Michael Moore was - gasp - against the PROM? Say it isn't so! I think those who oppose the prom are traitors to humanity and basic decency and are beneath contempt. And he was a LONER? My god, that's unpatriotic all by itself. Clearly he's someone we don't have to take seriously. All decent, honest Americans are extroverted cheerleaders and jocks in high school, it's a well known fact. The rest are potential mass murderers. Ask anybody.
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We finally saw Fahrenheit 9/11
by Mulan indave got home early on wednesday so we hustled off to the afternoon showing.
(cheaper seats).
it was amazing...................very compelling, and thought provoking.. one of the most upsetting things was towards the end when he revealed that of all 96 (not sure of that number) members of congress (senate and house) only 1 member had a child in the military, actively serving.
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Invitation To Americans To Find Fault With The British..
by Englishman in.
i thought we ought to even things up a little... go for it!.
no obscenities please.
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Abaddon, you make me laugh. Okay, it's the middle classes that have a love-hate relationship with their class system. For below middle it's hate-hate, for above middle it's love-adore. But the poor old middles, that was the crowd I inflicted myself upon, so that's what I mostly saw. I agree that they didn't think about Americans that much, but when they did, they seemed to think what I said above.
and even the poor ones don't have taste... maybe it's something in the water?
Americans as a general rule love the British to distraction (I can't tell you how often I had to pry some accent-crazed American waitress off my ex-husband) so our taste can't be all bad. Innit?
Oh, it's easier than that. All you have to understand is that if an Englishman sees you in a pub, says 'What are you doing here you smelly bastard? I'll have a beer please', it normally means he is delighted to see you.
Exactly. But if they DON'T say that, it probably means they really don't like you much. And that's confusing.
Also, Abaddon, I would have to be a complete dolt if I didn't know by now what fanny means, because I have been told gleefully about 17 times since I joined this board. But you know it doesn't mean that to an American, right?
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Invitation To Americans To Find Fault With The British..
by Englishman in.
i thought we ought to even things up a little... go for it!.
no obscenities please.
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DantheMan and Celtic
Thank you, I felt inspired. I've been waiting to get that off my chest for probably ten years. And thanks to Englishman for the invitation.
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Invitation To Americans To Find Fault With The British..
by Englishman in.
i thought we ought to even things up a little... go for it!.
no obscenities please.
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The main problem I had with the British is that they are confusing. When they mean to be rude they are freezingly polite. When they want to insult you they are so killingly witty about it that it can be hours or even days before you realise you've been rejected. Even when they really mean to give a compliment they often mix it with an insult, to avoid being thought sycophantic, obsequious, or wet (over-emotional). The feel deeply superior (for having won the Empire) and deeply inferior (for having lost the Empire). They consider all of America to be basically summed up by the cliche "more money than taste". They consider us to be gauche, crass, unsubtle, literal and yet supremely enviable for our money, power and breezy (unwarranted) confidence. They have a love-hate relationship with their impenetrable class system. They, naturally, are raised with all of this ambivalence and mutual torture and find it highly entertaining, and I don't blame them. But for an American, it's a social jungle. The only hope is to actually fulfill the American stereotype to perfection. Then you can survive, because if you're confident and literal you really don't notice all the subtle currents, and you can't be hurt by them. But go there with any self-doubt, and it's like blood in the water.
However, I loved the beer (Boddingtons), the telly (League of Gentlemen, Have I Got News For You, Spitting Image, The Office, and so on), the humour generally, the diversity, the buzz, the eccentrics (Screaming Lord Such, Glen Hoddle, David Icke), the music, the incredible creative energy, the art scene, the museums in London, it's amazing. It's like the Grand Bazaar of culture.
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WE JUST SAW "DAY AFTER TOMORROW"
by Mary inwell me and a couple of co-workers took the afternoon off and we went and saw the day after tomorrow.
i was greatly disappointed i must say.
if you don't want to know too much about the story, don't read any further.
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2. Am I the only one who thought the Pres and VP looked an awful lot like W. and Cheney?
The director is actually German, and I saw him on a talkshow here. The interviewer asked him if the resemblance to Cheney had been accidental, and he said it was deliberate.
