Why You Should Periodically Rot Your Mind on ET

LEAPup · Feb 10, 2011

Quote from Joe Doaks:

I am an earelevunt old fossoil, so I will simply say this. True patriots are conservatives. The youts of today have no concept of what patriotism is. Otherwise we wun't have the prez we have.

+1

As for sites, I like gun/knife stuff, cars, and small helicopter sites. I especially love true Italian Stilettos! Big collector of those!

Joe Doaks · Feb 10, 2011

Quote from Samsara:

I'm no fan of patriotism, nationalism, or any of those noble tribal feelings. They do have utility though -- Beijing gets 10 airports built way faster than Heathrow's new wing. And they get people votin'. True patriots are conservatives, regardless of the country they live in.

I once taught English in China. Tru story bro. Incredibly warm, nice people in person, but I have to admit, I was incredibly disturbed by their patriotism. I instigated every so often, and I misguidedly [somewhat rudely] brought up the mass starvation that followed one of Mao's 5 year plans. One girl stood up in the middle of class and angrily informed me of my ignorance: that it was the prolonged weather that caused the famine.

One on one, some of them expressed the exact opposite of their patriotic opinions. I had one dude who gave me a Chinese version of <i>Interpretation of Dreams</i>, which I thought was pretty cool. That's when I got a better appreciation of people as people, beyond their opinions of their governments.

You and I come from different circumstances, so I'm sure you have many more reasons to recognize the value of patriotism than I do. Not fer me tho. Just my take.

Fair enough. My perspective is that of a child born in 1945. As to your teaching chinks Amellican, I cannot help but wonder, of course solely in jest, if some of the broken Engrish in their posts here is your doing.

Joe Doaks · Feb 10, 2011

Quote from LEAPup:

I especially love true Italian Stilettos! Big collector of those!

I have that fetish also. I especially like them in shiny white patent leather.

Samsara · Feb 10, 2011

Quote from Joe Doaks:

Fair enough. My perspective is that of a child born in 1945. As to your teaching chinks Amellican, I cannot help but wonder, of course solely in jest, if some of the broken Engrish in their posts here is your doing.

Fair enough also. Many many reasons to be proud of Merka, particularly if you were a part of the country back then.

One thing I learned teaching in China: nothing can fix what mass government produced textbooks did to their language apprehension. Also that I hate teaching. But, at least they speak two languages. I can't teach myself shit.

Gabfly1 · Feb 10, 2011

Quote from Joe Doaks:

I have that fetish also. I especially like them in shiny white patent leather.

That was quite funny.

Don't you find it fascinating when some people take your rather more provocative posts seriously and actually agree with them ("+1")? What do you make of such people?

Joe Doaks · Feb 10, 2011

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I'll do some light reading there and get back to you.

OK. I quickly scanned the OP's for the current bastch of P&R tratsch. As a crude generalization, they don't like Jews, ragheads, blacks, furriners, welfare liberals, and of course the prez. I don't see the problem.

Gabfly1 · Feb 10, 2011

Quote from Joe Doaks:

...I don't see the problem.

Quote from Joe Doaks:

I generally don't haunt P&R...

I always find it gratifying when people arrive at the heart of the matter by themselves.

Joe Doaks · Feb 10, 2011

Quote from Samsara:

nothing can fix what mass government produced textbooks did to their language apprehension. I can't teach myself shit.

Ditto here in Amerikay. I was appalled when my children were in school what crap historical lies they told them. I spent a lot of time correcting them. Their teachers din't like it much when my kids told them what the truth is.

Can't teach yourself shit? Au contraire. You taught yourself efs. That's shit.

Joe Doaks · Feb 10, 2011

Quote from Gabfly1:

That was quite funny.

Don't you find it fascinating when some people take your rather more provocative posts seriously and actually agree with them ("+1")? What do you make of such people?

Merci milles fois. My provocative posts? I would consider them provocative if they were liberal. I just post the truth as I see it, albeit with some literary license (or is that licence, I can never remember the difference). I do not condone licentious behavior. Without the proper licenses.

Samsara · Feb 10, 2011

Quote from Joe Doaks:

Ditto here in Amerikay. I was appalled when my children were in school what crap historical lies they told them. I spent a lot of time correcting them. Their teachers din't like it much when my kids told them what the truth is.

Can't teach yourself shit? Au contraire. You taught yourself efs. That's shit.

Haha aint it the truf. All of these flashing green and red lights that I have to now mangle into c# from javascript.

You taught yourself French. I tried that once. I ended up giving myself verbal gonnorhea. Someday I'll try to cure that, but no time while trading.