Royal Prenuptual

[Captain Oates 911]

I think you have your phrasing mixed up. You're thinking of a tight wad.

Richard Wad had nowt to do with money

I think I will stick with English - it's too hard to learn txt or tweet or gangsta

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

I think I will stick with English - it's too hard to learn txt or tweet or gangsta

so you're amenable to learning southern?

[TracyTN 237]

That is the defining characteristic of the USA - that there is Nothing beatween love and hate. No grey areas. Nobody says "I quite like XYZ" or "I am not keen on XYZ".

It's either "I absolutely hate that" - and I want to shoot it, crush it and throw a phosphorus grenade at it at it - OR I love it and I want to scream with approval and howl like a wolf

I don't hate the USA or love it either - any more than I do any country including England.

I save those love emotions for special situations - I can love people or animals or a special place. I reserve 'hate' and I don't have any. If I ever have any, the world will know.

People say they love the USA. I say do you mean the Haitians in Florida - NO. The released Cuban jailbirds in Miami - NO. The Muslims in Minnesota - NO. The Jews in New York - No. The Congress people - No. Senators - No. The President - No. The climate - hardly. So what do they love ? This isn't the only country that votes or has free speech or laws or a judicial system. Do they love the IRS ? Do they love health insurance companies ? Break the US down to its component parts and populations and ask people whether they like these things one by one and they say NO. Yet somehow they love the whole.

That's like saying I hate rain but I like thunderstorms

When it comes right down to it they are in love with an idea. God is an idea too. It's an emotion that is as ethereal as religion.

I pay pay taxes to the penny and go out of my way to declare income that I could get away with. I don't break laws and I help my neighbours. If I knew a criminal or a terrorist I would denounce them to the law. I am willing to do jury service. That makes me a good citizen but if anyone wants any more then they are selling something I don't understand and I am not buying.

The people who want to leave poor Americans in the gutter and shoot abortion doctors and excuse soldiers who act in a criminal way are the real America haters and the word 'hate' should be reserved for them.

I am repulsed by the word 'hate'. If America was composed of people who do what I do and don't do what I don't, it would be more lovable than it is - even to someone who is in love with it now.

I'm not sure how you got all that out of what I said, but hey - whatever floats ya!

[Captain Oates 911]

so you're amenable to learning southern?

Hung around LaGrange Georgia from 1983 onwards (working) so I am fluent but not bilingual in Reb talk

[TBoneTX 45,309]

Hung around LaGrange Georgia from 1983 onwards (working) so I am fluent but not bilingual in Reb talk

Then you must know the song "Home on LaGrange": "Oh give me a home (si man) where the beefalo roam (si man)..."