Seriously, is it just me.....

Stealth Hunter · 03-02-08, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by reallydedpoet

@geetrue

So is Democracy following your leader blindly or having the basic right to question his or her motives regarding various issues of the day. I'll take the latter ( and I am not talking as it relates to the military, rather as it relates to the governance of a population of people ).

To me that is not disrespecting your country, rather following the very principles it was founded on.

RDP

It's called "Patriotism", and I have very few things that I hate worse than it.

August · 03-02-08, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter

It's called "Patriotism", and I have very few things that I hate worse than it.

I think your definition of Patriotism is somewhat flawed Stealth Hunter.

bradclark1 · 03-02-08, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter

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Originally Posted by reallydedpoet

@geetrue

So is Democracy following your leader blindly or having the basic right to question his or her motives regarding various issues of the day. I'll take the latter ( and I am not talking as it relates to the military, rather as it relates to the governance of a population of people ).

To me that is not disrespecting your country, rather following the very principles it was founded on.

RDP

It's called "Patriotism", and I have very few things that I hate worse than it.

I think you need to explain a little more. Is it before or after "or".

Kapitan_Phillips · 03-02-08, 07:54 PM

I'm disgusted by the current tax on air travel. £222 of my £580 fare was tax. Subtract £50 for my travel insurance.

AVGWarhawk · 03-02-08, 08:26 PM

Here is a good one for today. My wife does the grocery shopping every week. She is VERY conscience of prices/sales/specials, etc. because we keep a budget for groceries. Today she came home from the store and said she had to pay $2.00 for a dozen eggs. Normally the eggs run her .99 cents. She asked me if there is a shortage of chickens and if eggs are in great demand. I said no but costs to keep the coops going and fuel increases for the trucks to get them to the store certainly have gone up. Welcome to the snowball effect I mentioned a few posts back.

Kapitan_Phillips · 03-02-08, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Here is a good one for today. My wife does the grocery shopping every week. She is VERY conscience of prices/sales/specials, etc. because we keep a budget for groceries. Today she came home from the store and said she had to pay $2.00 for a dozen eggs. Normally the eggs run her .99 cents. She asked me if there is a shortage of chickens and if eggs are in great demand. I said no but costs to keep the coops going and fuel increases for the trucks to get them to the store certainly have gone up. Welcome to the snowball effect I mentioned a few posts back.

Get your own chickens, then

My father is a HGV driver here in Wales. He works for a logistics firm called TNT, who contracted some haulage jobs to his company, A & M Transport. This one day, they phoned him up saying he needed to take his truck to the filling station because the forecourt at the depot was completely out of diesel. Naturally, this would be paid for using the company cards, but it took them three hours to find one with money left on it.

With rising fuel prices and more and more people starting to blame trucks and haulage firms, where does that leave the driver?

03-02-08, 07:54 PM	#4
Kapitan_Phillips Silent Hunter Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Swansea Posts: 3,903 Downloads: 204 Uploads: 0	I'm disgusted by the current tax on air travel. £222 of my £580 fare was tax. Subtract £50 for my travel insurance. __________________ Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into.

03-02-08, 08:26 PM	#5
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,293 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Here is a good one for today. My wife does the grocery shopping every week. She is VERY conscience of prices/sales/specials, etc. because we keep a budget for groceries. Today she came home from the store and said she had to pay $2.00 for a dozen eggs. Normally the eggs run her .99 cents. She asked me if there is a shortage of chickens and if eggs are in great demand. I said no but costs to keep the coops going and fuel increases for the trucks to get them to the store certainly have gone up. Welcome to the snowball effect I mentioned a few posts back. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road