BS: Some people are so stupid...

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: LadyJean
Date: 20 Apr 11 - 12:57 AM

I remember Jean Redpath being funny about the fact that British and Americans use different words for things. Though not so many as you might think, here in Western PA. The local dialect includes a lot of Scots words. (We redd up, instead of clean up, and streets are slippy in the winter.) She seemed very unBritishly amused by our differences.

In the U.S. if you say, "It's in the boot," someone will explain, somewhat sheepishly, "Uh over here we call usually call it a trunk." In England if you say, "It's in the trunk." Someone will say sharply, "That's boot!" It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it.

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 Apr 11 - 03:11 AM

LadyJean - have you learned nothing on this thread? You must not tar everyone with the same brush. If you label everyone in England as speaking in the same sharp tone you are as guilty demeaning a whole race. We are nothing but the victims of circumstance and resent the imperialist oppresion laid on us by our American masters and we will fight back in the only way we know - by being loud mouthed and rude! All we need is a little love and attention and we will act like normal peace loving New-Yorkers...

( Big Grin btw - but I am sure you realised)

MP

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 20 Apr 11 - 04:27 AM

GfS - the thing about the boxer and the hands - very neat analogy if I may say so!

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: Penny S.
Date: 20 Apr 11 - 04:37 AM

LadyJean may have come across the lady (her preferred term I suspect, but there may be others more appropriate) from Surrey (presumed) who entered into conversation (but see below) with a lady from Canada I was travelling with, in Dubrovnik.
My companion was buying things in the Old Pharmacy, and commented that she wasn't sure of the equivalent value of the euros.
"Typical of you Americans, the value of money doesn't matter!" interjects the Brit of whom I am ashamed.
My companion, in a voice dripping ice, "I'll have you know I am Canadian."
"No difference," retorts the upperclass chav.
People like that I have to apologise for, and that includes the people who "correct" LadyJean's vocabulary.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 20 Apr 11 - 06:37 AM

The full version of this wonderful speech is in the 'Re-Thinking Education' thread.

Ken Robinson on Changing Education Paradigms


If you want to figure out why so many kids are switching off from wanting to be educated, many of the answers are in that brilliant speech.

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 20 Apr 11 - 06:50 AM

I have to admit I have on occasion encountered rudeness - ignorance really, as described in Penny's thread and from people who should be old enough to know better. In Cuba one particular older women moaned and groaned about every single little thing you could imagine. Not getting water always on time in the room, the room wasn't good enough, didn't like the trips. mosquitos, you name it there was something wrong with it. She had a tantrum because her wine wasn't on the table ready as soon as she walked in to the restaurant, the place was too hot (unbelievably) and when hotel staff were falling over themselves to make things ok her middle-aged male companion accused them of 'only being after the pesos'. Obviously the thought about reading up on anything about the culture before taking a holiday like that hadn't crossed their minds I shouldn't think. You don't have to know every single detail about Cuba or anywhere like that but it helps to understand a little bit about the people etc. With role models like that you cannot blame the young. I could have been equally rude and suggested that they stick to Benidorm or Blackpool in future but that would have made me as bad.

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 20 Apr 11 - 02:27 PM

GUEST,Shimrod: "GfS - the thing about the boxer and the hands - very neat analogy if I may say so!"

You know, I say a lot of stuff on here, that somehow is taken wrong, for I think people tend to imagine me using a 'hostile' voice tone..when actually, I'm FAR from it. Some opinions I lay down, are just based on FACTS instead of an opinion, formed from trying to 'uphold' some politically based reasoning, that has co-opted a lot of us in music, particularly 'folk' music, which was noted for it's protest songs, from the sixties...so the ASSUMPTION is that 'folkies' and liberal causes are synonymous...BUT..clearly, they are NOT!

All the 'isms' and 'tics' describing ANY political beliefs are a direct 'chip away' at our Freedoms and Liberties, and are only being propagated to enhance the power base of the top guys, promoting all those same 'isms' and 'tics'. It is a major deceptive LIE perpetrated on our nations, as a whole!!!....and behind the scenes, the 'apparent' opposing 'leaders' are all in bed with each other, and whomever is greasing them with the MONEY, to promote furthering their own goals...AT THE COST OF OUR LIBERTY, FREEDOM, AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES. The fat cats at the top, couldn't give a rat's ass about the well being of ANY nation's population being free or productive, UNLESS it serves them! Remember, they can afford to go ANYWHERE on this planet, and dust off their shoes at any one country, once their done using them up!!..including the UK, the USA or anywhere that they can utilize that country's wealth, and military, to accomplish their goals..and they will do that, till they use them up!!...and all the while quell the unrest with political platitudes, on how much they 'care' and are really 'helping'.

