Weird....

[Big Fitz]

I maybe wrong but if you really believe diversity is overrated I suspect you drink only Bud Light, eat only beef and usually go to the same restaurant and order the same thing. Routine has it's place but I don't rate it very high.

Well if we're going to compare, theoretical stereotypes, let's have at it.

By the same standard,you're probably so diverse you probably live in an urban area or a short drive for one where you partake in trendy 'ethnic' dining, wine, cheese, snippy newspapers filled with ads for adult services equally split gay and straight inbetween band, club and alcohol ads to get to three radical left wing opinon pieces you call news. While going with your carefully selected friends (by skin color, sexuality and lack of religion so they match as a set) to some halfassed local theater making fun of the previous administration or Christianity through some thinly veiled guise of being socially aware humor, you discuss how unenlightened the rest of the world is to your empathetic cultural superiority because you like to drink chai and merlot ont the same night as having some vegetable korma in a 'fair trade' restaurant thats overpriced as well. Then drive home in your ecologically conscieous Toyota Self-Righteous.. I mean Pious... I mean Prius, while cutting off trucks and yapping on your cell about the evils of western culture and how everyone should live in intelligent growth tenements and travel by electric trains powered by the self sanctimony of the cultural elite who forced them in there.

Yeah, ethnically diverse. We call it Uptown or Dinkytown here. A bunch of freaky self righteous dirty idiots reeking of patchouli or BO.

Nah, that's not Wry Catcher. I don't think he's a Republican.

wait... that description is what republicans are like in your world?

Wow, no wonder we have a RINO problem among the elephants.

 

[Big Fitz]

CowardGirl won't fuck you, Fitz. At least until she gets back from Britain, and her other forum boy-toy.

Unlike you, I'm a gentleman, and she is a lady who has more self worth than to denigrate herself like the whores you have to pay. And those little boys don't come cheap, I hear.

Gentleman - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Definition of GENTLEMAN

1.
a : a man of noble or gentle birth
b : a man belonging to the landed gentry

c (1) : a man who combines gentle birth or rank with chivalrous qualities (2) : a man whose conduct conforms to a high standard of propriety or correct behavior

d (1) : a man of independent means who does not engage in any occupation or profession for gain (2) : a man who does not engage in a menial occupation or in manual labor for gain

You fail all but 1b, and maybe not even that.

I'm sorry, for Synthia's sake, I was using a relativist scale so he'd at least show up on it. I do apologize for not specifying.

 

[BREDNAMERICA]

I spend most of my time with diversification by different species.

I must say that I like dogs and cats more than most people regardless of their national origin.

Hell, I proably have spiders living in my house that are older than some of you folks.

We have an agreement, the house spiders and me.

They stay out of my way and I don't squash them.

I even had to carefully remove two daddy longlegs from my shower this morning. They had moved inside to escape the flood waters outside the building. Once I explained it was okay to go back now, they were happy.

 

[Two Thumbs]

So, this evening I went for dinner at a friends house. I took my bro and his buddy - both Americans - so that was three Americans at the dinner.

There was a bunch more people - most of which we had not met before. During dinner, I noticed a weird thing.

Bearing in mind, I live in England.... at the dinner were:

3 Americans

2 South Africans

2 Zimbabweans

2 French

1 German

1 Canadian

1 Englishman

Just struck me as weird... all those people - in the UK - and only one of us was actually born in England. England definitely has an immigration problem.

Thier best bet is to kick out all the lazy surly Americans that are there just for the beer.


I left, so that's one down

 

[BREDNAMERICA]

So, this evening I went for dinner at a friends house. I took my bro and his buddy - both Americans - so that was three Americans at the dinner.

There was a bunch more people - most of which we had not met before. During dinner, I noticed a weird thing.

Bearing in mind, I live in England.... at the dinner were:

3 Americans

2 South Africans

2 Zimbabweans

2 French

1 German

1 Canadian

1 Englishman

Just struck me as weird... all those people - in the UK - and only one of us was actually born in England. England definitely has an immigration problem.

And no fights broke out? Imagine that.

 

[Douger]

Why?

I dunno. One interesting bit is most of the people there were communicating with each other in (various qualities) of English. Sitting across from us was a Japanese exchange student helping an Italian family (who seemed to be on vacation) with their English phrase book.

I'm from the midwest, where everybody looks and talks pretty much the same. So it was really cool to be in such a cosmopolitan setting. All these people. from such diverse backgrounds, getting along in the same place. Maybe I'm still hanging on to romantic 'melting pot' notions. You think that's naive?

It's fun to be exposed to different cultures and languages.

Does it bode well for our country? Who knows. It hasn't brought great improvements to Europe and Britain, that's for sure.

Yeah. They got stuck with Kalifornya Kunt.

 

[High_Gravity]

I dunno. One interesting bit is most of the people there were communicating with each other in (various qualities) of English. Sitting across from us was a Japanese exchange student helping an Italian family (who seemed to be on vacation) with their English phrase book.

