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RE: Pound For Pound The Very Best - 8/24/2016 1:32:08 PM   
jlf1961


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Status: offline 		Actually your medal count problems are not because of the rest of us.

Let me point out where the issues lie.

1) you have civilized yourselves out of the competition.
2) you drive on the wrong side of the road.
3) cant design a functional work saddle.
4) steal really innovative designs and then claim credit for the development (case in point, the clipper ship)

Hell, that island wouldnt have a decent drink if not for Scots!

And, how many times a day do you have to stop to drink tea anyway?

Even the countryside is civilized.

You got no bears, wolves, well any large carnivores that could take down some idiot who went jogging in the wrong place at the wrong time, thus no way to let natural selection work.

I mean in Australia you got large ocean going crocs that, well, eat anything that is foolish enough to get in the water in areas they like to frequent (even when there are warning signs.)

Lets face it, the British have reached that point in civilized development that they no longer have the "hold my beer and watch this" selection process. Over there, everyone survives.

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RE: Pound For Pound The Very Best - 8/24/2016 1:39:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		I thought the Scottish invented everything useful and the English clung to our coat tails, or was it sporrans. Clingerons (not sure many of you know that word) and yes we all know I would build that wall again and shift it a bit south to keep out our svage southern brethern

Strangely I have been giving it a lot of thought the last two weeks what the greatest empire was here are my three answers:
1. The builders of the great pyramid (unknown)– a structure that boggles my very being
2. Romans,(Scotland they never conquered you know and they built two walls for the record – Hadrian’s and the Antonine wall) monty python anyone? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9foi342LXQE
3. British
4. time immemorial - seems to occupy a lot of my reading of late

Medal wise we had the biggest spread in gold medals v sport events..there is a standing joke regarding UK sport - we excel on the sitting on our arses sports - not really true,,cycling rowing etc

I watched the Olympics, a bit of it, and a bit perplexed as to what a sport is eg
Modern pentathlon not sure I can but a foil in Scotland
Archery wtf it should be a bit of wood and string and feather arrow - those contraptions look like the tripods from war of the worlds
and so on
Dont get me started on synchronised diving unless its for muff

mens 100 metres is numero uno - I fair like 4x100 and 4x400, the relays, myself, although the Uk and the usa are wholly incompetent in those

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RE: Pound For Pound The Very Best - 8/24/2016 4:15:37 PM   
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Not only have we produced the greatest empire that ever stalked this planet.

Pound for pound we're streets ahead in sport.

Yanks have 26 golds; we have 16.

We're a fifth of the population of the Yanks at a conservative estimate, so with your population we'd have 80 gold medals at the very least.

Americans you're shit and you're wasting our fuckin' time with your mediocre competition.

The only sporting nation that can live with us is Oz - pound for pound.

The rest of you lot - pack it in and go for a walk or something because you're massively out of your depth with the English and our prized prisoner colony.






And then....there's Thompson X....which has devolved (as per usual) in to a response:

"Stalin and Hitler also had a non aggression pact."

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RE: Pound For Pound The Very Best - 8/24/2016 7:08:16 PM   
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And then....there's Thompson X....which has devolved (as per usual) in to a response:

Stalin and Hitler also had a non aggression pact.

I got a little heads up for the idiot who is in search of a village...That was bama's post not mine.


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RE: Pound For Pound The Very Best - 8/26/2016 11:21:56 AM   
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Actually your medal count problems are not because of the rest of us.

Let me point out where the issues lie.

1) you have civilized yourselves out of the competition.
2) you drive on the wrong side of the road.
3) cant design a functional work saddle.
4) steal really innovative designs and then claim credit for the development (case in point, the clipper ship)

Hell, that island wouldnt have a decent drink if not for Scots!

And, how many times a day do you have to stop to drink tea anyway?

Even the countryside is civilized.

You got no bears, wolves, well any large carnivores that could take down some idiot who went jogging in the wrong place at the wrong time, thus no way to let natural selection work.

I mean in Australia you got large ocean going crocs that, well, eat anything that is foolish enough to get in the water in areas they like to frequent (even when there are warning signs.)

Lets face it, the British have reached that point in civilized development that they no longer have the "hold my beer and watch this" selection process. Over there, everyone survives.



Civilised countries have civilised animals.

The most dangerous animal we have here is the rabbit, and they're hardly gonna hunt you down in packs.

Any country with crocodiles and dangerous spiders has done something to deserve 'em.

As for the Scots and their drink: they have no tradition of beer brewing. Absolutely shocking beer is brewed in Scotland. You wouldn't use it to swill out your dog's bowl. Whiskey? That's for drunks and the melancholy.

As for 'driving on the wrong side of the road', it's all about doing it your own way. In the event you collection of rabble elsewhere in the world all want to be the same then go ahead and drive on the same side of the road like robots conforming to some unfathomable driving standard.

On a serious note, you know what created this civilised island? The Church of England. Everything depends. Always two sides to every argument.

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RE: Pound For Pound The Very Best - 8/26/2016 11:24:06 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Actually your medal count problems are not because of the rest of us.

Let me point out where the issues lie.

