From: Eeyore on 1 Aug 2006 00:29 John Larkin wrote: > On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:05:45 +0100, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > > >You guys wouldn't understand real news untainted by US bias if you were slapped round the face with > >it. > > Hey, we get an hour of BBC news on TV every night, and sometimes I > manage to stay awake for a lot of it. And there's the always > thought-provoking Page 3. The Sun is more comic than newspaper tbh :~) and I'm sure you have your equivalents. What channel do you see the BBC news on btw ? I dare say you're hardly typical though. I for my part often catch ABC's news headlines on BBC News 24. Graham
From: Phat Bytestard on 1 Aug 2006 00:32 On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:13:23 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> Gave us: >Which only goes to show how out of sync the USA is with the entire rest of the >world. Nothing like a good, old fashioned E-1 grade assessment by a twit that has absolutely no clue what is really going on in the world. > Along with gas-guzzling SUVs, Land Rover, and the Mercedes desert vehicles have been around for years, and Benz gets like gallons per mile in the bush. You were saying? > 400 lb human beings and all that other >nonsense too. Hahaha! You're an idiot!
From: John Larkin on 1 Aug 2006 00:37 On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:13:23 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > > >John Larkin wrote: > >> On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:04:26 +0100, Eeyore >> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >This is the kind of attitude that makes the USA so truly loathesome. >> >> We like it! > >Which only goes to show how out of sync the USA is with the entire rest of the >world. Along with gas-guzzling SUVs, 400 lb human beings and all that other >nonsense too. > Whoa, we're talking some serious nationalistic stereotyping here. As if Europe is "the entire rest of the world", which it sure ain't. And I recently read that the French women are getting fat, too. Last time I was in Oxford, most of the engineers and scientists I was working with were a lot rounder than I am. My wife weighs 105, and I like her that way. How much do you weigh? John
From: John Larkin on 1 Aug 2006 00:40 On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:15:04 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > > >"Michael A. Terrell" wrote: > >> Eeyore wrote: >> > >> > Phat Bytestard wrote: >> > >> > > Yes. Our "civil militias" arm themselves with legal firearms, not >> > > military hardware. >> > >> > Rubbish. 'Military hardware' is legal under your clueless firearms regulations. >> > >> > Graham >> >> Since when? I want a B52 fully equipped with nuclear warheads, and >> enough fuel to reach Europe, if it is. > >Automatic assault weapons are certainly legal. > >Graham Possession of an automatic weapon (or a bazooka, or explosives, or a sawed-off shotgun) is a Federal felony here. John
From: John Larkin on 1 Aug 2006 00:42
On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:14:11 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > > >Phat Bytestard wrote: > >> On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:47:16 +0100, Eeyore >> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> Gave us: >> >> > >> >They see things from another perspective of course. Maybe you should think about >> >that. >> >> The word for today for you is propaganda. That is what you are a >> victim of. > >Fuuny how I see it *exactly* the other way. Along with the other 95% of humanity. > Hardly 95%. The Indians and, even more, the Chinese see radical Islam as a threat. 2.5 billion right there. John |