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Shaddup ya little airhead! If you like Paris that much, stay.
1 posted on 07/25/2003 11:37:51 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Paul Atreides
And if anyone would like to send a postcard to Ms. Hudson, here's one that'll do nicely...


40 posted on 07/25/2003 11:53:27 AM PDT by Jay D. Dyson (Threaten me? That's life. Threaten my loved ones? That's death.)
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To: Paul Atreides
American cultures tolerates, no, DEMANDS, being louder and more aggressive than what is considered polite in other cultures, so it's quite common for American tourists to come off as big-mouthed pushy jerks without meaning to or realizing it.

It certainly doesn't justify hatred though.
42 posted on 07/25/2003 11:56:43 AM PDT by Grig
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Kate Hudson ready for maternity clothes Associated Press

NEW YORK - Kate Hudson loves to shop, so naturally she's looking forward to buying maternity clothes now that she's pregnant.

"I've been waiting for this moment," the actress tells InStyle magazine for its August issue. "I can't wait until it's time to find fun and stylish maternity wear. I'm actually more excited about dressing as a pregnant woman. You get to present something so completely female."

Hudson, 24, and her husband, former Black Crowes lead singer Chris Robinson, announced in June that they're expecting their first child. The baby is due sometime early next year.

"I can't wait to bring a little human being onto this planet!" Hudson tells the magazine. "When it happens, it will be the most beautiful thing in the world."

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45 posted on 07/25/2003 11:58:54 AM PDT by spectre (spectre's wife)
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To: Paul Atreides
Who is Kate Hudson?
46 posted on 07/25/2003 12:00:45 PM PDT by CathyRyan
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To: Paul Atreides
About time this story got out. Howard Stern has been screaming about what an idiot Kate is for two days.

If you think reading it is bad, you should hear the audio clip.

Like I'm fer sure you would like barf up your like catsup covered french fries!

49 posted on 07/25/2003 12:02:53 PM PDT by BigWaveBetty (If you keep your pants zipped golddiggers can't sue/entrap/accuse. Funny how that works!)
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Preferring one condiment to another on fries - say for instance gravy, as in Canada, or mayonnaise, as in Holland - is a sign of obnoxiousness?

The most popular accompaniments for fries in Canada, in order, are (1) ketchup (2) salt and vinegar (3) soft processed cheese (a Quebec invention known as "poutine"). Gravy certainly exists and gets eaten, but is not usually available at fast-food outlets.

I'm surprised there are still enough American tourists in France to irritate Miss Hollywood.

51 posted on 07/25/2003 12:04:12 PM PDT by TheMole
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I'm like, who cares? It's like, totally cool dude and I'm like, just going with the flow! Of course smart people hate me....I'm like, just totally zoned out!!!
56 posted on 07/25/2003 12:13:35 PM PDT by Arpege92
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I'm like, 'Shut uuuup!'"

oh yes, suave sophisticated speech there.../sarcasm

59 posted on 07/25/2003 12:19:42 PM PDT by Bobber58 (whatever it takes, for as long as it takes)
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Mrs. Robinson continued: "I mean we come in and we eat mounds of food, and we're like, 'Where's the kaachup [sic] for our French fries.' I'm like, 'Shut up!'"

I like wish like she like wouldn't like use like the like word like "like" like in like this like way.

65 posted on 07/25/2003 12:30:16 PM PDT by usadave
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To: Paul Atreides
Some American? Is she now excluding herself?

Yes.

I was once a lefty and I can tell you that a process is involved which begins with acquiring the ability to step outside of your country and view it from afar, the process gradually provides one with an extremely seductive feeling of belonging, also a sense of superiority over those who are not so enlightened, and evolves to the point where your country is THE ENEMY, in any and all instances.

These people (celebrities) feel as if they owe nothing to America in general or capitalism in particular, because they become so filled with their own importance that they believe they would be exalted in ANY system, in ANY country.

Malignant narcissism and patriotism simply cannot coexist within the same...small...brain.

69 posted on 07/25/2003 12:52:55 PM PDT by wayoverontheright
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"I mean we come in and we eat mounds of food, and we're like, 'Where's the kaachup [sic] for our French fries.' I'm like, 'Shut up!'"

I mean like way cool like you know like I mean way cool like you know.

Sort of puts those advanced degrees of mine, and everyone else on FR to shame doesn't it? Just think about it. This nitwit actress gets to babble all over the news and people who actually think for a living are silent.
70 posted on 07/25/2003 12:58:35 PM PDT by OpusatFR (Using pretentious arcane words to buttress your argument means you don't have one)
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To: Paul Atreides
Funny that this airhead gets this impression. I was stationed in Germany, after Vietnam and I have yet another impression from a German lady that was the mother of a girl I was dating.

When I first met Inga's (the girl I was dating) mother I didn't know what to expect. The mother was a product of the Nazi youth movement in WWII. In fact she was a pure Arien. She and her husband had been placed in a German breeding camp in the middle of the war. They were about 15 years old at the time. They were "mated" because of their pure Arien blood lines. The camp had all the comforts that the German people didn't have and they were treated with kid gloves. They were surrounded by people of like linage and were also "mated". Inga (my girl) had been a later product of that marriage, unlike most of the children and young adults these two stayed together because they loved each other (the "marriages" were annulled after the war by the Allies). They had an older son that was born in 1943 (when Gerta, Inga's mother, was a tender 16 years old). They were constantly indoctrinated in the Nazi propaganda. This is why I was a little hesitant to meet them, but I really loved this lady so I sucked it up, put on my best German and went to meet the folks, as wierd as this was going to be for a good old boy from West Texas, USofA. I had taught Inga "American" and she taught me good German and it's dialects.

