The Yanks are lousy shots

Rich B says...

They'd never believe it's 12C or even 15C. The yanks can't make anything
at all that lasts more than 50 years without falling apart.

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Suzuki Bandit 600S (Green with added shit bits)
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I ride way too fast to worry about cholestorol.

 

Only in California.

 

It was only slightly tongue in cheek.

 

The point was (I assumed) that they couldn't grasp the concept that
*anything* could be older than 200 years. But you knew that.

 

Our friends from NM were gobsmacked that the church in the village
where my parents lived contained a stone panel on which were engraved
the names of all the rectors (vicars, whatever) who had presided there
since it was built, in the late 11th century.

Actually, I find that rather good, myself.

The odd thing is that the US contains some sites and dwellings that
are very, very old indeed, like the old Indian pueblos and
settlements. But they seem to overlook them.

 

That's because they are not *proper* American.

 

<TOG@toil>; <>; <>
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Please Sir, I know this one, Sir. And that was hardly a war, but faked up.
They blamed the Spaniards for 'mining' the USS Maine and, spurred on by the
Hearst press, went to war to avenge Merkin honour. Trouble was, there were
no mines, and the Maine went up because of the accidental ignition of powder
charges below her forward turrets - killing over two hundred sailors. The
truth was merely an inconvenience to the Merkins, of course, and they went
to war anyway [it was a very unequal conflict, of course, and lasted only 10
weeks] snatching most of the remaining Spanish Empire [Cuba, the
Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam] under the Treaty of Paris.

There again, the start of the Vietnam war was similarly bogus. Johnson used
the excuse of the imaginary second 'Gulf of Tonkin incident' - a supposed
attack on a US destroyer by North Vietnamese gunboats - to go to war. The
first 'incident' had been provoked by covert US support of a South
Vietnamese attack, and was therefore an understandable response by the
North, although probably illegal under international law. Two days later
the second 'incident' was completely faked, and provided the necessary
'evidence' of aggression by the North to allow Johnson to force through the
legislation he needed to support the coutries of SE Asia. North Vietnam
being a rather tougher and more resolute enemy than Spain, the human cost
was 58,000 young Merkin dead.

US military history = largely bollocks.

 

You forgot 'his willingness to stand up for his principles to his own
detriment'.

He is one of the very few politicians for whom I have very great
respect.

Phil.

 

But he was always a bolshy left-wing twat, however nicely he may have
argued it.

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Tony Benn's Epitaph: "Superior to Hog and Champ combined." What more
could any man wish for?

 

US military history = largely Hollywood.

 

Are you sure they weren't referring to your mother-in-law?



All you Brits have are relics of your faded glory. The most useless relic
is Her Majesty the Cow.

 

Ooh, what year?
(in a "my local church is older than yours" willy-waving stylee)

My local church was consecrated in 1094.
http://www.harrowhill.org/

 

Please don't misunderstand. I personally like it, it's the inbred cunts in
office and dragging there incompetent self-righteous asses down the road doing
10 under in the passing lane and staying there that are a problem. Seems so
slick sales man convinced them that speed is dangerous and filtering, lane
splitting are also. Might just give up riding and driving and walk everywhere
from now on.
The only reason I've yet to create a body count to rival Jim Jones is that
I'm so tolerant of the mentally deficient.

--
Keith Schiffner
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational
basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the
unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and
spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from
fiddling with it.
Robert Heinlein

 

and this is a bad thing?


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LOL...what a coincidence. I have a Caucasian Ovcharka named after the Marshall.
8^) He's the only commie I liked.

--
Keith Schiffner
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational
basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the
unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and
spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from
fiddling with it.
Robert Heinlein

 

oh that is just mean...wonder if I could talk congress into trying this?

--
Keith Schiffner
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational
basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the
unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and
spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from
fiddling with it.
Robert Heinlein

 

it was late and I was tired.