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03 Jul 2012 09:37 AM   |   5541 clicks   |   CNN
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NeedlesslyCanadian    [TotalFark]  
There's some pretty cool stuff on that.

Some issues though. Because fark you, this is Fark, that's why:



1. Resilience? You mean, like everywhere else?

5. Bald eagle? An animal that has nothing to do with politics? And which has been used by many other empires of the past?

12. Tupac's hologram. *facepalms*

18. The White House. The one you built after you upstart yanks pushed too far north and we burned the old one down in response? (Sorry, had to sneak that one in XD)

20. Snuggies. REALLY?

21. Basketball. Not even sure why they included this one when they even mention that it wasn't invented by an American...

24. Mormons. REALLY?

26. Capture the flag. Er...how is that American?

30. Lady Gaga. *facepalms*

77. Internet memes? No, you *don't* get to take credit for things made popular by worldwide snarkers

03 Jul 2012 09:35 AM
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Great_Milenko     
#4 is batman?!?

farkin' retarded list

03 Jul 2012 09:38 AM
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dragonchild     
I was listening to the "Team America" theme on the way to work this morning, so I'm getting a kick.

Stay classy, CNN.

03 Jul 2012 09:40 AM
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robogem     
Great_Milenko: #4 is batman?!?

farkin' retarded list


Yeah, we all know he should be #1.

03 Jul 2012 09:41 AM
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hbk72777     
NeedlesslyCanadian: 21. Basketball. Not even sure why they included this one when they even mention that it wasn't invented by an American...

It was invented here though. We're a country full of immigrants. Almost everything invented here pre 1970 was invented by someone from somewhere else

If your country wasn't so shiatty, he would've stayed there.

03 Jul 2012 09:42 AM
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It's a Sunshine Day!     
Someone needs to Photoshop a powdered wig on that 'Son I Am Disappoint' guy.

03 Jul 2012 09:42 AM
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spentmiles     
We're second in drum solos...

i49.tinypic.com

03 Jul 2012 09:43 AM
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yves0010     
Wheres my beer? And yes, I love American beer as much as foreign.

Give me a Sam Adams Seasonal any day.

03 Jul 2012 09:44 AM
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ecmoRandomNumbers    [TotalFark]  
Let's see... Woody Allen, Lady Gaga

*click*

OK, that's enough of that nonsense.

03 Jul 2012 09:44 AM
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DYI     
Omaha Steaks?

/this list sucks

03 Jul 2012 09:44 AM
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Dr Dreidel    [TotalFark]  
It's a Sunshine Day!: Someone needs to Photoshop a powdered wig on that 'Son I Am Disappoint' guy.

"Verily, thy conduct doth sad me."

// and what was with the slobbery beej the blurb gave to Reagan?

03 Jul 2012 09:46 AM
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Death_Poot     
Subby, I hope you're kidding about CNN. For your sake.........

03 Jul 2012 09:46 AM
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yves0010     
ecmoRandomNumbers: Let's see... Woody Allen, Lady Gaga

*click*

OK, that's enough of that nonsense.


Also saw that and went.. Ok... At least MLK Jr. was on the list. Funny how no political figures, other then MLK Jr., was listed. Can not argue the fact that politics is a horrible business no matter what country you are from.

03 Jul 2012 09:46 AM
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NeedlesslyCanadian    [TotalFark]  
hbk72777: NeedlesslyCanadian: 21. Basketball. Not even sure why they included this one when they even mention that it wasn't invented by an American...

It was invented here though. We're a country full of immigrants. Almost everything invented here pre 1970 was invented by someone from somewhere else

If your country wasn't so shiatty, he would've stayed there.



2/10

Try harder next time.

03 Jul 2012 09:46 AM
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Gunny Highway     
NeedlesslyCanadian: 21. Basketball. Not even sure why they included this one when they even mention that it wasn't invented by an American...

We excelled in it and then exported it.

/is this were are the self hating Americans are hanging?

03 Jul 2012 09:48 AM
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georgeyporgey     
#2 Title iX ? really ? Does anyone really care about women's athletics ? Good God what a stupid list!

03 Jul 2012 09:49 AM
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bindlestiff2600     
please be kind (get ready)

these are the things that are important to the people who live there now

let us examine instead what kind of (((morans))) uh people would consider all of these things icons of their culture

03 Jul 2012 09:50 AM
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Kome     
47. Credit Cards. The small, plastic cause of and solution to life's problems.

If you're going to do the Simpson's reference, do it for alcohol and quote the whole line. You have "Happy Hour" on the list, so you have the opportunity. Don't waste it on goddamn credit cards.

03 Jul 2012 09:50 AM
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This text is now purple     
NeedlesslyCanadian: 18. The White House. The one you built after you upstart yanks pushed too far north and we burned the old one down in response? (Sorry, had to sneak that one in XD)

Remember the good old days, when your capital was in Toronto, then we burned it, and you moved it over by Quebec? At least our capital is still in the same location.

03 Jul 2012 09:51 AM
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markfara     
Meh. No mention that Jesus loves us best of all.