When they first discovered that I was an American Inga got red in the face and put her head down. The way it came out was a goof in a conversation on a noun (I was still getting my nouns down). Her mother sat straight up in her chair and said, in perfect English, "Are you an American"? Well, I'd been caught, so I told the truth, yes...I'm a Texan. We were planning on breaking this gently later on in the evening but there it was and we might as well deal with it now. Inga's father (Max, Maximillion) was a wonderful guy and he stood up for me in a conversation overheard by Inga and I in the kitchen. I fully understood and spoke the language so I sat there, uncomfortably, listening and drinking the dinner wine.

Everything was cool but cordial over dinner, and it was an excellant dinner. After dinner and some probing conversation on the parents part we were ready for schnapps and brandy in the parlor. As the night wore on and we got a little more "lubricated" Inga's father (Max) started telling stories of the war and the Americans he had known and they were all positive and filled with praise about the conduct of American GIs. Pretty soon Gerta opened up (I don't think it was the booze, she hadn't had that much). She came over and sat next to me on the sofa, letting me still set next to Inga, and started talking about the first time she ever saw an American GI. I'm quoting as to the best of my memory, " I first saw them and thought that I had never seen shoulders on men like that in my life, they looked like giants. Then they would smile and you could see in their hearts that they were good and kind men, but the shoulders were wonderful". The rest of stay went very well and "the folks" treated me like an honored guest. I forged a great relationship with parents and older brother August. I had made friends in the bleakest of circumstances and despite the prejudise, I overcame it. Inga was very proud of me for my attitude and she came back with a different view of the whole matter. Inga was a Doctor, and a beautiful woman, her parents were her heros and I actually brought them over to understanding.

By the way, Gerta said that she should have known I was an American by, "those broad shoulders of yours".

End of story.

People in Europe don't hate us because of what we are, they hate themselves for what they are not and seeing us merely picks the scab off of that wound. Sure, we have a swagger when we walk, and we have "broad shoulders" but that's what freedom gives you. It also gives you the inner peace to fight for the enslaved and give them the same freedom that we have. We have courage, and we wear it on our sleeve, and we're proud of that courage. Some people can't handle that because a past of capitulation and compromise brought them slavery, and occupation. Sure we're different, but who is the first to come to the aid of oppressed people.....the good old USA, and "all the land we request in return is the place to bury our dead".

God bless us all, and pass the ketsup!

71 posted on 07/25/2003 1:01:38 PM PDT by timydnuc (FR)
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To: Paul Atreides
and I'll just go......and we're like......and I'm like.

My, how articulate.
75 posted on 07/25/2003 1:28:47 PM PDT by Orbiting_Rosie's_Head
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Man, is everyone in Hollywood a freakin' mouthbreather these days?

What is it with all these babbling idiots?

They know nothing about anything and yet feel inclined to spout off about everything.

God...SHUT UP! FER GODSAKE!...all of you drooling infants...Jeezzus...

76 posted on 07/25/2003 1:31:50 PM PDT by Im Your Huckleberry
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I mean we come in and we eat mounds of food, and we're like, 'Where's the kaachup [sic] for our French fries.' I'm like, 'Shut up!'"

Like, where IS the ketchup? Fer shur, It was, like, always on the table or nearby when I was in, like, Germany and England.

Never went to Paris but then never had the urge to, either.

Miss Kate is from the, like, Hillary Clinton school of vocabulary. Like, Shut Up! No way!

81 posted on 07/25/2003 2:11:14 PM PDT by hattend
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To: Rummyfan
Ping for later....
84 posted on 07/25/2003 2:30:23 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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People may wonder whether what Kate Hudson says matters. It does. The notion of political socialization, the subtle ways in which people's political opinions are formed, suggests that for non-political junkies (like you or me), celebrity opinions do matter. For many, celebrities are role models (we seem them on the big screen as heros, as larger than life), they inform our sense of what is cool. If Kate Hudson (and every other celebrity) remind us to be ashamed of being American, over time that view will become more prevalent. Of course you can swim against the untide and explain why you're an "ignorant jingoist who doesn't know any better". But it becomes harder to justify your patriotism. And again, it doesn't apply to you or me but it does affect the broader population. It's unfortunate. But to tell you the truth, I'm not sure what can be done about it.
86 posted on 07/25/2003 2:55:44 PM PDT by jagrmeister
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I have walked down the street in Paris too & the most obnoxious people are not the Americans, they are the Germans. The Australians are pretty loud but they are fun. The Germans are loud & rude & surly, the French are just rude & surly.
90 posted on 07/25/2003 3:19:40 PM PDT by Ditter
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I happened to agree with Kate.
Americans can be very rude in other countries. They are loud, inconsiderate and obtrusive. I've actually been embarrassed to be an American when I've traveled there. They go into establishments yelling, "I need someone to help me"....not even attempting to speak the native language. When you go into a restaurant in Europe, everyone is considerate and quiet...then you hear some loud Americans who only care that THEY are in the restaurant...with no consideration for anyone else.
91 posted on 07/25/2003 3:21:40 PM PDT by sonserae
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Oops! Judging from the box office results of "Alex & Emma," it looks like we already have!

The best part of the failure of that movie is that Rob Reiner directed it.

97 posted on 07/25/2003 4:51:08 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Just because I don't think like you doesn't mean I don't think for myself)
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