely unknown and China HATES Japan and world for forgetting it and doing nothing about it. Also, from 1938 until 1945 and the end of the war - Japan was Hitler's biggest alliance. They both worked together.

[B]1940-1944[/B]: As Hitler pushed into Russia in an attempt to invade it they systematically murdered 20+ million CITIZENS (NOT soldiers.) And for Hitler, this was only the start of what he wanted. He anticipated quickly conquering Russia (fortunately he failed and this failure was the start of his downfall) Hitler intended, and started doing so with every mile of Russia that he conquered, to systematically kill each and every Russian citizen. Essentially what he did in Poland. He wanted to kill them all and claim all the empty houses and farms to disperse to German citizens, predominately the soldiers. This was the promise that motivated most of them to fight so fiercely. They claim they didn't know what Hitler was up to - they did. They saw it every day as the citizen in every land they conquered were either shot, gassed or worked to death as slaves to build German weapons.

[B]1943:[/B] Hitler's army approached the huge Russian city of Leningrad (now called St Petersburg). The Russians expected a huge battle...but it never came. Hitlers plans were far more evil -- he surrounded the city of 5mill people, not counting Russian soldiers, cut off all communication in and out of the city, shut down all methods to bring in food...and then stopped. He proceeded to wait for 2 years and slowly starve the entire city to death. Around 2 million citizens were starved to death within just that one city.

[B]1944:[/B] Russia won the battle of Stalingrad. However, 2-3 million citizens still died in the city. When the battle finally stopped, the Russian General Zhukov surrounded 300 thousand German soldiers (basically the entire 6th army) and captured them as prisoners of war. Not one of them ever saw home again - the majority fo the German soldiers were sent to Siberia and starved to death.
Following this, the Russian army started winning battle after battle and bring the front lines back from Russia and back into Germany. Hitler knew at this point he was losing. Rather than try to find a resolution....Hitler decided to speed up the Jewish Genocide exponentially. He claimed that if he lost the war it would be because of the Jews...and if that happened he would see to it that even if he lost the war - they would all be dead. He systematically killed 5-7million Jews in just 1 year -- stopping only once Russia liberated each concentration/extermination camp on their way by.

[B]1945:[/B] As Russia closed in from the east and Britain and the USA closed in from the west...this time Germans were killed in mass. Millions upon millions died.
At this moment Hitler knew all was lost and his final decision was that Germany would go down in flames with him. Before the USA or Russia got there...he set about his army to systematically destroy each and every railway, roadway, burn down all farms and destroy every useful commercial building. The net effect was that Germany lost every single piece of their ability to function as a country and feed their citizens. Hitler said that when he died he wanted Germany to die with him. He was only barely stopped...

[B]1945:[/B] Berlin, the capital of Germany, was literally obliterated in nonstop night and day bombing runs. Hitler refused to allow surrender, moving to arm even kids as young as 9 with rifles and send them out to fight and die against the Russians and the Americans. Several major cities in Germany literally ceased to exist because no surrender ever happened and so the bombings carried out until there was nothing left to bomb.

[B]1945.[/B] Finally the war ended, Hitler killed himself. His next highest rank official was in the bunker too along with his wife and, I think it was 6, kids under the age of 10. As the war was ending the father and mother systematically poisoned each of their 6 daughters with cyanide. They then laid the bodies into their beds as if they were asleep. Finally, the mother killed herself and the father killed himself. Hitler then married his girlfriend Eva Braun...and she killed herself and then he killed himself.

[B]1945:[/B] People hate on the American's for dropping the nuclear bombs on Japan. In this context you can't blame them. The Japanese were not going to give up - giving up was worse than death and so the only thing possible was war until death. Japan had already killed 20-30 million Chinese at this point...and thousands of American's were starting die in battle after battle where winning only meant there were no Japanese soldiers left alive. The world was tired. Something like 150 million people had died as a result of war, disease or genocide in just the past 30 years. So America dropped the nuke on Hiroshima. They told the emperor what it was and demanded a complete surrender. The Japanese refused. America dropped the bomb on the Nagasaki. They then informed the emperor that they would go, city by city, dropping nukes one after another until the Japanese surrendered completely and stopped the war entirely. Most of his advisors told him to allow it, to never surrender, and let the country be wiped off the map - Pride and honour of never surrendering was worth more than the millions of civilians that lived there. This time...for a reason no one really understands....the Emperor overrulled all of his advisors, went on the radio and announced the immediate and complete surrender.
Finally the entire world war ended.

