🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1n648v8f0tr8ruud5...@4ax.com>, 
br...@zakalwe.demon.co.uk says...
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:47:18 -0800, Bret Ripley <rip...@olywa.net>
> wrote:
> 
> >In article <MPG.18ebad9eb...@news.ywave.com>, rip...@olywa.net 
> >says...
> >> In article <l4u38v4nbq3leri13...@4ax.com>, 
> >> mem...@nospampleaseimbritish.ntlworld.com says...
> >> > http://www.petitiononline.com/cador/petition.html
> >> > 
> >> > Just in case any of you missed this, just spotted it over in .rpg. Apparently
> >> > someone is worried
> >> 
> >> Uh, Mem . . . 
> >> 
> >> > that the American people are getting confused between the
> >> > Republican party and the Elite Republican Guard of Iraq. Bring on your stupid
> >> > American jokes as you see fit but this kind of ignorance really saddens me.
> >> 
> >> Excuse me, Mem, but . . . 
> >> 
> >> > Perhaps anyone who signs the petition should be put on a list and sent a
> >> > Geography book in the post along with some helpful crayon scribbles like "You
> >> > are here!" and "They are there!". <falls off chair laughing>
> >> 
> >> Uh, Mem, have you actually looked at the signatures?
> >> 
> >> Submitted for your consideration: it's a joke.
> >> 
> >> So far, there are 3 signatures: #1 is the "author" of the petition, #2 
> >> is a joke name, and #3 is a Mr. (or Ms.) fsdf, who's heartfelt comment 
> >> "asdfasdfa" pretty much says it all.
> >> 
> >> During my last trip to the UK, I was startled to discover that "Merkin 
> >> bashing" seemed very much in vogue.  What startled me, however, was not 
> >> the fact that criticism was being levelled at the US, but rather the 
> >> silly, misrepresented, and sometimes fictional objects of that 
> >> criticism.  I found myself a little disappointed by this, because there 
> >> are so many legitimate criticisms to be made regarding the US without 
> >> making shit up.
> >
> >I know it's bad form to reply to oneself, but why stand on ceremony I 
> >always say.
> >
> >As an example, on British television someone was having a giggle about a 
> >poll conducted in the US that showed a large percentage of people 
> >surveyed couldn't identify the name of the current US President (or 
> >something similarly simple).  Now, I happened to have heard a news story 
> >about this particular poll before leaving for the UK, and what the 
> >television host neglected to mention was that the survey was conducted 
> >among young school children.  I realize this would have spoiled the 
> >joke, but apparently some people lend some degree of credibility to this 
> >sort of caper.
> >
> >Of course, if you wish to demonstrate Merkin idiocy you could just go 
> >read comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim.
> 
> Our media is carrying an awful lot of 'Peace Protestor' shit at the
> moment, or at least was until a few days ago. Most of these 'Anti-War'
> merchants come across as just 'Anti-American', with people queuing up
> to tell us how evil Bush is whilst being strangely silent about that
> nice Mr Hussain.

Or nice Mr. Blair?

> That's not to say there aren't genuine anti-war
> demonstrators, but I don't think the media can get as much mileage
> from them.

You're probably right.  Responsible people are boring.

> Personally, I find these idiots who lie around with red paint on their
> faces supposedly representing those who may be killed in this war
> repugnant. I don't seem to recall any similar action when Saddam was
> gassing thousands of innocents in the kurdish north of his country.
> 
> And as for these Christian human shield idiots, if there really is a
> god, lets hope it's allah, and he drops a fucking thousand pound bomb
> on them.
> Wouldn't that be deliciously ironic.
> 
> Sorry, didn't mean to use irony, I know how you stupid Americans don't
> understand it.

No, but it was damned kind of you to explain it for us.

Bret