Bad American

[Frink]

Hate to say it, but the greatest generation was the one BEFORE yours.

[DollyDiaper]

Monty Python's Flying Circus -

"Four Yorkshiremen"

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The Scene:

Four well-dressed men are sitting together at a vacation resort.

'Farewell to Thee' is played in the background on Hawaiian guitar.

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1st YORKSHIREMAN:

Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto.

2nd YORKSHIREMAN:

Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Josiah?

3rd YORKSHIREMAN:

You're right there, Obadiah.

4th YORKSHIREMAN:

Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?

1st YORKSHIREMAN:

In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

2nd YORKSHIREMAN:

A cup o' cold tea.

4th YORKSHIREMAN:

Without milk or sugar.

3rd YORKSHIREMAN:

Or tea.

1st YORKSHIREMAN:

In a cracked cup, an' all.

4th YORKSHIREMAN:

Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.

2nd YORKSHIREMAN:

The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.

3rd YORKSHIREMAN:

But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.

1st YORKSHIREMAN:

Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son".

4th YORKSHIREMAN:

Aye, 'e was right.

1st YORKSHIREMAN:

Aye, 'e was.

4th YORKSHIREMAN:

I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.

2nd YORKSHIREMAN:

House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.

3rd YORKSHIREMAN:

Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!

1st YORKSHIREMAN:

Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.

4th YORKSHIREMAN:

Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.

2nd YORKSHIREMAN:

We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.

3rd YORKSHIREMAN:

You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.

1st YORKSHIREMAN:

Cardboard box?

3rd YORKSHIREMAN:

Aye.

1st YORKSHIREMAN:

You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

2nd YORKSHIREMAN:

Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

3rd YORKSHIREMAN:

Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.

4th YORKSHIREMAN:

Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

1st YORKSHIREMAN:

And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

ALL:

They won't!

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D lly

[Sunshine2585]

That was really funny Dolly.

[redneck diaper boy]

I agree. My parents had to deal with World War 2!

Some years ago, I found my parents war ration books. It was not a good time.

The positive note was that everyone came together and got the job done. President Roosevelt detained and wire-tapped any and all enemy combatents. They younger generation has forgotten it!

My generation had some rough times too. In the early 1960's I remember the school bomb drills and marching to a fallout shelter. I remember getting out of school early when President Kennedy was shot.

For me it was the best and worst of times!

Hate to say it, but the greatest generation was the one BEFORE yours.

[Valentine]

I remember walking to school and back in the snow, 5 miles, barefoot, uphill both ways.

[DollyDiaper]

I remember walking to school and back in the snow, 5 miles, barefoot, uphill both ways.

D lly

[diaperwerx]

From another site...

"There are four boxes available to citizens to protect their liberty -- the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box, which should be employed in that order."

-dw

[wetvinyl]

I remember walking to school and back in the snow, 5 miles, barefoot, uphill both ways.

And we wore onions on our belts, because it was the STYLE at the TIME, and we LIKED it that way!

wv

[Frink]

'course, we didn't call 'em onions, back then. Called 'em French Haberdasheries, because that was the style at the time.

[baby-dandan]

I agree with just about everything Pampersboy had to say! Let me tell you what I think NAACP stands for (and this is not racist because they get to say whatever the hell they want!) "Niggers Are Always Crying Prejudice!" In some movies I've seen, one said; "I see white people, all the time." Another said "I play for the Cucamunga Cracker Killers!" Now imagine if a white person had said that! I almost want to make a movie strictly bashing blacks. With their wellfair they buy cars, steroes, and fancy clothes instead of the necessities they should be buying! They (as in black people) want 1 million dollars to leave the country. Why the fuck should we give them that kind of money!

Now beallucanb, Bush did win that ellection. Those democratic bastards tried to claim that Bush never served in the military. Unlike that dumbass draft dodging hore-screwing clinton (his name doesn't even deserve to be capitalized). He went to Canada instead of serving the country he messed up, if that jerk-off had done his job we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now.

