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143 Day 734, 15:20 Portugal
It's like taking a kid to a candy store and not getting him anything. It's like holding a steak in front of a dog's nose, only to snatch it away and eat it all in front of him. It's like a stripclub that doesn't even serve lapdances. I'm talking, of course, about Portugal's attempt to swindle the US out of 5000 gold. The fiasco was documented quite well by Killing Time, although did not recieve the hordes of votes that this Hungarian-written former Peace propaganda did.

We all know what happened in the end, the admins weighed in on the decision and decided in our favor. Exactly as planned.


Regardless of this decision, and regardless of the fact that everyone saw this coming, the US still paid Portugal the remaining 200g yesterday, just the finish the deal. Knowing what was coming, why would the US go ahead and actually give Portugal money? Because we are cool like that. We in the US are not nitpicking, money-grubbing, two-faced, untrustworthy diplomats. In fact, when Portugal failed to turn over Maryland within 14 days(they returned it on the 15th day after the contract was signed), I made a decision to not say anything about it, because I was pursuing peace in good faith, and I am not a nitpicking, money-grubbing, two-faced, untrustworthy diplomat.

Relevent:


So Portugal, I sure am sorry that your attempt to screw us over didn't go well for you. My condolences. Wait, no I'm not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BZJiaNfJ8

 
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Woxan
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Woxan Day 734, 15:21

 
wakyz
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wakyz Day 734, 15:21

second

 
Jeffoh1990
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Jeffoh1990 Day 734, 15:21

 
Daniel Hawkins
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Daniel Hawkins Day 734, 15:21

~hyuu~

 
naturalcauses
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naturalcauses Day 734, 15:21

4th

 
Hoyle
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Hoyle Day 734, 15:21

hai

 
Malagueta
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Malagueta Day 734, 15:21

pertamax ??

 
Samuel Brouillette
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Samuel Brouillette Day 734, 15:22

Boated!

o7

 
Blue Holt
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Blue Holt Day 734, 15:22

Beautiful. ~

 
ligtreb
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ligtreb Day 734, 15:22

Emerick is great!

 
Personal Jesus
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Personal Jesus Day 734, 15:22

I heard Emerick is Grape

 
simazgb
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simazgb Day 734, 15:22

haha

 
J Manizzle
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J Manizzle Day 734, 15:23

Emerick is great!

 
TruthinessHurts
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TruthinessHurts Day 734, 15:23

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKG07305CBs" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKG07305C[..]5CBs</a>

you forgot to add that ^ ... just fyi

 
Brav3s
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Brav3s Day 734, 15:23

Lol

 
Spencer Magee
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Spencer Magee Day 734, 15:23

voted

 
Devioux
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Devioux Day 734, 15:24

Emerick is great!

 
Wally Wilson
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Wally Wilson Day 734, 15:24

to hell with the money-grubbing, two faces... not mentioning any names

   
St Krems
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St Krems Day 734, 15:24

hur hur hur

 
Carr De Vaux
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Carr De Vaux Day 734, 15:25

former eUSA propagandist speaks!

 
Eli Wheelbarrow
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Eli Wheelbarrow Day 734, 15:26

Emerickmaxxxx!

 
Malagueta
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Malagueta Day 734, 15:28

Money talks bullshXX walk...
Show us some action, not troll talk!

Viva Portugal!!!!
Eles falam mas estão quietinhos...

 
Quanah Parker
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Quanah Parker Day 734, 15:29

Now we open the trial to actually get the 5,000 gold that Portugal owes for for returning Maryland late.

 
Alecian
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Alecian Day 734, 15:31

TURD FERGUSON HAS SPOKEN

 
Chronic Thor
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Chronic Thor Day 734, 15:31

DERP!

 
Denis Cicic
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Denis Cicic Day 734, 15:32

Everyone who signs a treaty with you get's screwed over sooner or later, Indo's got it earlier as soon as they signed peace with you, treaterous attack followed immeadiatily, Portugal got their share with yet another admin decision in favour of E/F alliance.

Nothing new in eWorld I guess. But it is ok to support the weaker, it makes the game more interesting and chalenging

 
JeepAmerica
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JeepAmerica Day 734, 15:36

Denis must have forgotten the part where Portugal actually owes us money.
:0
<a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/where-r-mah-monies-portugal-update-1-1046350/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/wher[..]/1/20</a>

 
Emerick
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Emerick Day 734, 15:36

&gt;Indo's got it earlier as soon as they signed peace with you

I have no idea what you'ret alking about. The Indonesians decided to vote yes on a peace treaty for the war with Portugal, even though they did not know which war the peace was for. Sounds to me like their hubris made them simply assume that we wanted peace in our direct war.

