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Re: Charlottesville
« Reply #45 on: 17 August 2017, 13:21:07 »

I accept your criticism, Nick, but I still regard "Democrat" as a misnomer.

Ron.


That's because it relates to the other US party the Republicans, not a democratic system. There are as many definitions of 'democracy' as there are countries who claim to be democratic. And that's before any of these terms are thrown about as insults, thus rendering them utterly useless.
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Re: Charlottesville
« Reply #46 on: 17 August 2017, 13:25:29 »


Trouble is these 'good ol boys' from the south live in a shack with their sister and their 'momma'.......and after too much moonshine the 'good ol boy' does what comes natural. We then have a new generation of young 'good ol boys'  with a strange number of fingers and toes.

Much like Norfolk and Yorkshire in that respect.

Daisy Duke seemed pretty normal though. :-* :-* :-*



Conveniently missing out the county inbetween M'lud ....  ::)

......it seems I missed out 'Darzett'. They are an odd bunch down that way. ;)

No webbed feet round here M'lud!  ;D

How many heads does the 'average' person have down you neck of the woods, Sir Tig? ;)
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Re: Charlottesville
« Reply #47 on: 17 August 2017, 13:30:21 »


Trouble is these 'good ol boys' from the south live in a shack with their sister and their 'momma'.......and after too much moonshine the 'good ol boy' does what comes natural. We then have a new generation of young 'good ol boys'  with a strange number of fingers and toes.

Much like Norfolk and Yorkshire in that respect.

Daisy Duke seemed pretty normal though. :-* :-* :-*



Conveniently missing out the county inbetween M'lud ....  ::)

......it seems I missed out 'Darzett'. They are an odd bunch down that way. ;)

No webbed feet round here M'lud!  ;D

How many heads does the 'average' person have down you neck of the woods, Sir Tig? ;)

That's depends on whether they have one hidden up their arse or not M'lud.  :)
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Re: Charlottesville
« Reply #48 on: 17 August 2017, 13:35:06 »


Trouble is these 'good ol boys' from the south live in a shack with their sister and their 'momma'.......and after too much moonshine the 'good ol boy' does what comes natural. We then have a new generation of young 'good ol boys'  with a strange number of fingers and toes.

Much like Norfolk and Yorkshire in that respect.

Daisy Duke seemed pretty normal though. :-* :-* :-*



Conveniently missing out the county inbetween M'lud ....  ::)

......it seems I missed out 'Darzett'. They are an odd bunch down that way. ;)

No webbed feet round here M'lud!  ;D

How many heads does the 'average' person have down you neck of the woods, Sir Tig? ;)

That's depends on whether they have one hidden up their arse or not M'lud.  :)

I hear the large central eye gives excellent vision in low light. :)
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Re: Charlottesville
« Reply #49 on: 17 August 2017, 13:38:51 »


Trouble is these 'good ol boys' from the south live in a shack with their sister and their 'momma'.......and after too much moonshine the 'good ol boy' does what comes natural. We then have a new generation of young 'good ol boys'  with a strange number of fingers and toes.

Much like Norfolk and Yorkshire in that respect.

Daisy Duke seemed pretty normal though. :-* :-* :-*



Conveniently missing out the county inbetween M'lud ....  ::)

......it seems I missed out 'Darzett'. They are an odd bunch down that way. ;)

No webbed feet round here M'lud!  ;D

How many heads does the 'average' person have down you neck of the woods, Sir Tig? ;)

That's depends on whether they have one hidden up their arse or not M'lud.  :)

I hear the large central eye gives excellent vision in low light. :)

Wouldn't know M'lud.  No large central eye here, my second head has a little central japs eye.  :)
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Re: Charlottesville
« Reply #50 on: 17 August 2017, 13:44:15 »

I've no time what-so-ever for 1 or 2 where we should banish these misfits from mainstream society and treat them for what they are. Call me old fashioned, but I like my democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of choice, freedom of economic activity, freedom of markets, all people being treated as equals in society and the eyes of the law, property rights, an independent judiciary, every increasing health, age spans, material and economic wealth and will fight with passion to justify and keep them and so should all of you. Be thankful for living in the West, be thankful for living in one of the freest and wealthy countries on earth, be thankful for what I, you and we as a society have got. :y :y :y

I at times take quite a lot of flak, where I have no time for dictators and despots where everything is about them, I will always fight and oppose them and defend our democracy as it is by far the best system this planet has got. :y :y :y

And therin, for the US at least, lies a big part of the issue. Non-white people are not treated equally and never have been. They are heavily profiled by the police, treated more harshly by the judiciary (on the basis of like-for-like offences) and then sent to work in "for profit" prisons which focus on using them as free labour rather than on rehabilitating them. Thereby setting them up to re-offend when they are released, so they can drop back into the free labour pool nice and quick!

