To: yankeedame
Can they still say bang when pointing their mustkets, just so long as they do it in an inside voice?
He added: "Being told we cannot do it because it might scare children is very sad and almost a bit daft....
almost a bit -> completely bloody
2 posted on
12/01/2008 2:16:59 PM PST by
KarlInOhio
(11/4: The revolutionary socialists beat the Fabian ones. Where can we find a capitalist party?)
To: yankeedame
I’m just impressed they could get a 400 year old gun to fire in the first place. Is is ok to fire younger guns?
To: yankeedame
If they think those guns will scare the children, wait until the IEDs start going off in the UK...
To: yankeedame
Sounds like a case for 400 years worth of reparations to traumatized children to me...
6 posted on
12/01/2008 2:19:50 PM PST by
an amused spectator
(I am Joe, too - I'm talkin' to you, VBM: The Volkischer Beobachter Media)
To: yankeedame
The guns going off and the smoke are probably the only reason the kids want to go to the thing!
7 posted on
12/01/2008 2:20:04 PM PST by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: yankeedame
As miserable a lib as Stephen King may be, one of the themes that runs through his Dark Tower series is how a once great civilization fell to the forces of darkness when people "forgot the faces of their fathers."
Wrong as he may be on many things, King was dead on on with his musings in this area.
File under "stopped clock" or "blind pig."
10 posted on
12/01/2008 2:26:20 PM PST by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: yankeedame
I wonder what the children thought when the Germans launched V-1 and V-2 bombs at London during WWII. Those things made a great big boom.
Over the 400 years and countless generations, how many were truly scared when the little guns went pop?
11 posted on
12/01/2008 2:32:42 PM PST by
chainsaw
To: yankeedame
"...The council said the noise of the blank shots would be too loud for children..." This is clearly not the generation of council members who were "coast listeners"—those who listened for the sounds of Luftwaffe bombers approaching Britain.
That sound would be far more fearful than blanks at a prescribed time.
13 posted on
12/01/2008 2:35:39 PM PST by
Does so
(Schumer, with IndyMac, precipitated bank failures just in time for the 2008 election.)
To: yankeedame
wussification of western civilization ping
14 posted on
12/01/2008 2:42:40 PM PST by
MNDude
To: yankeedame
The U.S. does not have the exclusive on stupidity.
To: yankeedame
My British expat wife is gonna love this :-)
To: yankeedame
20 posted on
12/01/2008 3:04:17 PM PST by
Flavius
(war gives peace its security)
To: yankeedame
Thank you for posting this. This has my wife and in stitches, laughing.
Too many comments possible, trying to keep a straight face.
Barack Obama and US Democrats would be proud.
To: yankeedame
UNgland...
23 posted on
12/01/2008 3:37:20 PM PST by
Chode
(American Hedonist -)
To: yankeedame
Mentally-stunted Liberals are more afraid of guns than children.
24 posted on
12/01/2008 4:00:32 PM PST by
TexasRepublic
(Comrade, can you spare a crust of bread?)
To: yankeedame
Real Britains are all dead. Now the Island is inhabited by un-men, wimps, criminals, and alien Muslims.
England is no more never to be seen again.
To: yankeedame
England has been hopelessly wussified by the mindless, PC mindset. The entire nation is utterly FUBAR.
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