&gt;Portugal got their share with yet another admin decision in favour of E/F alliance.

HURR HURR HURR
I seem to remember a lot of pro-Peace decisions during the war, and you guys saying that the admins are not biased, but there is only a perceived bias when the decision does not sway in your favor. Maybe if you guys could stick to one story for a while, people would take you more seriously.

 
ChiolasPT
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ChiolasPT Day 734, 15:36

The chicken's head disappeared and this appeared:

&quot;Contracts between countries are considered to be valid only if they are signed by all country congressmen. &quot;

 
eugeneonegin
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eugeneonegin Day 734, 15:40

amazing

 
betu
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betu Day 734, 15:40

If you are soo inteligent why you pay to us 500 GOLD if you know that the contract is invalid?

 
JeepAmerica
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JeepAmerica Day 734, 15:41

ChiolasPT is butthurt.

 
LcfR
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LcfR Day 734, 15:43

August 24, 2009.

 
Emerick
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Emerick Day 734, 15:47

I explained why, betu. It's because we have a little something called &quot;honor&quot;. You might want to look it up.

 
ChiolasPT
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ChiolasPT Day 734, 15:49

Jeep don't be amer...stupid, if it's invalid for us its invalid for you -.-

Even if the rule came out of nowhere O_O

 
Quanah Parker
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Quanah Parker Day 734, 15:51

@Denis - good to see that you agree that since Portugal did breach the contract, they now owe the USA 5000 gold. I know it was just one day late to return Maryland, but according to your butthurt buddies, that's all it takes, amirite?

 
betu
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betu Day 734, 15:54

&quot;honor&quot; kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

bullshit

 
Tom McDougal
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Tom McDougal Day 734, 15:56

Honormaxx

 
JDidSaint
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JDidSaint Day 734, 15:57

Emerick is great!

 
Malagueta
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Malagueta Day 734, 15:58

&quot;Emerick is great!&quot; how long is Emerick?... lol

 
Judazs
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Judazs Day 734, 16:00

August 24, 2009.

 
ChiolasPT
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ChiolasPT Day 734, 16:00

Btw, voted, you are indeed true americans

 
SukarnosRevenge
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SukarnosRevenge Day 734, 16:01

Now you're so excited trying to troll us.
Everyone makes mistakes

 
PimpDollaz
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PimpDollaz Day 734, 16:01

Emerick is grate

Portufail

 
Malagueta
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Malagueta Day 734, 16:02

Of course it is voted. many votes here are portuguese. We all love fun and hear big throats, with no action at all!
lolada!!!

 
Camoes
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Camoes Day 734, 16:04

&gt; Now we open the trial to actually get the 5,000 gold that Portugal owes for for returning Maryland late.

Sure, the contract is valid whenever it suits you. Silly american.

&gt; Regardless of this decision, and regardless of the fact that everyone saw this coming, the US still paid Portugal the remaining 200g yesterday, just the finish the deal. Knowing what was coming, why would the US go ahead and actually give Portugal money? Because we are cool like that.

Suuuuuure

&gt; In fact, when Portugal failed to turn over Maryland within 14 days(they returned it on the 15th day after the contract was signed), I made a decision to not say anything about it, because I was pursuing peace in good faith, and I am not a nitpicking, money-grubbing, two-faced, untrustworthy diplomat.

SUUUUURE



You knowm, the ones who got excited were the Hungarians. We were suposed to take this easy and slowly. I don't really care about the gold. In the end, with this invalid contract, we won 500 gold without doing nothing.

 
wooooo
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wooooo Day 734, 16:04

blah blah blah

boring -.-

 
betu
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betu Day 734, 16:05

estes amaricados são uns lol's

Dizem que nos deram os 500 GOLD mesmo sabendo que o contracto era inválido por uma questão de &quot;honra&quot;

 
JeepAmerica
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JeepAmerica Day 734, 16:09

I love how all Europeans consider Americans stupid simply because we are Americans. The funny thing is that it proves you are the &quot;stupid&quot; ones since that is the best &quot;comeback&quot; you guys ever have.

