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[MANSLAUGHTER1]

Does ne1 have off on Columbus Day? I do.

[T3km4n]

No, he killed a bunch of Indians. I AM LIKE 1/8 INDIAN! ARE YOU SAYING YOU WANT TO KILL ME? DO YOU WANNA DIE? HUH? HUH?

[MANSLAUGHTER1]

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That's all I have to say to your post

[cs_zero]

maybe......but yea i have it off:)

[Jeffery]

He is refering to the fact that Columbus was responsable for hundreds of Native Americans being slaughtered.

[meat.eater]

i think its really funny that u say you are 1/8 native american and refer to your people as indians. hmm.... :rolleyes:

[T3km4n]

I like being called an Indian more than a Native American. But I am only 1/8 anyways, so it just adds a sexy tan to me and spider sense.

[xyxaxyz2]

I don't. :(

[cs_zero]

haha xyx
indians dont have spidy sence....do they??:eek:

[theburning]

I have tomorrow off!
But not because of Columbus day.

[MeMeMe]

I do not go to school.

[Jeffery]

I get December off, but not because of some indian killer.


BTW, who here knwos why they are called Indians???

[cs_zero]

maybe they were from what is known today as indiana

[Foundation]

i get my satudays school and monday school off because it's turkey thanksgiving sandwich day but pff it's just another fun weekend off for meeeee

[theburning]

Originally posted by Foundation
i get my satudays school and monday school off because it's turkey thanksgiving sandwich day but pff it's just another fun weekend off for meeeee

Oh GOD! Please tell me I don't live in the same Country as you?

[ChingyDTP]

I have no clue, Jeffery.

And I have tommorrow off also, Not because of Columbus day, only because there's still parent teacher conference. :(

[T3km4n]

Originally posted by Jeffery
I get December off, but not because of some indian killer.


BTW, who here knwos why they are called Indians??? Columbus was stupid enough to think he was in India when he was in America. He never intended to come here.

[MeMeMe]

That would be correct, he thought he was in India, and named the indeginous peoples Indians. I know T3km already said it, but i felt like saying it again.

[cs_zero]

u know...i knew that, but i never would have guessed it to why they r called that.....:confused:

[MeMeMe]

Well, now everyone knows that. As for why the name stuck longer than 3 seconds I do not know, but it did. It is hard when I want to talk about someone from India, I always have to say India Indians.

[Jeffery]

Actually, you are both slightly wrong.

He thought he was in the East Indies, which included India and the Islands that are now part of Indonesia.

[cs_zero]

well maybe they got lazy, and instead of saying indonesian, they just said indian

[MANSLAUGHTER1]

Originally posted by Jeffery
I get December off, but not because of some indian killer.


BTW, who here knwos why they are called Indians???

He thought America was India.

[Third]

Virginia Tech does not have Columbus Day off. Stupid, right?

[theburning]

Originally posted by Third
Virginia Tech does not have Columbus Day off. Stupid, right?

Quite. But I think most places don't?

Me on the other hand...I love thanksgiving. :)

[kyrios24]

Originally posted by theburning
Oh GOD! Please tell me I don't live in the same Country as you?
HAHAHA!

Incidentally, Columbus was a tyrant. Evil. He "discovered" America by mistake, and the Vikings got here first. He doesn't deserve even a minute, let alone a day. More like an anti-day. Ugh !!!

[Jeffery]

Originally posted by MANSLAUGHTER1
He thought America was India.

Question for you Manslaughter.....

Do you read? 2 other people gave that answer, and I gave the correct one, before you posted. Do you even read the threads you post in?

[cs_zero]

most of the time i read the title, then the last couple of posts, then i post :)

[Amaroth]

Originally posted by kyrios24
HAHAHA!

Incidentally, Columbus was a tyrant. Evil. He "discovered" America by mistake, and the Vikings got here first. He doesn't deserve even a minute, let alone a day. More like an anti-day. Ugh !!!

So let's start calling it Viking Day.

[S_K_O_F]

Originally posted by Amaroth
So let's start calling it Viking Day.

this isnt the day that the vikings discovered the new land

columbus must have been a really big dipshit though

[Jeffery]

Originally posted by S_K_O_F
this isnt the day that the vikings discovered the new land

columbus must have been a really big dipshit though

You want to hear something even funnier??

America is named after a guy who, after years of investigation, NEVER made it to the shores of North America first. He counterfitted his ship logs!


*edited to note he was not first to get here.

[S_K_O_F]

Originally posted by Jeffery
You want to hear something even funnier??

America is named after a guy who, after years of investigation, NEVER made it to the shores of North America. He counterfitted his ship logs!

never heard that before

so you are saying that Amerigo Vespuci was a liar?

[Jeffery]

Originally posted by S_K_O_F
never heard that before

so you are saying that Amerigo Vespuci was a liar?

Yes.
Vespuci did eventually get to the Americas, but long after he first claimed he did.
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/english/staff/pk/teaching/TAC/lectures/wk1.html

http://www.rickriordan.com/european_explorers.htm

[doubledown]

What I want to know is how did Columbus become synonymous with the killing of Native americans. He DID discover N. America because he charted and documented it. After discovery, he left and lived a peaceful life back in europe. He did not go around shooting people or coughing on them, that was left to the Spanish explorers that followed. Thinking that Columbus killed the native americans is the same as thinking Marco Polo led to a communist regime in Afghanistan.

[Jeffery]

Originally posted by doubledown
What I want to know is how did Columbus become synonymous with the killing of Native americans. He DID discover N. America because he charted and documented it. After discovery, he left and lived a peaceful life back in europe. He did not go around shooting people or coughing on them, that was left to the Spanish explorers that followed. Thinking that Columbus killed the native americans is the same as thinking Marco Polo led to a communist regime in Afghanistan.

