Comments on: Dying, Dying, Est Mort

By: Rueful Red

Rueful Red — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:18:50 +0000

Well, we tried to get it all going again in Yugoslavia and then you guys butted in and stopped us. Multilateralism stinks.

By: ninme

ninme — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:36:17 +0000

I was listening the other week to an In Our Time (it’s a Radio 4 show that podcasts and I’m WAY behind) about why China’s all The Sh*ts 500 years ago and then suddenly just wasn’t, and they were talking about how China invented gunpowder but used it for fireworks and ooh, pretty things! while the Europeans got ahold of it and cackled “Ah hah I can use this to kill people!” and why that is, and they were basically like, well, China was unified, but Europe wasn’t, so there was a lot of competition driving that. See? Competition. They’ve forgotten about that in the past 60 years, but soon enough I’m sure they’ll rediscover it. And if it’s in my lifetime then maybe I’ll be able to live through a proper war. Ah, the Europeans are killing each other again! Hurrah! Something we can sink our teeth into!

By: HalfEmpty

HalfEmpty — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:10:06 +0000

I'll never bet against Europe dreaming up some new way to kill jillions of everyone. They're just in a lull. I mean hell it's like part of our White Heritage thing.

Like Bruce Lee is cool, but ever wonder about what Martial art is named for?

Did you know that many Europeans were involved in developing the atom bomb? Niels Bore for example, an angry Danish Man. Oppenhemimer sounds foreign but he was a near legit American.

Did you you know that Eurpoeans invented the 30 Years War? That's right, previous to that conflict all fighting was limited to 3 months plus or minus 5 hectares. It was a huge advance in killin folks.

Of course after the 30 Years War Europe kinda sucked in it's breath waiting for the 7 Years War of Good Manners. After than, things went right to hell.

In order it was the War of Jenkins Austrian Succession, 1st Coalition, 2nd Coalition, The Empire Strikes Back, Another Empire Strikes Back, Communards, Communes, Sedan, Coupes, Remembers The Maines, Lights Going Out, Peach in Our Time and the Hinderburg. BOOM! We win and here we is.

By: ninme

ninme — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:33:59 +0000

Yeah, but I think checking that box you get a car with an Algerian flag stuck to the bumper. Fine for the car, but I don’t look very Algerian.

Gerry thinks that the signs of life are just a few final jerks from a dying corpse. Isn’t that from a movie? “Hey I’m okay again!” croaks

By: Brett_McS

Brett_McS — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:24:38 +0000

Just make sure you tick the box against flambe d'automobile on the car rental insurance form.

By: Brett_McS

Brett_McS — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:19:20 +0000

It’s not what happened in the past that saps people’s energy, it’s what they see looking to the future. Germany and Japan picked themselves up from the floor (with help from America) after being on the worst end of unimaginable violence. If the people in Europe can see a prospect of a better future they will re-energise. Are we seeing some signs of that in France? I hope so.

By: HalfEmpty

HalfEmpty — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:00:44 +0000

It was a century in which unimaginable violence sapped the regenerative energies of a wearied people; in which the seductive falsehoods of twin totalitarian ideologies undermined moral self-confidence; in which a flaccid relativism replaced the firm ethical boundaries of religious belief.

I blame BRM and Auto Union.