OK America...

[TN_Vixen]

PC- c'mon over heah...

I was kidding about the fake boobies.

I hated Dallas.

hated the flatness
hated the traffic
hated the the general attitude
hated the humidity
hated everything

Most of the people I met one on one were nice though.

Overall though, still hated it.

Stay away from those bad ole Texans & c'mon over to TN.

we have hills & the Smokey Mtns.
we don't have much traffic
our attitude is one of sweet hospitality to everyone
humidity? um, well... we could stay inside ;-)

I'm still a big-tittied long-legged blonde, but nothing's fake. hehe

 

[teresafannin]

Now Vixen, we aren't all bad ole Texans, well, maybe once in a while-but I refuse to classified as old. Dallas is big city, & I have to say that the really fun people are in Fort Worth. I msut confess, however, that I am a small tittied, long legged blonde, but they are real. Come for a visit sometime, we will have a good time chasing cowboys or knights if it is during Faire season.

 

[TN_Vixen]

teresafannin

chasin' cowboys sounds like a lot of fun - just don't get me on one of those mechanical bulls at the country bar. I tried that once here and thought I wouldn't be able to walk or sit properly for a week!

 

[lavender]

 

[teresafannin]

No mechanical bulls for me, been there, done that & suvived, but I was a whole lot younger back then. I actually have long legs on a short little body, but I never had to worry about my dates being shorter than me. There are lovely people everywhere, I have heard from a lot of them in the last 18 months. Many of them hang out here, as a matter of fact.

 

[scylis]

We kicked your butts....twice! la-la-la...la-la

Once in truth....1812 was pretty much a war of American aggression that got fought to a draw.

During which the Brits (and a tanked up gang of militia from Halifax) burned down the WhiteHouse.... regardless of your political affiliation how can you hate any country who had the great good sense to do that????

Did the Yanks ever get to torch 10 Downing or the Houses of Parliament?

I wanna play the needling interlocuter

a war of AMERICAN agression? who was taking whose sailors for no good reason?

oh, and how about that Battle of New Orleans? how many did you Brits lose? quite a lot, if i remember.. how many did we lose? 12.. "let's see.. and the score is.. Americans:too many to accurately count, Brits: 12.. oh, and the Yanks get a bonus 200 points for using a crocadile as a make-shift cannon" (listen to the song about it)

 

[p_p_man]

Yeah but...

English football is played in shorts and kneesocks.

...at least we've won the World Cup!

 

[Siren]

Yea but you SUCK at real men Football

 

[mig]

Yeah,Why is American Football called football
when only one man gets to kick the ball?.

Still I have to confess,love that game.

 

[p_p_man]

Re: Yea but you SUCK at real men Football

We are the world champions of real football....

what you play is called, soccer.

And what you play is called...Rugby. And what's with this world champions already - only America plays your game!!

This damned English problem...

 

[Siren]

Yea well you SUCK at the Olympics

 

[p_p_man]

Only because you've got...

...half the American population on your squad..

NANANANANA!!!

 

[Siren]

Nope it is cuz we are healthy and strong

 

[Expertise]

We kicked your butts....twice! la-la-la...la-la

Once in truth....1812 was pretty much a war of American aggression that got fought to a draw.

During which the Brits (and a tanked up gang of militia from Halifax) burned down the WhiteHouse.... regardless of your political affiliation how can you hate any country who had the great good sense to do that????

Did the Yanks ever get to torch 10 Downing or the Houses of Parliament?

I wanna play the needling interlocuter

a war of AMERICAN agression? who was taking whose sailors for no good reason?

oh, and how about that Battle of New Orleans? how many did you Brits lose? quite a lot, if i remember.. how many did we lose? 12.. "let's see.. and the score is.. Americans:too many to accurately count, Brits: 12.. oh, and the Yanks get a bonus 200 points for using a crocadile as a make-shift cannon" (listen to the song about it)

Care to talk about Queenstown Hights or Lundys Lane or Sherbrooke or.... OH YEAH Detroit... which of course we had the great good sense to give back. The "impressment" issue (re. american sailors) was about as real a reason to go to war as "The Gulf of Tonkin Incident". While His Majestys Royal Navy really did conduct that nasty business it was a a rallying point for "hawks" to further their expansionest aims while Britian was embroiled in a "real war" in Europe.

 

[Kymberley]

One question to all the Brits on the board.

When Princess Di was buried, we saw the streets lined with thousands of people crying over the loss of her life.

How many there acknowledge with the same intense sorrow the death of Mother Theresa?

Seems rather odd that God chose to take someone so completely opposite on the social ladder of life just a few days after he called home Di. Makes you wonder if he was trying to tell us something about who we are and what makes us worthy in his eyes. Was he making a point to us?

This is meant as no slight on Di's life and accomplishments. After all she did so many things for the poor and sick people of the world. But she also had the means to do so. Mother Theresa did so much more and with so much less, shouldn't she have been given the same send off to Heaven that Diana was?

 

[p_p_man]

Yaaayyy - Go Expertise...

We kicked your butts....twice! la-la-la...la-la

Once in truth....1812 was pretty much a war of American aggression that got fought to a draw.

During which the Brits (and a tanked up gang of militia from Halifax) burned down the WhiteHouse.... regardless of your political affiliation how can you hate any country who had the great good sense to do that????

