tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post2845390031271095631..comments2023-04-23T13:10:44.188+09:00Comments on this is how she fight start: Tae Think Againkamohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-12217018095502030462014-10-12T14:29:49.499+09:002014-10-12T14:29:49.499+09:00Gonna be interesting to see how the kids' alle...Gonna be interesting to see how the kids' allegiances play out as they grow up, that's for sure. It's not like UK teams are usually good enough to be nailed on favourites, so the 'glory supporter' route isn't really going to be an option.kamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-81916270141921401242014-10-12T14:27:19.062+09:002014-10-12T14:27:19.062+09:00Absolutely no apology necessary. Always gratifying...Absolutely no apology necessary. Always gratifying when a post prompts an interesting response that actually makes me more informed about the world. So wry sarcasm aside, genuine thanks for that, Should have thrown in a smiley or something in that first response, probably ;)kamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-10172487912923435882014-10-08T15:55:04.295+09:002014-10-08T15:55:04.295+09:00If by "pithy" you mean "short,"...If by "pithy" you mean "short," then yes. Rather devoid of meaning though. The World Cup at our house was bizarre, since everyone's cheering order is all mixed up. The kids pulled for the US at the Olympics tho, even if I didn't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-76187746327015505722014-10-02T21:33:10.587+09:002014-10-02T21:33:10.587+09:00I apologize for the length, again. Less grandstan...I apologize for the length, again. Less grandstanding than being careful to be precise, though I could have done it better: separatism is as much political as ethnological, Scotland as much as Quebec. And we should be overjoyed when the process is achieved without arms, whatever the outcome.Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-13118251365427197572014-10-02T21:31:02.123+09:002014-10-02T21:31:02.123+09:00Everyone cheers for the other team when playing Am...Everyone cheers for the other team when playing America, except two-hundred-odd million.Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-11206030521402772542014-10-01T16:40:06.248+09:002014-10-01T16:40:06.248+09:00And likewise, always slightly annoying when a comm...And likewise, always slightly annoying when a comment is pithier and more concise than the original post as well. I think we all know by now that anyone coming to this blog looking for depth and intelligence will go away sorely disappointed ;)kamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-10094572879944848472014-10-01T16:38:01.387+09:002014-10-01T16:38:01.387+09:00I'm always both gratified and slightly annoyed...I'm always both gratified and slightly annoyed when a comment is almost as long and definitely better informed than the original post. Quebec got invoked a fair few times in the course of this, so this was all genuinely informative. Thank you. <br /><br />That feeling of wanting to run away is a knotty one, isn't it? Yet another layer of things complicating by being an ex-pat (or not, as the case may be ;) And that's not meant to be pejorative, either. Sometimes the best you can do in a bad situation is to put as much distance between it and you as possible. I don't think I'm quite in that position yet with the UK, but I can sympathise with the instinct.kamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-17167311393743095312014-10-01T13:34:56.821+09:002014-10-01T13:34:56.821+09:00What does it mean that I cheer for the Japanese na...What does it mean that I cheer for the Japanese national teams in most sports and don't care much about America? I have no desire to be a Japanese citizen.<br /><br />Nothing deep or intelligent to say here. Sorry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-13294269565000369592014-09-26T10:31:53.797+09:002014-09-26T10:31:53.797+09:00I've had thoughts on this, though my UK citize...I've had thoughts on this, though my UK citizenship is much attenuated by my lapsed passport, and it due to a father who's not lived there for fifty years, who's no longer alive, and who'd gone as far as he could to lose his West-Yorkshire accent and attitudes (not nearly far enough, but 'You can always tell a Yorkshireman; you just can't tell them much.'). Only been to the place twice, at six and twenty-seven years of age, and for whole weeks at a time. Never to Scotland, whatever 'Scotland' means: the lowland Scots who came from the North of England, or the Highlanders cleared out to the ends of the Empire, including my end, centuries back.<br /><br />I look at this as a Canadian: we have Québec. Let me tell you an apocryphal tale.<br /><br />There's an international conference on multi-lingual countries, including Canada, Belgium, Rwanda, etc. The Canadian delegate has his turn at the stand, and drones on about Québec's two referenda, the absurd 'Loi 101' sign-law, and constitutional wrangling between Ottawa and the provinces. The Rwandan delegate interjects to say that he doesn't understand the problem. However, the Canadian delegate insists that much harm was done to inter-provincial relations, there was political deadlock, etc. The Rwandan delegate speaks up again to say, "Look! There were only two paths in your situation and ours. We took the other one..."<br /><br />The UK and Canada can be proud of that, or relieved. The other parallel is that the instinct of many to separate in both 'nations' is not only nationalist but sociopolitical. Neo-Conservatives dominate the debate in both your house and mine, and a pox upon them all. Québec, as Scotland, has a far more left-voting public than the balance of the rest of their countries. Québec's been able to achieve more social justice than Scotland by 'playing chicken' with Confederation; Scotland cannot lose by playing the same game with the Union, and good on them.<br /><br />Not having been to Scotland, but having endured the separatists while living in Montréal for five years, it seems Scotland's separatism is less ethno-linguistic, and more socio-political, than Québec's. I'd vote to go with Scotland and leave Westminster Conservatives and the lot who vote for them behind. But even as an Anglophone in Québec I wanted to feel as if I could run away from Canada with Québec.Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.com