Interesting commentary
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Jim A. Johnson wrote: Just goes to prove Einstien's point that "common sense" is nothing more than the sum of the prejudices we accumulate by age 18. Don't get me wrong, I think Einstein was damned-near godlike, but to take everything ever uttered by him as divine inspiration is just ludicrous. When it comes to the human mind, I choose Freud. I'll leave physics to Einstein. Jim A. Johnson wrote: In truth, this is nothing more than a bunch of right-wing propaganda. Yeah, how dare we fight fire with fire. It's only okay for the left-wing I see. Jeremy Falcon Imputek
Uncle Albert was not "God Like" by any means. He was wrong as often as he was right - possible even more so - and plagued by self doubt. He stood on the shoulders of giants and had better vision than most but he was not - to me - the intelluctial better of Newton or Cupernicus or many of his precessors. Richard In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles
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I would rather be called a Texan - that most superior form of American. If called a yank it had best be done at long range. Do Brits like being called a "Limey ". Do most even know where that term came from ?. Richard In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles
Richard Stringer wrote: I would rather be called a Texan - that most superior form of American. If called a yank it had best be done at long range. Do Brits like being called a "Limey ". Do most even know where that term came from ?. Just so you know, most South Africans would have a good chuckle and fob you off if you announced yourself as a Texan. We associate Texans with GWB and J. R. Ewing from Dallas. i.e. Not good. Just a tip :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Dude, ever notice you judge way too much? LOL! Again please... LOL! Quite the contrary I'm afraid, I don't judge anywhere near enough. I have this rather unfortunate faith in the goodness and honesty of man kind you see, one that keeps trying to proove itself misplaced. Maybe one day, but sure as hell is rosey not now. What I was referring to is not so subtle and very sincer comments made by some people (and no I can't name them, nor would I care to) who take the common stereotypical jokes and use them without any intention of taking the piss. It's quite sad really, nothing in turn to joke about. Jeremy Falcon wrote: Exactly, and what the hell have the Americans ever done to you? Yeeess... notice my humour rating please. I shall not answer that, there is little point when the horse is already dead. ;P
David Wulff
"David Wulff can't live without me, so you shouldn't either" - Paul Watson
David Wulff wrote: Yeeess... notice my humour rating please. That's what I was wondering. The only reason I took the piss is because of the mad emoticon and I "remembered" the rating defaulting to something like H4 when it was HAS. Oh well. Now, to answer your original question about what the French has done to me -- hairy women! Now, if that's not enough reason for war, I don't know what the hell is. ;P Jeremy Falcon Imputek
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David Wulff wrote: Exactly, and what the hell have the French ever done to you? :omg: A Brit defending "Froggies" ?!?!? I must've had too much wine last night.
What's wrong with the French? They have some great scenery and gave us the story for Allo Allo. :-D
David Wulff
"David Wulff can't live without me, so you shouldn't either" - Paul Watson
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David Wulff wrote: Yeeess... notice my humour rating please. That's what I was wondering. The only reason I took the piss is because of the mad emoticon and I "remembered" the rating defaulting to something like H4 when it was HAS. Oh well. Now, to answer your original question about what the French has done to me -- hairy women! Now, if that's not enough reason for war, I don't know what the hell is. ;P Jeremy Falcon Imputek
For future reference - only the sincerity rating is defaulted incase I forget to set it - it reads four by default. Jeremy Falcon wrote: hairy women Nowhere near as bad as hairy men, so if you'd like to invade Scotland first it would be very much appreciated. :laugh:
David Wulff
"David Wulff can't live without me, so you shouldn't either" - Paul Watson
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Richard Stringer wrote: I would rather be called a Texan - that most superior form of American. If called a yank it had best be done at long range. Do Brits like being called a "Limey ". Do most even know where that term came from ?. Just so you know, most South Africans would have a good chuckle and fob you off if you announced yourself as a Texan. We associate Texans with GWB and J. R. Ewing from Dallas. i.e. Not good. Just a tip :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
Chuckle they can -Texans like a good laugh and often make fun of themselves - fobing one off may be dangerous to ones health however. To be associated with GWB is a GOOD thing. J.R. was what 30 years ago - don't yall get anything newer than that. You really don't want to know what most Texans think of South Africans either. It has something to do with pith hats and old land Rovers and running thru the jungle behind gun bearers wearing khaki shorts and singing "KumBaya" :) Richard In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles
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Richard Stringer wrote: I would rather be called a Texan - that most superior form of American. If called a yank it had best be done at long range. Do Brits like being called a "Limey ". Do most even know where that term came from ?. Just so you know, most South Africans would have a good chuckle and fob you off if you announced yourself as a Texan. We associate Texans with GWB and J. R. Ewing from Dallas. i.e. Not good. Just a tip :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
Paul Watson wrote: We associate Texans with GWB and J. R. Ewing from Dallas. i.e. Not good. Like the saying goes 'Life is too short to live in Dallas.' The word abbreviation is awfully long for what it means.