Still, at least it reduces the carbon footprint compared to shipping their free labour in from Africa like they used to  ::).

Not disagreeing with your post BTW, seems like an accurate synopsis to me!

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« Reply #51 on: 17 August 2017, 13:53:02 »

I was gobsmacked at the segregation in society when I first went to the US.  :o

In Houston at least you don't or rarely see a group of youngsters of all races having fun like you do here.  Mixed race couples are very rare and my friends and their friends thought it was strange that I was getting the bus around.  I was the only white person on the bus!  ::)
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Re: Charlottesville
« Reply #52 on: 17 August 2017, 14:50:48 »

I was gobsmacked at the segregation in society when I first went to the US.  :o

In Houston at least you don't or rarely see a group of youngsters of all races having fun like you do here.  Mixed race couples are very rare and my friends and their friends thought it was strange that I was getting the bus around.  I was the only white person on the bus!  ::)

We are fortunate as one of the world's most integrated multicultural societies. :y :y :y The US still has major problems along with most European countries. :( :( :(
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« Reply #53 on: 17 August 2017, 14:56:52 »

I was gobsmacked at the segregation in society when I first went to the US.  :o

In Houston at least you don't or rarely see a group of youngsters of all races having fun like you do here.  Mixed race couples are very rare and my friends and their friends thought it was strange that I was getting the bus around.  I was the only white person on the bus!  ::)

On a bus in Houston? You were probably lucky not to get stabbed, gringo! ;)

(OK, ok, that's probably more San Antonio than Houston..)
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Re: Charlottesville
« Reply #54 on: 17 August 2017, 15:05:03 »


Trouble is these 'good ol boys' from the south live in a shack with their sister and their 'momma'.......and after too much moonshine the 'good ol boy' does what comes natural. We then have a new generation of young 'good ol boys'  with a strange number of fingers and toes.

Much like Norfolk and Yorkshire in that respect.

Daisy Duke seemed pretty normal though. :-* :-* :-*



Far Cough >:(  ;D
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Re: Charlottesville
« Reply #55 on: 17 August 2017, 15:48:44 »

I was gobsmacked at the segregation in society when I first went to the US.  :o

In Houston at least you don't or rarely see a group of youngsters of all races having fun like you do here.  Mixed race couples are very rare and my friends and their friends thought it was strange that I was getting the bus around.  I was the only white person on the bus!  ::)

When I first went there in 1990 we as a family found ourselves waiting for a hotel bus as our plane connection had been missed thanks to TWA and around JFK Airport it was chaos due to severe rainstorms.

People were getting angry and bothered in a long queue, in sweltering steamy heat, with few hotel buses getting through, and when they did they were full.  A bus arrived eventually and before we knew it a white guy was shouting at a black man "get off that f.cking bus you f.king n.gger or i'll f.cking shoot you" as he waved a gun around. Friends of the white man threw the black man and his luggage off the bus and they got on.  My husband pulled us back away from all this and said wisely "we are the foreigners here, keep well back!".

Yes, it was the first of many eye openers around the subject of ethnic race in the USA! ::) ::)
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« Reply #56 on: 17 August 2017, 16:36:25 »

I wonder where all the marvelous statues are going to?

Spain despite the Conservative party being against it, is quietly cleansing itself of things Franco. That is very much a left wing project.

I hope Britain never follows suit as a lot of our fine heritage ( as previously said) would have to go.
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« Reply #57 on: 17 August 2017, 16:45:06 »

I wonder where all the marvelous statues are going to?

TBH I am surprised the republicans are against the removal, afterall, they are well known and vocal haters of participation trophies  ;D
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« Reply #58 on: 17 August 2017, 19:25:01 »

A bigot, a white supremacist and a woman groper walk into a bar. The barman looked up and asked: What do you want to drink, Mr Trump?
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« Reply #59 on: 17 August 2017, 20:31:35 »

Some people need shooting. On both sides. (At the risk of sounding like Trump  :-[)
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