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Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
Following up to Carole Allen
The guys who did the Twin Towers were not Iraqi and had nothing to do with Iraq. are there still a lot of Americans who don't realise that? -- Mike Reid I will agree bendybuses are a good idea when they build bungalows on Mayfair Walk-eat-photos UK "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Walk-eat-photos Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" |
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On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:35:54 +0100, The Reid
wrote: Following up to Carole Allen The guys who did the Twin Towers were not Iraqi and had nothing to do with Iraq. are there still a lot of Americans who don't realise that? Yes. I have met quite a few that are convinced of this, and various other bits of bull****, like Saddam being in league with Osama and preparing to offer him sanctuary. Heck, and that wasn't even in America! -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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Dave Frightens Me wrote: On 17 Aug 2006 18:49:47 -0700, "Tchiowa" wrote: Bias by definition. No where in that article did anyone post any actual government figures as you claimed they did. All you are saying is that the BBC and the attorney would have to be biased. No, I'm saying that the BBC has been proven to be biased on this issue and that the lawyer is paid to be biased. I am waiting for you to demonstrate what that bias is in this case. ???? What more do you need? Both the BBC and the lawyer have a specific bias to oppose the war and the incarceration of the prisoners of war. And all the article did is to quote biased sources. Thus the bias is demonstrated. And since you are the one supporting their claim then the burden of proof is on you to justify that support. Go ahead. And, again, you claimed that the figures came from government sources yet that is proven to be untrue. So quote the government sources. Go ahead. You said: "As it always is with prisoners of war. The fact that they were captured on a battleground is all that it takes." I have read that sentence 3 more times, played it backwards, rearranged the letters, translated it into about 47 languages. Can't find anywhere where I said anyone was *guilty* of anything. Oh, so you still stand by this statement, even after it has been demonstrated wrong? Demonstrated wrong when? From the biased article that made a claim? That's not demonstrating that it's wrong. So tell me where it was demonstrated wrong. Go ahead. A shooting war? What war are you talking about? ????? 9/11? Madrid? London? Any of this ring a bell? Yeah, none involved shooting IIRC. A "shooting war" is a term to refer to a hot war where people are actually being killed as opposed to a cold war. Hello. I don't condone that, Actually you just did. When you (or anyone) uses a sentence that starts something like "I oppose terrorism" there is one and only one proper way to punctuate it. That is with a period, dot, full stop ".". As in "I oppose terrorism." But if you punctuate it with "but...." then you are actually condoning it. What rubbish. You are merely saying that if I question the modes of dealing with it, I condone the terrorists. No. I'm saying that if you support the reasons for the terrorism then you are condoning the terrorists. The war on terrorism is over, in case you hadn't noticed. ????? So the BBC lied when they reported the interrupted plan to bomb the airliners last week? It's been renamed "The Long War" now. Gee, what a cute little trick. I guess when you have no logical argument that's what you have to resort to. |
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Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
Dave Frightens Me wrote: On 17 Aug 2006 21:12:55 -0700, "Tchiowa" wrote: Carole Allen wrote: On 17 Aug 2006 08:09:52 -0700, "Tchiowa" wrote: That would be the phantoms that knocked down the Twin Towers and killed 3,000 people? The phantoms that bombed the Madrid subway? The phantoms that bombed the UK transit system? The phantoms that were just stopped from bombing 10 trans-Atlantic flights? *Those* phantoms? The guys who did the Twin Towers were not Iraqi and had nothing to do with Iraq. Which has what to do with what I was talking about???? Absolutely everything given that's where the majority of the US anti-terror funds are going. What a raging success that's been. Nonsense. I'll say one thing for you, you have developed quite a complex fantasy world for yourself to live in. |
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Draconian vacation policies for US slave workers
The Reid wrote: Following up to Frank F. Matthews Give up Dave. Of course Europeans travel abroad more. Pretty much every significant trip is abroad there. Depends what significant means? If it means "long distance" then clearly true. I think its also true that those trips will go into "significantly" different cultures. but I'm told that the existence of Creole restaurants and Philly cheese steaks (whatever they are) all over the US means that effect is neutralised in favour of the "US is best for all things" lobby. Or perhaps I just don't understand? Finally you said something that makes sense. Clearly you don't understand much of any of these conversations. |
