And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I had colleagues, a young British married couple, who once attended a wedding in El Paso, their first visit to the states. The wife went to a WalMart and spent 6 hours walking down each and every aisle, agog, inspecting each and every product on each and every shelf. She was stupefied. After they attended the wedding, they returned to WalMart and loaded up about 4-5 large Action Packers with loot for their household and kids, and then returned to our foreign posting. She probably still talks about it. We've just come through what I think will be fondly remembered as the Golden Age of American consumerism - now availability of products is crumbling with the post-COVID supply line crisis and rampant inflation.
Padraig (I can't be arsed to figure out how to type the accent) is no proper name for a Limey. He's a Mick. In fact, he's Dr Mick (DPhil, Oxon -- genuflect genuflect genuflect) to you and me.
" the Golden Age of American consumerism" Indeed. The Swedish Disaster liked WalMart. And McDonald's. She was in the habit of waving her Diet Coke at me and crowing, "Back home this would cost the equivalent of five dollars. And here it's 99 CENTS!"
I'll say this. I had that Daisy 880 in the middle when I was kid. It fired BB's and pellets. You would not want anybody shooting at you with that thing loaded with a pellet and pumped all the way up. Once some cousins had a new metal roof on their dairy barn and a bunch of pigeons started roosting in the rafters. They didn't wnat to shoot in there for fear of damaging the roof from the inside. I went in there shooting the 880 pumped part way up and killed a 50 pound feed sack full of pigeons without so much as a dent in the roof. One of their neighbors took the pigeons and ate them. I guess they were grain fed so why not.
Why is it that only the morons come to visit, and tweet about it?
ReplyDeleteA DUMBASS LIMEY...AGAIN!
ReplyDeleteDaisy is the snipers' choice.
ReplyDeleteBest for shooting an eye out.
DeleteAnd we drive on the wrong side of the road!
ReplyDeleteThe elite have never forgiven the ruffians in the US for the revolution.
A Piers Morgan redux
ReplyDeleteIs it possible that this isn't a Limey moron but someone with a sense of humor?
ReplyDeleteI think you are correct; that was my first reaction as well.
DeleteDon't overthink this: the bright ones left there generations ago.
DeleteI had colleagues, a young British married couple, who once attended a wedding in El Paso, their first visit to the states. The wife went to a WalMart and spent 6 hours walking down each and every aisle, agog, inspecting each and every product on each and every shelf. She was stupefied. After they attended the wedding, they returned to WalMart and loaded up about 4-5 large Action Packers with loot for their household and kids, and then returned to our foreign posting. She probably still talks about it. We've just come through what I think will be fondly remembered as the Golden Age of American consumerism - now availability of products is crumbling with the post-COVID supply line crisis and rampant inflation.
ReplyDeletePadraig (I can't be arsed to figure out how to type the accent) is no proper name for a Limey. He's a Mick. In fact, he's Dr Mick (DPhil, Oxon -- genuflect genuflect genuflect) to you and me.
ReplyDelete" the Golden Age of American consumerism"
Indeed. The Swedish Disaster liked WalMart. And McDonald's. She was in the habit of waving her Diet Coke at me and crowing, "Back home this would cost the equivalent of five dollars. And here it's 99 CENTS!"
I'll say this. I had that Daisy 880 in the middle when I was kid. It fired BB's and pellets. You would not want anybody shooting at you with that thing loaded with a pellet and pumped all the way up. Once some cousins had a new metal roof on their dairy barn and a bunch of pigeons started roosting in the rafters. They didn't wnat to shoot in there for fear of damaging the roof from the inside. I went in there shooting the 880 pumped part way up and killed a 50 pound feed sack full of pigeons without so much as a dent in the roof. One of their neighbors took the pigeons and ate them. I guess they were grain fed so why not.
ReplyDeleteI still have the top one, the box too. My dad gave it to me in 1959 when I was 4 yo.
DeleteI'm a Brit and I get you. In fact I sometimes envy you.
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