Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!news.tutrp.tut.ac.jp!news.cc.tut.ac.jp!nfeed.gw.nagoya-u.ac.jp!news-sv.sinet!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail From: Brett Robson Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,soc.culture.british,soc.culture.scottish,soc.culture.china,fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Why do chinks hate japs and not brits? Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:34:43 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <68Jmd.5558$b73.1229@trndny04> <419b7d39.3387691@news> <7FSmd.7467$063.2146@trndny03> <419cb1a2.1640719@news> <419d744c.51475297@news> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-216-000-091.engineering.gol.ad.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1100853283 4412 203.216.0.91 (19 Nov 2004 08:34:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:34:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5 X-Accept-Language: en In-Reply-To: Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:22189 Adam Whyte-Settlar wrote: > "Michil=EDn" wrote in message > news:419d744c.51475297@news... >=20 >=20 >>(Freddie - You're really dumb! I have a surprise for you - don't you >>see that I am a Scottish man?) >> >>=A1Yanquis! =BFPor qu=E9 yo me escojo siempre contestarles a los idiota= s? >> >>(Old Gaelic proverb) >> >>Michil=EDn >=20 >=20 > A bit on topic for the thread I'm afraid but just thought I'd relate th= e > following. > Today - about four hours ago in fact - I was having a beer with; a Germ= an > guy (my client), a Japanese guy who is also currently working for him, = a > Dutch visitor and a Maori neighbour. > It actually did cross one's mind that at some time that in the not too > distant past the British had been at war with all of these people's par= ents > or ancestors. > However, I then recalled that we had always won, so - thinks I ; **** = the > lot of them! > A W-S Won against the Maori? You need to check your history.