Subject: Edam, in more slices
From: zazie (zazie@raketnet.nl)
Date: Thu Jul 19 2001 - 04:04:17 GMT
Zazie wrote:
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Well, it's just that George Bush has been doing so many
stupid egotistical things lately, it kind of reflects on all of you.
And really, if there is ANYWHERE in America serious thought that relative
simple books like C.S. Lewis Narnia books are so "difficult" that anyone
who reads them is "in an ivory tower" yes, then I'm really wondering and
scared whether in general Americans are dumb. Ignorant, we knew that, with
a president who thinks that Belgium is the capital of Europe, what else can
we think? But outright stupidity on average, hmmm.
All those nukes with such dumb people ... somebody should write a novel
about that.
Scottie replied:
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After these latest effusions from Holland, you Yanks will
appreciate why the great majority of us Brits look westward
to our cousins across the wide Atlantic (as we always have
done) for mutual understanding & enrichment.
Your President was essentially correct when he identified
Belgium as the capital of Europe. And you can see in Brussells
a perfect microcosm of the corruption, conformity & (laughably
ill-founded) conceit that characterises the New Europe.
All this would be enough to deter us from having anything
further to do with what is increasingly obviously a doomed
enterprise. But the real smackeroo, the true killer, what closes
off all further discussion, is the prospect of being exposed,
day in day out, to the inimitable, leaden humour of a load
of jolly, milk-fed Dutchmen.
Zazie stinged back:
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I think it is just a teeny weeny hypocrite, for an Irishman to give
comments about morals in Europe, especially since you consider that, after
receiving 80 billion dollars in funding from those Europeans the Irish
effectively vetoed the admittance of new Eastern European member states on
the grounds that it would cost them money.
As for Northern-Irish, I guess it's quite sad to identify yourself with a
country that either looks down upon you (England) or doesn't really take
you serious (the US).
But still, I recommend the irish scotsman for all your alliterations and
vocabulary-extending purposes.
PS and what wrong with milk? Are you a girl?
seandr@microsoft.com quasi-desparately joked:
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Oh dear. First the German sense of humor gets a poke in the eye. Now the
Dutch get it in the groin. It's really a quite miracle we're only up to
the 2nd World War. Thankfully, most of the nationalistic squawking that
seems to characterize intra-European relations doesn't carry across the
Atlantic to interrupt 24 hour coverage of "The Congressman and the
Missing Intern".
Nevertheless, I'll grant that the British are pretty damn funny. While
in NYC a few weeks ago, I rented a bootlegged copy of Eddie Izzard's
_Dressed to Kill_ and laughed myself to tears. Yanks, if you can get
your hands on an Eddie Izzard video, I highly recommend it.- Sean
Scottie Bowman bawled:
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I was only sticking up for youses chaps, by Jingo.
Tim sharply commented:
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A textbook example, I must add, of the observation that no good deed
goes unpunished.
Well, that all depends on how you define "good deed", doesn't it?
It's pretty sad actually. Scott desperately wants to be American-like
(seemingly) and defends them and all that and the first American reply
is sort of a stab in the back ... This gives me a definite feeling of
"Eeek!"
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