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Morph · Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:07 pm Post subject:

THis is getting slightly off topic lol, although i have noticed even in films stated by Radge above theat generally Americas are not big fans of europe and some, not all, only really know it through the stereotypes set out in such films

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Neil · Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:25 pm Post subject:

"Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded -- here and there, now and then -- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck".
Robert A Heinlein

This is what Louis XIV did to the Huguenots, Hitler to the Jews, the Inquisition did to everybody & our politicians are doing to nuclear & GM scientists. It takes a generation or so to slip back.
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The aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

Blackadder · 'Our Scotland' Fossil Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 4089

Huge Nuts, eh??

Should we even THINK of going there?????? Shocked