25 Jun 08
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Originally posted by SeitseIt's the Prime Minister's fault. He needs to provide them free jobs, health care and education. Otherwise they'll start with the organized crime and it will be ALL HIS FAULT for denying these immigrants their fair share.
Dear English,
When I was a teenager, and from a great distance, I grew fond of your writers, poets, comedians, football players, musicians, and scholars. I developed an image of the English as the fortunate few who inherited an enligthened tradition of civilized thinking and an eagerness to improve human science and arts.
Later on, as I moved into my yo ting the right of leaving the country for business or pleasure.
With best regards,
Seitse
Or is it the President's fault? Estonia has both. How does that work?
In the name of Social Justice, your callous treament of these unpleasant immigrants will not stand. THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED! It will start in Estonian bars and pubs and we will hear about it on RHP.
25 Jun 08
Originally posted by AThousandYoungha! 😀
It's the Prime Minister's fault. He needs to provide them free jobs, health care and education. Otherwise they'll start with the organized crime and it will be ALL HIS FAULT for denying these immigrants their fair share.
Or is it the President's fault? Estonia has both. How does that work?
In the name of Social Justice, your callous treament ...[text shortened]... NOT BE TELEVISED! It will start in Estonian bars and pubs and we will hear about it on RHP.
You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.
There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.
Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be right back after a message
bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.
The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.
25 Jun 08
Originally posted by SeitseI avoid English people abroad, despite being one. I also tend to avoid them in England much of the time, despite knowing that many of them are the antithesis of what you describe.
Dear English,
When I was a teenager, and from a great distance, I grew fond of your writers, poets, comedians, football players, musicians, and scholars. I developed an image of the English as the fortunate few who inherited an enligthened tradition of civilized thinking and an eagerness to improve human science and arts.
Later on, as I moved into my yo ...[text shortened]... ting the right of leaving the country for business or pleasure.
With best regards,
Seitse
Sadly, many years leading the world led to a we-are-the-best mentality that even the most respectful of us lug around with us. A touch of humility and open-mindedness to the value of other nations would be the best shot in the arm England could have.
While we left so many nations playing catch up, culturally and economically for centuries, we never noticed when they did in fact catch up, and move ahead, and then leave us trailing far behind.
Even if the top 15% of Britain, from education to sport to big business to attractive girls and so on, is a match for pretty much the top 15% of any other country on Earth, the remaining 85% is increasingly beset by endemic decline.
And the wrong people have got the microphone.
26 Jun 08
But it's not only the British who are blind to it. I often have to explain to Egyptians that England is not one vast Beverly Hills with gold pavements and central heated bus shelters. Poles flocked to England in the hope of a better life and are now flocking back to Poland having finally realised that, hey, it's not so great after all.
26 Jun 08
Originally posted by SeitseFunnily enough it was exactly the conquering of the world, which you criticise in your post, that kept the people you so despise press-ganged into the Navy and military service abroad.
Dear English,
When I was a teenager, and from a great distance, I grew fond of your writers, poets, comedians, football players, musicians, and scholars. I developed an image of the English as the fortunate few who inherited an enligthened tradition of civilized thinking and an eagerness to improve human science and arts.
Later on, as I moved into my yo ...[text shortened]... ting the right of leaving the country for business or pleasure.
With best regards,
Seitse
Now, you could say, these people have nothing to do.
26 Jun 08
Funny how people from crap countries like to slag off England all the time.
How can anyone generalize 45 million people as the same?
Interesting though how different nationalities think different things about us, for example, in USA they think we're all lardy dar, snooty, snobby folk and they all think we all only have 2 accents here. Yanks think we all either talk like the queen, or talk like London barrow boys.
How dumb is that?
In general, I think that...
Germans think we hate them;
Americans think we love them;
French dislike us;
Dutch love us;
Italians admire us;
East Europeans escape to live with us;
Polish have invaded us;
could go on.
26 Jun 08
While we are all generalizing, I'll throw in two cents.
I'm American, but I travel alot. I've noticed that we all have a preconceived idea of what a country or it's people are supposed to be like. Then when you actually get to the country, it is far more similar to your home country then you thought it would be.
Bottom line: there are some drunken idiots in England......and some in the U.S......and some in Singapore.........and some more in Australia.......a bunch in Japan.......