I'm from the midwest, where everybody looks and talks pretty much the same. So it was really cool to be in such a cosmopolitan setting. All these people. from such diverse backgrounds, getting along in the same place. Maybe I'm still hanging on to romantic 'melting pot' notions. You think that's naive?

It's fun to be exposed to different cultures and languages.

Does it bode well for our country? Who knows. It hasn't brought great improvements to Europe and Britain, that's for sure.

Yeah. They got stuck with Kalifornya Kunt.

Go fuck yourself Douger.

 

[marcell]

I was in Manhattan a few months back with my son. We took the train up, so we were mostly getting around town on the subways. At one point, we looked around at the crowded subway car we were riding and realized we were probably the only native English speakers present. Though it didn't seem like a problem to me. I though it was pretty cool actually.

Yeah! You have many opportunities to know differente cultures, situations and even learn another language. Why not?

 

[dblack]

Why?

I dunno. One interesting bit is most of the people there were communicating with each other in (various qualities) of English. Sitting across from us was a Japanese exchange student helping an Italian family (who seemed to be on vacation) with their English phrase book.

I'm from the midwest, where everybody looks and talks pretty much the same. So it was really cool to be in such a cosmopolitan setting. All these people. from such diverse backgrounds, getting along in the same place. Maybe I'm still hanging on to romantic 'melting pot' notions. You think that's naive?

It's fun to be exposed to different cultures and languages.

Does it bode well for our country? Who knows. It hasn't brought great improvements to Europe and Britain, that's for sure.

I'm not sure about those other nations, but the U.S. was pretty much built on new waves of immigrants looking for something better. In my opinion, the day we cut off that flow will be the beginning of the end.

 

[SFC Ollie]

I dunno. One interesting bit is most of the people there were communicating with each other in (various qualities) of English. Sitting across from us was a Japanese exchange student helping an Italian family (who seemed to be on vacation) with their English phrase book.

I'm from the midwest, where everybody looks and talks pretty much the same. So it was really cool to be in such a cosmopolitan setting. All these people. from such diverse backgrounds, getting along in the same place. Maybe I'm still hanging on to romantic 'melting pot' notions. You think that's naive?

It's fun to be exposed to different cultures and languages.

Does it bode well for our country? Who knows. It hasn't brought great improvements to Europe and Britain, that's for sure.

I'm not sure about those other nations, but the U.S. was pretty much built on new waves of immigrants looking for something better. In my opinion, the day we cut off that flow will be the beginning of the end.

I don't think anyone is against immigration, most of us are from immigrant families. But we are (for the most part) in favor of controlled legal immigration. And against illegals from wherever they come from.

 

[dblack]

I don't think anyone is against immigration, most of us are from immigrant families. But we are (for the most part) in favor of controlled legal immigration. And against illegals from wherever they come from.

Right. Well, that's the question, idn't it? Who do we consider to be an 'illegal'? I have a hard time with the notion that someone has committed a crime merely by coming here and working for a living, regardless of whether they asked permission first. In fact, I have hard time with the idea that we should have to ask permission from the government before we do anything, though I know that's how some of you would have it.

 

[SFC Ollie]

I don't think anyone is against immigration, most of us are from immigrant families. But we are (for the most part) in favor of controlled legal immigration. And against illegals from wherever they come from.

Right. Well, that's the question, idn't it? Who do we consider to be an 'illegal'? I have a hard time with the notion that someone has committed a crime merely by coming here and working for a living, regardless of whether they asked permission first. In fact, I have hard time with the idea that we should have to ask permission from the government before we do anything, though I know that's how some of you would have it.

SO you don't mind that people who happened to have dropped a Koran are somewhere in the USA, and that they came across the Mexican border?

You see the point is that we don't know who the illegals are. We don't know where they came from, and we can only hope that they are here to find work. How many are fleeing the law in their own country? How many are here to do us physical harm? How many are here breaking more of our laws than just entering illegally?

No one can answer those questions and yes that bothers me. I'm sorry, but when you come to my house you have to ask my permission to enter.

 

[dblack]

I don't think anyone is against immigration, most of us are from immigrant families. But we are (for the most part) in favor of controlled legal immigration. And against illegals from wherever they come from.

Right. Well, that's the question, idn't it? Who do we consider to be an 'illegal'? I have a hard time with the notion that someone has committed a crime merely by coming here and working for a living, regardless of whether they asked permission first. In fact, I have hard time with the idea that we should have to ask permission from the government before we do anything, though I know that's how some of you would have it.

SO you don't mind that people who happened to have dropped a Koran are somewhere in the USA, and that they came across the Mexican border?

Not really. There's a lot of wisdom in the Koran.

You see the point is that we don't know who the illegals are. We don't know where they came from, and we can only hope that they are here to find work. How many are fleeing the law in their own country? How many are here to do us physical harm? How many are here breaking more of our laws than just entering illegally?

No one can answer those questions and yes that bothers me. I'm sorry, but when you come to my house you have to ask my permission to enter.

