View Full Version : england get sue'ed over colonialism ! ,usa lawyers missed it
shehab aldean
03-13-04, 10:14 AM
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3525869.stm
www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=39953&SelectRegion=East_Africa
Quote:A spokesman for the Kingdom Ernest Kizza told the BBC they are seeking £3trillion ($5,500bn).
Mr Kizza said they will present written evidence at the International Court in the Hague to prove their case.
He also said that the UK colonial authorities took their land and gave it to a rival kingdom.
USa lawyers to follow suit ?sue canada and england
EZ_Northerner
03-13-04, 12:43 PM
Curious inconsistancies here:
Quote:The present king of Bunyoro, Solomon Iguru, wants compensation of nearly £3 billion (US $5.55 billion)
Quote:A spokesman for the Kingdom Ernest Kizza told the BBC they are seeking £3trillion ($5,500bn).
That's a pretty important distinction Celeris Tujimson
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He probably said "3 bazillion-trillion dollars" and the reporters shrugged their shoulders and wrote something.
EZ_Montag McCleaud
03-13-04, 04:59 PM
I can just picture when they come out with CIVILIZATION IV
If, somehow, some puny civilization manages to survive your conquering and taking their lands; centuries down the road they will use all their countries independent wealth to hire or train thousands of Super-Lawyers to eradicate your countries economy.
Cid Meyers will now add "Lawsuit Victory" to the possible ways to win the game.
EZ_Prenn
03-14-04, 07:04 PM
Quote:Curious inconsistancies here
They use commas in place of decimal places in england. I am a Sensei and a Transcendant.
Not that it means anything anymore.
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shehab aldean
03-14-04, 11:49 PM
once anyone talk about sue you get prenn on the thread
at least this time no one said anything about the MacDonald coffee lady ....OOPS
EZ_Random TM
03-15-04, 01:13 AM
The woman got THIRD DEGREE BURNS over a good part of her body. Can we stop propping the coffee lady up as an example of frivolous lawsuits?
Besides, it's much more entertaining to mock the fatties trying to sue McD's. Fatty McGreasewagon is trying to blame his or her carb addiction on the evil fast food companies.
shehab aldean
03-15-04, 01:37 AM
i didn't mean to talk about her as an example , prenn just go ape @#%$ whenever she is mentioned anyway
EZ_Loxmyf
03-15-04, 02:48 AM
Quote:over a good part of her body
If she wasn't obese from eating at McDonalds she would have sustained burns on a much smaller body.
In Australia, she MIGHT have wona few thousand. Certainly not the gazillion dollars she received because she was too dumb to realise coffee is served hot.
Sheesh! 10 years on and it still makes the rounds.
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EZ_Cirrion
03-15-04, 03:02 AM
What do you mean about the U.S suing Canada? The U.K I could see, but Canada? We never ruled them. Sure we kicked their a#@ in war, but we didn't impose our leadership afterwards.
Edited by: Cirrion at: 3/15/04 3:03 am
EZ_Meecham AB
03-15-04, 03:03 AM
Quote:They use commas in place of decimal places in england.
No we don't usually. The commas are just to break up large numbers to make them easier to read. Example £1,000,000 instead of £1000000.
Actually, since they add "u"s to various words like Honor and Color, its known as a Millioun over there.
Darkefang
03-15-04, 06:22 AM
Quote:Certainly not the gazillion dollars she received because she was too dumb to realise coffee is served hot.
Something that should be pointed out is that the jury award in this case was reduced substantially. If I recall, it ended up at around $50k, which is still way more than she deserved, but not the "gazillions" that people always think she got.
Dragynphyre
03-15-04, 09:02 AM
Five TRILLION dollars!
Sorry, I don't think that the rightful reparations could POSSIBLY be that high.
Plus, if every nation that ever was conquered/colonized during the Imperialistic period, or prior, were to sue for reparations and win, it would open up HUGE cans of worms with the possibility of sparking wars worldwide. (Back In Black)
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EZ_Random TM
03-15-04, 10:23 PM
Quote:If she wasn't obese from eating at McDonalds she would have sustained burns on a much smaller body.
In Australia, she MIGHT have wona few thousand. Certainly not the gazillion dollars she received because she was too dumb to realise coffee is served hot.
Sheesh! 10 years on and it still makes the rounds.
It's time to pry into your dank hole of ignorance with the crowbar of truth. Edited by: Random TM at: 3/15/04 10:24 pm
EZ_Prenn
03-17-04, 04:56 AM
Quote:No we don't usually.
My apologies. Usually I see english posters online using '5,59" for 5.59, and so on. Not very uncommonly either. Perhaps it's more of a trait in the older (35+) generations?
Looking at the number, I don't know the current conversion rate of euros to dollars, but you're probably right.
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Darkefang
03-17-04, 06:17 AM
The Euro is worth about $1.20 right now.
EZ_Fablar
03-17-04, 08:25 AM
Actually all the UK uses the notation:
1,000,000.00
Whereas many mainland European countries use the notation:
1.000.000,00
EZ_Northerner
03-18-04, 01:36 PM
Regardless of which, I presume Billion and Trillion are still different numbers. The quotes are unchanged and show confusion on the part of the reporters, even if you ignore the bracketed portions.
In the US, a Billion is 1,000,000,000
In the UK, a Billion is 1,000,000,000,000
Quote:billion
adj : (U.S.) denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units; (Britain) denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units [syn: a billion] n 1: (in Britain) the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros [syn: one million million, 1000000000000] 2: (in the United States) the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros [syn: one thousand million, 1000000000]
EZ_Meecham AB
03-19-04, 08:04 AM
Quote:In the UK, a Billion is 1,000,000,000,000
Was. We changed to the American version quite a while ago. I don't know exactly when, around 15 years ago I think.
EZ_Fablar
03-19-04, 08:44 AM
Nope, Meddik is correct, except for relating to finace. FOr financial terms (so for this article actually) a billion is 10^9, whereas for everything else a billion is 10^12.
HOWEVER, seeing as you only ever use billion for finance really, colloqually a billion is now 10^9 in UK as well. The language changes, slowly but surely
Bizarre, eh? Edited by: Fablar at: 3/19/04 8:46 am
Was my suggestion of Billioun earlier in the thread even close?
(Also: @#$% inaccurate dictionaries....) Trojan Horseshoes
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EZ_joekreeper1
03-19-04, 11:48 AM
can I sue Rome for enslaving my ancestors?
EZ_Splendora
03-20-04, 04:55 PM
"but Canada? We never ruled them. Sure we kicked their a#@ in war"
You wish lol....try reading some history of the war of 1812.
Although it was a draw; canada / britain had more victories.
edit - before its mentioned - yes yes, I know you'd win now.
Edited by: Splendora at: 3/20/04 4:57 pm
1812 was a war with Great Britain, not canada. When it began, Canada was just a collection of british provinces, not even a coherent political entity on its own. Trojan Horseshoes
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