Why don’t we learn about the Europeans involved in the Atlantic slave trades gains in school?

Portugal, Britain, Spain, France, Netherlands & Denmark

Britain alone for an example.

Provincial banking to fund the slave trade:
To create credit needed for long distance Atlantic slave trade
Barclay’s bank- 4th largest bank in the world
Lloyd’s bank- 35th largest bank in the world

Slave sales:
1580 – 1808
3.3 million in total sold creating £138 million = £18 billion today ALONE

This is just from the sale of slaves alone not including the sale of slave made products and investments of these profits.

Industrial Revolution:
Drive in production of manufactured goods; guns, ammunition to be sold to African merchants in return for captives. Also ship building.
James Watt’s invention of the first efficient steam engine which drove the Industrial Revolution came from investments of slave plantations in Virginia & Jamaica!

Slavery made goods, profits or investments in Britain include;
Rope, glass, lumber, ships, guns, ammunition, metals, textiles, roads, bridges, houses, canals, clothes, fishing nets, coffee filters, tents, cotton gunpowder, cotton paper, bookbinding, maritime undertakings, mining of salt, coal, lime etc.

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

This defines the modern world being born in Britain allowing them to gain the largest empire ever!

Also all the key elements which drove it was all heavily involved in slavery/slave trading eg manufacturing/factories. The cotton mill is regarded as the most important product during the Industrial Revolution and we know where that cotton was coming from. The constant need to find cheaper more efficient ways to produce goods the Africans wanted, to sail to them in ships and to expand their empires drove the revolution.

Industrial revolution was born out of Liverpool & Manchester in the UK.

These English cities were either built by or heavily involved in slave trading and production/investments from slave made good:
Liverpool, Manchester, London, Bristol, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham, Rockdale & Birmingham.

From these cities it included:
Industries/factories (ships, guns, ammunition, metals etc), slave ports, cotton processing, merchants (seamen & slave traders) & textile production (cotton)

Is this love or just simple infatuation?

There’s this girl I know and she’s much nicer to me than I’ve ever had the honor of. As it is so ‘easy’ to me I wonder if it’s a dream or reality, but I’ve already ruled out the ‘dream’ option, so it definitely is real, but now I wonder if she loves me true and true or if it’s infatuation or just dishonest ‘let’s laugh at the nerd’ situation. Here’s some more information.

Me: I am in my late twenties, 29 to be exact and I haven’t had a proper relationship ever. Well, once I did have someone, but she cheated on me and that caused my self-esteem to go down several levels.

She: Mid- to late twenties. She’s nice, caring, sweet, an angel on earth, apparently.

We met on a protest march in Brussels. Suddenly, one of the protesters who left his brain at home decided to throw a bomb-like thing on the ground. It went BOOM really loud, and apparently, it landed right next to me and I was blinded, deafened and stunned me. I say, apparently, because well, I don’t remember much anymore.

Next thing I know this girl helps me to my feet and helps me walk to safer grounds. Didn’t know why since we were from different unions – I am socialist, she is christian. Anyway, she asked me my number so that she could call me just to make sure I was alright.

That was two years ago. In the meantime we got real close. Apparently she is a nurse, because the next time I met her was in hospital – I fell with my bike and broke both my legs. She helped me with learning to walk again – as I didn’t walk in six months I had to be helped taking my first steps again. When I was dismissed from the hospital she helped me around after her hours. Then christmas kicked in and she spent it with me as in her words ‘no-one should be alone on such a special day, certainly not when it’s their birthday’.

Then I had to go to work again – as a postman – and I got attacked by two dogs. Mutts got me pretty good and as she passed by while I was attacked by those dogs, she chased them away and patched me up.

Then some months later I wanted to go on a road trip with my old Volkswagen Transporter bus and she pleaded with me not to go because it’s so dangerous and she’d be worried and all those things but I went anyway, but halfway the thing gave up on me and she arranged a towing service, out of Belgium to the South of France while fetching myself with her own car – apparently she asked her boss that she could leave work immediately without pay because her boy was in trouble.

But it’s not all those big things, it’s also those small things she does; helping in the garden, cleaning my apartment, changing my tyres from my car, driving me to and from work, cooking for me, joining me to the movies she hates,… that make me think that she might really mean well with me. I have troubles trusting girls since my previous girl tore my heart apart. I am wondering, does she love me or is it one of those other reasons ?

benny morris, a zionist historian, says that zionist terrorists used terrorism to steal the land of the pals.?

