Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!Q.T.Honey!enews.sgi.com!news.xtra.co.nz!newsfeed01.tsnz.net!news02.tsnz.net!not-for-mail From: "Adam Whyte-Settlar" Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,soc.culture.scottish,soc.culture.welsh,soc.culture.japan,fj.life.in-japan References: <52210046.0401022313.78f63f4b@posting.google.com> <3ff6911a$0$9393$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com> <3ff6bd80@news.greennet.net> Subject: Re: Why do British hate american culture? Lines: 42 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: <68SJb.15716$ws.1711625@news02.tsnz.net> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 23:46:59 +1300 NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.114.153.200 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tsnz.net X-Trace: news02.tsnz.net 1073213058 203.114.153.200 (Sun, 04 Jan 2004 23:44:18 NZDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 23:44:18 NZDT Organization: TelstraClear Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:9639 "Michael Cash" wrote in message news:of7fvv0th3jj0upsth8evfkcf8o6vsr9t9@4ax.com... > On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 10:02:45 +1300, "Adam Whyte-Settlar" > brought down from the Mount tablets > inscribed: > > > > >"Duke of URL" wrote in message > >news:vvdmkdhhaqn053@corp.supernews.com... > >> Envy - they still long for the days when Britain was really important > >> and had an Empire. It aggravates them that we have the freedom, > >> prosperity and living conditions they don't. > > > >I don't think there is much of a gap re 'living conditions' these days, but > >your much vaunted 'freedom' is largely illusary. > >You are perfectly free to do and think exactly what your government allows. > >Not that the UK is all that much better but it *is* better. > >A W-S > >PS - did you know it is illegal for a woman in Texas to own more than five > >vibrators for example? > >What's all that about? > > Illegal to sell them in Alabama at all. Ah! I was meaning to ask about that - I take it that law was indeed passed then? I heard about it's progress a few years ago but it was being challenged by various groups at the time. I thought it rather ironic that the people pressing for them to be made illegal called themselves ' The People's Council For Civil Liberties' or something like that. IIRC several other states were also going the same way? A W-S