From: ogden on
Hog wrote:
> ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote:
> > Mick Whittingham wrote:
> >> Some like yourself who lives in a place in England that is getting a
> >> better place to live and hence alters your perspective of England,
> >> must live in a unique place. Go with it, enjoy it.
> >>
> >> The left and right wing press are all complaining that things are
> >> getting worse and will get worse before they get better.
> >
> > "Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong"
>
> One or Both must be wrong

Don't have a go at me, have a go at Knopfler.

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From: stephen.packer on
Mick Whittingham <Mick(a)whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:


> You will see I don't have blinkers fitted.

Just read what you post. Maybe the scales will fall.
From: Champ on
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:57:47 +0000, Mick Whittingham
<Mick(a)whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

>You will see I don't have blinkers fitted.

Not sure how you (or anyone) could possibly assert that.

It certainly doesn't seem apparent from your posts.
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From: Hog on
stephen.packer(a)gonemail.com wrote:

>> I find it all too possible. The levels of wilful ignorance among
>> some Americans are as astonishing as geopolitical and historical
>> sophistication and awareness are among others. I have had surreal
>> conversations in rural Georgia and Montana, for example, that have
>> left me slack-jawed in disbelief. I have spoken to people who
>> thought that 'European' is a single language. There again, living
>> on a continent with just one language (plus a bit of French in
>> Quebec) they have no need to be more aware.
>
> This is at odds with my experience of Americans. Especially American
> graduates.

Well quite. As most large 'Merican businesses are multinational their people
travel extensively.

If their lower education quartile are lacking I'd suggest it will be to no
greater extent than ours.

Your average 'Merkin seems to be more politically aware than folk here.

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Hog


From: Mick Whittingham on
In article <MPG.25ff14dbc286a76898a04f(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> writes
>Mick Whittingham wrote:
>> Some like yourself who lives in a place in England that is getting a
>> better place to live and hence alters your perspective of England, must
>> live in a unique place. Go with it, enjoy it.
>>
>> The left and right wing press are all complaining that things are
>> getting worse and will get worse before they get better.
>
>"Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong"
>

Isn't that the opposite of:
"I'm Brian and so is my wife!"
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Mick Whittingham
'and I will make it a felony to drink small beer.'
William Shakespeare, Henry VI part 2.