No More Tears: Benny Morris and the Road Back from Liberal Zionism

Joel Beinin

(Joel Beinin, an editor of this magazine, teaches Middle East history at Stanford University.)

Books Reviewed

Benny Morris, 1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990, second edition, 1994).

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Haganah militiamen expel Palestinian Arabs from Haifa, April 1948. (Agence France Presse)

On July 11, 1948, Aharon Cohen, director of the Arab Affairs Department of the socialist-Zionist Mapam party in Israel, received a carbon copy of a military intelligence report. Israel, a state less than two months old, was embroiled in a war with neighboring Arab states that would last until 1949. The document in Cohen’s hands analyzed the reasons for the flight of 240,000 Palestinian Arabs from areas which had been allocated to the Jewish state by the November 1947 UN partition plan and another 150,000 from the Jerusalem region and areas allocated to the Arab state. Cohen was upset to read the report’s conclusion that 70 percent of these Arabs had fled due to “direct, hostile Jewish operations against Arab settlements” by Zionist militias, or the “effect of our hostile operations on nearby (Arab) settlements.”[1] One month before Cohen received this report, Mapam’s political committee had issued a resolution opposing “the tendency to expel the Arabs from the Jewish state,” in response to Cohen’s warnings that such operations were taking place.

Over the course of Arab-Jewish fighting between 1947 and 1949, well over 700,000 Palestinians were made refugees, the majority of them by direct expulsion or the fear of expulsion or massacre. The largest single expulsion occurred after Israeli conquest of the towns of Lydda and Ramla in the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv corridor during July 9-18, 1948. Some 50,000 Palestinians were driven out of their homes in these towns by Israeli forces whose deputy commander was Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel from 1974-1977 and 1992-1995. Some two dozen massacres of Palestinians were perpetrated by pre-state Zionist militias and Israeli forces, the most infamous of them on April 9-10, 1948, at the village of Deir Yassin.

our first vacation together as a couple: help?!?

Hey guys!

Please please pleaaaase answer my question cause I’m freakin’ out right now!!

So my boyfriend and I we’ve both been working our butt off to afford this fancy vacation together in a couple weeks! We’re college students and I live in France and he lives in America. I reaaaaally like him and vice versa. I’m coming all the way from France to Chicago just to spend time with him and he’s gonna drive around everywhere so I can discover his wonderful country. We’re taking a looong road trip but since it’s going to be our first vacation together I’m afraid some things might go wrong. Nonetheless, I want this vacation to be flawless due to the huge amount of money, time, and energy we’ve both put into this!! Therefore, what would be your advice for us? I’m scared that after a few days we will run out of topics and conversation and such. Advice on stuff to do to get to know each other even better while in the car on the road?!

Last time I saw him was two months ago and we’ve been together ever since (although I’ve known him for several years cause I was a foreign exchange student in the States, nonetheless, at the time we were just friends)

Thanks in advance for your time and your answer! <3

Which would be better for me: counting calories or only eating healthy foods?

I have decided to dramatically change my eating habits for the better for the next few months. My reasons are 1. To create a healthy body to be happier living in for hopefully a very long time, and 2. Superficially, because I want to be skinnier and look better when I go to the beach at Easter.

First, a little about me. I am 14 years old, female, 5’6″ish, around 140 lbs. I work out about 3 or 4 days a week playing soccer, lifting, and conditioning. My health philosophy was always eat when you’re hungry and burn it off later. Recenlty, I have decided this won’t be good enough if i want to look hot in my bikini (vain, yes I know.)

So this is the “diet” I have been working on the last few days:
No drinking calories (i.e. no drinking anything but water, and lots and lots of water)
No meat or cheese (I haven’t eaten meat in 4 months, and the cheese thing is really hard for me. Its more like I’ve been lessening my cheese consumption.)
No snacks between meals (except water)
Eat when I am hungry (I mean honestly hungry becasue my body needs fuel. I don’t eat becasue I’m sad or bored, and I think I can tell the difference)
More vegetables
No packaged foods (mostly)
Nothing obviously unhealthy (i.e. cake, candy, french fries, junk food)
And I do 30 second planks and side planks every day in addition to soccer workouts to make my abs leaner

My question is, do you think all of this is worth it if I don’t count the calories I take in? They are healthy calories in my opinion and I didn’t want to be on a legit “diet” because I don’t think I need to be. I am a growing teenager and I have to factor in the excercizing I do. However, sometimes I worry I’m still eating too much. Like for lunch today, I had some pasta (boiled barilla plus penne noodles with my mom’s homemade sauce: boiled tomatoes, sataued green peppers and onions), an orange, a handful of raw almonds, a banana, some grapes, and about three cups of water.

