pasted shamelessly in a bid to engender peaceable relations with our overseas cousins... .
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Using a 'serviette' is a bit like gong to the 'toilet' or pouring milk into a cup before the tea - indicators of less than middle class. Sorry E-man, you must be a pleb if you don't use a napkin, go to the lavatory or pour the milk in second!
The British class system - don'tcha just love it?
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i've always wanted to know: what is a moor?.
please & thanks.
a large area of empty land, usually pretty barren without trees and not farmed, with only grass and pretty hardy plants.
yesterday jehovahs witnesses and the hospital liason committee visited our hospital to donate a blood cell saver machine which had been funded by the local congregations in our county of kent in england.
a buffet lunch was provided, along with 4 talks to a large audience of surgical and medical consultants, anaetheologists, paedatricians, and obstetraticians (sp!
) about the future of blood and the transfusion of such products.
Paying for Cell Savers has been on the go in the UK for the last couple of years. It is not backed by the WTS but is permitted by them if local witnesses wish to raise the funds. Congregations are not permitted to remove money from their local accounts but a separate donation box can be set up or one meeting a month be set aside for donations. Can you tell I was the accounts servant? I knew of a number of witnesses who didn't approve and didn't donate but there were obviously a number who thought differently. Even amongst the Dubs things are not B&W.
They don't donate to hospitals for the PR but are glad of any positive PR that results, and they don't do it for the good of the community but for their own benefit but it can't be denied that the community do benefit. In the actual event they get very little publicity for the donations, normally just the local press.
And I think the NHS can do with all the donations they can get these days.
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my hubby & i had a debate tonight, so i'm kinda taking a poll..... my hubby says we should stop immigrations and start closing up the borders - except in cases of political asylum or a family member.
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Which do you think are a bigger drain on the States, illegal immigrants or indigent corporate corruption?
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raised some good questions but kind of got lost because of the evidence moore uncovers along the way, but it was nice to see marylin manson appearing as a paragon of virtue when compared to charlton heston.. wt content?
has the same tacky infomercial style that wt videos tend towards with tacky muzak over corny acting.. sad thing is that its target audience will probably never see it.
What struck me was that halfway through making the film Moore stumbled across the fact that gun ownership wasn't an explanation for the high number of US shootings because of the example of Canada, yet he still pursued the NRA. What was the point when the right to bear arms doesn't necessarily result in homicide?
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raised some good questions but kind of got lost because of the evidence moore uncovers along the way, but it was nice to see marylin manson appearing as a paragon of virtue when compared to charlton heston.. wt content?
has the same tacky infomercial style that wt videos tend towards with tacky muzak over corny acting.. sad thing is that its target audience will probably never see it.
The audience I was part of spent the first 20 minutes laughing at the homespun redneck logic but that was brought to a halt by the scenes of people being shot.
What did make me laugh was the South Park animation of US history.
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raised some good questions but kind of got lost because of the evidence moore uncovers along the way, but it was nice to see marylin manson appearing as a paragon of virtue when compared to charlton heston.. wt content?
has the same tacky infomercial style that wt videos tend towards with tacky muzak over corny acting.. sad thing is that its target audience will probably never see it.
Anyone else been to see this yet? Raised some good questions but kind of got lost because of the evidence Moore uncovers along the way, but it was nice to see Marylin Manson appearing as a paragon of virtue when compared to Charlton Heston.
WT content? Has the same tacky infomercial style that WT videos tend towards with tacky muzak over corny acting.
Sad thing is that its target audience will probably never see it.
when you look back, were you considered by others a "devout" jw?
( michael jackson and family as well as the williams sisters have been charecterized as being "devout").
did you consider yourself sincere and devoted?
I was once described as a "postmodern Jehovah's Witness" by a non JW friend. Was an elder at the time.
us officials are signalling that a deal has been reached with france and russia to overcome their objections to a new resolution against iraq.
senior diplomats are discussing the latest resolution drafted by the united states at a closed-door meeting of the un security council.
iraq... will face serious consequences as a result of its continued violations of its obligations .
Farkel says gsx musn't discuss history that he hasn't directly experienced, or been old enough to understand. What age were you Farkel when Mr Chamberlain landed waving his piece of paper? Would being alive to experience the events of the late 1930's mean that you had greater insight into them than some one younger? Or would it just mean that you remember them. Remembering Reagan at the '80's isn't evidence that someone understands them.
Next you'll be telling us that 'before grey hair we should rise'!
us officials are signalling that a deal has been reached with france and russia to overcome their objections to a new resolution against iraq.
senior diplomats are discussing the latest resolution drafted by the united states at a closed-door meeting of the un security council.
iraq... will face serious consequences as a result of its continued violations of its obligations .
Having lurked for a few weeks this thread has made me join in.
Although I've never been one for conspiracy theories, Gore Vidal published an essay in The Observer (UK Sunday paper) on events following the attacks on the WTC & Pentagon that is rather persuasive. There are highlights here
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,819931,00.html
(Hope nobody's offended by Mr Vidal, but thought that you Americans would be as easily persuaded by him as you are of JFK and moon landing conspiracies!)
The posts of Perry, Farkel and gsx all have interesting bits of fact and lots of invective but one point raised by you all are the links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. I'm with gsx and Bush, Blair et al seem very reticent with evidence on this front. There's plenty of evidence linking Saudi and the Yemen. All seem agreed that oil is major factor in US interests in Afghanistan and Iraq, but is is it free flowing oil lanes or control that the US wants?
Someone else (lovely person I'm sure) reckoned it was democracy that the US wanted to gift the Middle East. Hhmmm. Has Western democracy worked in countries that have found it imposed upon them?
To me, America's global activities are entirely consistent with those of a dominant world power seeking to maintain its position. If any other country were in their position they would do the same, whether we think this right or wrong. Apart from Scotland who would just export its heart disease and cancer rates to ensure global peace.