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What first gave you doubts ?
by rick1199 inwe all know the big problems with the wts, but what was the first thing that made you realise there were problems with the organisation ?
with me it was realitivly small stuff like an 8 year old getting baptised and a comment my best mates made about another of our friends asking if we should be hanging round with her as she might be bad assciation (she had just been reproved, but they had been mates 20 years).. .
how ever the first time i ever thought something was really wrong was when i was about 11 and my grand farther died, and mu mum wouldn't go to the funeral, i remeber thinking that surely it was better to say good bye properly than worry about if the service was in a church.. .
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I was raised in The Truth and I really disliked it as soon as I got old enough to have opinions, but I figured something was wrong with me, not them, till I was about 14. Then I started getting disgusted by the hypocrisy, a whole bunch of stupid things happening at once. Finding out that all the righteous elder's kids were having sex, for example. I really didn't think the adults were behaving very well either, constant gossip and cliquing and ridiculous melodramas. Then a friend told me that her father had been sexually abusing her and her sister, and she'd gone to the elders and they'd told her to just keep quiet about it. That was just the straw that broke the camel's back. It's not really reasonable, but in that moment I thought, there is no god. And I've never for one single second been tempted to go back.
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A day without a Mexican - the movie
by Sirius Dogma inyes folks, this is a real movie.
looks like it is only playing in parts of california and texas so far.
check out the trailer.
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It looks fun, I'd like to see it, but I wonder if it will ever get to Germany.
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8,565 Anointed Left - Who will be part of the GB when they are gone?
by indoubt ingranted, there are some "young" anointed, who are supposedly replacing older anointed who "have fallen out of the truth".. but very soon, this "switch game" won't be working anymore... the number will keep decreasing and the amount of "replacements" will diminish as well, until there are none left.. i am sure that others have made similar remarks, but if we say that a 10 years old was anointed in 1935 (deadline for being anointed), that would mean that this person is now 79 years old today.
let's do some maths and be conservative: let's say 80% (6852 anointed) are the original ones (anointed on 1935 or before) and that they were all anointed on 1935 at 10 years old.. now the other 20% (1713) are "replacements" anointed (took the place of an original because he/she has fallen).
those persons must have some kind of spiritual maturity, so let's assume this group has an average of 30 years old.. combined average age = 69 years old.
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Indoubt, what you heard or should have heard is that the GB no longer on the boards of the many secular corporations that run the WTS. They are no longer involved in any secular/business decisions.
It was me, not indoubt, that thought I'd read it. And thank you for clearing it up.
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8,565 Anointed Left - Who will be part of the GB when they are gone?
by indoubt ingranted, there are some "young" anointed, who are supposedly replacing older anointed who "have fallen out of the truth".. but very soon, this "switch game" won't be working anymore... the number will keep decreasing and the amount of "replacements" will diminish as well, until there are none left.. i am sure that others have made similar remarks, but if we say that a 10 years old was anointed in 1935 (deadline for being anointed), that would mean that this person is now 79 years old today.
let's do some maths and be conservative: let's say 80% (6852 anointed) are the original ones (anointed on 1935 or before) and that they were all anointed on 1935 at 10 years old.. now the other 20% (1713) are "replacements" anointed (took the place of an original because he/she has fallen).
those persons must have some kind of spiritual maturity, so let's assume this group has an average of 30 years old.. combined average age = 69 years old.
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I could swear I read that the GB is no longer made up of the anointed anyway. I'm really curious if that's true.
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Words and Phrases from the UK
by Nosferatu inthis is mostly directed to all of you from the uk.
i listen to a lot of music from the uk, but there's some, i guess slang that i don't completely understand.. raw ramp: as in "you're a raw ramp".
i have no clue what this means.
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braces = suspenders
suspenders=those things that hold up your stockings, don't know what they're called in American English
rubber=eraser
waistcoat=vest
spunk=semen, so do not go to england and describe yourself as spunky!
and last but not least
fanny=a woman's temple of delight (also known in Ireland as your Front Mary, or so I have heard)
