Hurricane Thread

[fro]

Who cares what happens to Southerners?

Southerners?

[Bubba]

It's called a "Sympathy Vote"... they learned the lesson from the Jews who blag on and on about their holocaust, conveniently forgetting the one they imposed on the africans some 40 years earlier with the help of the germans so they could examine their skulls and determine they were an "inferior life form".

Sympathy votes work of the soft headed types of the world, always do.

You are HIGHWAYMAN and I claim my £5.

Oh, and 10 out of 10 for tact, feeling and human compassion right there.

Cheers

Bubba

[BadgerBoy]

Went to NO a few years back and really loved the place, wonderful people and a beautiful city. I am deeply saddened that it has been so badly damaged, even if it was only a matter of time. RIP Old New Orleans

It's called a "Sympathy Vote"... they learned the lesson from the Jews who blag on and on about their holocaust, conveniently forgetting the one they imposed on the africans some 40 years earlier with the help of the germans so they could examine their skulls and determine they were an "inferior life form".

Sympathy votes work of the soft headed types of the world, always do.

Cunt.

[Matrixxx]

I was just looking at BBC news on this, and this



picture reminded me of something.

Why is it that some Americans have this habit of decorating their hurricane/tornado stricken ruins with their flag?

Does the hurricane really care about the nationality?

..or Is American devastation somehow more important than any other country?

..or Do they want to advertise their country as specifically prone to this kind of natural disaster?

I'm not sure I understand.

Nah, it's less about nationalism and more about hope. N'awlins is gone, yet America remains. This too, will pass.

That kinda thing. Listen, these poor sonsabitches lost EVERYTHING. If the stars 'n bars brings them some comfort, then god bless.

And that pile of rubble, Matrix, was somebody's HOUSE yesterday. It's gone now. But you're laughing at the silly Americans clinging to anything that might keep them sane. You're awesome. Fucking prick.

My point was there's no need to stick a flag on it to make it american... we know. Its just as stupid to have a go at people for being "unpatriotic" if they dont stick a ribbon on their door or a flag from their window.

It looks and feels as if its all done for show, I mean, if you lose your house - the first thing you think of is to stick a flag on it, right ? DUH. Id be straight onto the insurance company and the housing help team - fuck the flag !! the flag, its of little or no importance.

If I lose my house in some kid of disaster - the last thing i want to do is obtain the union jack and stick it on top !! I'd be called a ruddy loony !!

Then theres the GOD aspect.. for those who believe in him, it, that, entity.... "In GOD We Trust" yes ? So Americans stomp all over the globe flattening things in the name of democracy, liberation and improvement... then when "GOD" reigns of the American parade, suddenly its "pity us, look at my flag"... well sorry, but no - I might pity the people of africa who live on sand and have to walk 20 miles for a cup of water though. You dont know what tough is. And if you spent any time looking at the suffering in the rest of the world - youd realise all you got was a bloody 2 day nosebleed and not a decade of gangs raping your family and torching your villiage.

There are far worse terrors in the world than high winds, 6ft of water and a week without electricity.

[Matrixxx]

It's called a "Sympathy Vote"... they learned the lesson from the Jews who blag on and on about their holocaust, conveniently forgetting the one they imposed on the africans some 40 years earlier with the help of the germans so they could examine their skulls and determine they were an "inferior life form".

Sympathy votes work of the soft headed types of the world, always do.

You are HIGHWAYMAN and I claim my £5.

Oh, and 10 out of 10 for tact, feeling and human compassion right there.

Cheers

Bubba

Fella, you can have £50... Americans wanting compassion ? HAH - the only think I mourn about New Orleans is the loss to the rather excellent music lifestyle there and the amazing carnivals.

I have no compassion for a country who make it their business to invade other countries "because they can" and on unjustified, unrealised reasons. Note I said "Country" there. Of course i feel for the innocents, Id be stupid not to, but you also cant pretend that theres a lot of Anti-American feeling out in the real world. I have a lot of American friends, but I also have a growing hatred of America.

