Haggis is a cultural artefact that simply happens to be eaten. To call it "a food product" is to display cultural insensitivity or perhaps ignorance.
In the same way, bagpipe music simply happens to be listened to but modern research has established that it is not, strictly speaking, "music" as we understand that term.
We had problems for years with Americans who would buy British cars thinking they were "transportation" when they were simply objects of veneration, mean to be washed and polished but occasionally kicked and sworn at.
European so-called "football" is not strictly speaking "a sport" but amateur theatrics, when half-naked young men simulate being mortally wounded before skipping off like young gazelles moments later.
Many Americans abroad do not understand that the ice cube, in Europe, is not meant as a device to actually cool drinks. No, it is just that two of them are put in the glass of luke-warm Coca-Cola to keep the limp slice of lemon from becoming lonesome.
so chucks, you have your own personal definition of haggis, bagpipe music, british cars, half naked european footballers and ice cubes. are you perchance of american descent?
Anyway, anyone interested in the fact that BHO may NOT be an American? Berg has kept his lawsuit going and an interesting video
Nah...the guy that brought that one up on the other BBS has already been shot out of the sky by numerous parties.
If I could just cut and paste between all these places it'd be so much simpler.
Here's the link to some legal docket. I haven't even read it. Three pages worth of back-and-forth just to shoot down another rumor from the right-wing propaganda machine. (Yawn)
Don Brown
P.S. Check the Pittsburgh Trib (Richard Mellon Scaife's rag) for the next talking point. But seeing as I've already done the research to shoot it down, I guess there won't be much to gain from it will there ?
Many Americans abroad do not understand that the ice cube, in Europe, is not meant as a device to actually cool drinks.
All too true chuks. As far as this American is concerned the French have never figured out ice, and showers.
The ice situation I have learned to overcome with stealth and deception. However, I still cannot figure out to take a shower, even in a rather large bathtub that never have a shower curtain installed, without getting water all over the bathroom floor.
Have I ever told you the story of the very nice large semi-suite hotel room in Bordeaux, France? The one where there was a very nice bathroom with a double sink marble counter, large bathtub with a shower head (no shower curtain of course) and a bidet, but no toilet.
Originally mostly Irish, partly French, 4th-generation American chuks tells it as it is without fear or favour.
I have done eat haggis, listened to bagpipe music... correction, listened to bagpipes, spent some years repairing British cars and motorcycles and very much enjoyed watching this or that "footballer" rolling around in agony one moment but the next (Hosannah! A miracle!) spring to his feet and go trotting off untroubled, pausing only to spit, scratch and adjust his jockstrap (and you think WE are rude).
After more than 20 years in Europe I am such an unbelievable expert in almost all aspects of so-called European culture (The Acropolis? A run-down copy of the post office in Westport, Connecticut. Neuschwanstein, Mad King Ludwig's fave castle? Copied from Tinkerbell's Castle, Disneyland.) that it is almost frightening. Hell, I even prefer my Freedom Fries with mayonnaise!
The one thing I have never cracked is the ice issue, though. What, the Red Army stole all the ice cubes? Then the Europeans lost the recipe? Whatever the reason, pee-warm Coke is the order of the day.
Of course the States went, years ago, to the other extreme, the giant jumbo cup of ice with 4 ounces of soda filling the tiny gaps, as if to say that ice is much cheaper than Coke. Nobody is perfect, although we do come closest.
The shower is simple. You take the extra towels, rolled, and use them as a dam at the bottom of the bathroom door to keep the water from flooding the room and just let her rip! Sometimes the ceiling in the room under yours collapses from water damage but this normally occurs well after you have checked out and gone on your way.
The bidet, hmm. I never have figured that one out. You wash your poodle in it?
What is it with Southerners and "the wife"? Is she like "the mule" or "the car" or "the tractor". Try that construction up here in the People's Republic of Massachusetts and a dozen women will take you apart like boiled chicken.
One advantage you, the GTF, have is living among reasonable people, I have to really live with people that think like you. And it ain't pretty. Massachusetts is populated with the most over-educated, stupid people in the world. Take them out of a classroom and watch out! They can't drive, they are so politically correct to be painful and every decision turns into a Cartesian argument. It's a wonder they can get out of bed. Deval Patrick has to explain McCain's small, but stubborn, support. What an idiot, moved in from Chicago and the Clinton administration, he has made a hash of already bad government.
I suggest visiting Italy and France to see what socialism is really like-expensive, over-regulated, populated by people that seem not to work. It is true the average European works 30% fewer hours than 30 years ago. Why? Because of taxation regime. Then buy a ticket to a real hellhole-Luanda, Angola or Equatorial Guinea, for example, to see what having petroleum and too much government will get you-not much. The government steals whatever it wants and gives back nada, zippo, zilch. Zimbabwe would be another education. The most amazing thing-the people are far happier than the average Bostonian thinking about a BHO government. Everyone smiles, helps out despite living in disaster area. I go to Hongers, Beijing, Italy and Mumbai next month, all interesting.
Irish/Sicilian my god, i knew an irish/polish girl once, she was the lovliest fun persons untill she had a couple of glasses of cider.... i used to lock myself in the toilet.
galaxy flier, i'm really lucky, i live in the best place on earth, when i'm at home
n a situation like Darfur, I think that the world has a self-interest in ensuring that genocide is not taking place on our watch. Not only because of the moral and ethical implications, but also because chaos in Sudan ends up spilling over into Chad. It ends up spilling over into other parts of Africa, can end up being repositories of terrorist activity.
Does he really think the world has a self-interest in Darfur? If so, why hasn't anything been done to stop the violence? China, perhaps?
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OBAMA: You know, the truth is that this was an example where we had some poor phrasing in the speech. And we immediately tried to correct the interpretation that was given. The point we were simply making was, is that we don't want barbed wire running through Jerusalem, similar to the way it was prior to the '67 war, that it is possible for us to create a Jerusalem that is cohesive and coherent.
I was not trying to predetermine what are essentially final status issues. I think the Clinton formulation provides a starting point for discussions between the parties.
Too bad the Palestinians don't agree!!
I've read it, shucking and jiving, nothing to see there.
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