Absurdity This Week In America
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
So, does that mean I should go around and take down the flags of the US flying in Scotland? Like the one over the US Consulate
Any US Embassy or Consulate and any US vehicle marked with diplomatic plates is sovereign US territory. Even in Scotland. Just as any other Embassy or Consulate or appropriately marked vehicle in the United States is sovereign territory of the respective country. -Sean ---- Shag a Lizard
What about hotels? Or any other place that a US Flag may be flown in Scotland? Should that be taken down. According to the OP it must be insulting to me!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog
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Flying a foreign flag above the native flag in any country is an act of invasion that should not be tolerated. Is is the symbol of conquest. I would expect any Americans who attempted the same in Mexico to experience the same repercussions.
espeir wrote:
Flying a foreign flag above the native flag in any country is an act of invasion that should not be tolerated.
Come to Scotland and you'll see it on most government buildings.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog
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What about hotels? Or any other place that a US Flag may be flown in Scotland? Should that be taken down. According to the OP it must be insulting to me!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog
I suppose if it offends the sensibilities of the Scottish go for it. It's your country. :) -Sean ---- Shag a Lizard
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I suppose if it offends the sensibilities of the Scottish go for it. It's your country. :) -Sean ---- Shag a Lizard
It doesn't! That is my whole point. Why should it offend the sensibilities of anyone. Flying another country's flag on a hotel is, as far as I can see, a welcome to the foreign traveller. My school flew a French or German flag when exchange students were across as a welcome. In the student areas of Edinburgh you can see flags of all nationalities flying and it looks great. I think what a wonderful cross cultural society I live in. When I did a Spanish language course a while back the student flat I was in was decorated with Swedish flags intertwinded with Spanish flags in a display of friendship. (My flat mates were Swedish) I have sets of lapel badges with 2 flags each (the Scottish Saltire with other countries flags) as a signal of fraternité
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog
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It doesn't! That is my whole point. Why should it offend the sensibilities of anyone. Flying another country's flag on a hotel is, as far as I can see, a welcome to the foreign traveller. My school flew a French or German flag when exchange students were across as a welcome. In the student areas of Edinburgh you can see flags of all nationalities flying and it looks great. I think what a wonderful cross cultural society I live in. When I did a Spanish language course a while back the student flat I was in was decorated with Swedish flags intertwinded with Spanish flags in a display of friendship. (My flat mates were Swedish) I have sets of lapel badges with 2 flags each (the Scottish Saltire with other countries flags) as a signal of fraternité
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog
I agree with what you're saying, but what really matters is the intent behind the action. Friendly = Good. Taunting = Bad. -Sean ---- Shag a Lizard
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- Paris Hilton is being considered for the role of Mother Theresa in an upcoming film. My ability to suspend belief has finally been overwhelmed. First, she can't act worth spit. Second, casting her as Mother Theresa would be almost as plausible as casting George W. Bush as Ghandi. 2) A key DHS official was caught red-handed trying to seduce what he thought was a 14-year old into having sex. I wonder why that propensity didn't surface during his security background check for his top-secret clearance? This leads me to ask why it costs the government $100,000 to conduct just one of these security clearance checks if this kind of crap slips through. 3) School CHILDREN protesting proposed immigration reform. Where do they get off? They have no clue as to the intricacies or financial repercussions of making such changes. They've not experienced the burdon on their local healthcare infrastructure, and are shielded from detrimental effects on their education system. Vincente Fox has publicly stated that he wants to "take back" most of the southwestern United States, and he's doing it by re-populating the region with Mexicans, implcitly encouraging illegal border crossings by doing nothing to help the US to prevent it. If I see a Mexican flag flying at any public facility here in San Antonio, I will personally bring it down. I won't burn it or anything like that, but I will not tolerate a foreign country's flag being flown over U.S. soil. It doesn't belong here. Finally, if these people are so enthralled with their country of origin, then by god, go fuckin back there. [edit] 4) A woman purposely walks AROUND metal detectors and security staff, ignores REPEATED warnings to stop, and when a police officer attempts to restrain her, she PUNCHES HIM. The fun doesn't stop there. It turns out she's a congresswoman who forgot her identifying lapel pin and was not recognized by the security guards. Then hilarity ensues - she actually accuses the cop of ASSAULT, calls everyone involved racists, and the black community rallies behind her as if she was just pressed into slavery. First, NOBODY should get a free pass through a metal detector - NOBODY - even if they're wearing a super-secret lapel pin and decoder ring! Second, she knew the freakin rules, yet she IGNORED them. Lastly, she overtly challenged the authority of the police officer when he attempted to exercise a reasonable level of physical restraint to prevent her from proceeding further into the building. What kind of message did THAT sen
