What's your point? Every bit of that info would be on your record.

The point is, as Dana said, that in a civilised society people are not punished in the long term for the fact they have been arrested by the police for a crime someone else has committed.

Those are everywhere. More in Europe than here.

As far as I know, there has never been a real debate about whether we should teach children in science classes about Adam and Eve.

I am an American, and I can confirm this.

Oh, you can? Do you have an example?

I had no idea.

Neither does he.

No. That is horrifying. No one should pay for a crime someone else committed.

I'm starting to wonder if you actually live in the UK... lol.

To be honest, I made this debate because Brits are always complaining about Americans. I'm just trying to stir the pot lol.

King George III of England outlawed the interest free, independent currency the colonies were producing and using for themselves. In turn forcing them to borrow money from the central bank of England at interest immediately putting the colonies into debt. "The refusal of King George III to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution" - Benjamin Franklin. The Federal Reserve is a central bank which is not owned by the government, it is a private corporation and it makes its own policies and is under virtually no regulation by the US government; completely consistent with the fraudulent central banking model the country sought to escape from when it declared independence. A central bank is an institution that produces the currency of a entire nation. They control interest rates and inflation. It does not simply supply a governments economy with money, it loans it to them at interest. Then through use of increasing and decreasing the supply of money the central bank regulates the value of the money being issued. All they do is produce debt in the long run. "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies... If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency... The banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson. "Our great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men... Who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world - no government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men." - Woodrow Wilson. After the bill passed to allow for the Federal Reserve Louis McFadden wrote - "A world banking system was being set up here... A superstate controlled by international bankers... Acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. The FED has usurped the government." The FED created the Federal income tax, the American public's ignorance to this tax is a testament to how dumbed down and oblivious the American population really is. The tax is completely unconstitutional as it is a direct, unapportioned tax. All direct taxes must be apportioned to be legal based on the constitution and the amendment was never met. There is no law that requires you to pay this tax. In WW1 war broke out centred around Britain and Germany, the American public wanted nothing to do with the war. Woodrow Wilson even declared neutrality. In a noted observation by Senator William Jennings Bryan - "The large banking interests were deeply interested in the world war because of the wide opportunities for large profits." War forces the government to borrow more money from the central bank at interest. Woodrow Wilson's top advisor and mentor, Colonel Edward House, a man with intimate connections with the international bankers, wanted in the war. In a documented conversation between House and Sir Edward Grey of the foreign secretary of England regarding how to get America into the war, Grey inquired, "What will Americans do if Germans sink an ocean liner with American passengers on-board?" House - "I believe that a flame of indignation would sweep the United States and that by itself would be sufficient to carry us into war." So on May 7th, 1915 on essentially the suggestion of Sir Edward Grey, a ship called the Lusitania was deliberately sent into German controlled waters were German military vessels were know to be. And as expected, German U-boats torpedoed the ship. The German embassy even put ads in the New York times that if they board the Lusitania they did so at their own risk, as such a ship sailing from America to England in the war zone would be liable to destruction. As anticipated the Americans were angry and America joined the war. WW2, on December 7th, 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbour triggering Americas entry into that war. After 60 years of surfacing information it is clear that not only was the attack on Pearl Harbour known weeks in advance it was outright wanted and provoked. Roosevelt, whos family had been New York bankers since the 18th century, whos uncle Fredrick was on the original FED reserve board, was very sympathetic to the interests of the international bankers, and the interest was to enter the war. In a journal entry by Roosevelt's secretary of war Henry Stimson dated November 25th, 1941, he documented a conversation he had with Roosevelt, "The question was how should we maneuver them into firing the first shot... It was desirable to make sure the Japanese be the ones to do this so that there should remain no doubt as to who were the aggressors." In the months leading up to Pearl Harbour Roosevelt had done almost everything in his power to anger the Japanese, showing a posture of aggression. He halted all of Japan's imports of American petroleum. He froze all of Japanese assets in the US. He publicly loaned to nationalist China and supplied military aid to the British, both enemies of Japan in the war, which by the way is completely against international war rules. On December 4th, 3 days before the attack, Australian intelligence told Roosevelt about a Japanese task force moving towards Pearl Harbour, Roosevelt ignored it. Nazi Germany's war effort was largely supported by 2 organisations, one was I.G. Farben who produced 84% of Germany's explosives and even the zyklon b used in the concentration camps. One of the unspoken partners of I.G. Farben was J.D Rockefeller's (American international banker) standard oil company in America. The German air-force could not operate without a special additive patented by US standard oil. The nazi bombing of London was made possible by a $20 million sale of fuel to I.G. Farben by US standard oil. This is just one small point on the topic on how American business funded both sides of the war. Another treasonous organisation worth mentioning is the Union Banking Corp - New York City - which funded numerous aspects of Hitlers rise to power along with actual materials used during the war it was also a nazi money laundering bank which was eventually exposed after having millions of dollars of nazi money in its vaults. The director and president of the Union Banking Corp was Prescott Bush, the father of George H. W. Bush and grandfather of George W. Bush. The declaration of war against North Vietnam in 1964 came after an alleged incident involving 2 US destroyers being attacked by North Vietnamese PT boats off the coast of North Vietnam - The gulf of Tonkin incident. Only problem is the attack never actually happened. It was a completely staged event to have an excuse to enter the war. Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara stated that the incident was a "mistake", while many other insiders and officers have come forward relaying that it was a contrived farce. A complete lie. Currently in the US, unannounced to most brainwashed Americans, American homes can be searched without a warrant, without you being home, you can in-turn be arrested with no charges revealed to you, detained indefinitely with no access to a lawyer and legally tortured all under the suspicion that you might be a terrorist all thanks to the false-flag oppertion conducted by the US government, or if you will, 9/11. Want a painted picture of what America is being like? In February, 1933, Hitler staged a false-flag attack burning down his own German parliament building in the reichstag and blamed it on communist terrorists. Within the next few weeks he passed the enabling act which completely eradicated the German constitution destroying peoples liberties (much like the USA patriot act). He then led a list of pre-emptive wars (much like Iraq and Afghanistan) all justified to the German people as necessary to maintain homeland security. "An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland." George W. Bush AND Hitler, when announcing the Gestapo to the people. Fine i'll hand it to you i don't know much about your media, but to be fair that isn't really the main crux of my point. So no, i am not jealous of America.