As for illegals coming into our country, we shouldn't give them a damn dime unless they get their work visa or citizenship if they want to stay here. On the issue of border control, we should check everyone that comes in and prosecute those who come in illegally. If we let every damn person that comes across that border in without any background check we'd probably get attacked again. I know that they caught terrorists trying to sneek across the Canadian border.

Well, I've said enough for now. This stuff really pisses me off! I guess it's not too bad that I rant on like this. It's actually therapeutic!

[PamperBoy]

I agree with just about everything Pampersboy had to say! Let me tell you what I think NAACP stands for (and this is not racist because they get to say whatever the hell they want!) "Niggers Are Always Crying Prejudice!" In some movies I've seen, one said; "I see white people, all the time." Another said "I play for the Cucamunga Cracker Killers!" Now imagine if a white person had said that! I almost want to make a movie strictly bashing blacks. With their wellfair they buy cars, steroes, and fancy clothes instead of the necessities they should be buying! They (as in black people) want 1 million dollars to leave the country. Why the fuck should we give them that kind of money!

Now beallucanb, Bush did win that ellection. Those democratic bastards tried to claim that Bush never served in the military. Unlike that dumbass draft dodging hore-screwing clinton (his name doesn't even deserve to be capitalized). He went to Canada instead of serving the country he messed up, if that jerk-off had done his job we wouldn't be in the mess we are in now.

As for illegals coming into our country, we shouldn't give them a damn dime unless they get their work visa or citizenship if they want to stay here. On the issue of border control, we should check everyone that comes in and prosecute those who come in illegally. If we let every damn person that comes across that border in without any background check we'd probably get attacked again. I know that they caught terrorists trying to sneek across the Canadian border.

Well, I've said enough for now. This stuff really pisses me off! I guess it's not too bad that I rant on like this. It's actually therapeutic!

Besides Wetvinl, everyone else only had a problem with a small handfull of things from a large list, so I guess that makes them "Sad Americans" too

[diaperdanger]

"I've got rice cooking in the microwave. I've got a three day beard and don't plan to shave and it's a....goofy thing but I just gotta say hey...I'm a doing alright. I think I'll make me some home-made soup, feeling pretty good and that's the truth. It's neither drink nor drug induced, no I'm just a doing alright. And it's a Great Day to be alive I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes. There's some hard times in the neighborhood but why can't everyday be just as good???"

Travis Tritt

[Toddler_BobbyP]

PamperBoy: If you didn't write your opening rant, then it would have been in your best interest to say so. Personally, I prefer people who speak their own minds...not CTRL-C-CTRL-V types. I think you do in fact have a mind...let's hear you talk instead of someone talking in your stead...that makes a lot of differnce.

Personally...I have watched American culture decay dramatically over the last 30 years. I watched my government go from "We The People" to "We The Corporations"...from pacifist to warrior, be it military or general public; I am now seeing the fruits of foreign contempt against the US because like the Catholic church of old, we marched into foreign lands preaching the gospel of Prosperity, Justice and Freedom...and we enslaved them all, raping them of their natural resources and forcing them to make our clothing, AA batteries, cars, etc., which ironically they may never be able to afford for themselves to enjoy as well, while we take their fruits and toss them in the gutter with high treason. The people we tried to spread our ideologies to have become victims of our greed and indifference, and many times they have paid dearly for it in instances such as the cyanide gas cloud from the Union Carbide company in Bhopal, India in 1986 which killed 1,600 Hindus.

I hate to admit it, but America is not hated unjustly...

[diaperwerx]

So many stories...so much propaganda. And you're right on Bobby, we (the CIA) trained the leaders of the organization(s) that attacked us. Yes, we did. And we also put Saddam in power. We knew that Osama was going to be a problem in the 80s....and if you don't believe me check the New York Times archives....should be a real eye opener to many...at least it was to me.

That's it....i could rant on..but please check out the back issues of the New York Times and just search for the terrorist leaders names....it's really spooky.