Is it worth risking the nick for

[adios 717]

How on earth did they manage to offend a man of your morals so severely as to be unwelcome in your house?

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I'll have you know I've a very strong moral code, it just seldom intersects with the laws of the land.

 

Racists, basically. Voting Bush wouldn't have helped their cause, like, but I wouldn't codemn them for that. Actually, I'd probably have forgiven the racism if they had brains in their head.

[Gemmill 44888]

How on earth did they manage to offend a man of your morals so severely as to be unwelcome in your house?

173595[/snapback]

 

I'll have you know I've a very strong moral code, it just seldom intersects with the laws of the land.

 

Racists, basically. Voting Bush wouldn't have helped their cause, like, but I wouldn't codemn them for that. Actually, I'd probably have forgiven the racism if they had brains in their head.

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Blatantly mentioned the potato famine tbh.

[adios 717]

 

Sadly not, they'd be in good company. Same doesn't go for Islamophobia.

 

The way the average US citizen reacted to an act of atrocity vs how the average UK citizen did recently says a lot, I think. It's hard because obviously there are many millions of sound US citizens, but there's definitely a problem there, and a lot of the sound ones I've spoken to acknowledge it.

Edited August 9, 2006 by DotBum

[snakehips 0]

I'll be getting a lottery ticket tonight btw.  Keep your fingers crossed - I'll cut you all in on a toontastic holiday in the Bahamas.

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Can I swap my trip to the Bahamas for a laptop, a season ticket and a smoothie maker???

[Guest alex]

 

Sadly not, they'd be in good company.  Same doesn't go for Islamophobia.

 

The way the average US citizen reacted to an act of atrocity vs how the average UK citizen did recently says a lot, I think.  It's hard because obviously there are many millions of sound US citizens, but there's definitely a problem there, and a lot of the sound ones I've spoken to acknowledge it.

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You have to wonder how the current situation in Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, etc. is being portrayed in the media over there. Scary tbh.

[Gemmill 44888]

 

Sadly not, they'd be in good company.  Same doesn't go for Islamophobia.

 

The way the average US citizen reacted to an act of atrocity vs how the average UK citizen did recently says a lot, I think.  It's hard because obviously there are many millions of sound US citizens, but there's definitely a problem there, and a lot of the sound ones I've spoken to acknowledge it.

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For the most part they are pretty ignorant of what's going on. I remember being at work on the day of Bush's final deadline to Saddam Hussein before the bombs started going, with the BBC News 24 feed on. These two lasses I was working with had no idea what was going on when the bombs started dropping because they were completely oblivious to the fact that it was all about to kick off. These are college graduates, studying to be CPAs, and not a clue that their country was going to war.

 

Challenge them on the rights and wrongs of it though, and you got a look of utter disgust and a load of shit about 9/11 and how Hussein was DEFINITELY involved. It's sad that people can be so stupid and yet hold such ludicrous views when you try to take it up with them. I just used to get told "I don't know why you even live here seen as all you do is bash America" off one lass. I did used to wind her up intentionally though.

[adios 717]

You have to wonder how the current situation in Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, etc. is being portrayed in the media over there. Scary tbh.

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Check out foxnews.com or wait a couple of years and flick over to Sky News.

 

It is scary, and we'd be just as bad over here if we were being indoctrinated with that shit constantly.

 

The likes of Bill O'Reilly/Ann Coulter are hilarious to watch, until you remember people believe it.

[Gemmill 44888]

I'll be getting a lottery ticket tonight btw.  Keep your fingers crossed - I'll cut you all in on a toontastic holiday in the Bahamas.

173566[/snapback]

 

Can I swap my trip to the Bahamas for a laptop, a season ticket and a smoothie maker???

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I can chuck in a manbag too if you want?

[adios 717]

 

Sadly not, they'd be in good company.  Same doesn't go for Islamophobia.

 

The way the average US citizen reacted to an act of atrocity vs how the average UK citizen did recently says a lot, I think.  It's hard because obviously there are many millions of sound US citizens, but there's definitely a problem there, and a lot of the sound ones I've spoken to acknowledge it.

