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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 1:08:55 PM

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SL4V...have some damn compassion, !!!! not fair to make me suffer like this now behave(see other post)grins

You know I'm not sure I can remember a world the way it was before Eurotunnel was invented, it's been as revolutionary to me as the internet. Once upon a time we had to get the Ferry across to continental Europe and that took days. Often scurvy would set in and they'd be terrible dysentery.

This is another example of the dismal medical care in the UK. They cut the HHS budget to the bone- and there are death panels.

Unfortunately the US is copying this same model.

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 1:14:45 PM

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I'm addicted to responding to your idiocy, I don't think the NHS can cure me of that.

Death panels my arse. How is a system where everyone gets the same healthcare no matter what their wallet size deemed to be a death panel? People in government have done a real misinformation trick on you. You don't care about the things that matter you care about the things that don't such as this carbon tax you keep bleating on about. I'm not really sure who's put the idea in your head that the Royal family is responsible for all the ills in the world but it's quite entertaining to watch the results of it.

I'm being deadly serious now, have a long hard think about this question:

What is wrong with you?

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 2:31:24 PM

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I do think casual disregard for the law is pretty common in our country. What I pick up from many of our posters from across the pond, and to our north, is more acceptance of the individual's role in society as that of a subject, rather than a free agent. Maybe the gap is in the American notion that our rights are inherent, and laws that intrude on them are for ignoring, vs. the Old World acceptance of their rights being something granted by king/government?

That's kinda what I was trying to state. Thanks for rephrasing it so well.

Here we seem to have the cult of the individual. It has its pluses and its minuses. There is a strong lawless element, but OTOH, we have a bent for pioneering new things. As an example, the Japanese are famous for taking an existing process and patiently improving it bit by bit, squeezing an extra half percent of efficiency here, a quarter percent there. But we Americans developed most of those processes, inefficiencies and all.

I think in the case of the japanese a lot of it comes down to their tendency to try to perfect things and processes. We tend to do what is necessary to get the job done and no more.

Europeans have centuries of having royalty rule over them, so it is a part of our culture. Where we are outlaws at heart. It took guns to tame the west. And guns to keep it that way.

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 2:37:57 PM

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The west was a barren landscape until American's inhabited it, it don't take much to tame that. My neighbours garden is more formidable with all its plants growing horizontally through my fence.

chicken/egg etc.

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 2:41:10 PM

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Lovely, SL4. Then I can just ring you up the next time I have a Mojave Green (that's a particularly deadly species of rattlesnake, common to my area) take an attitude with me in the yard? You'll tame it, right?

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 2:46:11 PM

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This is really funny, Australia is just as remote and with very dangerous creatures but a bunch of convicts tamed it fine without using that as a justification for firearms.

Going further if you compare the cultures you'll not find many Australian themed Westerns which also says something in itself.

Although there are parallels such as an indigenous people being trampled over but no grand movie stories resulting from it.

Is this still about firearms?

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 2:50:51 PM

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The west was a barren landscape until American's inhabited it, it don't take much to tame that. My neighbours garden is more formidable with all its plants growing horizontally through my fence.

chicken/egg etc.
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Not as barren as you might think. European countries are about the same size as a lot of our states are. Help might have been 30 mileage away. Its been inhabited since the indians came down.

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 2:59:43 PM

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No there were no guns in Australia. They never hunted down any of the aborigines.

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 3:37:20 PM

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Do you even know what a mono-rail is and how the Eurotunnel isn't one?

Oddly enough, my last trip to Europe was at a place that had a monorail. Disney World.

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 3:44:22 PM

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Do you even know what a mono-rail is and how the Eurotunnel isn't one?

Part of it was bombed on 7-7

Thanks for letting us know that little gem. I think the eurotunnel being bombed on 7-7 is something that pretty much passed everyone by. I will be sure and let the authorities know as they were obviously unaware of this as well.

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 3:45:43 PM

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I hear that dancing on the mono-rail is prohibited for safety reasons and that if there is only one person on it they have to sit in the centre.

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 4:11:23 PM

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nice to see the baiting continues
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Hey Rich, the trick with baiting is to stop hooking yourself.

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 4:14:08 PM

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Lovely, SL4. Then I can just ring you up the next time I have a Mojave Green (that's a particularly deadly species of rattlesnake, common to my area) take an attitude with me in the yard? You'll tame it, right?

I picked one of them up once. I just gave it my "superior attitude " look and it just started being nice to me.

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 4:16:05 PM

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Lovely, SL4. Then I can just ring you up the next time I have a Mojave Green (that's a particularly deadly species of rattlesnake, common to my area) take an attitude with me in the yard? You'll tame it, right?

That's what I thought you did.

Last Chance Gas and rattlesnake tamer out on the lonely, desert highway.

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 5:38:38 PM

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Lovely, SL4. Then I can just ring you up the next time I have a Mojave Green (that's a particularly deadly species of rattlesnake, common to my area) take an attitude with me in the yard? You'll tame it, right?

I picked one of them up once. I just gave it my "superior attitude " look and it just started being nice to me.

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 6:17:55 PM

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Do you even know what a mono-rail is and how the Eurotunnel isn't one?

Part of it was bombed on 7-7

Thanks for letting us know that little gem. I think the eurotunnel being bombed on 7-7 is something that pretty much passed everyone by. I will be sure and let the authorities know as they were obviously unaware of this as well.

they were unaware all those cameras broke down on THAT day at THAT time! LMAO

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 6:21:35 PM

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I do think casual disregard for the law is pretty common in our country. What I pick up from many of our posters from across the pond, and to our north, is more acceptance of the individual's role in society as that of a subject, rather than a free agent. Maybe the gap is in the American notion that our rights are inherent, and laws that intrude on them are for ignoring, vs. the Old World acceptance of their rights being something granted by king/government?

That's kinda what I was trying to state. Thanks for rephrasing it so well.

Here we seem to have the cult of the individual. It has its pluses and its minuses. There is a strong lawless element, but OTOH, we have a bent for pioneering new things.

its very easy to prove america is a feudal society and to dumb to know the difference lol

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 6:45:40 PM

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Part of it was bombed on 7-7

What bloody planet are you on?

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 6:55:58 PM

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its very easy to prove america is a feudal society and to dumb to know the difference lol

You're half right, I'll give you that - you have no trouble at all proving the second point in your argument.

The first point... well, that must not be as easy as you think, because in all your years of posting, you've never come within a mile of it.

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RE: Are the British more law abiding than Americans? - 1/1/2011 7:12:56 PM

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They really do not have wild forests in the UK- because they cut down all the trees. Hence we need firearms- where as they simply do not. Not for the frontier- as there is none....

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