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| Thread ID: 106080 | 2009-12-25 05:21:00 | Have you noticed . . . | Twelvevolts (5457) | PC World Chat |
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| 843062 | 2009-12-28 22:46:00 | Seems rather a large target none the less. A Texan must have had something to do with it somewhere along the line. Let's blame the French anyway. They make good scapegoats and everyone knows they created a lot of the problems around the world. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 843063 | 2009-12-28 23:08:00 | There is apparently a lot of correspondence - - | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 843064 | 2009-12-28 23:33:00 | Let's blame the French anyway. They make good scapegoats and everyone knows they created a lot of the problems around the world. I'll go along with that Joey. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 843065 | 2009-12-28 23:44:00 | Let's blame the French anyway. They make good scapegoats and everyone knows they created a lot of the problems around the world. Wow Joe, that is the American pot calling the French kettle black. I think the Americans have got their tits in a tangle over the French refusing to send an army to the middle East. We come in peace - shoot to kill, Jim. Might have been the French's revenge for Pershing holding back his army from the front for around a year after America declared war in 1917. Correct me if I am wrong, but despite the requests for assistance, the first American Army battle in France in WW1 started approx 42 days before the end of the war in 1918. There were just a few troops seconded to British and French armies to learn the ropes but very few in the overall context of the war. I am not sticking up for the French, but you do tend to put things down that are not American. Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 843066 | 2009-12-28 23:55:00 | Whereas the Eurostuff is self - propelled ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 843067 | 2009-12-29 00:21:00 | Wow Joe, that is the American pot calling the French kettle black. I think the Americans have got their tits in a tangle over the French refusing to send an army to the middle East. We come in peace - shoot to kill, Jim. Might have been the French's revenge for Pershing holding back his army from the front for around a year after America declared war in 1917. Correct me if I am wrong, but despite the requests for assistance, the first American Army battle in France in WW1 started approx 42 days before the end of the war in 1918. There were just a few troops seconded to British and French armies to learn the ropes but very few in the overall context of the war. I am not sticking up for the French, but you do tend to put things down that are not American. Ken You got me there - I am not versed in that particular war........... ..and besides, I just threw that into the pot as an arcane comment anyway. However - I also know that the US is responsible for many atrocities that are even on this site, not heralded. I like the line from Men In Black when asked if the people shouldn't be told that there are aliens living amongst them and therefor they can handle the truth - the line goes something like this when Kay says: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. ". Individually most persons tend to be honest, kind and considerate. It's only when two or more people gather together trying to outdo someone else that things go wrong. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 843068 | 2009-12-29 00:26:00 | Well when was it safer and what is your theory about why? Garth Mc Vicar says it was 1951, six years after a World War that killed a sizable portion of the male population. During the late fifties and early sixties there were probably only a couple of murders a year and they were front page news for days whereas now they hardly even get on the front page. I would be very interested to know the crime statistics for the depression in the early thirties. It would be a hell of a lot less than it is now. As to the theory about why. I think television has been a bad influence and the young are not being held responsible for what they do. eg I think it was a teenager from Wanganui who a judge let off $40,000 in traffic fines. Why was he ever able to get to that stage. His car should have been sold well before then to pay for those fines. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 843069 | 2009-12-29 00:57:00 | One would find it interesting hearing the judges justification of the $40000 fine let off! I know there some on here that would give him pat on the back as he walked grinning from the courtroom. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 843070 | 2009-12-29 00:59:00 | And again Twelvevolts makes much of an article in The Herald which could be countered with this article:- www.scoop.co.nz |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 843071 | 2009-12-29 02:07:00 | And again Twelvevolts makes much of an article in The Herald which could be countered with this article:- www.scoop.co.nz No I don't "make much" of the article in the sense you use it, I agree that historical stats can lead to problems of interpretation. There will always be people who want to look back to some better time they perceive in the past, seems people remember better the good times and forget what the bad parts of living in those times. Again 1950's are likely to have had a low murder rate because so many young men were killed in the 1940's, therefore there was full employment and a smaller and more rural population. For me, I'd rather be living now than at any other time in history. New Zealand is a good place to live and I hope we don't let the types who want the death penalty get what they want, it would be a big step in the wrong direction. |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
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