Insulting Americans

[John D Harris]

Originally posted by Timber Loftis: LOL,that reminds me of Ross Perot, JD, who made the fatal mistake of addressing the ACLU (or was it the NAACP?) as "you people." Rarely have I ever seen anything smart be said in a sentence that included the phrase "you people."

To-may-toe to-ma-toe just trying to ease "you people's" pain and help "you people" out [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Azred]

What? [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img] Did some magazine/newspaper in some other country have something negative to say about America or some group in America?

I didn't notice, since such things are beneath my notice. [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img]

[Davros]

Originally posted by John D Harris: Bepends on how you define respect, while we are asking questions how many of "you people" messed with the bigest meanest, nastiest bully?

Their were two bullies that I recall with little fondness, but the one I loathed the most was from secondary school - I split my sides laughing when I went back home after a couple of years University to hear him ask me "do you want fries with that" . Aaaaah - life's little vengances.

[Donut]

Originally posted by Cerek: No "logical wrangling" is necessary, Barry. You made it very clear that your lack of respect is reserved only for those that supported President Bush and - according to the election results - that is only equal to about 56% of Americans.

That would be 56% of the people who voted rather than 56% of Americans.

[Donut]

Originally posted by Timber Loftis: LOL,that reminds me of Ross Perot, JD, who made the fatal mistake of addressing the ACLU (or was it the NAACP?) as "you people." Rarely have I ever seen anything smart be said in a sentence that included the phrase "you people."

That must be better than starting with "these folks"

[Donut]

Originally posted by Davros: Their were......

Jeez mate! Your spending two much time on Ironworks!!!!

[Davros]

You might be right Donut, and it looks like it is catching :

Posted by Donut Howeve I doubt that I could do a better job of making them a laughing stock than they are already doing themselves!

[Davros]

And how many people got your "denial" joke do you think ?

[Barry the Sprout]

Originally posted by Cerek: No "logical wrangling" is necessary, Barry. You made it very clear that your lack of respect is reserved only for those that supported President Bush and - according to the election results - that is only equal to about 56% of Americans. Of course, since it does also include several members of this forum - including myself and the webmaster of this site - your post might be considered as a direct personal attack and (therefore) a violation of the TOS. But that's not my call to make and I'm personally not offended by your lack of respect - so it doesn't matter to me either way.

What Timber said really, in fact rarely has a thread come up where I've agreed with him so much to be honest. I still have respect for you Cerek, and other right wingers on the forum, for a number of reasons. Even in heated threads you keep your cool and debate rationally and in an informed manner on a wide variety of subjects. The fact that you voted for Bush though means I have less respect for you and for others who've done the same. Thats really, for me, just a rewording of the general statement of disapproval engendered by my political opposition to Bush.

Politics is not something you keep in a box, seperate from everything else. Why do you think religion keeps coming up no matter how many times the ban on it is reinforced? Politics, for me, touches all subjects and helps make a person who they are. As a result, in many ways, this distinction we have here between personal and political attacks is ludicrous and this is demonstrasted most clearly by your allusion that I have just personally attacked board members by my attack on their politics. Its like Timber says really - for me a vote for Bush is a big tick in the negative column. I simply can't get round the fact that that is a logical consequence of politics for me.

[Donut]

Originally posted by Davros: You might be right Donut, and it looks like it is catching : quote: Posted by Donut Howeve I doubt that I could do a better job of making them a laughing stock than they are already doing themselves!

[/QUOTE]Sorry! I've got sticky R's