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#52 2013-07-25 14:11:35
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Re: American Differences
You're cruising for a bruising Jeff. How dare you critique our proud nation
#53 2013-07-25 14:15:42
- Jeff Reed
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#54 2013-07-25 14:27:00
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Re: American Differences
casual violence them were the days
�Careful with that axe Eugene.�
#55 2013-07-25 14:42:17
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I was always suited n' booted when I went on the rampage.
...never casual.
"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#57 2013-07-25 14:51:42
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
Souvent me Souvient
#58 2013-07-25 14:54:51
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I enjoy fighting as a sport and the art of it but violence imo is for sickos and scumbags.
#59 2013-07-25 15:00:09
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�Careful with that axe Eugene.�
#60 2013-07-25 15:05:24
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Its an odd paradox I like seeing a beautifully landed punch but hate seeing someone getting knocked out cold. But then I suppose its the danger that adds to the skill set required. Which makes it very character building. Saying that you'll always get people who are just violent and can fight and enjoy that element.
#64 2013-07-26 02:59:10
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Land of the free
http://iamnotanonymousblog.com/?p=216
#65 2013-07-26 02:59:41
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But would it improve the standard of our sandwiches ?
What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.
#66 2013-07-26 04:35:27
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"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."
#67 2013-07-26 04:46:27
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I dont do Greek. Wait Spanish... I knew it was from one of those countries.. you know the sunny ones.
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#68 2013-07-26 05:11:49
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I know what a Brass would mean by Greek no so sure about Spanish.
Maybe smothering you in Chorizo and rice before playing with your maracas.
�Careful with that axe Eugene.�
#70 2013-07-26 06:07:22
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Lets face it with more and more people moving to cities where ever you are you the world the poor area of a big city is going to be pretty harsh. I walked lost in Brixton at night during Easter looking for a mates gaff dressed in a suit. I wouldn't do that again, I felt like I had rob me painted on my back.
America is more extreme because its cities are bigger. I would not walk around the poor areas of Detroit, New Orleans, Chicago, ect at night in a suit. Fuck that.
I like the romantic image of America from the point of view though 50s Britain. It seemed as if anything was possible in America, their manual workers seemed to be free of the shackles of the British working class. A country that knew no limits of freedom. A country of plenty for all. A view point of which has gone downhill since the early 60s when they began to be seen as a bullying super power with huge social problems in their own country hitting rock bottom under the last Bush admin.
The lowest social mobility rate in the western world, yet still we (Europeans) half believe that the impossible is possible with the "American dream".
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#71 2013-07-26 06:19:05
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.
#72 2013-07-26 06:27:53
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... Hard to remember -
... And only in America did I learn these things...
French is oral ?
Greek is up the bum ?
English is a jolly good whacking ?
Lord knows what the Portuguese do...
Why the nationalisation of sexual kinks by America ?
Why make sex something "foreign" ?
Dunno.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love... And a jolly good kick up the harris.
#75 2013-07-26 07:57:33
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^ Pat Buchanan and the paleoconservatives identify the reasons for this.
We do not have similar in the UK. We famously 'Do not do religion'.
You now have a move from the Nation State to Globalism.
American Spring? European Spring?
Tipping point will be when a majority have nothing to lose.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GG1rFA_QEk
"Florid, smug, middle-aged golf club bore in this country I'd say. Propping up the 19th hole in deepest Surrey bemoaning the perils of immigration."