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grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

Leith upmarket? Before we know it, Tony Blair will start telling the truth!

jmsauer · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:14 pm Post subject: The world gets stranger

If someone asked me that question right now I would point out this recent event at an Indiana funeral.

To the dozens gathered to pay their last respects Friday, Adam Harding was hailed as the best America can offer.

He died July 25, when his convoy encountered a roadside bomb.

And across the street from the solemn service, a message of horror and hate unfolded as mourners gathered.

"If God loves this country, can he not curse this country?" shouted Jonathan Phelps, spokesman for the Westboro Baptist Church group, consisting Friday of about 10 picketers.

The group's Web site hails the London bombings and states that the group wishes that the explosions could have been worse. They specialize in crashing the funerals of American soldiers.

Confused

"God is their terrorist," Phelps said. "They've turned the country over to the f@gs. They're coming home in body bags."

The group contends that dead soldiers are God's revenge for America's tolerance of homosexuality. Confused

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Ah, the joys of freedom of speech... rather a two-edged sword...

VS

True Dreamer · Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 41 Location: Land of the Sand

jmsauer... I know this may sound naive, but who are these people (Westboro Baptist)?

Bebsi · Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 958

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dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Have you ever asked an American. "Excuse me have you got a f.ag?" The looks you get sometimes are most amusing. (Having never been to redneck coountry I am still alive)

Bebsi · Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 958

There's a story in Ireland about two Irish guys who went into a bar in NY in the late 80s.

In Ireland, we have a word "Craic" (pronounced crack) which generally means fun, repartee, a bit of "social action".

Anyway these two guys, straight off a plane from Shannon, walked into a NY bar on a Saturday night and innocently called out "Any craic going, around here?" and promptly got themselves arrested. Dunno if it's true, or an urban legend.

I actually walked into a shop in Australia in the mid-eighties, and when asked if I was OK, by the assistant, I said "oh, yes thanks, just came in for a root around", blissfully unaware that in Oz, to 'root' has an altogether different...and very sexual...meaning to "search", which is what it means in Ireland. The looks I got changed rapidly from shock and horror to uncontrollable mirth, and I'm sure those girls are still giggling.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

So the moral is don't root around for a fa.g and craic whilst in the company of our American friends.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Always good advice dmb... Laughing

Bebsi · Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 958

Does this mean, I wonder, that if an American-Australian looking for some narcotic substances and maybe hoping to get laid, walked into an Irish gay club, he would find himself being offered lots of cigarettes and some potatoes, while listening to a load of stupid jokes?

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

The penny has dropped. I just understood what you meant,VS.But I do know one of those words.(what does zebra mean?) My Arabic is almost non existant.