"Stop whining". This one is annoying above all because it has spread out of the usual suspect circle. In two words it's "what you think a protest is in fact a weakness, and you should be ahsamed".
It's not so much an admonition than a message : "real men tough it out, stop protesting". A motto for sheeps. Icky.
Apart of that a few other ones. The facts will be "cold and hard", the dollars "hard earned", and after being shown silly, someone, surely, "was just trolling".
There are lots of other, they think in snippets. Had thought at one point of starting an Online Conservative's Dictionary, Bierce forgive.
#138 MD² :
The answer was the one you gave to the american student, about the "principled no-Marseillaise".
About the other european countries : seen from there, we are already a tad high on the flag-o-meter. Sing Marseillaise a lot (in the ritualised occurrences : political reunions, strikes, etc), and that military parade, for example.
Catchy tune, though.
#133 yabonn :
Gah. Should have refreshed that thread before posting.
At least you can compare and contrast now, Xopher :)
#34 Xopher :
"Why would it be unpatriotic (or whatever) to sing the Marseillaise?"
Embarrassing, more than unpatriotic. A short and dirty explanation would be that it's a national pride to consider oneself, as French, above all this, but :
- it is (arguably) self defeating
- it is not true enough anyways
- most of the rest of Europe does it better
There are places, times and rituals for that kind of things (footbal games, that 14th of july weird military parade) ; school is definitely not one of these.
I think that explain MD²'s silence, and his answer.
"cultural relativism, so early!"
Well I suppose it was all the rage at the time. Montesquieu, Voltaire, all that.
Also : "Quand lama faché, lui toujours faire ainsi"
I couldn't tell exactly, but I guessed who wrote the original.
The exclamation point at first line put you on the track?
What you have to understand is that they kept pouring my glass brimful of vodka, and correcting me when I tried to sip it slowly.
Ah! The Hammered One's complaint!
"I swear you, my love, it was an ambush".
Must have lost my way in all the saxon. The Ibuprofennea was preventive, then?
If Teresa hasn't mixed too much, i bet on a ridiculously good shape at wake up.
In the meantine, sleep well :)
Weird. I never had a hangover getting drunk on Stolichanya/Moscovskaya.
Someone here has mixed alcohols, i say. Some sulfuric white wine maybe?
Is it me or is there something Puppeteer-ish (in the Pierson kind of way) to the current U.S. administration/policies? Comfy-cushy S.U.V. and painkillers on one side, smart bombs on the other?
... Hoping not to derail this charming, galactic, thread into some Bush love-fest - but that goes without saying.
"Viva la muerte!"
"Abajo la inteligencia!"
- Millan Astray
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