Posted on 10/02/2006 1:03:08 PM PDT by Republicain
There are thousands of people on here, so no telling what some of them might write. I've seen all sorts of stuff on here. - I've heard about the Marshall Plan, but it was mostly before my time so I don't think much about it. I was born in 1946. My Daddy was an infantryman in WWII, in N. Africa, Sicily, Italy & Germany, in the worst of it, for the duration, shell-shocked and wounded - so I know war and its scars. - Nothing bin Laden would like better than to see us at each others throats, but what he doesn't understand is that we are brothers and there for each other when push comes to shove. A lot more he does not understand about us.
These Islamic extremists are so caught up in getting their own selfish hides to heaven that they are missing it altogether.
Racism has the cachet of victimization; religion is backward nonsense except as it applies to race or ethnicity.
You need to remind the sobs that put up that billboard that if it had not been for America, the ones living in Britian that were not made into lampshades and soap for washing Goring's ass would be speaking German today.
How about Lend-Lease, the 8th Air Force and the Third Army?
No more than a clown was born with makeup on his face.
Don't encourage them.
Well stated.
That's the point. As for the Marshall plan and WWII, we were all in it for survival, and Brits fought just as hard as we did and for a lot longer. Not to mention the Russians.
The Brits owe us nothing, and even if they did, to continually bring it up is the crude and childish.
London is to England as what Seoul is to South Korea...
...a super-sized version of Berkeley, CA (or Ithaca, NY).
(Although, since Seoul makes up roughly 50% of the entire SKorean population, it is a reasonable assumption)
As a long time resident of London, I ask you respectfully to take that back.
What you actually mean is that you have met a very small section of the population of the capital and that it is convenient for you to generalise from that because their opinions have confirmed your own prejudices.
If you want to meet people outside London, has it occurred to you to go to a different part of the UK? There are many beautiful towns and cities across England if you want to be a tourist. Of course, if you are in London and the UK purely for business reasons this may not be possible.
If that is the case, you really need to cultivate an understanding of the concepts of irony and self-depreciation - in other words, get over it.
Gosh, that's original!
miss marmelstein went off-point here
I responded, explaining what the billboards were about here
mriss marmelstein responded by dismissing my explanation here Sorry, it doesn't wash.
From there it all went pear shaped.
Apparently though, there was no further trouble in Preston on Monday. You'll all be glad to hear.
Roosevelt drained the British treasury? Bullshit.
God, you are so thin-skinned.
Agreed. The Christian West is bloody well fed UP with Islam and anything/everything to do with it. The bill's come due.
Can you imagine a Brit in America encountering a billboard saying 'Has anything good come from Britain?' and bursting into tears? It just wouldn't happen. We don't take ourselves so seriously.
Actually, if you read my original post you will see that I wrote that I "teared up." Not quite sobbing in the back of the cab. And I wouldn't keep bragging about your ability to laugh at yourself. If you really had that ability, you and several others on this thread would have not reacted with the volcanic fury you are so readily expressing.
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