Maybe my best m8 Sean would still be alive today of it wasnt for Mr Gung-Ho Bush and this thick twat of a PM we have following him in.

Hows that for democracy ?

Democracy sux when its not a 100% takeup. Is it democracy to pass the new Iraqi constitution with only 2 thirds of the vote ? Is that democracy ? or civil war ? Communism worked on paper too...

this may come as a bit of a shock to America, but not everybody wants to be RUN like America. And a lot of cultures take umber to the attempted "change for the better"... and when they resist, theyre terrorists, shoot them... screw their hardline religious beliefs.....

Is this the America you want me to have compassion for ? Just so I have a good handle on it - Thx...

[Matrixxx]

Went to NO a few years back and really loved the place, wonderful people and a beautiful city. I am deeply saddened that it has been so badly damaged, even if it was only a matter of time. RIP Old New Orleans

It's called a "Sympathy Vote"... they learned the lesson from the Jews who blag on and on about their holocaust, conveniently forgetting the one they imposed on the africans some 40 years earlier with the help of the germans so they could examine their skulls and determine they were an "inferior life form".

Sympathy votes work of the soft headed types of the world, always do.

Cunt.

New Orleans isnt GONE - Itll get better dams and Levy's - the same way the Twin towers are replaced by something bigger and better. As humans we rebuild what has been destroyed - and we build it better the 2nd time around.

And what dick wants to live in a basin on the coastline under sea level anyway !! what a stupid idea. Great place, badly designed, in Hurricane alley no less, where they EXPECT huge waves and edy'sthe size of county's.

And ya, im a cunt, im also a realist, not a soft touch. Its like, people move to tornado alley and seem surprised when an F5 ploughs a 5 mile trench through the town. Or people who chose to live on the side of active volcano's.... ACTIVE VOLCANO'S....

Sorry but.... ahh whatever... Stand in the middle of the road and get run down.... yeah, very brainy that eh.... i do it every day, walk to work up the middle of the M1 - very safe.

All eyes to the Pacific now - 2 Super typhoons on the way to china and the philipines.

[Matrixxx]

Ya know what, i just had another thought too.

The Billions, probably TRILLIONS that New Orleans will cost clean up and rebuild - wheres that coming from given that America seems to be putting every spare penny into flattening other countries and then rebuilding them ?

Theres commitment there.

Call me a cold cunt, but I dont think war with Iran or Korea are high on the list anymore. US financial reserves are about as stretched as they can get.

Again, sorry for being a realist and calling it for what it is - but there ya have it. Time to look after home before trying to improve the world some more by flattening it first dont ya think ?

[BadgerBoy]

Ya know what, i just had another thought too.

The Billions, probably TRILLIONS that New Orleans will cost clean up and rebuild - wheres that coming from given that America seems to be putting every spare penny into flattening other countries and then rebuilding them ?

Theres commitment there.

Call me a cold cunt, but I dont think war with Iran or Korea are high on the list anymore. US financial reserves are about as stretched as they can get.

Again, sorry for being a realist and calling it for what it is - but there ya have it. Time to look after home before trying to improve the world some more by flattening it first dont ya think ?

I didn't call you a cunt because you're a realist, I called you a cunt because you don't have the decency and respect for the dead not to blab endlessly about how they had it coming to them, whilst insulting their way, however barmy, of trying to cope with what's happened. Have a little tact ffs.

[Matrixxx]

Tact, WTF is that ?

Was shock and awe tactful ?
Was ignoring the UN's ruling tactful ?
Do people in America mourn when 50 Innocent Iraqi's die in a different country ALMOST EVERY SINGLE DAY ?