173611[/snapback]

 

For the most part they are pretty ignorant of what's going on. I remember being at work on the day of Bush's final deadline to Saddam Hussein before the bombs started going, with the BBC News 24 feed on. These two lasses I was working with had no idea what was going on when the bombs started dropping because they were completely oblivious to the fact that it was all about to kick off. These are college graduates, studying to be CPAs, and not a clue that their country was going to war.

 

Challenge them on the rights and wrongs of it though, and you got a look of utter disgust and a load of shit about 9/11 and how Hussein was DEFINITELY involved. It's sad that people can be so stupid and yet hold such ludicrous views when you try to take it up with them. I just used to get told "I don't know why you even live here seen as all you do is bash America" off one lass. I did used to wind her up intentionally though.

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Mystery solved tbh.

 

Seriously, the education over there is a little weird. Over here people tend to be more cultured, well rounded () when they have a good education. I find they're more one-track over there. No interest in anything outside of their field.

[snakehips 0]

I'll be getting a lottery ticket tonight btw.  Keep your fingers crossed - I'll cut you all in on a toontastic holiday in the Bahamas.

173566[/snapback]

 

Can I swap my trip to the Bahamas for a laptop, a season ticket and a smoothie maker???

173615[/snapback]

 

I can chuck in a manbag too if you want?

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Err....not.....this....time........thanks

[Brock Manson 0]

I'll be getting a lottery ticket tonight btw.  Keep your fingers crossed - I'll cut you all in on a toontastic holiday in the Bahamas.

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Can I have a window seat on the plane?

[Tom 14011]

My freind once found £800 on the roof of a cricket club, about 8 of em just drank it away

[The Fish 10857]

You have to wonder how the current situation in Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, etc. is being portrayed in the media over there. Scary tbh.

173616[/snapback]

 

Check out foxnews.com or wait a couple of years and flick over to Sky News.

 

It is scary, and we'd be just as bad over here if we were being indoctrinated with that shit constantly.

 

The likes of Bill O'Reilly/Ann Coulter are hilarious to watch, until you remember people believe it.

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check out the Daily Show with John Stewart, for an american satirical news show it's pretty good.

 

It does build a lot of it's material around how poorly the real news was reported by "reputable" news channels.

 

for example Fox news (among others) were studying the link between the wars in the middle east and Nostradamus' prophecies....

 

seriously...

 

they were tryingto work out if this is Armageddon...

[Tom 14011]

Youl never believe it..

 

 

Just found £1m in a suitcase..

 

 

just ordered 100k crates of carling

[peasepud 59]

Youl never believe it..

 

 

Just found £1m in a suitcase..

 

 

just ordered 100k crates of carling

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Glad to see you're not wasting it then.... oh hold on Carling??????

[The Fish 10857]

Youl never believe it..

 

 

Just found £1m in a suitcase..

 

 

just ordered 100k crates of carling

173685[/snapback]

 

Glad to see you're not wasting it then.... oh hold on Carling??????

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he's going to sell them on eBay and buy some decent lager with the profits.... shirley....

[Tom 14011]

Youl never believe it..

 

 

Just found £1m in a suitcase..

 

 

just ordered 100k crates of carling

173685[/snapback]

 

Glad to see you're not wasting it then.... oh hold on Carling??????

173723[/snapback]

 

 

he's going to sell them on eBay and buy some decent lager with the profits.... shirley....

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Got bored and traded them all for a bottle of Shearer Brown Ale

 

 

its got his picture on and everything

[ohhh_yeah 2967]

The likes of Ann Coulter are hilarious to read, until you remember people believe it.

 

 

 

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-06-25.html

 

 

AMERICA'S FAVORITE NATIONAL PASTIME: HATING SOCCER

 

 

I've held off on writing about soccer for a decade -- or about the length of the average soccer game -- so as not to offend anyone. But enough is enough. Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

 

(1) Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer. In a real sport, players fumble passes, throw bricks and drop fly balls -- all in front of a crowd. When baseball players strike out, they're standing alone at the plate. But there's also individual glory in home runs, touchdowns and slam-dunks.

