Those progressive Europeans. - Page 3

piece-itpete · #1 12-03-2009, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by merrylander

So to the muslims in Switzerland "Before you see to the speck in thy brother's eye, remove the beam that is in thine."

Heathen!!

I grew up down the street from a church with a large number of (real) bells. To this day I can remember them marking the 1/4, 1/2, and hour with that little tune.

Very pleasant. The day I hear PA speakers squawking out 'uulululululu' is the day I'll...

Do something

. Start a petition drive?

Pete

Fast_Eddie · #2 12-03-2009, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete

The day I hear PA speakers squawking out 'uulululululu' is the day I'll...

They're going to play Yoko Ono?

merrylander · #3 12-02-2009, 07:43 AM

Speaking as an immigrant (it's OK I did it all legally) I do not expect to demand that I be allowed to use the Napoleonic Code as civil law because that was the case in Quebec, or British Criminal Code. I agreed to observe and follow the laws of the land. That, to me, is the way it should be otherwise I should have stayed where I was. Now if that is too much to ask of other people who come here then let them stay out.

We had some serious problems locally in NoVa with Saudi sponsored schools and the crap they were teaching in their schools, it still is not certain the the schoolbooks have been totally cleansed of the hatred they were teaching.

BlueStreak · #4 12-03-2009, 12:37 AM

I used to love hearing the church bells when I was a kid in Ohio. That and the steam whistle that signalled shift changes at the local steel mill. Sadly, most of the bells, and the whistle (Along with the rest of the mill.) fell silent a couple decades ago.

Dave

merrylander · #5 12-03-2009, 07:41 AM

Where I grew up there were four villages divided by the Richelieu River and the CN rail tracks. There was a level crossing in the village next to ours so the engines (steam) would give the four note crossing warning. There was a freight that would go through about 5:00 AM, they said it was responsible for more babies than any natural cause - too early to get up, too late to go back to sleep.

Across the river was a lumber yard, the old fashioned kind where a single donkey engine drove everything with overhead belts - OSHA would have had a fit. But most days you could hear that old donkey engine and how its single cylinder would misfire every twenty seconds or so.

Then there was the old Scot who loved to practice his pipes of an evening, they wafted over the fields. In the late evening as it was time to get home my Mother would call - cell phones? we did not need any stinkin cell phones - ah the sounds of my youth.