Oh, I couldn't agree more. That's why a blanket policy keeping out people who just want to come here and work is so idiotic. With our demand for cheap labor, and their need for work - they will find a way. And that fattens the pipeline making it that much easier for dangerous people to get in. If we liberalized the immigration laws making it easier for law abiding working people to come here legally, then we could focus more diligently on those who attempted to evade the legal channels - knowing that they are probably up to np good.

Our current policy, where we treat our nation as an exclusive 'gated community' is delusionary, ignoring the reality that opportunity and people eager to work will find a way toi meet up. This creates a vast underground network that makes it very easy for people who are actually dangerous to slip by undetected.

Simply put, if we make it easy for legitmant immigrants to come to our country and make a better life for themselves, it will be easier for us to keep out those who have ill intent.

 

[SFC Ollie]

SO,
3 Americans

2 South Africans

2 Zimbabweans

2 Frenchmen

1 German

1 Canadian

and

1 Englishman

Walk into a bar.

The barkeep looks up and says. Nice group, have a seat, Good thing you didn't bring any lawyers with you, that's another joke.........

 

[dblack]

SO,
3 Americans

2 South Africans

2 Zimbabweans

2 Frenchmen

1 German

1 Canadian

and

1 Englishman

Walk into a bar.

The barkeep looks up and says. Nice group, have a seat, Good thing you didn't bring any lawyers with you, that's another joke.........

LOL... nice.

 

[SFC Ollie]

Right. Well, that's the question, idn't it? Who do we consider to be an 'illegal'? I have a hard time with the notion that someone has committed a crime merely by coming here and working for a living, regardless of whether they asked permission first. In fact, I have hard time with the idea that we should have to ask permission from the government before we do anything, though I know that's how some of you would have it.

SO you don't mind that people who happened to have dropped a Koran are somewhere in the USA, and that they came across the Mexican border?

Not really. There's a lot of wisdom in the Koran.

You see the point is that we don't know who the illegals are. We don't know where they came from, and we can only hope that they are here to find work. How many are fleeing the law in their own country? How many are here to do us physical harm? How many are here breaking more of our laws than just entering illegally?

No one can answer those questions and yes that bothers me. I'm sorry, but when you come to my house you have to ask my permission to enter.

Oh, I couldn't agree more. That's why a blanket policy keeping out people who just want to come here and work is so idiotic. With our demand for cheap labor, and their need for work - they will find a way. And that fattens the pipeline making it that much easier for dangerous people to get in. If we liberalized the immigration laws making it easier for law abiding working people to come here legally, then we could focus more diligently on those who attempted to evade the legal channels - knowing that they are probably up to np good.

Our current policy, where we treat our nation as an exclusive 'gated community' is delusionary, ignoring the reality that opportunity and people eager to work will find a way toi meet up. This creates a vast underground network that makes it very easy for people who are actually dangerous to slip by undetected.

Simply put, if we make it easy for legitmant immigrants to come to our country and make a better life for themselves, it will be easier for us to keep out those who have ill intent.

It's great to be an American, I believe that immigration laws should be even tougher right now. And I will continue to work for that end.

 

[saveliberty]

My brother and his buddy were in London during one riot, so they came down to my place and we went into Bristol for dinner.... funny... another riot there! I blame him.... clearly trouble follows him around.

Were they in front of you or behind?

 

[saveliberty]

dblack, you make it sound like everyone who made it to our shores were allowed in. Read history, give us your poor tired huddled masses is a bit of a reach. It is also one thing when your trying to settle and grow a nation. Another, when you are a post industrial NAFTA nation.

 

[Unkotare]

Who do we consider to be an 'illegal'?.

People who came here in violation of our immigration laws and with disregard for our sovereignty.

Not so complicated.

If you have a "hard time" with that, then you must have a "hard time" understanding the notion of law in general.

 

[marcell]

SO you don't mind that people who happened to have dropped a Koran are somewhere in the USA, and that they came across the Mexican border?

Not really. There's a lot of wisdom in the Koran.

You see the point is that we don't know who the illegals are. We don't know where they came from, and we can only hope that they are here to find work. How many are fleeing the law in their own country? How many are here to do us physical harm? How many are here breaking more of our laws than just entering illegally?

No one can answer those questions and yes that bothers me. I'm sorry, but when you come to my house you have to ask my permission to enter.

Oh, I couldn't agree more. That's why a blanket policy keeping out people who just want to come here and work is so idiotic. With our demand for cheap labor, and their need for work - they will find a way. And that fattens the pipeline making it that much easier for dangerous people to get in. If we liberalized the immigration laws making it easier for law abiding working people to come here legally, then we could focus more diligently on those who attempted to evade the legal channels - knowing that they are probably up to np good.

Our current policy, where we treat our nation as an exclusive 'gated community' is delusionary, ignoring the reality that opportunity and people eager to work will find a way toi meet up. This creates a vast underground network that makes it very easy for people who are actually dangerous to slip by undetected.

Simply put, if we make it easy for legitmant immigrants to come to our country and make a better life for themselves, it will be easier for us to keep out those who have ill intent.

It's great to be an American, I believe that immigration laws should be even tougher right now. And I will continue to work for that end.

Damn... It'll be hard for me to go there!