What do you think about all of this? Count calories or continue what I’m doing? any other suggestions are also very much appreciated! Thank you all so much! <3

Should I call off work, or man up and go? I’m sick?

I’m 18 years old. I work in a cafe as a cashier/barista girl
I feel like crap for the past two days
Terrible cluster headache, nauceous, body pain all around my neck and my face. It hurts SO much to swallow, like SOOOOOO MUCHHHHHH! And it hurts to talk, cough, laugh, etc. I have a fever but it’s only 100.3 right now. Last night I was so nauceous I made myself throw up, but only bile came out because all I consumed to eat in the past 48 hours was some chicken broth and a couple french fries, because I have no appetite and it hurts to swallow.
Right now I feel fine, just my body is in pain, I feel very hot (100.3 fever) and it hurts so bad to swallow. I’m a big baby, I HATE being sick. And I always am sick, I called off work three times last month for being sick. It’s only my 5th week working here and I’ve already called off 3 times due to illness, and my manager sent me home early once for vomiting.
Today when I mentioned being sick, he was like “You have to stay here, no no sweetie I’m sorry if you can’t speak use a pen and paper” (Jokingly, but serious as well)
Today he said “Are you gonna come to work tomorrow?” And I said yes
Because today I functioned well at work, I didn’t stay on the register, focused on other things
But I feel like I’m getting worse. The commute to work is 30 minutes by train and it’s freezing outside.
But I’m probably going to get fired because I’ve taken off so much.
Whats more important, my health, or this job?
I need this job because being a teenager I’m very expensive and my mom just can’t afford me. Clothes, going out, etc. So I help her.
But I feel like crap, seriously.
What should I do?!
I’m taking tylenol and cough medicine. Not working

tell me what you think? this going to be a chapter book i am 14 and im hoping to publish it when its finished?

Basketball 24/7
Eat, play basketball, sleep, repeat
Kara Gogolew
12/27/08

Chapter 1
“Elizabeth, WAKE UP! You have cheer practice today!” My mother screamed up the stairs. I am a normal 13-year-old girl. I am the captain of the cheerleading squad for my junior high. My best friend Grace is also on the cheerleading squad. We attend Michael Jordan Junior High. If your asking yourself why would a junior high be named for Michael Jordan, I will explain that now. My junior high is known for its basketball. The basketball captain this year is also very cute.
I was lying in bed staring at the ceiling while thoughts ran through my head like a cheetah running in a field. It was the first day of winter break and I still had cheer practice! I guess it’s understandable because we can’t look bad cheering on one of the best junior high basketball teams in the country! The one thing that finally got me out of bed was that I remembered that we would be sharing the gym with the boys’ basketball team today.
When I walked down the stairs still waking up along the way, I saw my best friend Grace sitting at my kitchen table eating toast like she hasn’t seen food before in her life. I wouldn’t blame her though, my moms French toast is the best French toast I have ever tasted! “Oh that looks good! Please tell me that there is some for me!” I pleaded my mom with the most angelic look that I could pull off.
“Don’t worry it is on the table next to Grace’s or what was her French toast cut up with syrup just like you like it.” My mom replied with a smile on her face.
“You’re the best mom on the face of the earth! Thanks mom! I was going to announce how hungry I was, but I didn’t believe that it was necessary with me shoving the French toast into my mouth causing a silence besides the frying pan sizzling. I was so caught up talking to my friends (mostly Grace) about how cute Jake was.
“Come on mom! We don’t want to be later to cheer practice!” Truthfully I was very excited to see Jake. I had to devise a plan first of course!
“Okay! Is there some boy you want to see or something?” My mom seemed convinced that I was acting like a love struck teenager lately.
“No mom we have been over this about one million times.” I lied with a huge grin on my face. When I secretly was keeping my crush on Jake from her. It wasn’t that hard to do either.
“Okay, go start the car and I will be out in a minute.” My mom seemed convinced that I was not a “love struck teenager”.
“Yay! Thanks mom! C’mon Grace I have a plan to tell you!” That last sentence made Grace’s ears perk. When I said the word “plan” she knew it had something to do with Jake. Grace knew that if they would be getting anywhere near Jake that means his best friend Anthony would probably be there too! Grace secretly thought that Anthony was super cute, but she was way to shy to admit it. So once I said the word “plan” Grace eagerly flew out the door after me.

