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BRITS BASH ROYAL PAIN
New York Post ^
| 5/27/04
| BILL HOFFMAN
Posted on 05/26/2004 11:54:38 PM PDT by kattracks
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posted on
05/26/2004 11:54:38 PM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
This article doesn't mention what she said.
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posted on
05/26/2004 11:58:53 PM PDT
by
Chunga
(.)
To: kattracks
Actually, it's a common attitude over there. I've been communicating with a few British civil servants and watching their press for some time.
Most of them are embracing socialism and social progressivism while participating in the resurging European positive regard for empire. They want a return to empire, and they want to lead it.
Resurrected neo-NAZI canards abound over there now.
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posted on
05/27/2004 12:01:50 AM PDT
by
familyop
(Essayons)
To: Chunga
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posted on
05/27/2004 12:06:13 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Anti-Semitism and racism run hand in hand. It would seem that the euros need to think a bit about where they are headed.
That was a totally uncalled for comment. If she was unhappy with the noise, she should have asked that they move her to another table.
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posted on
05/27/2004 12:27:00 AM PDT
by
McGavin999
(If Kerry can't deal with the "Republican Attack Machine" how is he going to deal with Al Qaeda)
To: kattracks
Am I alone in wondering why didn't the Brits send these inbred twits to the guillotine?
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posted on
05/27/2004 12:31:55 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Strolling along country roads with my baby...)
To: kattracks
Charming. And she's here to attend her daughter's graduation from that communist indoctrination center known as Brown.
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posted on
05/27/2004 12:32:23 AM PDT
by
Bonaparte
To: kattracks
I'm just so sad I wasn't sitting there in that restaurant to watch the dingbat British princess yell that at the loud rich black Americans. It would have just been such wonderful NYC theater.
The Post didn't make it clear if this event happened before, after or during the time that the guy who was stabbed in the gut upstairs stumbled into the cafe.
And all this in a beautiful restaurant with outdoor tables on a beautiful day.
It's a great city.
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posted on
05/27/2004 12:33:45 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: kattracks
Some people are way too sensitive. One time in England a little old lady struck up a conversation with me in a restaurant. When she realized I was a yank she said "Oh you're from the colonies." I thought it was weird but laughed and shrugged it off. Clearly it's a bit offensive for people from "the land of the free" to be labeled colonials but it seems to be a phrase the older Brits still use. I don't think this was racial. Cut our Brit allies some slack...even the goofy royals.
LBT
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To: LiberalBassTurds
When she realized I was a yank she said "Oh you're from the colonies."This is usually said as an ironic comment over here. I have American friends who I call 'bloody colonials' sometimes, always in jest when we're arguing over some trivial point or other and they always reply with some witticism regarding my Englishness!
To: Da_Shrimp
Hehe mate reminds me of the good old days and how much I miss my English friends. I've been called much worse in the heat of verbal (cultural) debates. One of the funniest one was an argument over what's a proper American breakfast. My friends Aunt, who used to tell me great stories about The Blitz, got so frustrated that she called me a "Square Headed Yank" and was about to knock my block off. Good ole' Mary. :)
All the best.
LBT
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To: LiberalBassTurds
reminds me of the good old days and how much I miss my English friends.You used to live over here?
To: Da_Shrimp
Yes, sure did. Had the pleasure of living in London for 1 1/2 years. Was based in Docklands. Was a great experience! I miss the Sunday afternoon family dinners and watching football. Teaching my buddy's son baseball was a trip. All the kid in the park wanted a try at smacking the ball.
Well this old man's off to bed. Nite.
LBT
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To: LiberalBassTurds
Night! Nice talking to you.
To: kattracks
But as she left, she circled the offending commoners, leaned toward Callaway, pumped her fist and said, "You need to go back to the colonies!" Marchetto and other witnesses said Young marched up to the princess' table and demanded, "What did you mean by that, 'back to the colonies?' " "
"I did not say 'back to the colonies," Princess Michael retorted. "I said 'you should remember the colonies.' Back in the days of the colonies, there were rules that were very good. "
"You think about it," she told Young. "Just think about it." "
""What she said has connotations to when black people were slaves..."
I think some people have overlooked this little fact. Telling them to go back the days of slavery is unquestionably a racial slur. I don't care how you spin it.
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posted on
05/27/2004 1:48:04 AM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
To: kattracks
Hello, Princess: THESE ARE THE COLONIES!
To: BykrBayb
Where is her reference to slavery? I don't see it anywhere. Could it be that she meant something benign and these people want it to mean something bad just to "feel offended"? Some people are just looking for a reason to be offended.
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posted on
05/27/2004 3:20:50 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(My 1.4 cents - It used to be 2 cents, but after taxes - you get the idea.)
To: raybbr
No, she known for putting her foot in her mouth.
Her father was a Nazi, so she comes by it honestly.
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posted on
05/27/2004 3:33:14 AM PDT
by
ladylib
To: kattracks
Apart from the boorishness of her behavior, which was evidently rivaled by the objects of her derision, she was intellectually right, much of Africa was better off under BRITISH colonial rule.
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posted on
05/27/2004 3:35:12 AM PDT
by
nathanbedford
(You can't get to my right - no room)
To: kattracks
Hey, I'm proud to be from the former colony. I like being an American, and am grateful that I was born here.
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posted on
05/27/2004 3:38:25 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Pride the first peer and president of hell.-- Daniel Defoe)
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