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There does seem to be a bit of an obsession with us over there, yeah. It was quite noticeable. Not always bad (nor great). Something akin to rolling your eyes at the mischievous puppy.

Yes, I think I captured it with that.

Well, when you are in the local pub getting drunk, you need to wear a t-shirt with either a gun or Jesus on it. If anyone gives you any shit, you may salute them with one of these…
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2275/2275490330_6c6563861d_o.jpg

It does have its touching moments.

24 hours after 9/11 most of the pubs here had the Stars and Stripes flying outside. At a firework display I went to in East Sussex a few weeks later, the leader of the firework society (they march through the ancient towns with flaming torches and drums – it’s all very pagan down there) was proudly carry, not the Union Flag but, again, the Stars and Stripes.

Weasel’s right, of course, there are toe-curlingly embarrassing aspects too. I predict an awful lot of hurried turnings off of the news in my future.

Ooh. PnB, that’s precious. I’m savin’ that photo and I’ll use it later after I scrub the serial numbers off.

Dave, y’know why they’re lookin’ at us and rollin’ their eyes like we’re a puppy that’s just piddled on the linoleum?

We are the puppy. As a nation we have endless energy, some naivete, and boundless enthusiasm fo the Present Here And Now. They are old and tired.

We believe in ourselves (and they no longer do) even if we’re wrong; We are willing to TRY (they gave up around the time of Chamberlain) even if it is hopeless, and we are willing to try to change (they no longer can) if it has a chance of improving things.

There’s a lot to be said for the idea that the best part if the EU emigrated to here decades ago.

– And, yes, I had to look up emigrate/immigrate – – I never could keep those fucking definitions straight. One’s going from here to there, the other – there to here.

I REALLY feel sorry that Weaz’s gonna only see/hear the worst/filtered/nuanced part of what we here in the States are up to. That’s gonna suck quite a bit.

BTW: I exclude great Britain and the Aussies from my li’l critique: they still have at least some spine, although England’s is being torqued quite a bit.

Of course, Great Britain and Australia have the advantage of, you know, being separated from Europe. That might play a role.

Although I wouldn’t be too swift to write off the Euros. (The people, not the funny money.) We wear our exclusivity and pride on our sleeves; Europeans have it laying latent. At some point, the fuse will reach the bomb and these anti-European elements (which includes far left appeasers and multi-culti pundits) will find a very hostile audience.

I think part of European fascination with us (U.S.) has to do with a bit of envy: they used to be so proud of themselves at one time too. Some look up to us, even if they may not admit it, especially what with the encroachment of Occidentalism (the East’s gross mischaracterization and rejection of the West; the West’s Orientalism tends to be benign while the East’s Occidentalism tends to be malicious). I think it worries them and they derive hope that not all Westerners are swallowing Occidentalist claptrap even though the higher echelons of Europe are.

One reason why we need an American president who is proud to be American.

Muslihoon – I hope you are right. I believe much of what you say is true.

I will willingly and humbly apologize to the entire EU when they grow some of that sack you claim is laying latent.

That said, I share some of America’s frustration with Europe.

Let me give you my perspective. Over the past few centuries, the best scholarship and research on South Asia, no matter what field or subject, was done and published by Europeans (particularly Englishmen). Now, their bias shows up pretty strongly but at the same time they did not utterly dismiss the subject of the research as complete rubes, barbarians, or idiots. They were just different. And the thoroughness and detail and clarity with which they studied and wrote is amazing. If I see a book on South Asian written by some English white boy, I’ll grab it; if I see one written by a South Asian, I’d be hesitant.

Of course, the British had no stake in thoroughly dissecting South Asia whereas South Asians fear that doing so robs them of their foundation. One has to look in from outside to get a good view.

But now? I’d trust a book written by al-Hajj this or ash-Shaykh that or al-Mujahid ash-Shahid Somethingorother over something written by a European. What a modern European writes is completely useless.

Ooh. PnB, that’s precious.

Yes, it is. I have been saving it myself. Preferably to use on an anti-American BDS suffering fruit that I have butted heads with on more than one occasion. Granted that these days I would like to give Bush a headbutt my own self, but that is beside the point.
Unfortunately, we butted heads on a forum to do with ‘a hobby’ and the PC prisses said that any discussion outside the realm of said hobby would be deleted…and fruitty-mcfruitfruit was given a warning that if he started his crap with me one more time, he would be banned. Grrrr….I am well able to fend for myself…bahhhh.
*sigh* I never got to flip him/her/it that bird and the forum has stunk ever since. Bare minimum of traffic now.