Of course not...... More INNOCENT Iraqi's have died since the start of Bush's "vision of Iraq" than EVER under saddam's tyranical leadership, so forgive me for saying "sod tact"... i just say it how i see it. We all have different levels of tact, and different viewpoints, and this board offers us the opportunity to express them. I respect your opinions even if I dont agree with them.

And yes im a callous twat, hell im the first to admit that. Im not going to argue the point, theres no point. But there is it all the same. Not everybody on this planet will do things the same as you at your level of comfort - thats what makes us all unique in our own small way.

So I appologise If i caused you offence... but there is is.

[BadgerBoy]

Tact, WTF is that ?

Was shock and awe tactful ?
Was ignoring the UN's ruling tactful ?
Do people in America mourn when 50 Innocent Iraqi's die in a different country ?

Of course not......

Democracy sux when its not a 100% takeup. Is it democracy to pass the new Iraqi constitution with only 2 thirds of the vote ? Is that democracy ? or civil war ? Communism worked on paper too...

As you say not everybody in the USA voted for Bush, lots didn't, and lots of Americans are still opposed to his regime - including my friends in Louisiana. Why bring Iraq into this? I may not mourn when 50 Iraqis die, but at least I don't go and ridicule the survivours on the internet.

[Rambozo]

Who cares what happens to Southerners?

Southerners?

Yes. I live in the Pacific Northwest of America. Hurricane Katrina is affecting Louisiana and Alabama, which are in the Southern portion of America.

What are you missing?

[PaulEMoz]

Do people in America mourn when 50 Innocent Iraqi's die in a different country ALMOST EVERY SINGLE DAY ?

Of course not......

How do you know that? I presume you aren't in America. A lot of people in the US are against the war, are sad that it is still going on, don't know why it is still going on, and just want it to be over with.

I think you should be directing your hatred at the American government, and possibly at the proportion of the populace that voted them back in, but probably not at the entire nation.

[the2bears]

Who cares what happens to Southerners?

To paraphrase you from another thread... that's in poor taste.

Bill

[the2bears]

Do people in America mourn when 50 Innocent Iraqi's die in a different country ALMOST EVERY SINGLE DAY ?

There are a lot of people here bothered by those deaths.

Bill

[PFVA]

Fella, you can have £50... Americans wanting compassion ? HAH - the only think I mourn about New Orleans is the loss to the rather excellent music lifestyle there and the amazing carnivals.

I have no compassion for a country who make it their business to invade other countries "because they can" and on unjustified, unrealised reasons. Note I said "Country" there. Of course i feel for the innocents, Id be stupid not to, but you also cant pretend that theres a lot of Anti-American feeling out in the real world. I have a lot of American friends, but I also have a growing hatred of America.

Matrix,
It's not about the country, it's not about New Orleans, with or without beautiful Carnivals, it's about people, human beings that need to receive compassion. As a newspaper article said yesterday the U.S. is a country of deep contrasts. The rich evacuated the areas pretty fast, they'll loose some money but they'll be OK, the middle class who could afford last minute tickets totalling at least 3,000.00* also left. Who was left behing were the poor and the low-middle class, and like in the other big cities there's lots of them. Those are the ones now having to be evacuated from the dome.
The rich and the middle class is not who the Red Cross will be helping, those have private insurances, know how to use the FEMA funds, know how to deduct every penney they'll loose in their taxes, etc, etc. It's the poor, the ones who may have a little old house, or rented, who had jobs in the destroyed businesses, and lived from pay check to pay check, those are the ones who depend on charity right now. Yes, the U.S. as a country, the government, the more educated voters are maybe to blame for a nation that lacks so much in social sevices and in anything to support people who really need it but those are not the people left in New Orleans.
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*This country doesn't even a fucking program to evacuate an area in case of emergency for free for the ones who need it. Everybody is left on their own to pay their way out. If something like that would happen to the Bay Area i would have the 3,000 or 5,000 to get myself to my homecountry and go fm there. There is 100s of thousands of Americans who live here who wouldn't even have that option.