New US finance minister - can he even handwrite?

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by soopaman2

No society is exempt from sucking. My first law of suckyness.

QFT

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Target of the week. I like that.

A good example of 'Nation bashing' is the huge American animosity towards France after they refused to support our incursion into Iraq in 2003. This is where all the "Cheese-eating surrender monkey" jokes and insults started. It's interesting that there aren't that many jokes about Germany in this regard, and virtually none at all aimed at Canada or New Zealand, who also opposed the invasion.

In Europe itself there are little bits of animosity between nations from conflicts of a hundred years ago or more, the Netherlands looks at Belgium and wants the northern part of it back, France looks a Belgium and sees it as a nuisance, the Brits mutter under their breath at the French and Germans, the Dutch have football anger at the Germans, and hide their bicycles whenever the Germans are around, everyone thinks that the Spanish are lazy, and the Spanish think that everyone else should just stop sticking their noses in where its not wanted...and nobody will let Germany forget about World War Two, the Russians about the Soviet Union, or France about Napoleon.
And that's not even beginning to talk about how Poland feels about Germany and Russia...

[August]

Originally Posted by Oberon

you just have to develop a thick skin and ignore it,

Still trying to tell us how to act I see.

responding in kind is exactly what people want you to do, so they can just use it as an example of a 'typical overreacting American'

Good then I won't disappoint them and it'll give some more controversy for the forum to feed upon. That's what this whole thread is about ain't it?

[MH]

It turns out that bad sig may be a nuisance when people really care.


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[Oberon]

Originally Posted by August

Good then I won't disappoint them and it'll give some more controversy for the forum to feed upon. That's what this whole thread is about ain't it?

If you want to take the bait, feel free to do so.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by August

Still trying to tell us how to act I see.

That was friendly advice, not an order, and he was talking about his own country as much as anybody else's.

You have a real talent for overreacting and taking things personally when they weren't even remotely meant that way.

[August]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

That was friendly advice, not an order, and he was talking about his own country as much as anybody else's.

You have a real talent for overreacting and taking things personally when they weren't even remotely meant that way.

And you have a real talent as a mother hen. Oberons a big boy he can talk for himself.

[soopaman2]

In all fairness, my previous post smashed the Euro, and no one complained.

I think Augusts gripe, (IMHO) is how it is popular to hold America as the universal villain for all the worlds woes. While others put themselves on a pedestal, above the problems. Problems we all perpetuated, not just America and its citizens.

Considering how long Europe has been around, and how much superior you hold yourselves above us, why have you all not opposed our system, rather than subscribing to them?

Perhaps some inward looking is in order, American currency may be in chaos, but it is still way more stable than most.

This has turned into a thread "blaming" America for the global recession, yet no one holds their own accountable. American bankers did not crash the PIIGS, the PIIGS did. (edit guns don't kill people, people kill people) Two political statements in one post, overload overload! *explodes*
Why is Europe so absorbed with us, I find it funny most of you know who our president is, yet most Americans do not know or care who runs your country..

Seriously, time to look inward for your problems.

Unless this is your way of asking for a handout from Americas taxpayers?

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by soopaman2

In all fairness, my previous post smashed the Euro, and no one complained.

Smashed the Euro ???

Please, we throw cobblestones into our bankers because of the euro and you're ''smashing'' it with some words

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by soopaman2

This has turned into a thread "blaming" America for the global recession

Where?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by August

And you have a real talent as a mother hen.

Our reputations both speak for themselves.

[Armistead]

That sig makes no sense, who signs a bunch of cirlces, it would take less effort to scribble a few intials. He probably defends it as some special sig, considering himself special, we, the lowly world unable to understand his greatness. I myself find people that scribble like that are making a statment, that they're above having to write legit for anyone to understand.

[August]

Originally Posted by Armistead

That sig makes no sense, who signs a bunch of cirlces, it would take less effort to scribble a few intials. He probably defends it as some special sig, considering himself special, we, the lowly world unable to understand his greatness. I myself find people that scribble like that are making a statment, that they're above having to write legit for anyone to understand.

Now that is a far more reasonable assessment than he doesn't know how to write. No shortage of elitism in Washington.

[MH]

Originally Posted by August

Now that is a far more reasonable assessment than he doesn't know how to write. No shortage of elitism in Washington.

You might be right

'Mysteriously Weird' Signature
Of White House Chief of Staff



HANDWRITING ANALYSIS of JACOB “Jack” LEW

The signature of Jacob “Jack” Lew is among the most mysteriously weird (with goofy overtones) that we have seen in a quarter century of graphology.
It looks like an unraveled Slinky, and like most signatures is not necessarily indicative of the person who wrote it, but more likely the crafted image they want others to perceive.
But who wants others to see him/her as a Slinky, unless that’s what he/she actually may be, psychologically speaking? It may be enlightening to know how that spiral signature came to be crafted by Mr. Lew. Is there a symbolism in it that most people cannot fathom? Is it a private joke?
The overall loopiness generally signals hyper-secrecy. He will carry secrets to his grave. He is also secretive about who he may actually be. He keeps his profile extremely low.
Yet at the same time he draws a series of large, connected loops for his name, which looks so odd (or whimsical) that it draws immediate attention to himself. This contradiction must make for some funny moments in his personal and professional life.
His imagination is probably as relatively large as the loops, and much of his energy is expended in the realms of abstract thinking, perhaps even religion. The oversized loops warn that he might blow certain matters out of proportion.
His thinking is both objective and methodical; he must connect all the dots. He is capable of taking the initiative and he desires responsibility. The vertical slant of his writing signals a person who thinks before he acts.

[Hottentot]

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[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Hottentot

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