Posted on 10/18/2004 6:42:43 AM PDT by aculeus
Thanks for posting that, Snark. Made my whole day!
This is a good read on an otherwise brutal Monday morning.........
I don't doubt it. I think I requested a few hundred myself. You could use any address (say hello to limeywuss@badteeth.com)
They did track, so you need to keep using different addresses to get new names - but they don't have to be real addresses.
Yes, that message put a smile on my face too. A non yellow toothed smile!
Newbie.
Reading it was nearly as gratifying as watching Team America.
ONLY three posts, and these two in this thread are the best you can come up with?
Do you even understand what this thread is about?
They understood all too well. It's abundantly clear that the whole purpose of the exercise for The Guardian was to provoke just this kind of reaction from American conservatives, and thus to entertain their oh-so-sophisticated readership with oh-only-to-be-expected redneck boorishness. I'm afraid that most of the posts on the many threads on this story in the past week have simply risen to the bait and played The Guardian's game for them. In my view the wiser response would have been simply to ignore the provocation completely, though I can well understand this would require a fair amount of self-discipline in the circumstances.
Oh well, I guess it's a sign of feeling of powerlessness on the part of the average Brit.
I have a very difficult time with any foreign country who requests/needs monetary aid from the US but believe we are too stupid to properly make decisions for ourselves.
This doesn't necessarily apply to this specific situation, but some of those letters had me laughing out loud.
"Just a thougt about friendship and the freedom of speach and what it means."
Brits are not citizens of the US, and as such do not enjoy freedom of speech per se.
They also do not have any say in our elections.
" should we really send more troops to Iraq or should we pull them out?"
If reading a whiney liberal commie rag can get you to consider the John Kerry cut & Run strategy, then you are in deep trouble.
Seriously.
Nice use of troll buzzwords by the by.
I give you a C- grade on it.
Nah. Having spent years in their countries I know that the Europeans' inability to "get" us Americans cannot be overestimated.
I wonder, would they think it's jolly good for Americans to start such a campaign against their outmoded,ridiculous way of governing themselves?
Atrocious old men in moth-eaten costumes and powdered wigs, blubbering and grunting in Parliament?
What about that terribly ugly old hag of a Queen and her addled, porn-loving heir of a son? The connection between the Royal Family and the Nazis? Their insistence on keeping Scotland subject to the Crown?
Would they appreciate letter writing campaigns from Americans about any of that?
At least we aren't having our best-loved( Diana) public figures knocked off. Not that the Clinton's wouldn't love to.
Really- the Brits are an arrogant bunch, with ingrained delusions of 'Empire' still.
They're busy aplogizing to the Germans for being mean to them in WW2. They're so sorry they had to drop those nasty bombs on German cities, such a misunderstanding!
I am really beginning to be sorry we defended their butts. Nothing I hate more than arrogant ingrates.
This was hilarious.
They just don't understand us at all.
They can't seem to grasp that we are descended from the original rebels and fighters who risked everything for America, descended from folks who left Europe with one suitcase after two world wars to become American citizens, and folks who willingly spit on their birth country for legitimate reasons and came here to embrace America and become Americans.
So, if that was "mom and pop", how else would we turn out???
Actually I'm English, and all I can say is that my reading of The Guardian's motivation is how it looks from over here: not least from what their own people have been saying about it. They've succeeded in newspaper terms in floating a story which is running and running - whereas it would have died the death by now if they'd been ignored.
I like the one from the student who said we loved the Brits - especially the Prime Minister.
Very smart student, indeed!
I am guessing The Guardian didn't get it?
You're missing the entire point.
a) nobody cares what The Guardian or its readership thinks.
b) ignoring them would allow them to proceed with electioneering for Kerry.
c) see A.
Oh sure, let's abandon 25 million people who are hopeful for the first time in their lives, just so people will "like us" again. Anyone who would doom the Iraqis to what would inevitably happen to them certainly isn't the kind of friend I would want. If we have to fight this alone, so be it.
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