You better check out columbus some more. He did not return and live peacefully in Europe as soon as he got over here.
http://www.islandflave.com/articles/columbus.shtml

[MANSLAUGHTER1]

This thread went from a day off of school to a history reveiw. Quite amazing, don't you think?

[S_K_O_F]

well...it needed to have some intellectual talk in it to make it less n00b

[Jeffery]

Originally posted by MANSLAUGHTER1
This thread went from a day off of school to a history reveiw. Quite amazing, don't you think?

Something had to be made from nothing once in a while.

Hopefully people will research Columbus more closely, and not think he was such a great guy.

[doubledown]

Well first off, you cant really take an objective view of facts from an article with a title as biased as that one right?

Secondly, before anyone says "But columbus did return several times" yes I know this, I'm just saying he didnt build a palace of human bones on the beach from all the Indians he killed. He was a merchant and did what merchants do and that is travel across the sea to trade in goods.

As this article points out, there was mass genocide of the natives, but it wasnt from Columbus, but rather from other Spaniard explorers

http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/destruct.htm

[Jeffery]

So you choose to ignore his actions taken in the caribean, which was documented in Columbus's own logs?

[doubledown]

look I'm not saying he was an angel, but he is not the demon that people are now trying to make him out to be. Were his actions right? No, but if not him then the same would have happened with the next guy. Columbus was no better or worse than what was standard for that day and age.

[Jeffery]

http://www.americanindiansource.com/columbusday.html
http://breakstate.wootang.net/ph/PH.html#_Toc409577
http://www.udel.edu/educ/socstuds/Zinn.htm
http://www.bluecorncomics.com/columbu1.htm
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1992/2/92.02.01.x.html
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43a/100.html
http://www.millersv.edu/~columbus/data/art/LAUFER02.ART
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9511/dsouza.html


Take what you will from these articles. But it nis FACT that Columbu was responsbale for many murders during his voyages, as well as enslaving thousands of natives.

[xyxaxyz2]

Columbus was actually worse than the standards of his day.

[Hugh Junit]

Hold on now!
I think we're all being a bit too critical of Chris Columbus.
I mean, he's no Spielberg but he directed some solid movies like Mrs. Doubtfire, Home Alone and Harry Potter.
He's also responsible for writing such 80's classics as Gremlins, The Goonies and Young Sherlock Holmes.

For God's sake, people, lighten up!:)

[kyrios24]

He wrote young sherlock holmes? Nice.

Anyway, Columbus was a very big dipshit. I could fill you in on his exploits, but it seems like Jeffery's got that covered already. So I'll content myself with hating Columbus... and Beethoven. That bastard.

[Amaroth]

Originally posted by kyrios24
He wrote young sherlock holmes? Nice.

Anyway, Columbus was a very big dipshit. I could fill you in on his exploits, but it seems like Jeffery's got that covered already. So I'll content myself with hating Columbus... and Beethoven. That bastard.

Don't forget the guy on the Spaghettio's can... I hate that little ****.

[Frank]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote Sherlock Holmes. Columbus was involved in the movie. And true, Columbus did some nasty things, but how come nobody violently attacks Cortez, for example, who was waaaaaaaaaaaaayyy worse thsn Columbus came close to being?

[Amaroth]

Originally posted by Frank
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote Sherlock Holmes. Columbus was involved in the movie. And true, Columbus did some nasty things, but how come nobody violently attacks Cortez, for example, who was waaaaaaaaaaaaayyy worse thsn Columbus came close to being?

Because Cortez isn't as associated with the United States as Columbus is.

[Sub-Zero]

I have school, it's gay as heck. :mad:

[cs_zero]

haha, i had the day off :)

[ChingyDTP]

Originally posted by Sub-Zero
I have school, it's gay as heck. :mad: :p :cool:

[cs_zero]

:rolleyes:

[kyrios24]

Originally posted by Frank
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote Sherlock Holmes. Columbus was involved in the movie. And true, Columbus did some nasty things, but how come nobody violently attacks Cortez, for example, who was waaaaaaaaaaaaayyy worse thsn Columbus came close to being?
Young Sherlock Holmes, Frank. Young Sherlock Holmes. (w00t! all caps!)

Cortez was very bad, but everybody knows it. Most people I know have been trained/brainwashed to think that Columbus was a great guy. He wasn't by any reckoning.

[Jeffery]

Originally posted by Frank
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote Sherlock Holmes. Columbus was involved in the movie. And true, Columbus did some nasty things, but how come nobody violently attacks Cortez, for example, who was waaaaaaaaaaaaayyy worse thsn Columbus came close to being?

When was Cotez Day a national holiday????

People don;t hate Columbus more, but they do think that having a national holiday for a guy who not only didn;t discover America, but slaughtered and enslaved thousands of natives is something that is just not right.


And trhats not the correct Columbus that wrote those things ya dumbass.

[S_K_O_F]

Originally posted by Jeffery
And trhats not the correct Columbus that wrote those things ya dumbass.

um...Jeff...

i think he wasn't entirely serious when he posted that

[Jeffery]

Originally posted by S_K_O_F
um...Jeff...

i think he wasn't entirely serious when he posted that

And i wasn;t serious with my dumbass.... :o

[S_K_O_F]

once again...a complete misunderstanding caused by the non use of the emoticons

[T3km4n]

Note:
As with everything else on this site, these are my own opinions. Feel free to disagree with them.



This is kinda late, but it was offa double's site.