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Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 2nd 2013, 9:24 pm
Replies: 8,893
Views: 556,855
Posted By gradboy

Re: Pet Peeves?

They might be better than politics (though I have my doubts -- look at all the technological stagnation these days).

If you like the higher humanities, you should read some Aristotle-- he ranks...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 2nd 2013, 9:19 pm
Replies: 8,893
Views: 556,855
Posted By gradboy

Re: Pet Peeves?

What -- just because the sciences study old processes, the sciences themselves are older?

And I would never say 'mate', since I'm not English. :sneaky:
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 2nd 2013, 9:12 pm
Replies: 8,893
Views: 556,855
Posted By gradboy

Re: Pet Peeves?

Since politics predates science and engineering I'd have to dispute that...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 2nd 2013, 8:59 pm
Replies: 8,893
Views: 556,855
Posted By gradboy

Re: Pet Peeves?

I think if you can't name the major parties (or Prime Minister) of the only English-speaking country that shares a land border with where you now live, then you're pretty ignorant. I would say the...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 2nd 2013, 8:54 pm
Replies: 8,893
Views: 556,855
Posted By gradboy

Re: Pet Peeves?

Exactly -- just how Americans think about the rest of the world!
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 2nd 2013, 8:45 pm
Replies: 8,893
Views: 556,855
Posted By gradboy

Re: Pet Peeves?

I've noticed this, too: here's my theory. A good many 'Irish' people in the USA didn't come from Ireland themselves -- wasn't the last significant emigration in the 60s? So you are looking at people...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Feb 12th 2012, 2:56 pm
Replies: 8,893
Views: 556,855
Posted By gradboy

Re: Pet Peeves?

Haha I had a similar thing happen to me. In Tennessee I think, I went to a bar where the barman was English. I asked him about it, but I think I asked him to speak again so I wasn't imagining it. He...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Feb 10th 2012, 11:04 pm
Replies: 8,893
Views: 556,855
Posted By gradboy

Re: Pet Peeves?

The fact that they are just being friendly makes it worse though!

It means you can't really tell them to **** off...

gradboy
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