 
Nuno Vieira
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Nuno Vieira Day 734, 16:09

August 24, 2009.

 
betu
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betu Day 734, 16:09

&quot;Now we open the trial to actually get the 5,000 gold that Portugal owes for for returning Maryland late.&quot;

lulzzzzzzzzzzz

the contract is invalid for both side os just for Potugal :X I'm confuse :S

 
Collin Roche
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Collin Roche Day 734, 16:10

@Camoes: Actually, you got 500 gold for withdrawing from World War III. That's a pretty fair trade.

 
Malagueta
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Malagueta Day 734, 16:10

Pode ser que nos mostrem o quanto são valentes e então lá vamos nós outra vez! Quero um estado amaricado só para mim!

 
Camoes
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Camoes Day 734, 16:11

&gt; I love how all Europeans consider Americans stupid simply because we are Americans. The funny thing is that it proves you are the &quot;stupid&quot; ones since that is the best &quot;comeback&quot; you guys ever have.

The reason we don't say anything more is because you wouldn't understand. We explained time and time again why we never fail in this whole contract thing but you don't seem to understand.

At least, emerick has some style, it's a shame the glory is taking over him.

 
Camoes
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Camoes Day 734, 16:13

&gt; @Camoes: Actually, you got 500 gold for withdrawing from World War III. That's a pretty fair trade.

All portuguese attacks were funded by Hungary. So we didn't lose nothing. I'm not saying you did.

 
gonzo23
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gonzo23 Day 734, 16:13

oh, breakin' news...

&quot;Regardless of this decision, and regardless of the fact that everyone saw this coming, the US still paid Portugal the remaining 200g yesterday, just the finish the deal. Knowing what was coming, why would the US go ahead and actually give Portugal money? Because we are cool like that.&quot;

&quot;Repeat a lie a thousand times and it becomes the truth.&quot;

999 left.

btw, you are doing a big effort to hide your fail, ah...

 
Hello123456789000
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Hello123456789000 Day 734, 16:14

I see that there is no longer the need to declare war on this game. All you have to do is write an article and add the word &quot;Fail&quot; and wait for the replies.

Everybody's taking everything far too seriously in this game...

 
johnpauljones
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johnpauljones Day 734, 16:15

reading all the butthurt comments from Portuguese nit-pickers makes me lol. I would consider this article a success.

 
betu
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betu Day 734, 16:17

PORQUE RAIO TAMOS A ESCREVER EM INGLES NUMA NOTIÇIA QUE ESTÁ POSTADA EM PORTUGAL?????

ESTAS MODERNICES :*

ELES SE QUISEREM QUE VÃO AO TRADUTOR

 
Malagueta
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Malagueta Day 734, 16:20

falamos inglês porque somos uns fixes e temos honra, mesmo perante esta trolice toda junta! não é assim, amaricados?...
-.-

 
pro-veia
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pro-veia Day 734, 16:22


did you guys noticed... Portugal entered the war beeing payed by hungary in order to keep you guys busy... therefore, we wasted 0 gold.
as soon we went to war, we've helped out our allies by blocking you.
we knew that our country didn't have the power to hold the conquered regions, so... we made a contract...
then there was this thing... in which the admins said, and i quote:
&quot;After carefully considering the presented facts and the inter-countries contract specifications we reached the conclusion that this contract is void.&quot;


you've paid us 500 gold for a void contract!!!
sweeeet!
but we did waste 5 gold... oh well... it's a hard work medal
but still... we got 495 from you guys
thank you! danke! obrigado! Gracias! Arigato!

 
Aronfly
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Aronfly Day 734, 16:24

spam

 
Dia Caroxa
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Dia Caroxa Day 734, 16:28

enfim...

 
Camoes
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Camoes Day 734, 16:31

Que tal foolfistar esta bodega?

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Joshua Patterson
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Joshua Patterson Day 734, 16:32

Emerick, I'm surprised by your grammar.

 
gonzo23
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gonzo23 Day 734, 16:32

Johnpauljones@ I'm laughing....

You are spamming our media...So...Who is butthurt?

Jeep@ poor americans.

 
betu
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betu Day 734, 16:33

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MeiaPeuga
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MeiaPeuga Day 734, 16:34

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Juzefus
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Juzefus Day 734, 16:34

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ePTCompany
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ePTCompany Day 734, 16:37

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Zqym
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Zqym Day 734, 16:39

Aw snap! You tell 'em Emerick!

 
pesgores
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pesgores Day 734, 16:39

POPOTA QUE PARIU OS AMERICANOS LOL

 
Emerick
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Emerick Day 734, 16:46

Make sure to subscribe. Daddy needs a new medal.