So yeah...people today have nothing to complain about.

In Australian schools, being called a "sick _unt" ("can't" with an "uh" sound, darn filters) is the highest form of compliment anyone could receive.

If I was African, I'd post this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlPAwHE8_rs

@ashleyattacked: im honestly learning a lot from what you're posting, i had no idea what had gone on before this so thank you. im sorry about your family though.

[quote=mickyo]@savaah @torque

liiiiiiiiiiiies. i've been to australia >:'( also where i got my dream riding in a kangaroo pouch crushed. terrible times. shudder.......

@duzz : got back from the motherland 3 months ago.....................................LOL. i never see people online anymore, probably because of the time difference but.. NOBODY

@ashleyattacked : trust me it took way longer;;;;;;;; ^^^^^[/quote]
Lol, still fast enough to confuse me.

re: my story about Ukraine. Yeah, almost no one knows about it. It wasn't reported when it happened...and as soon as it could have been discovered the news was totally flooded with information about Hitler/Germany invading Poland and the war starting. Then at the end of the war after Stalin beat Hitler when he invaded Russia in operation Barbarossa...Stalin and Russian kept going back west towards Germany to destroy them. That march of battle ended in Berlin, Germany with the complete success of the Russians. In the process they claimed even more of eastern Europe under their control after the war than at the beginning when the Ukrainian Holodomor occurred. After the war Stalin and the USSR shut down any communication between the land they controlled and the rest of the world as lead by the USA and Britain. The Ukraine had been forgotten by the MASS death from the war that occurred in the same general location (basically Russia experienced nearly 30 millions deaths from the war itself.) Everything else was thus buried in the massive tragedy....and then the Cold War started with the USA and Russia aiming nukes at each other...and finally in 1990 that ended. By then, tho, any real mention of the 4 million people intentionally starved to death in the Ukraine by Stalin was lost in history. It was oldoldold news and everyone was just relieved to have that whole period behind them...no one seems to have wanted to dwell on what else happened in that same time period.

So yeah...next to no one knows about it. Information sharing was shut down entirely starting in the war and for the 45 years following it.

Kinda sad. My family lost a ton of members to Stalin's now forgotten mass murder. Literally 60-70% or more of my family back then died as a result of it...

So yeah, its a sad story from a sad century with tons and tons of other sad stories...understandable that much of it is forgotten and schools don't have the time to actually deal with it all.

@savaah @torque

liiiiiiiiiiiies. i've been to australia >:'( also where i got my dream riding in a kangaroo pouch crushed. terrible times. shudder.......

@duzz : got back from the motherland 3 months ago.....................................LOL. i never see people online anymore, probably because of the time difference but.. NOBODY

@ashleyattacked : trust me it took way longer;;;;;;;; ^^^^^

[quote=derrer]Uhm... I think you misunderstood me.
In no way was that to be meant as something negative. I'm was just saying that in comparison to the United States military, there weren't benefits like free healthcare or pension that came out of the army. You don't have to remind me of our history either. There are enough people in Korea that feel entitled to do something injustice because they think they were treated poorly. Look, every country have or had their own adversities. Treating Korea any differently is just being inattentive.[/quote]

Ah, sorry bout that. I'm just a bit touchy about that subject for personal reasons and used to dealing with spoiled Americans that don't know the first thing about respecting their elders, the concept of war, etc...so I guess I just saw your comment through that lens.