Heh. Over-moderated forums are the worst.

I participate in a few hobby forums, and I cherish being able to go there and NOT talk politics. It’s just nice to talk hobby once in a while, you know? I’m sure, if political affiliations were laid on the table, I would not be happy with some of my playmates. But that’s why it’s nice to give it a rest once in a while.

I hate it when some maroon brings up a political topic on one of those boards. I usually try to avoid weighing in, but I can only see a thread float to the top so many times before my nerve breaks.

PnB – I promise I will try to expend that photo-gesture wisely and well.

Refrain from getting drunk and shooting up a megachurch, please.

Oh that’s nice, real nice. Where do you get off thinking you can leave and then tell us not to have any fun?

Weaz – you need to watch out for the sword-wielders over there. They gots a bunch over there. I think its all that King Arthur stuff they grow up with. Screw the guns.

Off topic, but Laura W over at Aces is talkin’ about the ‘Flu and how the shot is only 40% effective.

I already had my dose and am still occasionally gak’ing up the odd bit of lung tissue and chromatically interesting pus.

Anyone else get this shit yet? Did you survive?

The sword wielders over there are mostly schizophrenic Caribbeaners, from what I can tell. The BBC is parsimonious with its ethnic data, but it’s well known that folk from the isles have a tendency to the schiz. And swords.

We have two bugs going around here. The Cold from Hell, and a stomach/poopie bug. I picked up the former coming through Gatwick just after Christmas, and I’m still hacking up hairballs. I’ve managed to avoid the digestive disease so far.

I’m sympathetic for you, of course. I don’t know which breeed I had. It was a kind of all-over “you’re fucked” feeling with a lot of coughing and hacking and some throwing up.

I didn’t know the sword-wielders were mostly from Pirateland? I wonder why? Probably all that rum.

We have one of those Schizo’s in my fambly. And – no – it isn’t me.

Well in this particular club or forum, it was formed to not only talk about the ‘hobby’ but to get to know each other. Anything was game so long as you didn’t personally attack someone. Kids, jobs, human interest, etc. Besides, we meet once or twice a year.

Problem is, the hobby has to do with ‘collecting’ and attracts mostly women and homosexuals (and assorted oddballs). Talk about estrogen poisoning.

Everyone got along for the most part with the occasional menopausal or gay tantrum speedbump.

Until the 2004 elections. Then things started sliding into the toilet. And I’ll be damned if I will let the idiotic spew go unchallenged. Thus, the head butting.

Add to that it seemed because several posters were so easily offended, the moderators didn’t want to be bothered and swung their hammer. Even discussions about the hobby got the ban stick. For example….we were discussing how last year’s creation was downright ugly and wondered who was the retard behind the curtain creating it. Another member, from the UK, cried because we might be hurting the feelings of said ‘artist’. WTF? I would think that if they were my creations I would be very interested in what the buying public thought about them so that I could tweak and improve if needed. Especially when we are talking hundreds of dollars per unit. Hideous is hideous. When we tried to reason with her and a couple of others, it got ugly.

So now most people don’t even bother.

Anyone else get this shit yet? Did you survive?

*knocking on wood*
I am hoping that I don’t get it. Not sure if my parts of the woods have seen either affliction yet, though something is working it’s way through the kid’s school. Son doesn’t know if it is the squirts or respiratory. Not a hard kind of thing to figure out, but he is a male – their observatory skills are nil if it isn’t game related.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQOQWAKnB1Q

Thank you, Gibby.

PnB – I hope you and your stay strangers with this crud.

At the risk of sounding weak, that link made me cry, Gibby.

To this day, no matter what gripes I have with Britain and Canada, their overwhelming show of support, from bottom to the top, lets me know we have friends when we need it.

Some time ago, someone posted somewhere a few dozen pictures of how others reacted around the world. Amazing. People of all colors and stripes were paying tribute, crying, mourning.

That said, 9/11 is still a sore spot with me. It, probably more than anything, gets me emotional.

Oh, but let me tell you something else. Remember when a ring of terrorists was busted in England, who were about to launch a major terrorist attacks on flights from London to the US? That enraged me to no end. After that and the other various manifestations of terrorism in England, it had come to the point that we disavowed any connection with Pakistan. “Pakistani” had become a hiss and byword.

