American / European Incomprehension.

by Englishman 53 Replies latest jw friends

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  fodeja

  Thanks, Englishman.

  Waiting:

  By far, most of us here don't know what you're talking about. That makes it no less real to you - we just didn't have to live your sorrow.

  My sorrow is nothing in comparison to what my parents went through at a very young age. But that was then, and this is now. (BTW, my parents also used to relate lots of stories about the GIs and British soldiers giving chocolate and bread and corned beef cans to the kids...this made a lasting impression on an entire generation here).

  My family story didn't make it easy to develop a comfortably simple world view, and maybe I'm a bit oversensitive in this area. The only thing I can say for sure is that war is never a thing to be proud of. Never ever. I wish people would learn that lesson eventually.

  f.

  (edited for grammar)
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  Roamingfeline

  Prisca's Australian.

  Doesn't sound any better though, does it?

  Yeah, Waiting, especially considering the Australian's have to import nearly everything they use down here. Cheap made imports at that! I know of hardly anything they manufacture for themselves, except beer worthy of being called horse-piss. And the building styles down here, don't get me started. Can you say 'waferboard and glue'?

  RCat

  Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

  -- Christian Furchtegott Gellert
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  teejay

  Englishman,

  you said:
  Well Todd, even if you were posting in jest, maybe you
  should know that my dad flew over Germany in Lancasters 43
  times to defend this little island, when the odds of
  returning were 9 - 1 each time. Of course, we were also
  fighting on our own for 3 years when everywhere else in
  Europe had been conquered.

  I don't think we did too badly.

  Of course you didn't. I doubt that the Americans could have
  alone handled the ruthless tactics of the Nazis, what with
  so much of their forces fighting in the Pacific theater. I
  really believe that luck, good fortune, (god?) played a
  role in the victory... the Germans came damn close.

  I honor all men of war, especially the grunts who do the dirty
  work and pay the price, whether it was in WW2, Vietnam, even
  in our own Civil War of the 1860s. I'm happy as hell that the
  South lost, but i honor their men's fighting zeal and committment
  to a cause. It's just that Prisca's comment about "infiltration"
  made me think about the attitude of certain racist Americans who
  lament the fact that there are people of African descent living
  here. If Africans had never been brought here as slaves, they
  could've had it to themselves.

  I meant no harm, none whatsoever, Englishman. You have every
  reason to honor your father's courage and heroism.

  peace,
  todd
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  larc

  Hey Waiting,

  Juss cause I cain't speel Y'all, don't pruve nuthin'. Hell, sometimes I have to check my ID to see if I spelled my name right. And don't think you got nuthin over on us. We got Krispy Kremes.

  Now the answer you all have been waiting for: The Devil Strip is the strip of grass between the sidewalk and the curb. The city owns it, but you have to take care of it. What is that strip of grass called in locale?