Sorry again

@Mickyo
Whoa, nice 'doodle', lol. I don't have any drawing talent that I'm aware...I don't think I've actually drawn anything for any reason other than purely function with 0 regard for style, decoration or anything beyond representing what I needed to for another person to understand without any other thot or consideration involved. lol.
So I kinda see stuff like your image in the same way I see a cool magic trick. It's just such a novel and weird concept to me. I do like visual tho, and yours is pretty cool. The biggest surprise to me isn't the stuff that takes days or weeks or longer...it's the stuff done on the fly in under 10 mins or less. I can't understand how you ppl do that, lol.

prooo. xD

wen dy d u get back

[quote=mickyo]@cxter : SO COOL. i know in melbourne they have carriages that take tourists around town but thats more of a special occasion thing. lamb crossways though, it fits your char haha.. i see what you did there

https://gyazo.com/2488721934f946ee98716f6b133ef8cf[/quote]

omg you are an amazing artist

[quote=savaah]australians ride kangaroos to work/school
edit: they also despise vegemite because it tastes like doodoo
editedit: australia has only one god, the Kangaroo God. he bestows kangaroos to those who pray[/quote]

but i love vegemite
i'm also from australia

the kangaroo part is true

@mickyo: its so cuuuute

im gonna have fun with this pic later.

@cxter : SO COOL. i know in melbourne they have carriages that take tourists around town but thats more of a special occasion thing. lamb crossways though, it fits your char haha.. i see what you did there

https://gyazo.com/2488721934f946ee98716f6b133ef8cf

Lebanon: We have one of the oldest active cities in the world, Byblos, thats one fact amongst the many

@jaredragonx9 : https://gyazo.com/6d30877717839e6cb3e20c1e12891e28

Let me sing you the song of my people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox4IRQVGsBU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4difPEQ8wA4

but in the end...

[b]<insert the final song>[/b] I can't find it on youtube

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In the words of my Persian uncle (not really my uncle, just good family friend), "In here [usa] I am a foreigner, but over their [iran], I am an American"

Canadians have pet meese

Everyday I see a homeless man. Sometimes they are collecting cans other times they are sleeping at bus stops. It hurts that in America people are still suffering.
We are #1. Poverty shouldn't exist. I live in Florida.

[quote=ashleyattacked]Why should you? A friggin country has been at war with you for 65 years and was only barely stopped from running you guys into the sea. They're still there threatening you with the worlds most militarized border... Millions of people are still up there starving to death in random famines so that the leader who never dies can keep hording international aid and selling crap for USD on the black market, selling his people to work camps in siberia for Russian money to convert it, again, to USD, so he can turn around and buy OTHER stuff with it on the blackmarket so that he has a CHANCE of staving off the inevitable revolution by buying allegiance from his higher ups by giving them 'dinner' and stuff.

For a country at war for 60+ years with a huge regime a million strong ready and waiting to run you all into the sea...you should just be glad your parents somehow wound up on the on the right side of the border instead of being up north where Kim Il Sung had big cranes (the birdy) fly off a mountain and land by him where he was born...invented language, is legally not allowed to die and set in motion the line of leaders responsible for ineptly triggering massive famines that killed millions of people who u were prolly related to all so that they could hoard the next shipment of Rice the UN sent by.

Pretty sure defending your country and family from that is more important than getting a hand out after serving in the military. o.o

Idk. Just think before u say something whiny and entitled while you're still in a situation as precarious as your family and country are in...and to the direct thanks of countless lives of people ranging from your ancestors to numerous countries even thousands of miles away from you.

Heck....till then you guys were getting mass murdered by Japanese more bloodthirsty to kill your family than the Germans were for their own genocide. It's either war and death or war and death for you had you not been lucky enough to get born on that tiny sliver of land between the sea and the people wanting you dead.

Having a country, a life and food...much less the other stuff u got....is pretty awesome o.o

Too bad it all had to happen presumably in a straight line from cause to effect and poof we have Nexon here to exploit the rest of the Korean's...now the world..[/quote]

Uhm... I think you misunderstood me.
In no way was that to be meant as something negative. I'm was just saying that in comparison to the United States military, there weren't benefits like free healthcare or pension that came out of the army. You don't have to remind me of our history either. There are enough people in Korea that feel entitled to do something injustice because they think they were treated poorly. Look, every country have or had their own adversities. Treating Korea any differently is just being inattentive.

Illinois: Seriously though we have lamb crossways and there are people who ride horses in the same road where cars are on.

