President Bush was visiting a primary school and he visited one of the classes. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asked the President if he would like to lead the discussion on the word "tragedy." So the illustrious leader asked the class for an example of a tragedy. One little boy stood up and offered: "If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a tractor runs over him and kills him, that would be a tragedy." "No," said Bush, "that would be an accident." A little girl raised her hand. "If a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy." "I'm afraid not," explained the President. "That's what we would call a great loss." The room went silent. No other children volunteered. Bush searched the room," Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?" Finally, at the back of the room, a small boy raised his hand. In a quiet voice he said, "If Air Force One carrying you and Mrs. Bush was struck by a 'friendly fire' missile and blown to smithereens, that would be a tragedy." "FANTASTIC!" exclaimed Bush. "That's right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?" "Well," said the boy, "it has to be a tragedy because it certainly wouldn't be a great loss and it probably wouldn't be an accident either."
Although what has always interested me, is the fact that we tell our kids that they should never accept presents from strange men. We also tell them that they should shut the doors and windows as we dont want anyone breaking into the house.
So why the jumping-jee-hossophat, do we say that some fat old boy in a white beard, and red romper suit climbing down the chimney with a sack full of gifts EVERY YEAR, is ok?
Well, as I have a 9 inch giraffe tongue and I can breathe through my ears, I recommend you immediately visit Bristol and I will show you what you are missing
Your list - basic horticulture, - I can grow vegetables general farming, - NAH! food storage and food preservation, - I keep a clean refrigerator boat building, - I can sail boats, and tie a few logs together house building, - NAH! weaving, - NAH! fishing (without risking life and limb underwater), - Yeah, yeah , yeah cooking, - Yep dentistry, - with a pair of pliers and a piece of string extreme medical, - 1st Aid is possible, anything else needs a pair of pliers and a piece of string herbalist, - Smoking or cooking? musicians and entertainers (to help Freeze out now and again), - I play the sax animal husbandry, - I AM NOT MARRYING A HORSE FOR NO ONE!!! tending livestock, - NAH! making soap, - NAH! brewing alcohol - not difficult, but need practice
Im not talking about the current conflict, as I have some very extreme views on the current middle east. Im talking about the fact that "If one refuses to acknowledge history, then one is doomed to repeat it"
The US has the biggest toys and at the moment has the largest cojones. But there will come a time when you wont. It may take 100 years, it may take 200 years, but the time will come.
I think that the US should make better use of the power that it undoubtably has, and work with, and not against less powerful neighbours.
So, you dont think that those things that the US has endured were self-inflicted?
If the US had not dabbled in the politics of other countries unsuccessfully, then the US would not be seen as the bully of the world.
In the days of the British Empire, we got away with murder - litterally - due to the lack of communication that there is around at the moment. So, I am not so blind to the idea that the bully has always been the US, but what I am saying, is that you need to have a balanced view that the US has caused its own troubles.
People get hacked off when you get the annoying wasp buzzing around your head. Get out of the wasp nest and it wont happen.
So, stop whining about the US getting attacked when you attack someone first.
You cannot expect anyone to be happy that their natural resource is being comandeered by a despot so many miles away.
The Chinese kicked our butts when the Brits took liberties over the opium trade, and you will get your butts kicked eventually as well. It might not be for a hundred years, but it will happen. No tyrannical dictatorship has ever lasted.
As an Englishman, I guess I should be less than complementary about the French.
But I have to say, that in my travels I have met some fantastic people who force me to expand my mind, by refusing to speak anything else but French (the same way the majority of Brits refuse to speak anything but English) So for that, I thank you.
The country is an awesome place, from the vineyards, I have slept in, to the south coast where I went cruising for hotties, to the stark harshness of the west coast where the Atlantic batters it mercilessly, where I sat for two hours getting soaked in the huge rollers that crested the cliffs I was sat upon.
Its a simple case of is the coffee cup half full, or half empty?
Either way, FILL THE BLOODY THING UP!!!
I dont have a pension, I dont have savings, I live from year to year with the next year in mind. Im 40 in 6 weeks and I dont care.
I am currently working in an odious job making obscene amounts of money, and in April 2008, I will quit the job, fly to the States, buy a large motorcycle and ride around the States/Canada visiting freinds.
Life is too short to be worried where the next cent/penny/pfennig/rappen is coming from. If you can drive a car, you are always employable.
So, get off the idea that life is so hard and make it fun.
... as at the end of life, is life! (just not yours)
What did you hope to gain by posting this? Do you really wish to cause dischord and disharmony on a mainly North American board on purpose? .. and if so, why?
Should we class all people from Liverpool, Scallies, or jobless layabouts, or thieving vagabonds? Of course not. Its a generalisation, and an unfair one.
Being late for shopping Shopping Shopping .. now these may seem very similar, but I would just like to impress on everyone, how much I hate shopping .... except .. when the objective is a great coffee house at the end of the high street.
lots of warm clothing, a big coat, scarf, fingerless mittens to entwine fingers, woolly hat, a clear full moon, and a walk in the evening to your favourite coffee shop with the one you love.
Watching the breath freeze on the windows as you exhale, kids singing in the park under a bandstand, the bells ringing from the local cathederal, and the need to be close to maintain bodyheat!
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typical woman, never happy unless she is complaining!
RE: wanted men in uniform....
Is a wetsuit a uniform?.. I used to be a motorcycle courier ... that would make a set of motorbike leathers a uniform?