1 - this can't be true ? 2 - he THOUGHT she was 14 ? How old was she ? 3 - This is obviously a case of kids doing what thier parents tell them. When I was in Texas, we saw lots of Mexicans on street corners, I Was told they are illegal, and they stand there waiting for people to pick them up for work. My mate said he uses the facility at times, I said 'how do young people find work ?'. He didn't seem to have thought about it. US society relies on illegal immigrants, that needs to change, or they deserve rights, as far as I can see. I agree with the rest of your comments, tho. 4 - This woman is an idiot. Do you have a link ? Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
It's Gandhi. Ghand is Hindi for buttocks. :-D
I see a lot of Americans mis-spell it. But most Europeans get it right. I wonder why!
Because they can get to india on foot ? Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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You think he's gonna rise from the dead to kick my ass because I spelled his name wrong? ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
Never suggested anything remotely like that. :) Besides, you know as well as I do that he didn't do any a*se-kicking. Cheers, Vikram.
I don't know and you don't either. Militant Agnostic
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ihoecken wrote:
And you don't eat Hamburger?
AFAIK, hamburguers are American, (and not from Hamburg). :)
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Well the name ist American, it's true. But the food was eaten in Hamburg by the sailors since the 17th century. So it's German food with an American name. :) ------------------------------ PROST Roleplaying Game War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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- Paris Hilton is being considered for the role of Mother Theresa in an upcoming film. My ability to suspend belief has finally been overwhelmed. First, she can't act worth spit. Second, casting her as Mother Theresa would be almost as plausible as casting George W. Bush as Ghandi. 2) A key DHS official was caught red-handed trying to seduce what he thought was a 14-year old into having sex. I wonder why that propensity didn't surface during his security background check for his top-secret clearance? This leads me to ask why it costs the government $100,000 to conduct just one of these security clearance checks if this kind of crap slips through. 3) School CHILDREN protesting proposed immigration reform. Where do they get off? They have no clue as to the intricacies or financial repercussions of making such changes. They've not experienced the burdon on their local healthcare infrastructure, and are shielded from detrimental effects on their education system. Vincente Fox has publicly stated that he wants to "take back" most of the southwestern United States, and he's doing it by re-populating the region with Mexicans, implcitly encouraging illegal border crossings by doing nothing to help the US to prevent it. If I see a Mexican flag flying at any public facility here in San Antonio, I will personally bring it down. I won't burn it or anything like that, but I will not tolerate a foreign country's flag being flown over U.S. soil. It doesn't belong here. Finally, if these people are so enthralled with their country of origin, then by god, go fuckin back there. [edit] 4) A woman purposely walks AROUND metal detectors and security staff, ignores REPEATED warnings to stop, and when a police officer attempts to restrain her, she PUNCHES HIM. The fun doesn't stop there. It turns out she's a congresswoman who forgot her identifying lapel pin and was not recognized by the security guards. Then hilarity ensues - she actually accuses the cop of ASSAULT, calls everyone involved racists, and the black community rallies behind her as if she was just pressed into slavery. First, NOBODY should get a free pass through a metal detector - NOBODY - even if they're wearing a super-secret lapel pin and decoder ring! Second, she knew the freakin rules, yet she IGNORED them. Lastly, she overtly challenged the authority of the police officer when he attempted to exercise a reasonable level of physical restraint to prevent her from proceeding further into the building. What kind of message did THAT sen
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1 - this can't be true ? 2 - he THOUGHT she was 14 ? How old was she ? 3 - This is obviously a case of kids doing what thier parents tell them. When I was in Texas, we saw lots of Mexicans on street corners, I Was told they are illegal, and they stand there waiting for people to pick them up for work. My mate said he uses the facility at times, I said 'how do young people find work ?'. He didn't seem to have thought about it. US society relies on illegal immigrants, that needs to change, or they deserve rights, as far as I can see. I agree with the rest of your comments, tho. 4 - This woman is an idiot. Do you have a link ? Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
Christian Graus wrote:
2 - he THOUGHT she was 14 ? How old was she ?