I find the Irish accent interesting because I can clearly hear where our Boston accent's come from... and that's about all I can think of right now.

Did you know that the New England accent is closer to an Old English accent than the British accent?

The English accent sounds too posh, kind of like a wine connoisseur.

Depends on the area you're in, if your in London that accent will crop up more, if you were in my area though it would be very different you basically either get a yob sort of accent or a farmer like accent (like mine).

Very few English people speak with posh accents, only like 5% of the population. Most British people speak with regional accents that are absolutely nothing like a wine connoisseur.

It is English accents not accent, there are so many, a lot of which sound pretty much nothing alike. Try comparing the Scouse accent to the Posh/Upper class accent. Most Americans seem to think there is only one accent we speak one accent, that being the upper class one.

hat's an example of a non-rhotic Southern accent. You can thank the British for that.

the british usually complete their words to an exaggerated extent. not all the time. mostly.

I think foreign accents just sound nasally to people.

that is probably true. foreign accents always sound weird to anybody else. but americans these days seem to fake it. american celebs, american girls on youtube. it's obvious they're faking it.

When they say "hahd" instead of "hard", it makes it seem like they have a stuffy nose.

but the r is geneally silent. O_O right?

and american sounds the same to me. there isn't much distinction between southern and nortern american accents. except maybe, south is a little softer than up north.

p.s. i've never ben to america, i just have friends who've lived there. so my facts can be wrong.