to boot.
Wouldn't we all like to do it to a french Crapweasel.
Posted on 01/09/2005 6:18:02 PM PST by quidnunc
Over the past 6 weeks, I've been deeply enmeshed in one of those "go live at the end of the year" projects that we in the IT industry have learned to love. The kind where managers assume that since no one is working, why that would be the perfect time to go live!
Of course, it means that your doing complex work at the point of maximum distraction with many many holidays and no staff.
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Today, during an afternoon conference that wrapped up my project of the last 18 months, one of my Euro collegues tossed this little turd out to no one in particular:
See, this is why George Bush is so dumb, theres a disaster in the world and he sends an Aircraft Carrier…"
After which he and many of my Euro collegues laughed out loud.
And then they looked at me. I wasn't laughing, and neither was my Hindi friend sitting next to me, who has lost family in the disaster.
I'm afraid I was "unprofessional", I let it loose…
"Hmmm, let's see, what would be the ideal ship to send to a disaster, now what kind of ship would we want?Something with its own inexhuastible power supply?
Something that can produce 900,000 gallons of fresh water a day from sea water?
Something with its own airfield? So that after producing the fresh water, it could help distribute it?
Something with 4 hospitals and lots of open space for emergency supplies?
Something with a global communications facility to make the coordination of disaster relief in the region easier?
Well "Franz", us peasants in America call that kind of ship an "Aircraft Carrier". We have 12 of them. How many do you have? Oh that's right, NONE. Lucky for you and the rest of the world, we are the kind of people who share. Even with people we dont like. In fact, if memory serves,once upon a time we peasants spent a ton of money and lives rescuing people who we had once tried to kill and who tried to kill us.
Do you know who those people were? that's right Franz, Europeans.
There is a French Aircraft carrier? Where is it? Right where it belongs! In France of course! Oh why should the French Navy dirty their uniforms helping people on the other side of the globe. How Simplesse…
The day an American has to move a European out of the way to help in some part of the world it will be a great day in the world, you sniggering little fCENSOREDb…"
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bump.
:-)
that was not "nice"........
True. Accurate.
Needed.
But not "nice." 8<)
Nice comeback, in fact one of the best, to the eurocrapweasels.
Excellent Work.
"So, what's the problem here?"
BRAVO!
to boot.
Wouldn't we all like to do it to a french Crapweasel.
INTERESTING.
I couldn't get a posting window to open in IE. Using FireFox now.
. . . where was I . . .
Ahhhh--yes--
CHEERS, CHEERS, CHEERS FOR YOUR STANDING UP FOR THE USA, SANITY AND TRUTH!
Well said!
Good job! Didn't sound unprofessional to me.
This guy can expect to be cut at first chance.
Great reply. Hope your project is going well.
What an excellent rant!
Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, the truth leaps from your lips for all to hear.
Nice job. quidnunc.
One of the main reasons France's only Aircraft Carrier, The Charles DeGaulle stays in port in France. Is that every time the ship tries to go to sea it fires up its two nuclear reactors and ships's myriad electrical panel experience Catastrophic Failures. Thus rendering the ship immobile and useless.
To President Bush's credit. What better way to send relief than to utilize a mobile, 30 to 40 knot floating city?
Anyone want to bet that the President and his Coalition will show up, push aside and humiliate the UN like they did when they stared Libya down?
Jack.
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