Chapter 2
I climbed into the drivers seat just to start the car then hoped over to the passenger seat and unlocked the door for Grace. Her eyes were wide open and she was staring at me intently. I could tell that she was awaiting the plan I told her about inside. “Okay before I tell you the plan I need to ask you one question” I was very curious because I noticed she was acting the same exact way I was when ever the subject of Anthony came up.
“Sure Liz what’s on your mind? Besides Jake of course!” She caught me red handed. That was exactly what I was going to say! Grace knew me way to well!
“Ha Ha! You’re a smart one! Okay so I have noticed that you have been acting kind of weird whenever Anthony’s name comes up. Is that blush I see already?’ I teased her. At that moment I knew exactly what was going on in her head.
“Okay! He’s really cute and funny and perfect.” She said in the most day dreamy voice I have ever heard.
“Then I think we can work him into our plan too. I am always here for you Grace.”
“Oh my gosh! Really? You’re the best Liz!” She exclaimed happily.
“Your probably going to laugh at this, but my plan is to hang back after practice because basketball has practice for an hour longer then us. I can tell my mom that we want to stay after and practice. Then we can go up to them and hopefully work our magic.” Deep down inside I was pleading to god that this plan would work. All I would have to do is talk to Jake for maybe ten minutes and set up some time when we can hang out. Maybe he will even ask me to the dance coming up! If my plan goes right Grace will get some quality time with Anthony also.
“I actually like the sound of this plan! It’s unbelievable that Anthony might finally know how I feel about him.” Grace proclaimed in an incredibly excited voice
“Shoot! My mom is coming! We will talk more once we get to school. Follow my lead when I bring up picking us up an hour later.” I said.
“Okay sounds perfect!” Grace said in a whisper so my mom wouldn’t over hear our secret co
just so you know it is supposed to sound like a 13 year old wrote it because she is the narrator
the narrator is a 13 year old girl so i can’t use really advanced literature because it would sound confusing coming from a 13 year olds mouth. The simile thoughts were running through my head like a cheetah running through a field describes how fast thoughts were going through her head

My husband doesn’t like to kiss. What to do?

My husband and I have been together for 6 years, married for one and a half years and we have a one year old little girl. Anyway he’s never been the kissing type. He always used to say it was because he smoked and I didn’t and he didn’t want to offend me. That’s fine, I hate cigarette smoke. So, it’s always been pecks throughout our whole relationship. He quit smoking, for a month now, and he still doesn’t ever like to kiss. He makes up some excuse like he ate a burrito or something. I mean, we ate the meal together, I ate one too. When we have sex, I try to get him to kiss me deeply, like a french kiss and he kind of does but he won’t just let go and kiss me the way I want to. He says if he did it all the time, it wouldn’t be special. This is very frustrating to me. It’s not that big of a deal and I know we’re not teenagers who make out but we are still young, he’s 23 and I’m 29. He’ll have sex at any time but never kiss. What is the deal here and how should I deal with it? Have any other people had this problem with their spouse?

Getting into the Fashion Industry?

Is it hard to get into the Fashion Industry,

am i being unrealistic..i’m an average girl living on a small island in the UK. I have big ambitions and i’ve got good style and ideas… but what qualifications do i have to have… i’m 15 and i’m thinking of going to university after i finish school..for my A-levels ive chosen English, Textiles, Media, French… i quite like to work for a fashion magazine or maybe even a fashion designer.

career advice?? want high school internship for journalism or fashion?

im entering high school with the dreams and hopes of entering the fashion industry and journalism. ie. fashion magazine or just fashion. I like big brands such as Chanel, LV, Chloe, Manalo Blahniks,Dolce…..etc……I’m looking for an internship.
I have always dreamed of going to Fashion Week in Paris. I studied French for 3 years so im quite fluent. I study hard and if you know any where i can apply for an internship please reply.

good names for a fashion magazine?

im doing a high end fashion magazine/vanity fair style for my coursework and i need a sophiscated and stylish name such as mode, allure, vogue etc. French and elegant would be best but whatever you can think of! thank you x

Name for a fashion magazine?

