some comments from other places to provoke thought and responses
on 02/09/2012 at 10:06 AM
Arlo Guthrie’s lines from Alice’s Restaurant popped into my head.
Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean ‘n’ ugly ‘n’ nasty ‘n’ horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me and said, “Kid, whad’ya get?”
I said, “I didn’t get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the garbage.”
He said, “What were you arrested for, kid?”
And I said, “Littering.”
And they all moved away from me on the bench there,
Had to have been the question of how many Dutch have been raped by dogs.
Sorry for the oversight. I was focused on dogs raping the Dutch. I hope the wife is OK. Glad she was wearing enough clothing to protect her. Last thing you’d want is a broken hip.
I did find it interesting that you don’t drive there. Why is that? Can’t get used to driving on the wrong side of the road?
Just asking. I’ve rented cars in Singapore and Pakistan and Australia. As former British territories, they drive on the wrong side. But then after that I was a mailman for 22 years and frequently had to drive a vehicle from the wrong side. Our LLVs, and the old Jeeps, are driven from the ‘passenger’ seat. But we still drive on the ‘right’ side of the road.
"Islamonausea” - I like it.
“We grow some balls to tell the muslims “either accept OUR culture and traditions, or get out of the country. “ - I like it even more than Islamonausea.
re: your wife - glad she wasn’t seriously hurt. Did you think about getting a lawyer (solicitor?) and suing? Why not - everyone else is doing it…
Some cultural enrichment that the BBC doesn’t want us to know about. Apparently there are 47 perverts on trial not 11 as originally reported.
//www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2041132/Asian-gang-stand-trial-charges-sex-trafficking-exploitation-underage-girls.html#ixzz1j8kcFyuS
meanwhile some other peaceful co-religionists plot mass murder....
No wonder people are getting pissed off with these clowns.
Hope the wife’s ok jayd
Thanks all. Wife stiff and sore but otherwise okay.
Christopher, it isn’t the left hand driving that stops me. I don’t think. It’s the driving conditions but mostly it’s navigation. Things here aren’t laid out in grids and to be honest, even if they were, I would be lost. I have no sense of direction whatever and the roads we are on most often seem (to me) to be going in circles.
Lyndon. Am I correct about circles?
Oh Chris ... I forgot.Roundabouts. Aggggghhhhh. I’d be a danger to myself and others.
Did you ever see that movie with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn, the Vacation?
I think that was the title.
If you did see it, you may recall hos he gets stuck driving around a roundabout. All night long and into the next day. Well, that’d be me.I learned to drive on the left in about 5 minutes in the Bahamas. It was great, especially in a left hand drive American minivan. Bit of a challenge passing on the right that way, but WTH. Granted, there is only 1 roundabout on the island of Abaco and only a few hundred cars. And no speed traps, mwaahahahahaa!!
Like it? Love it!! I think it’s uber-fantastico! Which is why I co-opted your post and stuck it in as a title.
Glad J is not seriously injured. As a non-driver, it is your duty to hand feed her roast beef and tasty pudding, along with rich chocolates and sips of quality single malt, until she feels better you know.
I’m with you on roundabouts. But I’ve only had to navigate them in Washington D.C. Well, I think Chicago has a couple… and downtown Indianapolis, around the Soldiers and Sailors Monument. My hometown, which I’ve taken the wife to a couple of times.
I just remember my wife refused to take the wheel when we visited Chicago. REFUSED! Too scary. She thought Dayton traffic was bad.
I bought my first car while stationed at Great Lakes Naval Facility. I learned to drive in Chicago.
Took me about a half-hour to remember that in Chicago you do NOT drive defensively. You do offensive driving or you’re gonna get creamed.
Yes, I’ve driven in Los Angeles. All you get in L.A. is traffic jams. In Chicago, you better move! NOW!
I admit, I was as scared as she was. I was out of practice. By a couple of decades. But someone had to drive… and I did remember how to handle Chicago traffic. Much to her relief!