1) you have civilized yourselves out of the competition.
2) you drive on the wrong side of the road.
3) cant design a functional work saddle.
4) steal really innovative designs and then claim credit for the development (case in point, the clipper ship)

Hell, that island wouldnt have a decent drink if not for Scots!

And, how many times a day do you have to stop to drink tea anyway?

Even the countryside is civilized.

You got no bears, wolves, well any large carnivores that could take down some idiot who went jogging in the wrong place at the wrong time, thus no way to let natural selection work.

I mean in Australia you got large ocean going crocs that, well, eat anything that is foolish enough to get in the water in areas they like to frequent (even when there are warning signs.)

Lets face it, the British have reached that point in civilized development that they no longer have the "hold my beer and watch this" selection process. Over there, everyone survives.



Civilised countries have civilised animals.

The most dangerous animal we have here is the rabbit, and they're hardly gonna hunt you down in packs.

Any country with crocodiles and dangerous spiders has done something to deserve 'em.

As for the Scots and their drink: they have no tradition of beer brewing. Absolutely shocking beer is brewed in Scotland. You wouldn't use it to swill out your dog's bowl. Whiskey? That's for drunks and the melancholy.

As for 'driving on the wrong side of the road', it's all about doing it your own way. In the event you collection of rabble elsewhere in the world all want to be the same then go ahead and drive on the same side of the road like robots conforming to some unfathomable driving standard.

On a serious note, you know what created this civilised island? The Church of England. Everything depends. Always two sides to every argument.



As for the countryside, it's probably the one thing that binds us as a nation. Whatever your tastes and political views most people have a deep love for the countryside, and nation that is most like us in this respect is Japan.

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RE: Pound For Pound The Very Best - 8/26/2016 12:49:22 PM   
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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent1


On a serious note, you know what created this civilised island? The Church of England. Everything depends. Always two sides to every argument.



Hmm, the Church of England, begun by a king who kept getting rid of wives because they didnt bear him a son, always with some excuse, and usually ending up dead....

Okay, so the Church of England got rid of all the fun animals? Wolves and such.

Look, there is something to be said in going out into the wilds and hearing the howl of a wolf, even a coyote, or the scream of a panther, or even watching a sow bear play with her cubs.

FYI, a pack of wolves are probably more civilized than any pack of humans, but that is my opinion, and certainly better company than some Brit that keeps calling Texans Yanks.

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RE: Pound For Pound The Very Best - 8/26/2016 1:01:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think most of the wolves were wiped out prior to Henry VIII, but I'd need to check that one.

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RE: Pound For Pound The Very Best - 8/26/2016 6:59:49 PM   
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I think most of the wolves were wiped out prior to Henry VIII, but I'd need to check that one.



Well, a land without wolves is a land without a soul.

But then, I have an affinity for the wild places, the haunted dwellings of the old ones, my Cherokee blood is from the Clan of the Wolf, my Apache is from the clan of the mountain wolf, or the Lobo or Mexican Gray.

In all seriousness, I actually feel sorry for the 'civilized' countries where there are no wolves. Most of you will never have the opportunity to get away from the civilized world and sit at night and listen to the wolves howl, sending their voices over the wind.

I have, one a few occasions.

Once, in Yellowstone after they reintroduced a pack (only to discover a pack had moved into the park without them knowing) and heard a pack howling at night.

But the time that seemed to speak to me was in the Montana Bitterroots.

It was early spring and about 11 at night. I had gone up to see a friend and went fishing, and it began with just one, after a few minutes the entire pack was singing.

A couple were probably within 20 yards of me.

You folks will never know what that song does to you.

Of course, with Kera in my home, I get to hear her sing a lot. She sings when I come home, sings when we sit out on the back porch at night (think she is trying to give howling lessons to the local coyotes) and she sings to the owls that nest close to the house.

You poor civilized people.

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RE: Pound For Pound The Very Best - 8/27/2016 12:41:52 PM   
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961


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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent1


On a serious note, you know what created this civilised island? The Church of England. Everything depends. Always two sides to every argument.



Hmm, the Church of England, begun by a king who kept getting rid of wives because they didnt bear him a son, always with some excuse, and usually ending up dead....

Okay, so the Church of England got rid of all the fun animals? Wolves and such.

Look, there is something to be said in going out into the wilds and hearing the howl of a wolf, even a coyote, or the scream of a panther, or even watching a sow bear play with her cubs.

FYI, a pack of wolves are probably more civilized than any pack of humans, but that is my opinion, and certainly better company than some Brit that keeps calling Texans Yanks.



Henry was only ever a pawn in the game - the move away from the catholic church, and it was only ever a halfway-house, we didn't have a reformation in the same fashion as the Germans, Dutch and Scots; was, as per usual, a result of popular wisdom.

As for Wolves, fuck all that, they're like scavengers; whereas birds sing a song that should be music to everyone's ears. I know what I would rather hear at 5 in the morning sat on the step and it ain't some dog cleaning its lungs out.

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RE: Pound For Pound The Very Best - 8/27/2016 1:02:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think the Norman issue with wolves was that they'd thin out flocks of sheep. Which is weird, as they still have wolves in parts of France.

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