Isn’t booing someone when they are trying to show respect to the departed disrespectful to the departed and them.
In the UK, it is illegal to be homeless. Homlessness can end up with big fines (ha) or even imprissonment. The best thing is that after they have given a criminal record, the record helps prevent the homeless from getting a house!
Yes, I thought it was disrepectful too Technodreamer. The protesters claimed that Bush wasn’t sincere, and it was “just for show.” Even so, MLK was receiving a visit and respect from this country’s President, and so I think it was disrespectful to MLK too.
I only posted the story to show the ongoing protesting that happens everyday in this Country.
Wow, that sounds horrible. It makes me wonder how it ever got that way. Homelessness seems to be a problem in all Countries, and some homeless people actually claim they prefer to be homeless. Some would rather live a life of poverty than be stressed with modern worries.
thinking back to those old kid movies where those dolls who come to life sing “have you ever seen a lassie”…
plaid. lots of it. plaid skirts i mean. i’ve got all of europe besides britain associated with that.
well, when they’re in prison, they have shelter and food… it’s sort of like landing in jail in monopoly when all of the properties have been taken and everywhere you land boom… maybe not. I agree it was disrespectful to MLK to boo at his grave, but it was a novel way to make another insult to bush…
come on lets think of more stereotypes… i’m all out… so little knowledge about foreign countries… hey that means I fit in the “ignorant” stereotype…
how about us finns? well i think finland is so small nation that there ain’t many stereotypes about us, probably just coyntries near us have some… like we have steretypes about swedes, russians etc…
I wouldn’t say it was disrespectful, MLK was strongly against war and Bush obviously isn’t. I could see it being disrespectful if Bush brought peace to even 1 nation, but he didn’t, at that point he was just doing it because A. As the president, he had too. And B. To continue to try to look like the good guy, who is striving for peace. If anything its disrespectful that Bush would lay the wreath at all.
Finland = Snow-covered land peppered with outdoor saunas among the trees, each filled with guys with long black OR white hair (not any other color) and who are drinking beer. There might be some actual houses around the place as well.
Do you say “bloody hell” also?? I get that a lot from Giles in Buffy the vampire slayer. (what can I say my sister watches it so much and I have nothing to do…)
I would like to see some stereotypes about sweden!
I can mention that every home in sweden is solely furnished with IKEA-stuff … it’s fun to take everything apart and build it again, a lego for grown-ups hehe
Americans:
Fat, always having a burger in the hand.
Those who aren’t fat is either living in California or freaks of nature
Religious fanatics, worse than the terrorist-bitches in Afghanistan
Dumb, well most of them are it seems
Obsessed in (of?) money and cars, spending their lives in the chase of higher status
Spitting on homeless people and laughing at them… capitalist pigs haha, long live soviet… err… whatever
always try to stab you with the Mora-knife if you comment their adidas, if they forget the knife at home they’ll drink all of the vodka fast so they can break the glass and stab you…
if you meet a fin who isn’t like this he was probably brought up in sweden
they like to swear too
Dutch’
Potheads
have the ugliest language ever… it sounds like german but the difference is that it’s like they have pubic-hair stuck in their throats… like: their speaking while trying to get the hair out
windmills … like the idea… spitting pubic-hair while smoking pot by a windmill… paradise!!
Africans
have xxx-large schlongs
clicking while talking
voodoo and shit
Arabs
always having the latest fashion and listening to techno
always trying to fool you when you are buying weed
getting really cranky when watching TV and seeing something about the U.S … then they’re talking about how they would like to kill all americans or at least Bush
making pizza…
robbing you on your cellphone / selling you stolen cellphones
English
horrible food… often tastes like wallpaper
hooligans
so dull… raining and the whole lifesituation seems hopeless for them
finnish… hmm actually i don’t know of any finnish stereotype
they talk funny, lol i once had a coworker who was from finland, and when i heard her speak finnish i was like what are you saying??
swedish:
talk funny öhkenöh kehümölm löl
eat knackebröd
all have blond hair and blue eyes
live in a cold country.
everything there is still unspoiled (clean air, rivers etc).
umm…
hmm lol, "thanks’ christo, nice stereotypes about finns
hmm i think we have quite similar stereotypes towards those coyntries that have been mentioned…
but what about swedes , how would i put this nicely, err here is such stereotype that swedish males are litle queerish , well i think that was more in past, or something,
hmm. here indeed is some funny stereotypes between nordic coyntries
but i think that in reality all nordic coyntries are quite similar nowadays, but ofcourse there is some cultural differencies and language here is very different than in other nordic coyntries etc…
hmm we have some stereotypes towards russians, like that they are criminals and untrustfull… probably because some crimes come from east, but there might been some historical aspect also involved in this view
btw sorry if i made some typos/badenglish i just came from bar
You don’t want to visit Texas. I use it only occasionally and no one else around me uses it. Whenever I address my friends, it’s “YOU ALL suck!!”
but I pronounce it kind of quickly so it probably comes out as yuall…
My science teacher mentioned to me today that whenever Germans speak, they sound like they are discussing secret military tactics. It’s true!!!
charlottedreamer, I say y’all all the time, and there is no shame in that for me!
I can never decide to type it as ya’ll or y’all, but both work. I usually never type it in the forums or chat. I’m aware of the stereotype that surrounds it. If you say “ya’ll” in front of some people your IQ in their mind automatically drops 100 points.
When you have grown up with the word, and you learn to depend on it’s use there is no other alternative word for it. Atheist once suggested for me to use “everyone” or “everybody” but that’s too “proper and official.”
‘How is everyone?’ or ‘Is everybody going to the park?’ actually sounds funny in a weird way to me. I guess I enjoy using shorter words with less syllables. They have the same meaning and purpose but with less breath.
‘How are ya’ll?’ and ‘Are ya’ll going to the park?’ actually requires a different use of the verbs “Is” and “are.” (I think they’re verbs.)
From dictionary.com it mentions that “is = Third person singular present” and “are = Second person singular and plural and first and third person plural present”
So I suppose “how are ya’ll?” is actually a more proper term for a group. “How is everyone?” uses a singular verb that seems to contridict the definition of the word “everyone.”
this reminds me of a “The Simpsons” episode I seen tonight. It was a real gut buster funny. Homer had his thumb cut off and the 1 crazy doctor told him he could cut the other one off to make him more symmetrical. Marge and Homer went to see a 2nd doctor but his building was on fire. The foreign doctor is outside yelling to the firefighters “inflammable??? Only in this country does that mean flammable!” so true, the English language is an evolving beast of confusion at times.