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From: elag <elag@cloud9.net>
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Subject: Re: site for sore feet
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 23:03:10 -0400
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Paul Heslop wrote:
>
> elag wrote:
> >
> > Paul Heslop wrote:
> > >
> > > elag wrote:
> > >
> > > > > > Oh... I agree... It seems like "cruel and unusual punishment"... but I
> > > > > > suppose one must pay the price for civil disobedience.
> > > > >
> > > > > :O) I always laugh at that line when i think it comes from the 'home of
> > > > > the free'
> > > >
> > > > Hmm... explain... is "cruel and unusual punishment" funny or paying the
> > > > price for civil disobedience?... and how so?
> > >
> > > No, the 'home of the free part'. I have been chastised for our english
> > > way of having rules for this that and the other and yet it often seems
> > > that in some ways America is a far harder place to live than here.
> >
> > In some ways, surely. You can't hardly find a decent cup o' tea anywhere.
>
> :O) That would mean my wife would refuse to even visit! Her sister has
> started drinking coffee simply for that reason. She also missed her
> English cheeses.
You could always brew your own, of course. If you search hard enough
you can find tea leaves which escaped bagging. In big cities you can
even find a nice Wensleydale or a smiling Cheshire... but laminated
yellow plastic slices are far more common. The poor fools don't even
realize how they're suffering.
> >
> > > I suppose, at the end of the day its just whatever you're used to. I'm
> > > used to not having seen more than a handful of real guns in my whole
> > > life (discounting museums) and if I ever got stopped for something I had
> > > or hadn't done (when I was a naughty little boy) the last thing I
> > > worried about was whether a sudden movement would put me in a wooden
> > > box.
> >
> > It's even more dangerous if your complexion is dark, capeesh?
>
> So I have heard. I guess it is the same here, but again to a lesser
> extent. here they almost always meet with an accident, rather than
> actually being shot trying to escape etc. Oops, he fell down the stairs!
> (And they really do say that, I know because that's what they said when
> they beat ME up)
Bobbies roughed you up? What happened?
> >
> > > Sadly, due to the influx of what appears to be gangsta culture it
> > > is becoming more likely to be the victim of some sort of armed tragedy.
> >
> > Ever think of joining a neighborhood watch?
>
> Eek! They even manage to steal the CCTV cameras here!
not an uncommon spot of irony...
check this out anyway:
http://www.neighbourhoodwatch.net/
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