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| Thread ID: 89919 | 2008-05-16 06:04:00 | Is it Burma. | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
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| 669991 | 2008-05-19 08:11:00 | I have noticed the difference too,you will note the poms walk with a shuffle with a slight sideway motion.A bit like a crab. Some of you talk some Bull%^$# considering your ancestry :2cents: |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 669992 | 2008-05-19 08:49:00 | Some of you talk some Bull%^$# considering your ancestry :2cents: I must assume you dispute my observations. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 669993 | 2008-05-19 22:42:00 | Some of you talk some Bull%^$# considering your ancestry :2cents: Some assumptions made here: 1. Cicero has identified one possibility - of course you may agree with everything Cicero says, but dispute the observations of others like me. 2. You are assuming something about our ancestry. What do you know to support your assumption? 3. This is more complicated. Why should we think in a particular way because of our assumed ancestry? Should we all think like some mythical Pom for example, because you think we are descended from Poms? What would that be like? How does someone from "our ancestry" think and talk? Why do you assume that because we derive from some place or other that we should be like people that live there now? Why should we agree with them? What do you assume about the motives of our ancestors leaving a place - do you think they left to improve themselves (a pull factor), or do you think they left because they wanted to get the hell out of there (a push factor)? If they left to get the hell out of there (political, religious, poverty, educational factors perhaps), why should those of us in subsequent generations hark back to the "motherland" and continue to think in the same way as those people who stayed behind because they were happy with the place, too gutless to leave, or part of the oppression? Perhaps you subscribe to the doctrine of blind loyalty to ancestry, maybe even based on some notion of cultural superiority of our assumed ancestral home! Whatever, my lot came here in 1852 and 1860, so why you think we haven't sorted out some things differently in a new land, I don't know. Just my two cents worth of assumptions, you understand. ;) |
John H (8) | ||
| 669994 | 2008-05-19 23:19:00 | John: A reason as to why the Poms left - pushed or jumped? A Pommy mate of mine tells it this way: "When I lived in UK the authorities would put you in gaol for ten years for homosexual acts. Later they reduced it to five years. Shortly before I left for NZ they made homosexual acts between consenting adults legal. I got out before they made it compulsory!" |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 669995 | 2008-05-19 23:27:00 | It comes from trying to sidle into queues. And sidestep the dog-do's. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 669996 | 2008-05-20 00:06:00 | John: A reason as to why the Poms left - pushed or jumped? A Pommy mate of mine tells it this way: "When I lived in UK the authorities would put you in gaol for ten years for homosexual acts. Later they reduced it to five years. Shortly before I left for NZ they made homosexual acts between consenting adults legal. I got out before they made it compulsory!" Oh, you are awful.. |
John H (8) | ||
| 669997 | 2008-05-20 00:09:00 | And sidestep the dog-do's. True; the place is over-fun with horrid yappy little toy dogs that crap everywhere. My wife's cousin had three of the things in a house without a lawn or garden. And when they were taken for a walk, they scared the bejeebers out of the local Muslim chaps, who don't seem to like dogs. As far as I am concerned, the only decent dogs are working dogs - I will never understand the obsession the English seem to have with house pooches. |
John H (8) | ||
| 669998 | 2008-05-20 02:58:00 | True; the place is over-fun with horrid yappy little toy dogs that crap everywhere. My wife's cousin had three of the things in a house without a lawn or garden. And when they were taken for a walk, they scared the bejeebers out of the local Muslim chaps, who don't seem to like dogs. As far as I am concerned, the only decent dogs are working dogs - I will never understand the obsession the English seem to have with house pooches. And we cant understand the obsession of the haka,or rubbing noses. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 669999 | 2008-05-20 03:15:00 | And we cant understand the obsession of the haka,or rubbing noses. Oh well, some immigrants still think they are living in Little England. I understand that many of the latter day migrants came here expecting that they were going to live in "England the way it used to be before they let the blacks and Asians in" and were sorely disappointed to find that Māori are actually a part of the country. Your inadequacies are duly noted Cicero. |
John H (8) | ||
| 670000 | 2008-05-20 06:46:00 | Oh well, some immigrants still think they are living in Little England. I understand that many of the latter day migrants came here expecting that they were going to live in "England the way it used to be before they let the blacks and Asians in" and were sorely disappointed to find that Māori are actually a part of the country. Your inadequacies are duly noted Cicero. As are your PC tendencies. |
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