USA: we get sent to Freedom Prison where we are more free if we aren't being free enough

australians ride kangaroos to work/school
edit: they also despise vegemite because it tastes like doodoo
editedit: australia has only one god, the Kangaroo God. he bestows kangaroos to those who pray

@ashleyattacked : https://gyazo.com/efbca0b77c9b7a7ea641b5030eb1ed39

woah thats very interesting, in hs here we only really learned about ww2 in our mandatory classes and we mainly just focused on germany so its interesting to read about what happened in russia prior to that.

chicago is the best city

[quote=derrer]In Korea, it is mandatory for all males to go to the army for 2 years after their 18th birthday(or straight out of high school). You get no benefits after coming out of the army.[/quote]

Why should you? A friggin country has been at war with you for 65 years and was only barely stopped from running you guys into the sea. They're still there threatening you with the worlds most militarized border... Millions of people are still up there starving to death in random famines so that the leader who never dies can keep hording international aid and selling crap for USD on the black market, selling his people to work camps in siberia for Russian money to convert it, again, to USD, so he can turn around and buy OTHER stuff with it on the blackmarket so that he has a CHANCE of staving off the inevitable revolution by buying allegiance from his higher ups by giving them 'dinner' and stuff.

For a country at war for 60+ years with a huge regime a million strong ready and waiting to run you all into the sea...you should just be glad your parents somehow wound up on the on the right side of the border instead of being up north where Kim Il Sung had big cranes (the birdy) fly off a mountain and land by him where he was born...invented language, is legally not allowed to die and set in motion the line of leaders responsible for ineptly triggering massive famines that killed millions of people who u were prolly related to all so that they could hoard the next shipment of Rice the UN sent by.

Pretty sure defending your country and family from that is more important than getting a hand out after serving in the military. o.o

Idk. Just think before u say something whiny and entitled while you're still in a situation as precarious as your family and country are in...and to the direct thanks of countless lives of people ranging from your ancestors to numerous countries even thousands of miles away from you.

Heck....till then you guys were getting mass murdered by Japanese more bloodthirsty to kill your family than the Germans were for their own genocide. It's either war and death or war and death for you had you not been lucky enough to get born on that tiny sliver of land between the sea and the people wanting you dead.

Having a country, a life and food...much less the other stuff u got....is pretty awesome o.o

Too bad it all had to happen presumably in a straight line from cause to effect and poof we have Nexon here to exploit the rest of the Korean's...now the world..

CANADA
[kan-nah-dah]
noun

1.see the United States

In Korea, it is mandatory for all males to go to the army for 2 years after their 18th birthday(or straight out of high school). You get no benefits after coming out of the army.

We don't allow Mexicans to stay. (USA)

Where I was born, the Ukraine, is super well known for not being known as the place where Stalin got away with murdering 4 million people on the basis of their not being ethnically Russian because he promised he was doing it to modernize the USSR (since we all know making things modern is like a free pass to kill 4 million people. It even has its own name, the Holodomor.)
Note: we got mass murdered that badly BEFORE the Jews copied us and did it like just 8 years later. In fact, we did it so well next to no one knows about it because Stalin won WW2 and kept us there under lock and key for 50 more years to make sure we didn't tell nobody! The Jew's couldn't friggin wait to tell the first American's to liberate their respective Concentration and/or Extermination Camp. They even got fed there sometimes before getting killed with Zyklon B! We didn't get fed. No. Stalin needed it for the Kremlin. Then when he was done scaring us only 35ish years after he died (he decreed it tho, we only did it bc he let us.) he decided to let Reagan ask nicely for Mr Gorbachev to take the wall down and clean up the mess. That way at least the Germans got free Berlin Wall memorabilia to sell since the Jews sold them out for mass murdering them all the time before Stalin won everything. After that we got blue jeans for cheaper than the black market had sold them. Note: Everyone makes fun of Russia and Eastern Europe for being cold. Stalin decided to have them call the whole situation where he won and kept us locked up for 35 years for holding up the whole modernizing thing by intentionally being hungry liked spoiled ethnic mud bloods instead of'dead' when he said to. When he was all done and broke the wall down, he called it the Cold War - and thus it wasn't cold anymore so people should shut up.

known fact: americans have their own pet eagles