She (or possibly he) was un undercover cop pretending to be a 14 year old girl. Regards, Nish
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- Paris Hilton is being considered for the role of Mother Theresa in an upcoming film. My ability to suspend belief has finally been overwhelmed. First, she can't act worth spit. Second, casting her as Mother Theresa would be almost as plausible as casting George W. Bush as Ghandi. 2) A key DHS official was caught red-handed trying to seduce what he thought was a 14-year old into having sex. I wonder why that propensity didn't surface during his security background check for his top-secret clearance? This leads me to ask why it costs the government $100,000 to conduct just one of these security clearance checks if this kind of crap slips through. 3) School CHILDREN protesting proposed immigration reform. Where do they get off? They have no clue as to the intricacies or financial repercussions of making such changes. They've not experienced the burdon on their local healthcare infrastructure, and are shielded from detrimental effects on their education system. Vincente Fox has publicly stated that he wants to "take back" most of the southwestern United States, and he's doing it by re-populating the region with Mexicans, implcitly encouraging illegal border crossings by doing nothing to help the US to prevent it. If I see a Mexican flag flying at any public facility here in San Antonio, I will personally bring it down. I won't burn it or anything like that, but I will not tolerate a foreign country's flag being flown over U.S. soil. It doesn't belong here. Finally, if these people are so enthralled with their country of origin, then by god, go fuckin back there. [edit] 4) A woman purposely walks AROUND metal detectors and security staff, ignores REPEATED warnings to stop, and when a police officer attempts to restrain her, she PUNCHES HIM. The fun doesn't stop there. It turns out she's a congresswoman who forgot her identifying lapel pin and was not recognized by the security guards. Then hilarity ensues - she actually accuses the cop of ASSAULT, calls everyone involved racists, and the black community rallies behind her as if she was just pressed into slavery. First, NOBODY should get a free pass through a metal detector - NOBODY - even if they're wearing a super-secret lapel pin and decoder ring! Second, she knew the freakin rules, yet she IGNORED them. Lastly, she overtly challenged the authority of the police officer when he attempted to exercise a reasonable level of physical restraint to prevent her from proceeding further into the building. What kind of message did THAT sen
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
- A woman purposely walks AROUND metal detectors and security staff, ignores REPEATED warnings to stop, and when a police officer attempts to restrain her, she PUNCHES HIM. The fun doesn't stop there. It turns out she's a congresswoman who forgot her identifying lapel pin and was not recognized by the security guards. Then hilarity ensues - she actually accuses the cop of ASSAULT, calls everyone involved racists, and the black community rallies behind her as if she was just pressed into slavery. First, NOBODY should get a free pass through a metal detector - NOBODY - even if they're wearing a super-secret lapel pin and decoder ring! Second, she knew the freakin rules, yet she IGNORED them. Lastly, she overtly challenged the authority of the police officer when he attempted to exercise a reasonable level of physical restraint to prevent her from proceeding further into the building. What kind of message did THAT send to her under-aged constituants? She should be recalled and replaced by someone that will be more likely to follow the rules.
How about the absurdity of her lawyer(s): McKinney and her attorneys insist that Capitol Police officers should be trained to recognize all 535 members of Congress on sight.
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain
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Christian Graus wrote:
2 - he THOUGHT she was 14 ? How old was she ?
She (or possibly he) was un undercover cop pretending to be a 14 year old girl. Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
The Ultimate Grid - The #1 MFC grid out there!A >20 ( probably ) girl who goes to guys and says 'I'm 14, let's have sex' ? What idiot would go for that, and surely he can claim that he thought she was lying, because she WAS older, he could claim he could tell ? Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