I am making a fashion magazine/book to be printed professionally for a photography course final piece, i was thinking something elegant sounding like ‘Verlan’ ‘cos of its french connotations of mixing things up, OR ‘Renegade’ ‘cos it sounds rather cool?

Any other suggestions that sound wicked would be great thanks

Who do you think Adam Lambert is refering to in his song ‘If I had You’?

Or is it about no one in particular? Any thoughts? Just curious…

lyrics:
So I got my boots on.
Got the right ‘mount of leather
And I’m doing me up with a black color liner
And I’m working my strut, But I know it don’t matter
All we need in this world is some love.

There’s a thin line
Tween the dark side and the light side
Baby tonight
It’s a strugle, gotta rumble
Trying to find it

Chorus
But if I had you
That would be the only thing I would ever need
Yeah if I had you
Then money, fame, and fortune never could complete
If I had you
Life would be a party, it’d be like ecstasy
If I had you
you(x5)
If I had you

From New York to LA
Getting high, rock n’ rollin’
Get a room, trash it up
’til it’s 10 in the morning
Girls in stripper heals
Boys rolling in Maseraties
What they need in this world is love

It’s a fair line between the a wild time
And a flat line, baby tonight
It’s a struggle, gotta rumble
Tryin’ to find it

Chorus

The flaching of lights
It might feel so good
But I’ve got you stuck on my mind
Yeah
The Fashion and the stage
It might get me high
But it dont mean a thing tonight

do you like my blog? Please only read if you are prepared to give sensible feedback?

Saturday was a special night. No pun intended. The specials were back for a 30 year anniversery tour. My dear sister got tickets and the 5 of us jumped in my mates dads mini bus and headed up to Newcastle. It was a strange group. Myself. My sister Joanna. My sisters ex husband Rob (current husband when the tickets were purchased late last year) my other sister Lucy and my girlfriend Susan.

I sat at the back of the bus with Susan, who is a very shy girl with low confidence. This would be the first time she was to socialise with my loud sisters who are even louder when together. I wondered what Susan thought of Jo and Lucy as they drunk Vodka like it was going out of fashion. Meanwhile Rob was sat alone to my left. He and Jo are obviously still on good terms, but i was concerned that he had lost so much weight in recent months and I wondered if he was still on the depression pills as he guzzled away cans of beer himself laughing a little too much at Jo’s jokes.

I’m happy to say that when we arrived we were all in a jolly mood laughing and joking while freezing in the queue without a single jacket between us. Me Jo and Susan were sporting the full rude boy/girl outfit and we all had proper Dr Martins boots on to complete the look.

Just before they took stage we all squeezed right to the front and I was pretty nervous as the lights dimmed. Sure enough the crowd went completley mental as the curtain dropped! ‘Do the dog’ was the opener. it was mayhem. we were getting crushed and pushed and covered in pints of christ knows what. I was trying to be protective over Susan. I don’t think she had any idea of just how insane it was going to be. Big skinheaded blokes jumping into us and each other like wild gorillas! I was delighted to see Susan was giving it as good as she took it. She was pushing people over from behind and seemed to be enjoying the madness!

after a few songs we took a few steps back to cool down. we watched the remainder of the gig away from the mosh pit and had a few drinks while dancing at our own pace.

The final song was ‘your wondering’. Beautiful. you would need to hear the lyrics to understand why Rob was standing there with helpless tears running down his face. There was indeed a chance that this could be the last night out with the love of his life and the words in the song had a major impact on his drunken emotions. That’s what i love about music though. It can sometimes connect to you so hard that it explains to you exactly what you are thinking, and then makes you realise that you are not the only one.

All in all and amazing gig. and a really special night.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. Please let me know if you enjoyed it or where you think I need to improve in my blogging skills.

thanks

Some Advice For An Artist Who Wants To Shock The World?