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riiiiiiiiight. not saying they are friends, but how much trade goes on between France and Iraq? Quite a bit I believe. I haven't looked up the numbers recently, but as of a few years ago France earned a lot of money in trade with Iraq.
tidge wrote: a few years ago France earned a lot of money in trade with Iraq Yep, that's true, but the main difference is that France made money pacifically whilst Bush (not US) wants to earn money by means of a war.
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"It is France that is truly motivated by oil politics, and Germany that is motivated by economics, not the U.S." I stopped reading here.
It's not the fall that kills you: it's the sudden stop - Down by Law, Jim Jamursch (1986)
Daniel Turini wrote: "It is France that is truly motivated by oil politics, and Germany that is motivated by economics, not the U.S." I stopped reading here. Yeah, what a bunch of lies!! :mad::mad:
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I would rather be called a Texan - that most superior form of American. If called a yank it had best be done at long range. Do Brits like being called a "Limey ". Do most even know where that term came from ?. Richard In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles
Richard Stringer wrote: Do Brits like being called a "Limey ". I think you'll find most Brits wouldn't care less if you called them most things, even to their face. Richard Stringer wrote: Do most even know where that term came from ?. I do! My dad told me years ago when I heard it mentioned on the telly and didn't know what it was! I can remember getting all embrassed as soon as I called out "what's a Limey?" as I was going through that phase at the time, where everything I said I somehow became very conscious of it having 'another' meaning. Like the time I asked what a tampon was... :laugh:
David Wulff
"David Wulff can't live without me, so you shouldn't either" - Paul Watson
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"It is France that is truly motivated by oil politics, and Germany that is motivated by economics, not the U.S." I stopped reading here.
It's not the fall that kills you: it's the sudden stop - Down by Law, Jim Jamursch (1986)
Well just becuase we may disagree, doesn't mean there is not some truth in another person's opinions. Sometimes we disagree because there is truth in other people's opinions. In any case, we all have a choice to decide what we read. I just hope my opinions are informed before I let my knee jerk.
"How many more people have to die before no one ever dies again?" - Daniel Haley, The Onion
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tidge wrote: a few years ago France earned a lot of money in trade with Iraq Yep, that's true, but the main difference is that France made money pacifically whilst Bush (not US) wants to earn money by means of a war.
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"It is France that is truly motivated by oil politics, and Germany that is motivated by economics, not the U.S." I stopped reading here.
It's not the fall that kills you: it's the sudden stop - Down by Law, Jim Jamursch (1986)
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If anything, CP might be subject to Canadian laws. Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.
Tim Smith wrote: CP might be subject to Canadian laws. Oh it is. You must bow down in worship of the Almighty Tim-bit before you may access CP. J
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Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast. http://www.salon.com/mwt/wire/2003/03/11/fries/index.html[^] everybody knows France is opposed to "freedom". duh. i can't wait for Freedom Kissing, Freedom Bread and Freedom Cuffs. then maybe we can start getting rid of all the French words in the English language. then we'd be speaking... oh yeah, German. -c
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How sad can you get? I mean - "Freedom Fries". They could at least have the decency to serve chips during their so-called "boycott". :rolleyes: An official spokesman caught eaving a strip joint cafe earlier today laid down the UK Government position very clearly: If they continue to dishonour the UK in this disgusting manner, we'll be forced to withdraw our support and export the EU Baguette mountain to Washington in retaliation. So there you have it. ;P Anna :rose: www.annasplace.me.uk
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How does Bush plan to earn money? Not that I am defending Bush. I'd just like to understand how.
