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From: John Fields on 6 Oct 2006 14:48 On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:11:01 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote: > >> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote >> > >> > I see terrorist attack doesn't make the top twenty then :-) That war on >> > tobacco really needs to get started soon. >> >> It has, thankfully. Most major cities in the US ban tobacco use in public >> places, and several states are considering state-wide bans. Still perfectly >> legal at home and in most places outdoors, but at least I can eat dinner in >> a restaurant without smoke making me physically ill. > >I can barely wait for the UK law banning smoking in public places to come into >effect. It'll be so much nicer. --- The last time my wife came back from the UK she said she couldn't believe how much you people smoke. How much do you all smoke? -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer
From: T Wake on 6 Oct 2006 14:51 "JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message news:c2fci252bbadleojqridu5hhpu2o03m460(a)4ax.com... > On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:54:29 +0100, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> Gave us: > >> >> >>John Fields wrote: >> >>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >Homer J Simpson wrote: >>> >> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote in message >>> >> >>> >> >> I'm saying that if someone threatens their fundamental freedoms, >>> >> >> the >>> >> >> British public will defend them. >>> >> > >>> >> > Hopefully. >>> >> > >>> >> > I grow less and less sure of this as I watch public debate each >>> >> > day. >>> >> >>> >> A mistake Hitler made. He read reports of pacifist debates in the UK >>> >> and >>> >> assumed they were a guide to the lack of response to be expected >>> >> during an >>> >> attack on Britain. >>> >> >>> >> The British Air Force response showed him the error of his ways. >>> > >>> >The Royal Air Force to be entirely accurate but yes, we were certainly >>> >far >>> >from unready. In fact Britain's armaments industry had been working >>> >hard in >>> >the years preceding WW2 to make the planes ( and other stuff ) we knew >>> >we >>> >were going to need. >>> >>> --- >>> And yet, had we not come to your rescue, you'd be dog meat today. >> >>A ridiculous idea. We won the Battle of Britain and Germany knew it >>couldn't >>invade without air superiority. >> > > All of Europe would have been toast without us... including you, > chump. Nice one. When are you doing a tour of comedy clubs? Mainland Europe _was_ toast.
From: T Wake on 6 Oct 2006 14:54 "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message news:4525D591.177CE2D7(a)earthlink.net... >T Wake wrote: >> >> "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message >> news:45258DFB.BBB5B87C(a)earthlink.net... >> >T Wake wrote: >> >> >> >> Yes. >> >> >> >> Are you struggling with the word choice? >> > >> > >> > I have no problems with it, but you seem to. >> > >> >> Really. >> >> Let us review the information. >> >> I object to being _forced_ to carry an ID card. >> >> You respond with comments about my driving licence - which is based on a >> _choice_ I made. >> >> Can you explain to me where _I_ have the problem understanding the word >> use? >> I cant really see it. > > > So, you don't carry anything else? No ATM card, credit cards, > membership cards? An insurance card so you don't die while waiting for > the hospital to make sure they will be paid for their services? > I feel like I am stuck in a time warp here. I went for a jog today and I carried no cashpoint card, no driving licence, no membership card, no credit card. Each day (or when I can be bothered), I choose what I will carry with me. Being _forced_ to carry an ID card is a different matter. Do you see this? If compulsory ID cards were in force and I had been stopped out jogging, I would have broken the law and been subject to arrest. That is not a choice in _any_ dictionary I have ever come across. Do you have a different one? Now, back to the question which you so deftly ignored Can you explain to me where _I_ have the problem understanding the word [choice] use?
From: T Wake on 6 Oct 2006 14:54 "Kurt Ullman" <kurtullman(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:kurtullman-F089CF.08100906102006(a)customer-201-125-217-207.uninet.net.mx... > In article <4525DA2C.7CFA4E5E(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: >> >> > So, you don't carry anything else?........... >> > .........An insurance card so you don't die while waiting for >> > the hospital to make sure they will be paid for their services? >> >> You really don't know much about the UK do you ? >> >> Medical services are free. >> > You pay for them through taxes (among other ways). They ain't free no > matter what the politicians tell you. Ok, free at the point of sale.
From: T Wake on 6 Oct 2006 14:55
<lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:7EhVg.11618$6S3.3856(a)newssvr25.news.prodigy.net... > > "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote in message > news:ZN2dnYGSaZz1DrjYnZ2dnUVZ8qednZ2d(a)pipex.net... >> >> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message >> news:7mgVg.7738$TV3.4969(a)newssvr21.news.prodigy.com... >>> >>> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote in message >>> news:p62dnVv9ou9UFbjYRVnyig(a)pipex.net... >>>> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote in message >>>> news:r3fVg.8959$GR.3051(a)newssvr29.news.prodigy.net... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Not sure about spelling, but I've read some very well-researched >>>>> serious scholarly linguistic articles that say that the British >>>>> English accent at the time of the American colonies was very much >>>>> closer to the current New England accent than to the current variety >>>>> of British accents. It seems speech in the "colonies" was and is much >>>>> more conservative than speech in the mother land. I don't remember >>>>> what their evidence was, there are obviously no audio tapes to >>>>> compare. >>>> >>>> It has the potential (and that dreaded "ring of truth") however the >>>> reality is possibly very, very far from the case. >>>> >>>> Both sets of languages have had an equal time to "evolve" into their >>>> current form. The US has been much more influenced by immigrant >>>> linguistics over that period than England has, so I am inclined to >>>> doubt the validity of the claim. >>>> >>>> I suspect both languages are equally distant from the English spoken in >>>> (say) 1775. >>> >>> Yeah, I know, those were all *exactly* the same response I had when I >>> first heard the thesis. But I do remember that the evidence was >>> convincing. Dammit all, I wish I could remember where I read/saw that. >>> I don't expect you to take my word for it, but to me, it really was more >>> convincing than I've managed to convey. >> >> It would be interesting to see it. >> >>>>> Some linguists even interpret the shifts in England as related to >>>>> blueblood Londoners putting on airs, and that accent subsequently >>>>> catching on in other parts of the country. I suspect this last part >>>>> is a bit of a stretch, but the whole thing is an interesting thesis. >>>>> I find it fascinating to think about how people spoke in the past, and >>>>> how language has evolved. Puts a whole new perspective in the various >>>>> new inner-city lexicons and pronunciations that have developed, even >>>>> in my lifetime. >>>> >>>> Languages evolve all the time. Welsh is a good example. >>> >>> Yep, that's what I find so fascinating. So, did Welsh get all the extra >>> consonants that would otherwise have gone with the vowels ("u") you >>> English stole? :^) >>> >> >> Yes. It is even funnier listening to their conversation because all the >> modern words are in English. So you get "bable bable Television bable >> bable microwave cooker bable bable" and so on. > > > Kind of like reading a Korean/Japanese/Chinese chemistry patent. A lot of > stuff that looks like Martian (for all I know), interspersed with chemical > names. > LOL, I can imagine. I still get that feeling when I read physics texts.......... (I really was a bad student). |