mg16 Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 best solution for trick or treaters is a semi sawn 69 shotgun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce_Shark Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 best solution for trick or treaters is a semi sawn 69 shotgun. In your head, that's the best way to treat a 5 year old asking for sweeties? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janie48 Posted October 29, 2011 Author Share Posted October 29, 2011 It all started at the Salem Witch Trials in Salem, Massachussets some time in the mid 16th Century iirc, it's all on the Wikipedia link I posted on the first page. missed your post earlier seen it now thanks.........my views havnt changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnvqsos Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Yes but amongst all those ignorant Yanks pops up a Bill Gate and a Steve Jobs now and then , what would you do without their contributions. or don't you use a computer or take your cell phone to the pubs with you or do you say, Would you like fries with that ? all day long. I use a PC developed by Babbage but no mobile phone.I think you will agree that gates and jobs are leaders of trends rahter than mere followers.Neither would purchase plastic pumpkins now would they?There are always exceptions especially within a population of 250m.Even in a small settlement like Sheffield with 500,000 there are a few bright sparks but SF is populated by many followers.Hows the singing going Julie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnvqsos Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 And still an overwhelming number of people embrace it wholeheartedly. It must be hard for someone like you living in this desert of blissful cultural ignorance Do you mean Sheffield or your native California.Do you really know where you are or are you simply an avatar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnvqsos Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Part time manager at McDs? :hihi: Lucky I'm not your manager lad. You'd be out of a job right off. You lack the corporate spirit. Obviously a disgrunteld non- team player with a negative attitude Most Americans prefer to stay at home and always have mainly because there's plenty to see on their own doorstep instead of paying high prices to travel for 12 hours in coach class crammed together like sardines then being screwed by everyone from rude hotel clerks to smart assed French wine waiters and paying through the nose for it. I've been back several times to England and spent time in France and Spain. It's all become too expensive in the last decade or so You've never ridden a Harley so I'll excuse yiour ignorance. I used to ride Nortons and BSAs. I liked them well enough for the time except for the oil leaks and those Lucas electrical parts. Bad products dont stay around either I did see a 1950s Morris Minor the other day with a right hand drive. It blew my mind. The Mini Cooper caught on here in California quite a bit. I understand the Jerries are making em now I was asked to leave as my spelling was not good enough.You seem to have an excellent insight into the running of McDs so I presume you stil serve the fries with a smile.We now describe Germans respectfully and have moved on from the demonisation which characterised your education.I expect you ahe the same issues with redskins and people of mixed race,especially the Hispanics who predominate in parts of LA and San Diego Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harleyman Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 I was asked to leave as my spelling was not good enough.You seem to have an excellent insight into the running of McDs so I presume you stil serve the fries with a smile.We now describe Germans respectfully and have moved on from the demonisation which characterised your education.I expect you ahe the same issues with redskins and people of mixed race,especially the Hispanics who predominate in parts of LA and San Diego There doesn't see to be much wrong with your spelling but you do have a propensity to jump to conclusions which is an annoying habit. You've never ridden a Harley, never visited the United States, yet base your assumptions on heresay. Additionally you assume I'm a racist. Being an old fashioned kind of a guy I find it a little contemtible that you stoop to biting the hand that feeds you namely McDs. An employee owes a measure of loyalty to the employer who provides him with a job no matter how mediocre that job may be. I dont know much about McDs either. When I get the urge for a burger and fries I go to In N' Out Burger. Their's are far superior to McDs any day BTW I never heard of anybody being asked to leave a place like McDs because their spelling wasn't good enough. Something fishy about that story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnvqsos Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 There doesn't see to be much wrong with your spelling but you do have a propensity to jump to conclusions which is an annoying habit. You've never ridden a Harley, never visited the United States, yet base your assumptions on heresay. Additionally you assume I'm a racist. Being an old fashioned kind of a guy I find it a little contemtible that you stoop to biting the hand that feeds you namely McDs. An employee owes a measure of loyalty to the employer who provides him with a job no matter how mediocre that job may be. I dont know much about McDs either. When I get the urge for a burger and fries I go to In N' Out Burger. Their's are far superior to McDs any day BTW I never heard of anybody being asked to leave a place like McDs because their spelling wasn't good enough. Something fishy about that story I dont bite the McD hand as I am vegetarian.I thought the reference to California was a spoof.I did not mention racism explicitly but you clearly are a little prickly about this.I think it was the Jerries bit which was a bit 1950s-toomany Jack Hawkins films,guvnor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mort Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Keep it civil please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gularscute Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Some aspects of Halloween have been Americanised but I like the fact that a fun celebration has been made out of what was once mumbo jumbo used to frighten people and keep them in darkness. Maybe one day the other religions will follow suit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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