tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post6973369273884384225..comments2023-04-23T13:10:44.188+09:00Comments on this is how she fight start: The Importance of Contextkamohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-17195131902335945282012-01-22T18:41:51.163+09:002012-01-22T18:41:51.163+09:00Now you see, this is another one of those misconce...Now you see, this is another one of those misconceptions stemming from a distorted frame of reference.<br /><br />It's not warm, it's room temperature. I can see how an Aussie such as yourself would get confused, what with living in a country located 3/4 of a mile from the surface of the sun, but believe me when I say that in England 'room temperature' and 'warm' really aren't synonymous...kamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-83784300019800386482012-01-22T17:34:36.339+09:002012-01-22T17:34:36.339+09:00how about warm beer? that should be without contro...how about warm beer? that should be without controversy says the convict from the penal colony. ^^<br /><br />on a more serious note, this post has some interesting facts to give some needed perspective. i never really thought about it sliced and diced like that.reesanhttp://www.loneleeplanet.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-89036678085318788202011-12-06T21:07:16.704+09:002011-12-06T21:07:16.704+09:00Hmmm, much as I usually enjoy and endorse tangents...Hmmm, much as I usually enjoy and endorse tangents, I suspect this thread has got derailed somewhat. Japan has an unrealistic complex about its size, people! It all started so well...<br /><br />Welcome to the new guys though. Your comments are genuinely appreciated, regardless of tangents. I might give us all a more appropriate playground for bashing the Mother Country in the near future.<br /><br />Just to round out the total diversion of these comments, Ant, chrome's giving me a malware warning about your site, just so you know. spacingtoronto(dot)ca's a wrong 'un, apparently.kamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-27473553501017244572011-12-06T19:43:06.139+09:002011-12-06T19:43:06.139+09:00I am trying hard to think up good things England h...I am trying hard to think up good things England has given us, but with even scones being controversial, I am kind of lost.F.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01203418068958646089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-74680947929708638642011-12-06T17:27:28.645+09:002011-12-06T17:27:28.645+09:00Anonymous, Japanese talk trash about Nagoya.
True...Anonymous, Japanese talk trash about Nagoya.<br /><br />True about country size. My native Canada is HUGE... except almost nothing's in most of it but trees or tundra. Populated Canada is linear: 100km either side of a crooked line from Victoria to Halifax includes 90% of us (and we still can't get one decent rail line).Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-59793780458363703252011-12-05T18:16:10.892+09:002011-12-05T18:16:10.892+09:00Scone's from England? Even that's not with...Scone's from England? Even that's not without controversy - <br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_of_Sconekamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-66991208206126403332011-12-05T09:52:26.531+09:002011-12-05T09:52:26.531+09:00Don't forget scones. They are good and come f...Don't forget scones. They are good and come from England. If I had to pick between scones or Shakespeare, I'd totally pick scones. <br /><br />And Japan should stop being sooky little bitches about being a small country. At least they don't have a whooping great useless desert in the middle of it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-70051274895094271722011-12-04T18:45:43.886+09:002011-12-04T18:45:43.886+09:00Three men walk into a bar...
http://www.youtube.c...Three men walk into a bar...<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdaXxMfjxIkamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-55879953173274512102011-12-04T14:54:45.689+09:002011-12-04T14:54:45.689+09:00An American and a Canadian post on a Brit's bl...An American and a Canadian post on a Brit's blog (got that right?)...<br /><br />Someone needs to do something with that.Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-36619691461575013592011-12-04T09:43:20.428+09:002011-12-04T09:43:20.428+09:00"English persons membership card"
My pa..."English persons membership card"<br /><br />My passport, you mean?<br /><br />You didn't like the biting satire of 'asking nicely' then? Let's try this then. As Ant alluded to, those 'spoils of war' include, ultimately, the rise of English as the dominant global language. So yes, countless millions needlessly suffered under the jackboot of imperial oppression, but at least we got our jobs out if it, eh?kamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-28957173101260893332011-12-03T21:46:34.486+09:002011-12-03T21:46:34.486+09:00No no no....stand where you were. Don't clarif...No no no....stand where you were. Don't clarify or otherwise dampen a well put comment on the spoils of war or what gets them...the spoils I mean.<br /><br />Oh fukit!! Gimmie your "English persons membership card" you lost it forever!!!! You have been reported to her majesties.. people.. who um... take care of the folks like you.Chrishttp://badboyinjapan.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-86595174628997787932011-12-03T18:34:31.595+09:002011-12-03T18:34:31.595+09:00"Symmetry and all." Hey, I can barely or..."Symmetry and all." Hey, I can barely organize coffee some mornings.<br /><br />There's something about the English language for certain. My theory is that because it's so easy to sound like an ass in it, you cannot hide poor ideas behind rhetoric (although plenty of modern hucksters do). When I've read German philosophy, French dramas or Italian poetry in translation I often come to the same conclusion: what's the big deal? Philistinism alert: Kant, Molière and Dante took in a lot of their countrymen with rhetoric, not content.<br /><br />If you write a good poem in a Romance language: yawn. If you're Milton or Auden doing it in English: I am not worthy.Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-28188686468122413492011-12-03T11:43:41.109+09:002011-12-03T11:43:41.109+09:00Thank you both.
Without wishing to seem ungratef...Thank you both. <br /><br />Without wishing to seem ungrateful though, I do wish Ant could have waited one minute more before posting his comment. Symmetry and all.<br /><br />There's been a lot of good and valuable things to have come out of England. Any country which can produce Shakespeare, Newton, and Darwin must have something going for it. But at the same time it's pointless to pretend we amassed an empire covering a quarter of the globe simply by asking nicely.<br /><br />"I say Old Bean, would you mind awfully if we subjugated you for a few generations? No? Splendid! Tiffin for all!"kamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-60272418486761369732011-12-02T15:20:11.003+09:002011-12-02T15:20:11.003+09:00"when we owe most of whatever clout we have l..."when we owe most of whatever clout we have left on the world stage to a couple of centuries of royally fucking over anywhere inhabited by people with darker skin than us, simply because we could."<br /><br />One of the most honest assessments of England I have ever read.<br /><br />I resubmit "Brilliant"!!Chrishttp://badboyinjapan.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-596203844533164378.post-304727108891081462011-12-02T11:01:40.153+09:002011-12-02T11:01:40.153+09:00Brilliant!Brilliant!Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.com