03 Jul 2012 09:52 AM
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WordyGrrl    [TotalFark]  
georgeyporgey: #2 Title iX ? really ? Does anyone really care about women's athletics ? Good God what a stupid list!

Hah! I see what you're doin' here. You're trying to encourage the posting of pix of hot chicks playing beach volleyball, aren't you?

03 Jul 2012 09:54 AM
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NeedlesslyCanadian    [TotalFark]  
This text is now purple: NeedlesslyCanadian: 18. The White House. The one you built after you upstart yanks pushed too far north and we burned the old one down in response? (Sorry, had to sneak that one in XD)

Remember the good old days, when your capital was in Toronto, then we burned it, and you moved it over by Quebec? At least our capital is still in the same location.


I assume you mean York, which was never capital of Canada. It was capital of the province Upper Canada (which was pre-Confederation), and which became Ontario later on. And, as part of Toronto now is still the capital of Ontario today.

03 Jul 2012 09:57 AM
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careless lisper     
hbk72777: NeedlesslyCanadian: 21. Basketball. Not even sure why they included this one when they even mention that it wasn't invented by an American...

It was invented here though. We're a country full of immigrants. Almost everything invented here pre 1970 was invented by someone from somewhere else

If your country wasn't so shiatty, he would've stayed there.


BOOM!

03 Jul 2012 09:57 AM
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HAMMERTOE     
Quite possibly the stupidest list I've seen so far.

03 Jul 2012 09:57 AM
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dragonchild     
HAMMERTOE: Quite possibly the stupidest list I've seen so far.

You haven't seen the list of Farkers who slept with your mom.

03 Jul 2012 09:59 AM
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georgeyporgey     
WordyGrrl: georgeyporgey: #2 Title iX ? really ? Does anyone really care about women's athletics ? Good God what a stupid list!

Hah! I see what you're doin' here. You're trying to encourage the posting of pix of hot chicks playing beach volleyball, aren't you?


WordyGrrl: georgeyporgey: #2 Title iX ? really ? Does anyone really care about women's athletics ? Good God what a stupid list!

Hah! I see what you're doin' here. You're trying to encourage the posting of pix of hot chicks playing beach volleyball, aren't you?


I am! But, I am also aware hot chicks playing volleyball don't need title IX. They are of after all, hot chicks playing volleyball.

03 Jul 2012 10:00 AM
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Pants full of macaroni!!     
This reads more like a list of "100 random things I like". A whole lotta meh.

03 Jul 2012 10:00 AM
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indarwinsshadow     
#101

Scared crapless of Canada and Canadians. Between wanting to build a border fence, flying drones along the border, or realizing we can whoop your ass any day we want in hockey (or Trivial pursuit..the original edition), Americans appear inherently frightened by their mighty warlord neighbours to the north....as well they should be.

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Bow down to our frosty terrorsomeness before we smite thee with Tim Hortons frosty ice cappuccinos.

03 Jul 2012 10:02 AM
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kbigelow97     
100 Great things about America. Interesting CNN not on the list. Really? CNN sucks.

03 Jul 2012 10:03 AM
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NeedlesslyCanadian    [TotalFark]  
indarwinsshadow: #101

Scared crapless of Canada and Canadians. Between wanting to build a border fence, flying drones along the border, or realizing we can whoop your ass any day we want in hockey (or Trivial pursuit..the original edition), Americans appear inherently frightened by their mighty warlord neighbours to the north....as well they should be.

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Bow down to our frosty terrorsomeness before we smite thee with Tim Hortons frosty ice cappuccinos.




I'm sitting in my igloo drinking maple syrup, getting a kick...

03 Jul 2012 10:04 AM
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douchebag/hater     
SNL is rated higher than NASA?

Son, I am disappoint.

03 Jul 2012 10:06 AM
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JRoo    [TotalFark]  
Crappy lists of great things about America are everything that's wrong with America.

03 Jul 2012 10:09 AM
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oldfarthenry    [TotalFark]  
indarwinsshadow: Bow down to our frosty terrorsomeness before we smite thee with Tim Hortons frosty ice cappuccinos.

Ferocious terror from the North:
i149.photobucket.com

03 Jul 2012 10:12 AM
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Zukipilot     
Batman
Smokey Bear
Groundhog Day
Tupac's hologram
Mini golf
Pictionary
Snuggies
Scooby-doo

Wow, and that was just the first two columns..... Sad!!!

03 Jul 2012 10:12 AM
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wotthefark     
Death_Poot: Subby, I hope you're kidding about CNN. For your sake.........

I am subby and I was thinking it was pretty obvious due to the lame list (Or, "What's Weak This Week).

/ Kim Thayil cameo.

03 Jul 2012 10:12 AM
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dragonchild     
indarwinsshadow: Scared crapless of Canada and Canadians.

American schools don't teach the War of 1812 (which makes it a running gag in comic strips because it's so obscure to kids).

