Happy Thanksgiving...

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
ummm shallow blue is Dutch! your in for a roasting now!

oops!

lol

Originally posted by Suzianne
Sorry. 😀

K. 😀

Originally posted by Phlabibit
Seems we are at a standoff.

P-

Yup. Better call in the negotiator and S.W.A.T. team eh? 😏

Originally posted by ayceebee
Torys

You need schoolin'
Baby I'm not foolin'

Originally posted by Suzianne
How Shallow can you be, Blue?

I can be shallow beyond your deepest depths, Suzi.

Ask any family celebrating Thanksgiving in America, and no one will tell you that they are celebrating the "wholesale slaughter of the indigenous population".

That is not what Thanksgiving is about.

I'm afraid it is. They don't think of it that way... but when all is said and done, what they're celebrating is the native Americans helping the start of their own destruction.

Perhaps you could take time out of your busy day of self-gratification to feel thankful for anything, only to be told you are celebrating the "wholesale slaughter of the indigenous population", even though such comment is nonsensical. How would you feel?

Well, my national feast day is about being liberated (by the Limeys and Canucks, mainly, so please don't start that lie again) in WWII. We didn't come to our country and kick all the natives into reserves and abject poverty. We did that in Indonesia - but we've grown up enough not to celebrate our misdeeds there.

Then again, our national lottery is older than your whole nation. You do have a lot of growing up to do.

Richard

Originally posted by Phlabibit
Ask anyone in America what they are celebrating on December 25th and they'll say "the birth of Christ". So ignorance of FACTS shouldn't be surprising when asking people questions.

Erm... they are. They're not celebrating it on the day on which he was born, but they're celebrating his birth, all the same.

Richard

Originally posted by Suzianne
To·ry
[tawr-ee, tohr-ee] , plural -ries, for 1–5, adjective
noun
1. a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
2. a member of a political party in Great Britain from the late 17th century to about 1832 that favored royal authority over Parliament and the preservation of the existing social and political order: succeeded by the Conservative party.

"Succeeded" is not really the right word. They're very much the same people under a new name. Saying the Tories(2) succeeded the Tories(1) is like saying that Queen Elizabeth II succeeded Elizabeth, Princess of Wales.

5. (in the 17th century) a dispossessed Irishman who resorted to banditry, especially after the invasion of Oliver Cromwell and suppression of the royalist cause (1649–52).

The "banditry" part hasn't changed much, either 😛.

Richard

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
ummm shallow blue is Dutch! your in for a roasting now!

Hah, no. Being taken for a Limey is a compliment to my use of your language!

Richard

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Hah, no. Being taken for a Limey is a compliment to my use of your language!

Richard

or a testimony to Smoozziannes innate anti British prejudices. Its not our fault we
ruled them and they have had an inferiority complex ever since 😛

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
or a testimony to Smoozziannes innate anti British prejudices. Its not our fault we ruled them and they have had an inferiority complex ever since 😛

Quite possibly, but I prefer to assume my interpretation. I've spent years trying to learn to speak and write proper English properly, so when a native speaker takes me for a Limey, it makes me feel that the effort was not all wasted.

Richard