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Offline Toad

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« Reply #105 on: October 09, 2003, 09:26:11 AM »
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england is a poor example... they are citified to the bone.   they live shoulder to shoulder and have learned to like it.  
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They're just already at the place we're heading.

They already have their enclaves as you predict for us. And the folks in those enclaves are pretty much like you and I.

So, not ALL of them are like... well, you know.   :rofl
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« Reply #106 on: October 09, 2003, 10:27:58 AM »
England isn't so bad. You should visit it sometime Toad. You failed to escape the 19th century themepark that's all, which is a shame.
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« Reply #107 on: October 09, 2003, 10:33:26 AM »
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England isn't so bad. You should visit it sometime Toad. You failed to escape the 19th century themepark that's all, which is a shame.
Yeah, I was walking round Windsor one morning last month, when this Yank came up to me and asked how to get to the main entrance of the Castle. As I was giving him directions, the 1045am Concorde flew overhead and drowned out what I was saying, so I had to tell him again. He thanked me, and I said NP - hope you enjoy your visit. And he said "sure, but why the hell did they have to build it so close to the airport?".   :lol

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« Reply #108 on: October 09, 2003, 10:35:42 AM »
Dowding,

I'll wager I've spent far more time in England than you have in the US.

In your major airports, in the cities that those airports server, at military fields out in your countrysides, in the small towns and villages that surround those airfields (and in the local pubs) and most recently down in Devonshire at a Shooting Estate for nearly a week.

Themepark experience? If you say so, I guess.
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« Reply #109 on: October 09, 2003, 10:37:22 AM »
Oldest joke in the travel industry Beet.

Used it hear it most often when flying over the big meteor crater out west.

"Nice motel there, but that meteor almost hit it!"

Hah, hah.
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« Reply #110 on: October 09, 2003, 10:42:14 AM »
Am I claiming far reaching knowledge of US demographics, social trends etc etc? Nope.

I'll wager I've spent more time in this country than you, though, and your descriptions of it, however they might add grist to Lazs' particular grindstone, seem uninformed.

Besides, England is a badly-roofed themepark according to Lazs - and I bow down to his expertise. Afterall, he actually visited once.
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« Reply #111 on: October 09, 2003, 11:02:54 AM »
Well, chum, I'm reasonably familiar with your gun laws.

I've read the "urban" pov here and talked to a few English folk that live in your cities about guns and "nanny" items/agendas.

I've talked to quite a few English rural folks and heard their ideas on guns and "nanny" items/agendas.

Interesting sidelight, during the windup to OIF, I was in Devon and we all chatted about going into Iraq. VASTLY different viewpoint from those English folk than what I read here from the more urban English folk.

The short version is "What took you Yanks so long? Go get it done."

In short, I see the same split between conservative and liberal ideologies that shows in the US electoral map of Bush/Gore votes by county.

That's what I see, based on my experience.

I suppose you'll tell me that I'm sadly misinformed. In England it's actually the rural folks screaming for more gun control/confiscation? Just like here in the US?

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« Reply #112 on: October 09, 2003, 11:09:51 AM »
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Oldest joke in the travel industry Beet.

Used it hear it most often when flying over the big meteor crater out west.
ROFL, Toad! :D Yeah, I knew YOU would have heard it, but the old ones are the best. Besides, I bet Lazs hasn't heard it. ;)

Our airports, huh? London has five, but as far as I'm aware, ToadAir flies/flew only to LGW... tell us more about where you've been, military bases etc. Were you ever at USAF Upper Heyford?
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« Reply #113 on: October 09, 2003, 11:54:59 AM »
Toad,
I think Dowding was probably nursing a hangover on your most recent post of your visit in England.  Oh, he would have loved the pics of you and your group hunting quail with "real live shotguns" ;)

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=77369&referrerid=3203

Too bad the pics are no longer available, those were some great shots.
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« Reply #114 on: October 09, 2003, 02:30:37 PM »
he woulda shivered and wet himself.
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« Reply #115 on: October 09, 2003, 02:42:33 PM »
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he woulda shivered and wet himself.
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Lazs! I'm looking forward to shooting your guns in Dixon shortly. What with my little girly hands, and never having fired a real gun before, I shall come as a wuss and leave as a m.. er, well not quite a man, but maybe a teen salamander. ;)

Where's Godzilla then? yoo-hoo... Godzilla? Perhaps he responds better to his "real" ID of NUKE...
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« Reply #116 on: October 09, 2003, 05:05:00 PM »
Gatwick, Manchester, Mildenhall, Upper Heyford, Lakenheath. Plus a few I visited for pleasure, like Plymouth.

All told, I've spent a reasonable amount of time in Jolly Olde.

Shannon and Dublin just across the way, too. Didn't make Scotland yet though.
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« Reply #117 on: October 09, 2003, 10:33:55 PM »
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Lazs! I'm looking forward to shooting your guns in Dixon shortly. What with my little girly hands, and never having fired a real gun before, I shall come as a wuss and leave as a m.. er, well not quite a man, but maybe a teen salamander. ;)

Where's Godzilla then? yoo-hoo... Godzilla? Perhaps he responds better to his "real" ID of NUKE...


I might pay for a picture of you shooting a decent handgun ...... You might find you like it, then you may become all conflicted and junk :)
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« Reply #118 on: October 10, 2003, 04:44:49 AM »
So Rip, is that enough 'splaining for one week?

Keep your answer brief. If yes, enter CTRL+C. If no, enter CTRL+V.

Godzilla - so why the need for a new ID? Why hide behind a fake ID? What was wrong with "NUKE"?
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« Reply #119 on: October 10, 2003, 04:53:21 AM »
Beet1e is James Bond.:D





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