h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Someone's been playing with Linda.

Linda?

Yikes button.

Yay for freedom of speech.

H.

Well, it was to be expected wasn't it? Not that I aggree.

It also deleted the title. Surely they could've left that.

Whaddya think this is then - A democracy?



(At least it lasted three hours before someone pulled it)

why was it pulled in the first place a valid point was made

Poodle food

I'm guessing on the grounds that the implication that someone is looking forward to the next batch of dead yanks is offensive to living ones, but as I say, that's just a guess.

"a valid point was made"

Personally I like to think that *another* valid point was made when some whinging, whining, GOP-backing knuckle-dragger complained about having their delicate sensibilities offended by what I wrote and got it censored.

Unfortunately the defence of "fair comment" cuts no ice on this site. If someone's offended - no matter whether that offence is reasonable, no matter whether what offends them is simple reality - then that's grounds for censorship. Them's the rules. Like I said, I like to think my point about American isolationist idiocy is strengthened by what just happened. Big thanks to whoever complained - you just proved me right, again!

H.

Note to Self: It's against the house rules to call 51% of the population of the United States of America ******* and inform them that their actions have almost certainly cost the lives of many of their countrymen (oh! and many foreigners - but I guess that wouldn't matter as much).

Of course it is. We wouldn't want to *offend* the poor darlings, would we? Especially as they're the ones with all the bombs and tanks and guns.

H.

morning all...

tell me how you would feel if the "next September 11th" event occurred in England.

alec.

exactly the way i would feel if it happened in america




IT WAS AN OUTRAGE

so either way i would feel the same

unless they attacked a smackhead centery thing

"tell me how you would feel if the "next September 11th" event occurred in England."

We'd take a leaf out of the GWB book of diplomacy (possibly the one about goats) and invade someone, anyone... I reckon Rockall would be a good place to start. We could bomb the **** out of the birds!

How would I feel after a 9/11 style attack on the UK? Simple: mad as hell, and in a lot of directions.

1. Mad as hell at Bush for having provoked it.
2. Mad as hell at the majority of the aforementioned moronic GOP knuckle-draggers who are responsible, individually, for the fact that there's still a draft-dodging war criminal with his finger on the button.
3. Mad as hell at Blair, rather specifically, for being so in thrall to the White House at the cost of the UK's security.
4. Mad as hell at the perpetrators, obviously, and just as likely mad as hell at the Muslim community that (inevitably) harboured and educated them.

I'd be madder at Blair than the perpetrators because they, by definition, are superstitious cretins, whereas he is *supposed* to be a rational national leader. And I'd be madder at the Yanks and at Bush because although it would be, in a very real sense, their FAULT, there's nothing, not a damn thing, that I as a UK citizen could have done about it short of emigrating to the US, getting citizenship and voting Gore or Kerry, which you'll excuse me if I think is a little over the top.

I for one would be fascinated to see what effect a 9/11 style attack on, say, Canary Wharf, the Swiss Re Tower and the Houses of Parliament would have on, say, the subsequent electoral success of the BNP. Let's just say that in the weeks following any such event I'd really, really hate to be a British Muslim (or Hindu or Sikh, for that matter...).

H.

hell imagine all the mosques being destroyed and sh*t because of patriotic assbuttocks


i do think its quite amazing that when september 11 happened all the british nat froers started against all the muslims in britain some of which are lapsed any how instead of joining the army and doin the same thing legally

just to double check bush won again? im at work and aint seen no tv or nowt so were all pretty much in the dark

No - at the time of writing, Bush has not "won again".

The question should be "Has Bush won an election for the first time?", given that last time he won a *court case*. And so far everything appears to rest on the provisional ballots in Ohio, which won't be counted for another week and a half. It's possible that these will be rendered irrelevant by other results though, but at this moment it's impossible to say for sure.

H.

ok i refrase won again for won

better??

When I switched on the news earlier today I thought about starting a conversation "How can americans be so stupid" but then realised that seemingly, the majority just are. The fact that they appear to have voted that lunatic in again beggars belief. What makes me so angry is the impact that the moron has on the rest of us. If it was just the good 'ol US of A that were likely to be at the receiving end of reprisals for their crap policies I wouldn't be so concerned, after all you reap what you sow, but instead we will all suffer. Looking forward to another 9/11? No, but I think it is highly likely.