If you have ANY doubt, whatsoever, compare what they're SAYING, to what they are really DOING!!!

So, if it appears that sometime I step on some toes, or say something 'politically incorrect' too bad!!...I'm NOT the one hustling you!!!..but I might still just rip away at the misinformation that is being propagated..that some on here, and other places are succumbing to...to all our destruction!

Peace, Love, Freedom and Liberty!

GfS

P.S. Besides, once you are a parent, and/or a musician, your path is already clearly laid out for you! Best to you!..(even though sometimes I call you 'Nimrod')...wink!

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 20 Apr 11 - 02:35 PM

Best to you too GfS. You can carry on calling me 'Nimrod' if you like - I've been called worse!

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: gnu
Date: 20 Apr 11 - 03:24 PM

"Nimrod"... hunter or a fool who calls people silly names.

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 12:12 AM

SH-imrod: "Best to you too GfS. You can carry on calling me 'Nimrod' if you like...."

Oh goodie goodie goodie goodie goodie goodie goodie goodie !!!
wink!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 01:33 AM

Hey..i just found this old relic from about three years ago......
(I sure have been pissing off a lot of political party pushers for a while..BUT..I've been right!!! NOTE the date!:

Subject: RE: BS: If the Bottom DOES fall out
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 07 Oct 08 - 02:21 AM

Sorry, forgot to post name...

From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 04 Oct 08 - 03:20 PM

If Obama is elected things will turn around quickly.

This is complete nonsense!!!
I've told you a dozen or more times, that regardless who 'wins' the election, that the dollar was going to be de-valuated, after the election(if it can wait that long). I've said a lot of 'right on' things in here, and all I get is arguments from starry eyed 'kumbaya-ers'....even when what I've said comes true in front of your very eyes! Not to mention shpeels on responsibility, in regards to reliance on the government for a number of things.

Obama wants to 'give' us all these entitlement programs, which no one can pay for! The government CAN NOT continue to print fiat money, to pay for any of it. Obama promises to cut capital gain taxes for small businesses..only problem is..small businesses don't pay captial gains taxes..they pay business income taxes..but you just keep lapping up this crap, like the good little media fed robots that this nation has become!

McCain is not much better! What you have here, is the two wings of a SOCIALIST party pushing through their agenda. I believe that this is the reason that so many people are undecided about who to vote for...nobody, in their gut feels 'right' about either one! Now we have had, for years, a capitalist/socialist system, but that, dear boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, is about to change!! We are headed for a socialist republic...like the last 'SR' in USSR..which was (and is) an abysmal way of life. Gone will be all the perks of entitlements that we've grown so accustomed to. Fuel is going to go through the roof, credit, gone..inflation rising faster than a woody in the morning! Retirement pensions will be meaningless, if even around...social security, a memory....Jobs?..forget it!..even those ones that American citizens 'wouldn't take, so the illegal aliens had them!..All those lame-ass propaganda nonsense talking points will make you sick, when before you embraced them. We've been had, by a corrupt(remember me mentioning that??) political agenda for decades!!..which I've been pointing out to you, and NOW THE MEDIA IS FINALLY 'BRINGING IT UP' occasionally. I've implored you, as writers, and musicians to sing, write and speak against it...what have I gotten??..zilch(except for a few)!!

Now is the time(maybe) to retrieve your heads from your posteriors, get off the bullshit party lines of idiocy, and get right...and confront it..ask the right questions..and in the meantime buckle your seat belts and and hang on...this is going to be a lot tougher that you've even imagined!

God Bless, and stay safe!
GfS

Anything like where we've managed to come around to???????

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 22 Apr 11 - 12:44 AM

I know, I know..things didn't turn out the way you thought it was planned..hell, I'd get pissed at the bullshit politicians, and make a concerted effort to filter out the lies, and emotional hoop-ti-doo, and stop shooting the messenger!..As per aforementioned, I'm on YOUR side!

Waving,

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 22 Apr 11 - 05:34 PM

On the bus on the way back from Manchester today - The 37, oddly enough, the one that goes via Solfod Preeky, a young bloke, obviously worse for wear, was asked by the driver to show his ticket again as the driver had not seen it properly. The youth in question slapped his ticket on the the screen so hard I am surpised it dod not crack, while slurring the words, "You have fuckin well seen it now haven't you, twat?". As he staggered up the stairs the bus lurched forward and the lad fell back down again, landing in a heap on the floor. The driver stopped of course and insisted that the ambulance was called but the young man would have none of it. Pushing the driver aside he staggered back off the bus.

Now, I am not saying the driver lurched the bus on purpose, but do you reckon it was divine intervention..? :-)

MP