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From: Eeyore on 4 Aug 2006 00:41 Phat Bytestard wrote: > I'd rather be pig ignorant than dirt dumb. S'ok. You're both. Be proud of it and wave the flag ! Graham
From: Phat Bytestard on 4 Aug 2006 00:44 On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 02:34:56 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> Gave us: >krw wrote: >> >> In article <44D2630E.4FF087AA(a)earthlink.net>, >> mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net says... >> > Jim Thompson wrote: >> > > >> > > On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:42:59 -0700, John Larkin >> > > <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >> > > >> > > >On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:58:43 +0100, Eeyore >> > > ><rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >> > > > >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >>Don Bowey wrote: >> > > >> >> > > >>> On 8/2/06 10:08 PM, in article 44D184CF.F95B86DF(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com, >> > > >>> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> Is your education really that bad in England? They got lots of brand >> > > >>> >> new airplanes that the Russian pilots flew from Ladd Air Force Base in >> > > >>> >> Alaska, across the Bering Straight into Russia to fight the Germans. >> > > >>> >> they were built near the west coast, and flown to Alaska by some of the >> > > >>> >> first women pilots in the US. They were not allowed to fly in war >> > > >>> >> zones, so they were trained to fly transport missions to move war >> > > >>> >> materials and planes. >> > > >>> > >> > > >>> > That was after war was declared and us Brits *paid* for our airplanes I'll >> > > >>> > have you know ! >> > > >>> > >> > > >>> > Graham >> > > >>> >> > > >>> Sure. And the tooth fairy gave you the money. >> > > >>> >> > > >>> Some times you are really funny. >> > > >> >> > > >>Do you know who commisioned and paid for the famous P51 Mustang ? The British ! >> > > >> >> > > >>When it underperformed with its miserable US Allison engine, who had the bright >> > > >>idea of putting a *British* Rolls Royce Merlin in instead ? The *British* RAF ! >> > > >> >> > > >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P51 >> > > >> >> > > >>Graham >> > > > >> > > >This rah-rah nationalism is getting crazy. It's exactly the emotion >> > > >that starts wars. >> > > > >> > > >John >> > > >> > > Yep. Time to attack "England" ;-) >> > > >> > > Jim Thompson >> > >> > >> > >> > Shouldn't be too hard. The last time we had it out with them they >> > were whipped by a bunch of farmers with squirrel guns. >> >> Get real. They were simple hicks from Kentucky. Imagine what >> would happen if they had real weapons. >> >> -- >> Keith > > > Two problems with that argument: > > There was no Kentucky at the time, and I was born in Kentucky. They >were New York hicks, and a few hayseeds for good measure. ;-) There was Robert De La Salle... "La Salle of the Mississippi". Took a canoe all the way down the Ohio. First dude to do so, even though the Mississippi itself had already been discovered. c. 1669.
From: Phat Bytestard on 4 Aug 2006 00:46 On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:51:33 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> Gave us: > > >John Fields wrote: > >> On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:53:08 +0100, John Woodgate >> <jmw(a)jmwa.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> >> >In message <34c4d2p7opp8cvr997gvhfnm0sf7047gsn(a)4ax.com>, dated Thu, 3 >> >Aug 2006, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> >> >writes >> >>the grass-roots likability of most Americans. >> > >> >As manifested by the personal abuse levelled at any dissenter in this >> >and many other threads? >> >> --- >> Well, John, I think the "abuse" is retaliation against constant >> America-bashing, and I don't really think this is grass-roots, do >> you? > >Nothing at all to do with the popular sport your side of the pond of European >bashing at all then ? I work with brits all the time. Get along with them fine. Just not the dumb ones.
From: Phat Bytestard on 4 Aug 2006 00:47 On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:55:24 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> Gave us: > > >John Fields wrote: > >> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:48:55 +0100, Eeyore >> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >Frank Bemelman wrote: >> > >> >> "Dirk Bruere at NeoPax" <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> schreef in bericht >> >> news:4jetnlF7nbi8U1(a)individual.net... >> >> > >> >> > Oh... and Israel would disappear down the historical plughole. >> >> >> >> And good riddance with it. >> > >> >If only the same would happen to Islam ! >> >> --- >> It will. Any society which worships death is bound to die. Either >> through suicide or "death by cop". > >Islam doesn't worship death. You misunderstanding is a classic example of how >the USA gets it wrong, by being over-simplistic about every issue. > He didn't write it, dumbass. Also, he was talking about the extremist groups. They call those "societies" too ya know.
From: Eeyore on 4 Aug 2006 00:48
Bill Sloman wrote: > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> schreef in > bericht news:44D222B8.DD68A7C9(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com... > > > > > > Ken Smith wrote: > > > >> The US only sells the previous generation of hardware not the latest. > >> The > >> US airforce spends the money for development of the new fighters not the > >> other countries they get sold to. > > > > Well..... Britain's getting some JSFs too. > > And they are paying for, and carrying out, part of the development, along > with the Dutch and few other countries > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-35_Lightning_II > > What did you think the "Joint" in the Joint Strike Fighter meant? Weed? Me ? Of course not. Simply pointing out that the idea that only the USA get the their latest fighters is plain wrong. Graham |