In Ireland almost all intersections, which had traffic lights have been redone with roundabouts. That includes intersections where the “roundabout” is a white, painted circle the size of a garbage can lid. Normally traffic entering the roundabout “gives-way” to traffic coming from the right. But the small (dime size ones with “painted circles) this rule is ignored since traffic from all directions flies straight through the intersection without slowing. Only shear luck prevents accidents, but shear luck isn’t always present.
WHY,
They are CHEAP and the Irish government does EVERYTHING as cheaply as possible even when it can be dangerous to the public.
AND,
Once put in they are vitrually maintence free.
Unfortunately there are some disadvantages.
1) They are not pedestrian friendly since the traffic flows constantly and does not allow any time for a pedestrian to navagate across the street safely.
2) Once a roundabout is installed the “intersection” is no longer legally an “intersection”. That makes doing a 360-degree turn perfectly legal. It’s OK when the roundabout is 50 or 100 feet across. But when you have a 4-foot roundabout it can cause mayhem.
3) In one area the two streets don’t intersect perfectly. The main road has two distinct side-roads meeting it 75-feet apart. So the answer was to install TWO roundabouts next to eachother....like a stretched out figure 8. It’s a challenge even for the natives.
Irish drivers don’t use their horns. They believe blowing a horn is rude. However they do speed to the point of “scurrying”. Even if they only have to drive 100-yards it’s pedal-to-the-metal for 75-yards and stomp on the brakes for 25-yards. There’s no , or very little sophistication when it comes to driving in Ireland. Stop and Yield signs mean nothing. Parking is where ever you want. Even Irish drivers say: “ You don’t park a car in Ireland....you abandon it”!
peiper,
I took a fall on a bad sidewalk in Italy once. Damaged my both knees (I thought one was broken) and the palms of both hands. Since I take blood thiners I bled like a stuck pig. The fall happened at 1:15 PM. That’s when I found out EVERY store in the country closes down from 1:30 PM to 3: 30 PM. (Siesta or something) I had to use my T-shirt to staunch the bleeding because I couldn’t find a place to buy bandages. I was stiff and really sore for some time afterwards, but nothing was broken. It spoiled about 3-days of a fantastic vacation.
I hope your wife is OK and didn’t have as serious fall as I did.
Glad your wife is ok Peiper. I second Drew (post 7) about the care for J - sounds wonderful to me. I’m on my way back to bed. Either I ate something that is attacking me or being out among the unwashed masses at a store re-opening yesterday exposed me to something. I woke in the middle of the night with a stomach on fire but as time has gone on - more symptoms, so I’m not sure. Since we have take-out pizza in the fridge - going to go back to bed and let them fend for themselves.
Also glad to see people in Europe wondering how long this bs can go on. Yesterday Rush exposed the ‘free’ cell phone scam (Lifeline program) that has been going on since 2008 (umm, isn’t that when the Demonrats took over Congress?!?) and of course gone wild on steroids (up from 772 million to 1.6 billion) - No one is paying for our cell phones, no one is paying our mortgage and I’m getting sick of this crap going on.
I got little notes from my ‘representatives’ yesterday. My hubby & I are on popvox.com and respond to almost every single bill we come across (like disposable diapers for the ‘poor’ bs) - their responses were quite different than I’ve been getting - smells like re-election time! What a bunch of crap. But my most liberal of the Senate Senator - actually admitted that Agent Terry was killed by Fast & Furious - wonder what Holder thinks of that?
There already was a wikipedia page for islamonausea. It was deleted, of course… we are talking wikipedia here. ;-(
I find the whole “-ophobia” thing to be offensive anyway. It’s an obvious attempt to demean a rational distaste for something offensive by cloaking it with the veneer of clinical terminology.
Right on Jim.
And Drew ... yup. In fact she had breakfast in bed this morning.
02/09/2012 at 01:25 PM
02/09/2012 at 05:49 PM