 
Robert Loggia
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Robert Loggia Day 734, 16:50

:&gt;

 
Zartonis
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Zartonis Day 734, 17:16

Lol.

 
pro-veia
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pro-veia Day 734, 17:45

ALL YOUR COMMENTS ARE BELONG TO FOOL FISTS!!!


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LcfR
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LcfR Day 734, 17:46

Why attack other countries and get owned in our own territories (check: August 24, 2009) when we can spam other country's media with our noobs?

Anyway. August 24, 2009. Always remember.

PS: August 24, 2009.

 
Parvonia
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Parvonia Day 734, 17:51

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Bertil Gurkvatten
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Bertil Gurkvatten Day 734, 18:19

@LcfR

We get it, Portugal sucks.

 
sydiot
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sydiot Day 734, 18:27

 
Chisholm
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Chisholm Day 734, 18:39

oh god roto

 
Supernoob5
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Supernoob5 Day 734, 18:50

top 100

 
Ninjanuke
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Ninjanuke Day 734, 19:40

just proves eportugal is still our enemy and needs to be... invaded for the security of eMerica!

 
ronnyJnrJnr
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ronnyJnrJnr Day 734, 20:03

awwww sad too seeni Nitpicking, money-grubbing, two-faced, untrustworthy diplomat. like that miss out, oh wait, like Em said NO ITS NOT!!! AHAHAHAH EAT CROW PORTUGAL

 
John Stevens
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John Stevens Day 734, 20:27

This whole Portuguese contract fiasco was obviously fabricated by the eUK to distract us from our invasion plans.

 
coccada incorporated
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coccada incorporated Day 734, 20:56

pity i had assumed once 5000 were payed the nap agreament would be forefeit and war could be opened

then again all nap agreaments are thus forefeit ? since they are only signed by the presidents ? or doesn´t peace proposals but be voted by both congress ?

 
Daniel Jacob Asher
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Daniel Jacob Asher Day 734, 21:26

tits.

 
Mike Ventura
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Mike Ventura Day 734, 22:57

August 24, 2009

 
Mike Ventura
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Mike Ventura Day 735, 23:10

trolling in eportugal is like pissing in a sea of piss. we even have a party in the top5 who dedicates entirely to trolling.

the funny fact is...

it takes a dozen articles to troll a few portuguese

but it took a single comment by a single anonymous president to troll a whole country

you will never invade us. you will never surpass us. why bother getting us angry?

 
MileLican
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MileLican Day 735, 23:35

he. we all know what the small print is for. to lay traps. nasty but leagal.

 
Christopher Cszengeri
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Christopher Cszengeri Day 735, 23:59

I lol'd

 
Kramerica Industries
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Kramerica Industries Day 735, 00:32

Poor-tugal.

 
ChiolasPT
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ChiolasPT Day 735, 01:26

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Alzheimer
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Alzheimer Day 735, 01:49

please attack us LOL

 
EspanhoisEmCaixoesLda
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EspanhoisEmCaixoesLda Day 735, 02:38

i'm going to start scamming people by making a contract adn after receiving the gold i'll write:

&quot;after carefully considering the presented facts and the inter-countries contract specifications we reached the conclusion that this contract is void&quot;

seems to work!

 
Camoes
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Camoes Day 735, 02:43

&gt; pity i had assumed once 5000 were payed the nap agreament would be forefeit and war could be opened

The nap isn't valid anymore. You can attack. Please do it.

 
EspanhoisEmCaixoesLda
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EspanhoisEmCaixoesLda Day 735, 02:43

&quot;I love how all Europeans consider Americans stupid simply because we are Americans. The funny thing is that it proves you are the &quot;stupid&quot; ones since that is the best &quot;comeback&quot; you guys ever have.&quot;

nope
it's because of stuff like this:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBklo[..]kloFE</a>

 
Juzefus
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Juzefus Day 735, 03:06

August 24, 2009

 
Carlos Metzger
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Carlos Metzger Day 735, 03:21

We all know that americans are not nitpicking, money-grubbing, two-faced, untrustworthy diplomats... They're very smart too, I heard that in american schools they teach lots of foreign languages. oh, wait, thats here, not there... Je pense que tu c'est tree burro demais too understand the meaning of this phrase. Ciao. xD