 

In soccer, the blame is dispersed and almost no one scores anyway. There are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no child's fragile self-esteem is bruised. There's a reason perpetually alarmed women are called "soccer moms," not "football moms."

 

Do they even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down the field and, every once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in. That's when we're supposed to go wild. I'm already asleep.

 

(2) Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.

 

(3) No other "sport" ends in as many scoreless ties as soccer. This was an actual marquee sign by the freeway in Long Beach, California, about a World Cup game last week: "2nd period, 11 minutes left, score: 0:0." Two hours later, another World Cup game was on the same screen: "1st period, 8 minutes left, score: 0:0." If Michael Jackson had treated his chronic insomnia with a tape of Argentina vs. Brazil instead of Propofol, he'd still be alive, although bored.

 

Even in football, by which I mean football, there are very few scoreless ties -- and it's a lot harder to score when a half-dozen 300-pound bruisers are trying to crush you.

 

(4) The prospect of either personal humiliation or major injury is required to count as a sport. Most sports are sublimated warfare. As Lady Thatcher reportedly said after Germany had beaten England in some major soccer game: Don't worry. After all, twice in this century we beat them at their national game.

Baseball and basketball present a constant threat of personal disgrace. In hockey, there are three or four fights a game -- and it's not a stroll on beach to be on ice with a puck flying around at 100 miles per hour. After a football game, ambulances carry off the wounded. After a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box.

 

(5) You can't use your hands in soccer. (Thus eliminating the danger of having to catch a fly ball.) What sets man apart from the lesser beasts, besides a soul, is that we have opposable thumbs. Our hands can hold things. Here's a great idea: Let's create a game where you're not allowed to use them!

 

(6) I resent the force-fed aspect of soccer. The same people trying to push soccer on Americans are the ones demanding that we love HBO's "Girls," light-rail, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton. The number of New York Times articles claiming soccer is "catching on" is exceeded only by the ones pretending women's basketball is fascinating.

 

I note that we don't have to be endlessly told how exciting football is.

 

(7) It's foreign. In fact, that's the precise reason the Times is constantly hectoring Americans to love soccer. One group of sports fans with whom soccer is not "catching on" at all, is African-Americans. They remain distinctly unimpressed by the fact that the French like it.

 

(8) Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it's European. Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren't committing mass murder by guillotine.

 

Despite being subjected to Chinese-style brainwashing in the public schools to use centimeters and Celsius, ask any American for the temperature, and he'll say something like "70 degrees." Ask how far Boston is from New York City, he'll say it's about 200 miles.

 

Liberals get angry and tell us that the metric system is more "rational" than the measurements everyone understands. This is ridiculous. An inch is the width of a man's thumb, a foot the length of his foot, a yard the length of his belt. That's easy to visualize. How do you visualize 147.2 centimeters?

 

(9) Soccer is not "catching on." Headlines this week proclaimed "Record U.S. ratings for World Cup," and we had to hear -- again -- about the "growing popularity of soccer in the United States."

 

The USA-Portugal game was the blockbuster match, garnering 18.2 million viewers on ESPN. This beat the second-most watched soccer game ever: The 1999 Women's World Cup final (USA vs. China) on ABC. (In soccer, the women's games are as thrilling as the men's.)

 

Run-of-the-mill, regular-season Sunday Night Football games average more than 20 million viewers; NFL playoff games get 30 to 40 million viewers; and this year's Super Bowl had 111.5 million viewers.

 

Remember when the media tried to foist British soccer star David Beckham and his permanently camera-ready wife on us a few years ago? Their arrival in America was heralded with 24-7 news coverage. That lasted about two days. Ratings tanked. No one cared.

 

If more "Americans" are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.

[tooner 243]

 

 

 

 

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-06-25.html

 

 

AMERICA'S FAVORITE NATIONAL PASTIME: HATING SOCCER

 

 

I've held off on writing about soccer for a decade -- or about the length of the average soccer game -- so as not to offend anyone. But enough is enough. Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

 

(1) Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer. In a real sport, players fumble passes, throw bricks and drop fly balls -- all in front of a crowd. When baseball players strike out, they're standing alone at the plate. But there's also individual glory in home runs, touchdowns and slam-dunks.