I thought that was cliear, just by controlling Iraq's oil.
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tidge wrote: a few years ago France earned a lot of money in trade with Iraq Yep, that's true, but the main difference is that France made money pacifically whilst Bush (not US) wants to earn money by means of a war.
You believe to much of the junk you read. The idea that Bush wants a war to help the economy is ridiculous. Nobody wants to see pictures of bodybags coming back from the Gulf, or pictures of bombed out rubble. You seem to have forgotten the efforts that have been going into trying to get Saddaam to live up to an agreement made 12 years ago. The UN coalition granted SH a cease fire in '91 contingent on him ceasing his WMD programs and inspections. He also agreed to not fly fixed wing aircraft over the no-fly zones. Of course that didn't stop him from flying helicopters into the Northern no fly zone to attack the Kurds. The only reason he resumed inspections after kicking out the inpectors he agreed to 4 years ago was because the US has forced him to, period. You ought to realize what SH is about and look at the real motivations behind all of the people involved are. Don't just believe the Left leaning (or Right leaning) crap you see in the media. The truth tends to fall somewhere in between Rush Limbaugh and Phil Donahue. Uptight Ex-Military Republican married to a Commie Lib - How weird is that?
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Because why? You think France and Germany don't have a substantial amount to lose if the U.N. comes down on Iraq?
tidge wrote: Because why? You think France and Germany don't have a substantial amount to lose if the U.N. comes down on Iraq? Oh, I agree with you, they have. And I'm not so innocent to believe anyone in the world will spend billions of dolars in a war to "save the innocent" from "Hussein's tirany". I just don't like biased articles using misleading reasoning to make their point. Read again: "It is France that is truly motivated by oil politics, and Germany that is motivated by economics, not the U.S." Now, I stopped reading the article, because the writer is trying to prove US is NOT motivated by oil politics just saying that their counterparts are. It's simplistic and an offense to the reader's IQ.
It's not the fall that kills you: it's the sudden stop - Down by Law, Jim Jamursch (1986)
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Well just becuase we may disagree, doesn't mean there is not some truth in another person's opinions. Sometimes we disagree because there is truth in other people's opinions. In any case, we all have a choice to decide what we read. I just hope my opinions are informed before I let my knee jerk.
"How many more people have to die before no one ever dies again?" - Daniel Haley, The Onion
Kevnar wrote: Well just becuase we may disagree, doesn't mean there is not some truth in another person's opinions. Sometimes we disagree because there is truth in other people's opinions. Like I wrote to tidge, just don't like biased articles using misleading reasoning to make their point. Read again: "It is France that is truly motivated by oil politics, and Germany that is motivated by economics, not the U.S." Now, I stopped reading the article, because the writer is trying to prove US is NOT motivated by oil politics just saying that their counterparts are. It's simplistic and an offense to the reader's IQ. It's just like saying: "It is C that has a scary syntax for beginners, not C++". You are trying to prove that C++ has a nice syntax for beginners just because C also has such a syntax. The article is full of this kind of contradiction and simplistic reasoning. So, I don't mind reading opinions contrary to mine. Actually, contrary to most people, I like doing it, because then I'll have more arguments when I try to prove my points. Reading something you agree with won't give you as many arguments...
It's not the fall that kills you: it's the sudden stop - Down by Law, Jim Jamursch (1986)
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I thought that was cliear, just by controlling Iraq's oil.
But the oil has always been there? If it was because of the oil, why wouldn't this have happened already? Couldn't it have anything to do with the fact that Saddam has yet to come into compliance with agreements he signed years ago? But then, you could make the counter-point asking "Then why is it now becoming an issue?" The only facts, are statements made by Bush saying that intelligences shows him terrorism flowing through Iraq, he sees them as a threat, and to top it off they have weapons of mass distruction that could be aqcuired by terrorists (not to mention those weapons are illegal and Iraq has already said they don't exist). What will controlling Iraq's oil do? Is the U.S. going to say "Hey, we own all the oil in Iraq now, and the U.S. gets it all for free?" I would be surprised if this were the case, but we'll have to wait and see. Should that be the case, the U.N. should come down on the U.S. Currently the U.S. gets more oil from Saudi Arabia and Mexico than they do from Iraq.