What's hilarious is that the clock expired soon after Canada reached the end zone but Andy Jackson made a late hit out-of-bounds, claiming he never heard the whistle (tho to his credit he probably didn't). It takes American revisionist derp to claim an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty deep in their own territory after the game had been settled somehow resulted in enough points to tie or even win the game.

03 Jul 2012 10:14 AM
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Jim.Casy     
Got to #2 and immediately stopped caring. Title IX ensured that my high school track team of 120+ boys got exactly as much funding as the 15 member girls team. Same for crew.

/not blaming the girls, just hate the way Title IX was interpreted

03 Jul 2012 10:15 AM
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392Zaphod     
Flawed list is flawed... they also forgot this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMRMW1 FXSHw

03 Jul 2012 10:17 AM
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joaquin closet     
24. Hardworking, industrious MORMONS Why is Fortune magazine putting that in this year, I wonder?

03 Jul 2012 10:20 AM
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yves0010     
joaquin closet: 24. Hardworking, industrious MORMONS Why is Fortune magazine putting that in this year, I wonder?

Maybe because unlike other Religions or churches. The Mormons got a lot of jokes told about them this year and last. Including The Book of Mormon musical and such and they all took it like a man and did not complain. You say one bad thing about Muslims of the Church of Scientology, heck, even other areas of Christianity and even Atheist, and there will be blood to pay in the back lash.

03 Jul 2012 10:24 AM
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Stuart Wolfe    [TotalFark]  
Woody Allen? Woody-freaking-Allen?

Now, you just KNOW the people making this list feel bad that they couldn't put Roman Polanski in there somewhere.

03 Jul 2012 10:33 AM
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HAMMERTOE     
dragonchild: You haven't seen the list of Farkers who slept with your mom.

That would be the sickest list. Big difference.

03 Jul 2012 10:33 AM
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joaquin closet     
yves0010: joaquin closet: 24. Hardworking, industrious MORMONS. Why is Fortune magazine putting that in this year, I wonder?

Maybe because unlike other Religions or churches. The Mormons got a lot of jokes told about them this year and last. Including The Book of Mormon musical and such and they all took it like a man and did not complain. You say one bad thing about Muslims of the Church of Scientology, heck, even other areas of Christianity and even Atheist, and there will be blood to pay in the back lash.


Good name for a punk band.

03 Jul 2012 10:38 AM
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yves0010     
joaquin closet: yves0010: joaquin closet: 24. Hardworking, industrious MORMONS. Why is Fortune magazine putting that in this year, I wonder?

Maybe because unlike other Religions or churches. The Mormons got a lot of jokes told about them this year and last. Including The Book of Mormon musical and such and they all took it like a man and did not complain. You say one bad thing about Muslims of the Church of Scientology, heck, even other areas of Christianity and even Atheist, and there will be blood to pay in the back lash.

Good name for a punk band.


I did not catch that typo. Thanks for pointing it out.

03 Jul 2012 10:42 AM
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wotthefark     
Jim.Casy: Got to #2 and immediately stopped caring. Title IX ensured that my high school track team of 120+ boys got exactly as much funding as the 15 member girls team. Same for crew.

/not blaming the girls, just hate the way Title IX was interpreted


Also less scholarships are given to men who don't play hand egg. So all men's real football, rugby, crew, tennis, swimming, volleyball, 'rastlin etc. all have less scholarships; thus, less emphasis is given to the diversity of men's sport even at the high school level.

Not saying title IX purpose had good intentions but it didn't consider the secondary or even tertiary effects on sport in society as a whole.

Clearly the list was written by a woman who lacks knowledge of many things. I mean Tupac Hologram and Lady Gaga, really...........really???

03 Jul 2012 10:43 AM
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HairBolus     
NeedlesslyCanadian: 5. Bald eagle? An animal that has nothing to do with politics? And which has been used by many other empires of the past?

The bald eagle is a relative of vultures and prefers to scavenge rather than hunt. It is also a lazy bully that has been observed to steal prey from real hunters and in some cases to do things like scare an osprey that has just eaten to make it vomit so that the eagle can eat the puke.

03 Jul 2012 10:49 AM
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Mr. Breeze     
HairBolus: NeedlesslyCanadian: 5. Bald eagle? An animal that has nothing to do with politics? And which has been used by many other empires of the past?

The bald eagle is a relative of vultures and prefers to scavenge rather than hunt. It is also a lazy bully that has been observed to steal prey from real hunters and in some cases to do things like scare an osprey that has just eaten to make it vomit so that the eagle can eat the puke.


Yeah, but it looks cool so FARK YOU!

03 Jul 2012 10:54 AM
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dragonchild     
HAMMERTOE: You haven't seen the list of Farkers who slept with your mom.

That would be the sickest list. Big difference.


OGOD WHAT DID YOUR MOM GIVE ME

03 Jul 2012 11:01 AM
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fsufan     
List fails without Sir Charles Barkley. List is turrible, just turrible.

03 Jul 2012 11:02 AM
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way south     
NASA made the list below TV dinners.
I has a sad.

/2nd amendment and freedom of speech cut to make room for Scooby-do and Tupac's ghost.

03 Jul 2012 11:30 AM
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