Hi guys, I’m sixteen (seventeen this year), and I live in Wales, UK, and am currently attending college doing 5 A levels. From the age of about 4 my passion in life is art. It’s what I’ve always done and I can see it leading me through my entire life. It was mainly inspired by grandfather who is both a successful artist ( see www.anartfulroger.com) and writer and is in the process of publishing his first novel. All my life I have aspired to do something big. I am highly competitive, and although I don’t like showing it, I am not afraid to be proud of my accomplishments. I also love creative writing and it is another passion of mine as well as music. I never leave the house without my iPod and I am obsessed with artists such as David Bowie, Snow Patrol, Razorlight, Florence and The Machine, La Roux and of course Lady GaGa (who doesn’t love her?). I want to do something big. I want to incorporate my writing, art and music into a Creative Monster. So, art, painting, sculpting, sketching, contemporary, traditional, impressionism, cubism – you name it I love it. I’m an artistic sponge – I soak up everything and I give birth to something of my own creation. I also love fashion, not the high street kind, but the SHOCKING fashion that is totally extreme and unwearable. ok, writing, which I think is my easiest and raw talent. I can write about almost anything – about love, hate, sex, horror, childhood experiences, fiction, fact. Music, ok, I cant play any instrument so this is probably my weakest point. although i think i am a respectable singer. I am in a band at the moment and we have just written and completed a song called ‘Crows’. I am the main lyric writer and I think this is a strong point of mine. so there you go – now the problem is i am receiving a lot of rejection, and I wouldn’t mind getting rejected in some areas but recently its in all of them – art, i’m being told that i’m too narrow minded, when actually i’m the complete opposite as i’ve described. writing, my last couple of assignments are just having bad criticism. music, my voice has been struggling recently and i’ve been told that its not on top form. this is all really affecting me. i’m not feeling myself recently, and i don’t feel myself like i’ve burnt out or something, and i be creative recently. i know i’m a good artist in all areas and i just want people to appreciate my talent.

I want to shock the world just please, can you give me some advice, please,

thank you

Name of song/artist who sings techno-dance song, “Dance!”?

While my main love comes from classic blues-rock, this one song is driving me meshuggener!eheh I believe I heard it on a t.v. commercial, and it must be from the ’90s or ’00s. The singer sounds black, and I believe the only lyric is his shouting the word, “Dance!” It’s repeated over and over in an echo fashion. It has a groovy pulsating beat. I know it’s been featured in many shows and films, I simply can’t place the name or artist of the song. Thanks. -D

What is the difference between Ford loans and FAFSA?

I know they are both federal loans but what makes them different? I have already applied and recieved acceptance for my fafsa but will I get more money if I apply for a Ford Loan?
Also will the ford loan be more expensive than FAFSA?

How long does it take for the school to recieve the FAFSA application?

I filled out a FAFSA around two weeks ago and I listed the school I plan on attending. I checked my account for that school and it says “You do not have a current financial aid application on file.” and I have been frequently checking my email for messages from them. I’m just wondering approximately how long does it usually take for schools to recieve your FAFSA.
I’m currently a high school senior planning on attending in the fall 2011 semester

How will getting a new car affect my FAFSA school aid?

My family is considering getting a new car, and was planning to buy one under my name to help raise my credit score. I was wondering if this would affect my chances of receiving government aid from FAFSA?

How does FAFSA figure the financial aid you should receive?

I just completed my FAFSA. I’ve lived on my own for two years but I still need my parents tax information, which I think is ridiculous. Does anybody know how they figure what you are able to receive in financial aid?
Well, I’ve already done all this. I’ve done my parents tax information, and mine. I just don’t understand how they assume that if you’re under 25, you still need your parents tax information.

What does this mean? Dream or real?

I’m not sure if this was a dream but please bear with me!

Last night I was woken up at about 2.30 by people talking, it sounded like they were outside at the back, either next door or over the back of the houses in the road backing on to our one (my room is the back room).

There were 2 women and maybe 2 men, but definetley 1 man, they were all British. They were talking about going on holiday to France and having to get up at 4 o clock and driving on the M25 motorway to the train station! But before that, the man asked if they were in Liverpool or Brighton!

I looked out my window and after about half a minute one of the women said Hello to me! It was almost surreal!

Was it a dream or real? If a dream please tell me what it means!!

Cheers

the car u drive look at urs!!?

Alfa
Passionate and romantic, you fancy yourself. A bit unreliable, and can be eccentric too. You hate BMW drivers, but think and act just like them.

Audi
You would like to believe you are part of the new generation that is caring, environmentally conscious and family-orientated. Actually quite boring; nothing more than a glorified wuss. Will one day probably drive a Merc, but you still sometimes wonder if you shouldn’t have bought that Bee-Em.

