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UK : Hundreds clash in street battle
Lancashire Evening Post ^ | 10/02/2006

Posted on 10/02/2006 1:03:08 PM PDT by Republicain

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To: MadIvan

Get off it, yourself. And you're not going to give me the old "Americans have no sense of humor" routine, are you?

Can you please address my concerns that there is no credit on the billboard? And why are they posted on the way to Heathrow?


61 posted on 10/02/2006 1:40:08 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: steel_resolve

BTW, red is levels of Marshall Plan aid...


62 posted on 10/02/2006 1:40:09 PM PDT by steel_resolve (Do you know what a bigot is? Someone winning an argument with a liberal.)
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To: SpaceBar; tkathy
Tkathy has a one-point plan:

Off all the mullahs.

63 posted on 10/02/2006 1:40:21 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Churchillspirit

My acquaintances and friends are all in the theatre. That's my profession, unfortunately.


64 posted on 10/02/2006 1:41:00 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Canard
Why does it bother you so much that, in British usage (for obvious historical reasons) it tends to be used for people of Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi descent?

Becasue the term "Asian" means anyone from Asia - hundreds of different cultures. Why do Brits narrow it down to just three? Especially when actually referring to Muslims? Most Asians are Hindus or Buddhists - NOT Muslims, so why use the word "Asian" when you are only referring to Pakistanis or Indians?

That's like referring to Brits, Greeks, Russians, Swedes, Irish, Germans, Italians, Hungarians and Serbians all as "Europeans".

While it is true that a Swede is a European - it is NOT true that a European is just a Swede.

Same thing with "Asian" and "Muslim".

65 posted on 10/02/2006 1:41:02 PM PDT by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: steel_resolve

Thanks!!


66 posted on 10/02/2006 1:43:27 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

I guess some of the Brits have forgotten WWII?


67 posted on 10/02/2006 1:45:09 PM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: miss marmelstein
Get off it, yourself. And you're not going to give me the old "Americans have no sense of humor" routine, are you?

No. I'm not saying Americans have no sense of humour. I have the Family Guy DVDs to prove otherwise. I am suggesting that you, personally, have no sense of humour.

Can you please address my concerns that there is no credit on the billboard? And why are they posted on the way to Heathrow?

It's an old advertising dodge to say something shocking and make you wonder what the hell it's all about; then follow it up with an explanation which sells the product. In this case, it's helping American television. I know for a fact this dodge has been used in America as well as in Britain.

Ivan

68 posted on 10/02/2006 1:45:21 PM PDT by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: miss marmelstein
Have the Brits already forgotten when we were over paid,over sexed and over there?
69 posted on 10/02/2006 1:45:40 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (12th district Freeper.)
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To: steel_resolve

"BTW, red is levels of Marshall Plan aid..."

Whewww...

You had be worried. I thought those bars were graphical depictions of the percentage of Religion of Peace adherents in a given country. If so, the UK would have been in deep trouble.



70 posted on 10/02/2006 1:45:49 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: MadIvan

As former socialist minister Jack Lang has announced this evening that he has decided to don't be candidate to the presidential election, it's almost certain now that Segolene Royal gonna be chosen by socialists militants. But, from now, it's absolutely impossible to say who gonna be elected in april.


71 posted on 10/02/2006 1:46:42 PM PDT by Republicain
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To: Republicain
My God-son is a police officer in Preston.

Tried calling him but he is still on duty.

If I get any first-hand info., I'll post it.

72 posted on 10/02/2006 1:46:46 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: EyeGuy

haha, it's probably not too far from the truth...


73 posted on 10/02/2006 1:46:47 PM PDT by steel_resolve (Do you know what a bigot is? Someone winning an argument with a liberal.)
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To: txflake

The mullahs ARE the problem. As long as they are brainwashing the young with their vile teachings, terrorism will never cease.


74 posted on 10/02/2006 1:47:12 PM PDT by tkathy (The Real Republican (RR) way is sticking to the issues and not finger pointing.)
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To: Republicain
As former socialist minister Jack Lang has announced this evening that he has decided to don't be candidate to the presidential election, it's almost certain now that Segolene Royal gonna be chosen by socialists militants. But, from now, it's absolutely impossible to say who gonna be elected in april.

I wish you the best of luck. If you get Sarkozy, things will improve. With Royal...the problem is you don't know what you're going to get!

Regards, Ivan

75 posted on 10/02/2006 1:47:49 PM PDT by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: Republicain

"It's getting ridiculous and for the last two nights there's been fighting." Ms Street is absolutely right.

If the Brits were properly armed the fight would be over in just a few minutes, if there were a fight at all. Here "yobs" are quickly perforated, problem resolved.


76 posted on 10/02/2006 1:48:37 PM PDT by tumblindice ("An armed society is a polite society." (Forget your handle FRiend, but I love your tag-line)
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To: tkathy

I entirely agree with your assessment, btw.


77 posted on 10/02/2006 1:48:59 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Tokra

"Becasue the term "Asian" means anyone from Asia - hundreds of different cultures. Why do Brits narrow it down to just three?"

Because those bits of Asia are the bits we used to own and from where there was immigration into the UK in the postwar period. Hence most people's experience of someone from Asia would have been from one of those countries and hence the usage.

"That's like referring to Brits, Greeks, Russians, Swedes, Irish, Germans, Italians, Hungarians and Serbians all as "Europeans"."

Yes it is. Which people from the US do regularly! Why do American police sometimes describe someone as 'black' when they are actually of Jamaican descent?


78 posted on 10/02/2006 1:50:06 PM PDT by Canard
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To: MadIvan
"I aim to misbehave."

Mal Reynolds in "Serenity"?

79 posted on 10/02/2006 1:52:34 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world." - Pope Blessed Pius IX)
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To: MadIvan

Well said; Ivan.Over two hundred years ago my grand father plus 8 generations fought a war with your great country but today I have inlaws living there and I love your people for the most part.


80 posted on 10/02/2006 1:53:12 PM PDT by JOHANNES801 (ALL MUSLIMS ARE MY ENEMY,ONE DAY WE WILL ALL SAY THIS.)
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