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wrote: In article . com, (Tchiowa) wrote: *From:* "Tchiowa" *Date:* 17 Aug 2006 17:10:29 -0700 wrote: In article . com, (Tchiowa) wrote: *From:* "Tchiowa" *Date:* 16 Aug 2006 17:21:14 -0700 Dave Frightens Me wrote: On 15 Aug 2006 18:48:12 -0700, "Tchiowa" wrote: I found that damn near everyone I met could speak English fairly well. That's due to your limited experience, probably limited to touristy areas. No, mostly business. Sorry. You're wrong again. What European languages, other than English, do you speak and understand with sufficient fluency to conduct a business meeting? I used to speak enough Portuguese to attend a meeting and understand, but certainly not conduct it. And I haven't used Portugues for about a decade so I've probably lost even that basic ability. But that points out the reason behind the use of English. Other than English there is no language that enough people from enough places speak to conduct meetings. English has become the "lingua franca" of business in Europe. Of international business, sure. But not all business is international, even in big companies. At the meetings you attended they spoke English BECAUSE you (and maybe others) didn't speak the local language: but I'll bet you a euro to a cent they didn't carry on in English when they went back to their offices and dealt with their everyday colleagues. That may be. But the fact remains that they speak English which is what I was saying and what others were denying. If there is a business meeting in Europe where people who speak different first languages (none of which are English) are attending it's a good bet the meeting will be conducted in English. If someone in that meeting doesn't understand the other's first language at all then it's almost guaranteed that the meeting will be in English. And the whole world is like that now. In Thailand where I live the Prime Minister speaks English. The King speaks English. The streets signs are in English and Thai. Advertisements are in English. A colleague of mine from South America called his embassy and when he spoke in Spanish the lady in the embassy (a Thai lady) asked him to switch to English. English is taught in elementary schools "in the hinterlands" (as some like to phrase it). |
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Dave Frightens Me wrote: On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:35:54 +0100, The Reid wrote: Following up to Carole Allen The guys who did the Twin Towers were not Iraqi and had nothing to do with Iraq. are there still a lot of Americans who don't realise that? Yes. I have met quite a few that are convinced of this, and various other bits of bull****, like Saddam being in league with Osama and preparing to offer him sanctuary. I suppose this means that I now have to look up the 9/11 commission report which says that Saddam in fact offered sanctuary to Osama. Not was "preparing to offer" it but actually did according to the testimony they received. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 but Saddam was, in fact, trying to create an alliance with Osama to fight their common enemy. OK. Here it is. I'm betting you won't bother to read it because you obviously have an aversion to facts and learning. But I'll try anyway. http://www.9-11commission.gov/report...0commission%22 Be careful. This is full of facts and knowledge. Dangerous things for people like you who don't want their precious private fantasy world disrupted. |
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Travel Abroad
The Reid wrote: Following up to Frank F. Matthews Give up Dave. Of course Europeans travel abroad more. Pretty much every significant trip is abroad there. Depends what significant means? If it means "long distance" then clearly true. I think its also true that those trips will go into "significantly" different cultures. but I'm told that the existence of Creole restaurants and Philly cheese steaks (whatever they are) all over the US means that effect is neutralised in favour of the "US is best for all things" lobby. Or perhaps I just don't understand? My point is that the concept of 'abroad' is relatively useless when talking about travel. For me it takes many hundreds of miles to travel abroad. I can get to a pretty different culture in 200 miles or so. That trip wouldn't be 'abroad' though. Except going east it pretty much takes a days driving to even get out of state. While there are Cajun restaurants pretty much everywhere there are none that I know of more than a days drive from Lafayette, LA. Creole restaurants are very uncommon outside of Louisiana. As to Philly cheese steaks they aren't usually very good at any distance from Philly. The proportion of trips 'abroad' will be significantly affected by the number of national boundaries that you cut an area up into. |
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