BMW
Self-centred, ambitious, dynamic and assertive. Can be a big show-off pig. Likes impressing too. Buppies and kugels past sell-by date. You think you will be CEO one day. Actually an office weenie who thinks you are God’s gift.

Daewoo
Faceless, subservient and demure (except for Matiz drivers). To you, a good deal is to work from nine to five, get nothing for it, and still say thank you. And then you wonder why you don’t have money for a time after hours.

Ford
You still live in the 70′s, trying to cope with the 90′s (don’t even mention the millennium). A loyal, diligent worker, but baffled by office politics and labour policies. Next car will probably also be a Ford.

Holden
You are the ultimate on-road idiot. You think your 80s model Commodore is a V8 supercar, OR you think by owning a Barina you’re a true Holden fan. You’re either a redneck or a way-too-standard family parent – but either way, you most likely drive like you’re the only person on the road. You’re even ignorant enough to argue that the new Commodore is better than the new Ford.

Honda
You aspire to drive a BMW. You are an opinionated pain-in-the-butt. The ultimate suffragette, or the boss’s girlfriend (male or female!).

Isuzu
You like the smell of diesel and have secret fantasy of being a truck driver.

Hyundai /Kia
Quite progressive, intelligent and practical. But misguided. The kind of person who will suggest a sub-committee to find solutions to what the committee couldn’t. You will always maintain that a Korean car is better than any Japanese model.

Jeep
You would like to believe you are living the American dream and just love the great outdoors. The closest you get to it is by watching Days of Our Lives and the Adventure Channel.

Land Rover
You are a designer person with a designer life, who always pays too much for everything. Designer mud comes free with the badge. You’re a closet colonial racist and have fantasies about the Queen. If you have a Freelander, it was probably a break-up gift from your ex.

Mazda
A Ford driver with less money. Mostly staid boring with no image and less imagination. Lots of retired people drive Mazdas. You’re in the way and should get off the road.

Mercedes-Benz
Responsible, immaculate and conservative. Boring CEO clones with too much money, or the office super-geek who can’t remember what it’s like to have fun. Definitely not dating material.

Nissan
Good, solid, responsible, loyal office-fodder. You like to travel and maintain that you can sell ice to the Eskimos. Favourite answer: “It’s a company car.”

Mitsubishi
Not as label-conscious as your Land Rover counterpart, but still suckered into believing in the ultimate Paris-to-Dakar, African adventure. You drive through puddles to create your own designer mud. You believe you’ve made the grade, but everyone else knows you’ve got a long way to go.

Peugeot
Thinks France is the best country in the world and bores everybody with your limited French knowledge and tales of the Louvre and the Sourbonne.

Porsche
Small dick or mid-life crisis.

Renault
An eccentric who likes doing things the wrong way around. Usually the one who asks all the silly questions at staff meetings. You fervently believe you have flair, but it’s less than that of a French cookbook. Most probably gay.

Ssangyong
A make-believe fool, because you’d like a Pajero but can’t afford it. Don’t actually know that the engines are made in India and not in Germany.

Toyota
Although there are thousands of them, you mostly can’t spot them in their zero-image cars. Toyotas are good, reliable cars and are bought by a wide variety of people who have zero personality to go with their cars and are basically chicken-shit scared people who will never take chances and will therefore be driving Toyotas forever.
The most zero-image car in the world?, … a white Corolla

Volkswagen
Highly overrated for dependability cars since the days of the Beetle, but they do have a good re-sale value. Usually practical, sensible people who like to drive fast where nobody can see them. They are usually loyal to their brand to the point of irritation due to the fact that they lost their virginity on a Beetle’s back seat.

Volvo
As square and safe as the car

the car u drive… look to see urs!?

Alfa
Passionate and romantic, you fancy yourself. A bit unreliable, and can be eccentric too. You hate BMW drivers, but think and act just like them.

Audi
You would like to believe you are part of the new generation that is caring, environmentally conscious and family-orientated. Actually quite boring; nothing more than a glorified wuss. Will one day probably drive a Merc, but you still sometimes wonder if you shouldn’t have bought that Bee-Em.

BMW
Self-centred, ambitious, dynamic and assertive. Can be a big show-off pig. Likes impressing too. Buppies and kugels past sell-by date. You think you will be CEO one day. Actually an office weenie who thinks you are God’s gift.