And I flew a day after the break-up of the terrorist plot. From Pakistan. To London. En route to the US. Yeah. We were on the tarmac for six hours. And we were lucky. The flight before us was on the tarmac for a good twelve hours. All flights from Pakistan were parked far away from the airport and stayed on the tarmac until they were cleared. An hour stop for refueling became six hours of being cooped up in the plane.

Incidently, I had resolved in my head as the story was breaking (a day before our departure) that if anyone tried to hijack the plane or do anything untoward, I would kill him. Kill. Him.

Thank you, Muslims. You put me in a murderous rage.

PnB –

“I would think that if they were my creations I would be very interested in what the buying public thought”

I can’t figure it out, but a large portion of the people out there ask what you think then get upset if you don’t gush over it or actually have a non-orgasmic critique. I value other’s insights and usually when I run into one of those folks I just hand them a paper and say “Tell me what you want me to say and I’ll pretend I’m a $20 hooker and try to sound like I mean it.” (stolen from “Murphy Brown” but those are “just words” in Obama-speak)

Other than that, kids are the ultimate plague carriers. I suspect that if we ever did have a superbug, just keeping the rodents at home would go a long way to fizzling it out.

– LK

Aw, shucks, Gibby. The good part of the ‘special relationship’ was another post for another day.

Wow. The Wuzzadems have disappeared all of February.

While, on the one hand, it was probably a good idea, I’m kind of sorry I don’t have a copy of that comments thread. That was some pharmaceutical grade bile.

It also neatly illustrated McCain’s dilemma (embodied by McCain supporters): the sneaking suspicion that he hates the Right far more than he ever hated the Left, whatever his lifetime AMA rating.

One wonders what their motivation for trying to change (i.e. delete) the past was? Won’t there be a copy or archive of it somewhere? Seems everything else gets archived.

The front page is in Google’s cache, but not the comments. Which is where the real nasty was. I guess it’s easier to disappear comments.

I wonder what set them off in the first place. I don’t know if anything in presidential politics moves me like that.

Perhaps it was something earlier in the month of Feb. Hence the whole-Feb deletion.

I bet this is what English healthcare is like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viy_tjrt_pU

How to drink wine: http://chasemeladies.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post.html

I just had to share: Egyptian flu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTPKfixHO6g).

Musli’s having a YouTube day. Sadly, I can’t share until I get home…YT is blocked by the Stupid Filter.

That’s not “a filter which removes stupid from the internet,” as handy as that might be, it is “a filter which is dumb.”

Sorry. 🙁

S’okay. I’ll enjoy it when I get there.

Your Grace! Head over to The Hostages! Look at the top picture. Hehehehehehehe.

Hee! It’s not bad, you know.

One of my dad’s friends ordered spotted dick in a restaurant on a visit, and he said, “I don’t know what I’m going to tell my friends back home.”

And I said, “tell them it’s the best thing you ever put in your mouth.”

I think my dad wanted to strangle me.

Speaking of people who want to strangle me, Uncle B dared me to post this link, along with the observation, “Shit, you’d look like a dope in a burqa….”

I love that Koran.doc thingy.

Ooooh, nice link, Your Grace! Thank you (and Uncle B) for the much-needed chuckles!

Infidels!

You are all on THE LIST now!

Sorry to get off topic but:

That Flagweasel artwork is really quite good! Very slick and clean.

(You can always tell “slick and clean” because it looks good in B&W)

(And don’t be fooled into thinking I know a friggin’ thing about what I’m talking about.)

I really like it, Weaz.

Mo,

Blow.

Careful, McGoo. He just might like to do that.

Well, if he does blow, it will be the best thing he ever put in his mouth….

I’m getting distinctly nervous about the direction this conversation is taking…

Besides, I’m not convinced Mo could swallow everything I’d have to say to him…

Ba-dum…pah!

Could I be more strict with my diet? ,

Now, according to the news story, the restrictions have been tightened further: his visits to Dharamsala are limited and he is largely prohibited from leaving Sidhbari, the town where he resides. ,

You know, these last two guys are really terrible spammers. There aren’t even links associated with them.

From what has been reported and rumored, there might be a youtube app with it at launch that would let you play videos. ,

A really really bad spambot has decided to hump this thread, I guess.

And by “bad” I mean pointless. No links, no pitches. What does it want?

Yeah, Stoaty, and after your fans check the spambot out, they click on my old, old comment up there above the spam and visit me! You’ve been my #1 link source for the last 2 days! Thanks! 🙂

Meanwhile – wasn’t that super-neat art up there also in color? I remember vibrant flag colors and a shining heroic Stoaty In Full Leap….or was that a dream?

Tee-shirt!!!!

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