 

In soccer, the blame is dispersed and almost no one scores anyway. There are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no child's fragile self-esteem is bruised. There's a reason perpetually alarmed women are called "soccer moms," not "football moms."

 

Do they even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down the field and, every once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in. That's when we're supposed to go wild. I'm already asleep.

 

(2) Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.

 

(3) No other "sport" ends in as many scoreless ties as soccer. This was an actual marquee sign by the freeway in Long Beach, California, about a World Cup game last week: "2nd period, 11 minutes left, score: 0:0." Two hours later, another World Cup game was on the same screen: "1st period, 8 minutes left, score: 0:0." If Michael Jackson had treated his chronic insomnia with a tape of Argentina vs. Brazil instead of Propofol, he'd still be alive, although bored.

 

Even in football, by which I mean football, there are very few scoreless ties -- and it's a lot harder to score when a half-dozen 300-pound bruisers are trying to crush you.

 

(4) The prospect of either personal humiliation or major injury is required to count as a sport. Most sports are sublimated warfare. As Lady Thatcher reportedly said after Germany had beaten England in some major soccer game: Don't worry. After all, twice in this century we beat them at their national game.

Baseball and basketball present a constant threat of personal disgrace. In hockey, there are three or four fights a game -- and it's not a stroll on beach to be on ice with a puck flying around at 100 miles per hour. After a football game, ambulances carry off the wounded. After a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box.

 

(5) You can't use your hands in soccer. (Thus eliminating the danger of having to catch a fly ball.) What sets man apart from the lesser beasts, besides a soul, is that we have opposable thumbs. Our hands can hold things. Here's a great idea: Let's create a game where you're not allowed to use them!

 

(6) I resent the force-fed aspect of soccer. The same people trying to push soccer on Americans are the ones demanding that we love HBO's "Girls," light-rail, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton. The number of New York Times articles claiming soccer is "catching on" is exceeded only by the ones pretending women's basketball is fascinating.

 

I note that we don't have to be endlessly told how exciting football is.

 

(7) It's foreign. In fact, that's the precise reason the Times is constantly hectoring Americans to love soccer. One group of sports fans with whom soccer is not "catching on" at all, is African-Americans. They remain distinctly unimpressed by the fact that the French like it.

 

(8) Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it's European. Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren't committing mass murder by guillotine.

 

Despite being subjected to Chinese-style brainwashing in the public schools to use centimeters and Celsius, ask any American for the temperature, and he'll say something like "70 degrees." Ask how far Boston is from New York City, he'll say it's about 200 miles.

 

Liberals get angry and tell us that the metric system is more "rational" than the measurements everyone understands. This is ridiculous. An inch is the width of a man's thumb, a foot the length of his foot, a yard the length of his belt. That's easy to visualize. How do you visualize 147.2 centimeters?

 

(9) Soccer is not "catching on." Headlines this week proclaimed "Record U.S. ratings for World Cup," and we had to hear -- again -- about the "growing popularity of soccer in the United States."

 

The USA-Portugal game was the blockbuster match, garnering 18.2 million viewers on ESPN. This beat the second-most watched soccer game ever: The 1999 Women's World Cup final (USA vs. China) on ABC. (In soccer, the women's games are as thrilling as the men's.)

 

Run-of-the-mill, regular-season Sunday Night Football games average more than 20 million viewers; NFL playoff games get 30 to 40 million viewers; and this year's Super Bowl had 111.5 million viewers.

 

Remember when the media tried to foist British soccer star David Beckham and his permanently camera-ready wife on us a few years ago? Their arrival in America was heralded with 24-7 news coverage. That lasted about two days. Ratings tanked. No one cared.

 

If more "Americans" are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.

 

this woman has absolutely no redeeming value at all, complete cath-word.

[NJS 4386]

Coulter is beyond bat-shit mental like.

 

Would be interesting to ask her how "socialist" sports are which distribute the best players to the worst teams and have wage caps negotiated by trade unions are.