It's a line from a Robert Burns poem, also a song. ....To paraphrase, "when a person meets a person coming thjrough the field...
Gin a body meet a body Comin thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body, Need a body cry?
Ilka lassie has her laddie, Nane, they say, ha’e I Yet all the lads they smile on me, When comin' thro' the rye
This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at June 25, 2017 6:51 AM MDT
Oh? Is that so? Wow what a funny old place America has become.. the land of the free, the land of opportunity, where no matter who you are you can get ahead and succeed if only you are willing to work hard... My, my how things seem to have changed.. Personally I think it will be America's undoing.. or the continuation of same...
Fortunately we haven't succumbed to that insular, rather short sighted thinking yet but then again we are in a pretty precarious position ourselves right now thanks to our equivalent of a Prez's bad decision making.. but hey, we might still be ok cos at least she is still sane and CAN string a sentence together without saying very bad 4 times :P
So America is free and a land of opportunity no matter who you are and you can get ahead and succeed by willing to work hard only if you love Liberals and HATE Trump and is on the right track when electing Democrats instead of Republicans? How typically self-serving of you. It still is all those things even when YOU don't agree with its decisions.
This post was edited by O-uknow at June 24, 2017 5:25 PM MDT
resorting to insults again i see.. do try to keep calm.. remember i don't much give a toss if you guys want to continue the decline which has been ongoing for some time, but which it seems has not been noted by some..
I deal with logic.. you really should try not to get so emotional about things.. Yes, by definition.. the extreme reaction of insularisation IS Trump and IS wholly the opposite of the American dream/ideal.
You really must try to stop banging on about liberals and lefties you lot... seriously.. it does you discredit.. and do try to remember that life's about more than the new version of reds under the bed.
I surely do very much despise Trump... for many reasons.. all to do with his actions and words.. but that does not make me a liberal or not a liberal.. honestly guys try to stay reasonable on this and do stop thinking that just calling someone a liberal is a reasonable and reasoning response to a debate.. it isn't and as mentioned, it wholly discredits you.
TO set the record straight.. tho I think i have done so many times before but it seems you either cannot or will not accept it.. I despise Trump.. i am open and honest about that.. but I truly don't give a toss about republican vs democrats...
LOL and my friend I have no idea why you would THINK i in any way took it personally!!! Seriously, I find that bemusing.. you Americans are a funny lot to try to understand sometimes.. I mean that fondly...
Er... unless that jibe was meant to be a bit of an insult? I am asking cos I just cannot fathom why replying with my observations, expressing an opinion which is actually very commonly held somehow means I am taking anything personally?? Truly, trust me.. I've no reason to care about American politics - I am happy to just sit and watch from afar. It's true I don't like Trump and almost never resist the chance to say so.. but beyond that, I assure you and please do remember.. it doesn't affect me personally, any of it and I truly don't give a toss :)
I doubt it. I really really doubt that this simplistic ideology defines one thing.
I think people hate commies, socialists and the like.
I think that Democrats have a much better picture of what terminology actually means than the Tea Party tries to ape. Hating liberals is like hating geeks, chinks, wops and n**gers.
That kind of nutty thinking is the climate of thought amongst the undeducated that Trump loves and encourages so often.
Maybe, but then how do you explain Trump being supported by 43% of college-educated voters? I don't think things are as black and white as you make them out to be.
Oh. I see. That makes you EDUCATED now? You went to some University and got a degree? That is not educated. That is brainwashed. I went to school for the last year for massage therapy. It was a very difficult road. It is all about academics.
We studied Kinesiology, Anatomy, Orthopedic structure, yada yada. There were some amazingly bright people in that school. Until you had a real conversation with them.
They did not know their asses from holes in the ground. They really had zero idea what Trump or Hillary stood for. They knee-jerked comments that their friends told them. They knew zero.
That is the uneducated I am talking about. A degree doesn't mean squat. It means you can read a book and memorize.
I'm hardly what you would call a "naysayer", but a liberal is defined as one open to new behavior and opinions and willing to discard traditional values. It's quite a broad definition.
So broad Stu, that it gets twisted and convoluted to the point that it means very little anymore. To the Tea Party a Liberal is anyone who is not on their side. Period.
: of or constituting a political party advocating or associated with the principles of political liberalism; especially : of or constituting a political party in the United Kingdom associated with ideals of individual especially economic freedom, greater individual participation in government, and constitutional, political, and administrative reforms designed to secure these objectives
The UNITED KINGDOM?????? Okay, I guess. You see, there are so many definitions, it really is obsolete to define something this way.
This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at June 25, 2017 8:42 AM MDT
I know it isn't good. I have been furious so many times, and I get physically ill if I keep that line of thought up. I think the reason anger is so damaging is because it really hurts the person who is angry way more than it does the object of his anger.
If I hate you (I DO NOT OF COURSE) it may make you feel badly or not, but it is nothing compared to what it does to me, the hater.
This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at June 24, 2017 9:35 PM MDT
Trump's supporters don't seem to get it. Trump is unpopular throughout the whole world. Speaking as a Brit, I have never seen this focus on a US President in my country, and internationally, it looks pretty much the same. It is not because he is a right-wing Republican. There have been many Republican presidents, and while people here certainly passed comments on them, they were not subject to the level of negative response that Trump inspires. I had a lot of criticisms of Obama; he reminded me too much of Blair. The thing with Trump is, he is an idiot. He doesn't have a clue. That is why there is so much negativity in response to him. Never has a world leader been less capable of doing the job, and this idiot is in charge of the world's only remaining superpower. It is like giving a small child a box of matches!
JakobA the unAmerican. 