Did the Yanks ever get to torch 10 Downing or the Houses of Parliament?

I wanna play the needling interlocuter [/QUOTE]

a war of AMERICAN agression? who was taking whose sailors for no good reason?

oh, and how about that Battle of New Orleans? how many did you Brits lose? quite a lot, if i remember.. how many did we lose? 12.. "let's see.. and the score is.. Americans:too many to accurately count, Brits: 12.. oh, and the Yanks get a bonus 200 points for using a crocadile as a make-shift cannon" (listen to the song about it)

Originally posted by Expertise

Care to talk about Queenstown Hights or Lundys Lane or Sherbrooke or.... OH YEAH Detroit... which of course we had the great good sense to give back. The "impressment" issue (re. american sailors) was about as real a reason to go to war as "The Gulf of Tonkin Incident". While His Majestys Royal Navy really did conduct that nasty business it was a a rallying point for "hawks" to further their expansionest aims while Britian was embroiled in a "real war" in Europe.

That's telling 'em pardner...

 

[p_p_man]

Kymberley...

Maybe it was a coincidence the two deaths came so close together. But one was a woman in her eighties who wasn't really close to the British people and who died of natural causes whilst the other was a young woman in her early thirties who had won the hearts of the nation by being regarded as a fighter against a disfunctional family who had more or less ostracised her from being with her own children.

We saw her as someone who by her actions could help expose and perhaps improve a hypocritical and traditionally rigid ruling family.

We didn't exactly view Madame Theresa in that light.

 

[Kymberley]

I was not trying to lesson Diana's death by any means. I work for a newspaper and our front page that day was smeared with Diana's life story. I remember leaving for work at midnite Dallas time and I had a two hour drive to work. By the time I got to the plant I was completely numb over the loss of her life and the sadness that your nation and even more so, her children, who all would be faced with such a loss of a lovely and gracious person.

My only point was the contrast between the world's reaction to her death versus that of Mother Theresa's. You have to admit, Diana's unselfish acts of love to so many was a topic for so many about why her death pained us so badly.

I just wondered if Theresa's death was as painful to those people who so admired Diana for the doing the same acts of charity.

I still have copies of both days of newspapers reporting the deaths of both remarkable women.

 

[Ally C]

Not meaning to sound insensitive, but I can't help wondering if Diana being more photogenic and glamorous had something to do with it. I'm not talking about physical appearance in itself I hasten to add; but Diana's life was probably deemed more suitable to the tastes of Western audiences. I hope I'm not misconstrued here, as there's quite a lot more that could be added to this, but I won't start a "media" discussion right now.

 

[Kymberley]

Never should have opened that can of worms I guess.

But the stark differences were so astounding and truly saddened me by the differences in the reactions of the world.

 

[p_p_man]

I know...

I was not trying to lesson Diana's death by any means...
My only point was the contrast between the world's reaction to her death versus that of Mother Theresa's. You have to admit, Diana's unselfish acts of love to so many was a topic for so many about why her death pained us so badly.

I realise you were not trying to lessen Diana's death but your post has brought home to me a fundamental difference of why she was mourned so much, and so differently, in the UK, than Madame Theresa.

To us Di had an uphill struggle with the Royal Family from the time she married Charles. Not only women but men (and I should add here hard, fighting men) recognised the situation she was in. She epitomised every ordinary persons thinking when it came to injustice, unfairness and beating your head against a brick wall. Everytime she won a victory in the public relations war, the British people gave a loud, silent cheer. She WAS us, the normal folk in the street.

It certainly surprised us all in the UK when the depth of our mourning became so obvious to see. We didn't even know we felt that way about her ourselves. I still see people today cry at certain memories they have of that day, men as well as women. I'm not immune myself.

Madame Theresa of course could not hope to achieve that depth of feeling and even though she was recognised as being a devout and charitable woman she was not recognised as being one of us. Diana a member of the aristocracy herself had the common touch, Madame Theresa, for all her goodness, didn't.

 

[Ally C]

Diana was a more "visible public figure" for a lot of reasons, whereas Mother Theresa, to my knowledge, didn't court publicity. They were both great icons of our time, but I don't think that either ought to be diminished in standing through comparison. Perphaps we're being too critical and self-reflexive here, as the fact of what these great women achieved is more important than the emphasis which we place on aspects of how those achievements were ultimately reported. The lives aided and affected by both are beyond the legacy of any film and newspaper archive, although I appreciate what you are saying.

 

[p_p_man]

Just to stop a misconception before it starts...

...whereas Mother Theresa, to my knowledge, didn't court publicity.

I'm writing this just to keep the record straight. Madame Theresa was a superb exponent of the Public Relations machine. If you think back she was never seen without a barrage of cameras following her around and she was more visible on the world stage, sharing platforms with most of the world leaders, than she was in the slums of Calcutta. I admired her for the way she could use her size and expertise in gaining the much needed publicity she needed for her campaign against poverty.

She was a true professional.

 

[Ally C]

Message received ...

... and understood p_p_man. The above was just my perception of the matter, and wasn't intended as an absolute fact. Perhaps I'm prone to the same bias you've been discussing? It seems that way, though like I've said, I don't think that our perceptions of one or the other diminishes what they did. Thanks for clarifying what I said.