Daewoo
Faceless, subservient and demure (except for Matiz drivers). To you, a good deal is to work from nine to five, get nothing for it, and still say thank you. And then you wonder why you don’t have money for a time after hours.

Ford
You still live in the 70′s, trying to cope with the 90′s (don’t even mention the millennium). A loyal, diligent worker, but baffled by office politics and labour policies. Next car will probably also be a Ford.

Holden
You are the ultimate on-road idiot. You think your 80s model Commodore is a V8 supercar, OR you think by owning a Barina you’re a true Holden fan. You’re either a redneck or a way-too-standard family parent – but either way, you most likely drive like you’re the only person on the road. You’re even ignorant enough to argue that the new Commodore is better than the new Ford.

Honda
You aspire to drive a BMW. You are an opinionated pain-in-the-butt. The ultimate suffragette, or the boss’s girlfriend (male or female!).

Isuzu
You like the smell of diesel and have secret fantasy of being a truck driver.

Hyundai /Kia
Quite progressive, intelligent and practical. But misguided. The kind of person who will suggest a sub-committee to find solutions to what the committee couldn’t. You will always maintain that a Korean car is better than any Japanese model.

Jeep
You would like to believe you are living the American dream and just love the great outdoors. The closest you get to it is by watching Days of Our Lives and the Adventure Channel.

Land Rover
You are a designer person with a designer life, who always pays too much for everything. Designer mud comes free with the badge. You’re a closet colonial racist and have fantasies about the Queen. If you have a Freelander, it was probably a break-up gift from your ex.

Mazda
A Ford driver with less money. Mostly staid boring with no image and less imagination. Lots of retired people drive Mazdas. You’re in the way and should get off the road.

Mercedes-Benz
Responsible, immaculate and conservative. Boring CEO clones with too much money, or the office super-geek who can’t remember what it’s like to have fun. Definitely not dating material.

Nissan
Good, solid, responsible, loyal office-fodder. You like to travel and maintain that you can sell ice to the Eskimos. Favourite answer: “It’s a company car.”

Mitsubishi
Not as label-conscious as your Land Rover counterpart, but still suckered into believing in the ultimate Paris-to-Dakar, African adventure. You drive through puddles to create your own designer mud. You believe you’ve made the grade, but everyone else knows you’ve got a long way to go.

Peugeot
Thinks France is the best country in the world and bores everybody with your limited French knowledge and tales of the Louvre and the Sourbonne.

Porsche
Small dick or mid-life crisis.

Renault
An eccentric who likes doing things the wrong way around. Usually the one who asks all the silly questions at staff meetings. You fervently believe you have flair, but it’s less than that of a French cookbook. Most probably gay.

Ssangyong
A make-believe fool, because you’d like a Pajero but can’t afford it. Don’t actually know that the engines are made in India and not in Germany.

Toyota
Although there are thousands of them, you mostly can’t spot them in their zero-image cars. Toyotas are good, reliable cars and are bought by a wide variety of people who have zero personality to go with their cars and are basically chicken-shit scared people who will never take chances and will therefore be driving Toyotas forever.
The most zero-image car in the world?, … a white Corolla

Volkswagen
Highly overrated for dependability cars since the days of the Beetle, but they do have a good re-sale value. Usually practical, sensible people who like to drive fast where nobody can see them. They are usually loyal to their brand to the point of irritation due to the fact that they lost their virginity on a Beetle’s back seat.

Volvo
As square and safe as the car

What are our Chances in Court re a recently purchased car?

We bought a 2.5 year old Ford C Max for nearly £9,000 from a large car supermarket in the South East at the beginning of September. The following week we took the car to the south of France for our holidays. We then discovered a rather scary problem with the car, after driving for some time at speed the engine cut out as we slowed down for a peage of or a line of slow traffic. The car then had difficulty in starting again. This happened three times on the way down (one in fast lane of the A6). The car finally died near Salon du Provence where we had to be towed off the motorway. It was taken to a Ford garage who could find nothing wrong. We contacted the car dealer immediately explaining the problem and saying we did not feel the car was safe and therefor were rejecting it. We could not leave the car in France but we had a similar problem on the way home. Finally the car died on a slip road coming off M20 and had to be towed home. The garage took the car back and have run tests, including a drive around the M25 and say they can find nothing wrong so they won’t give us our money back or exchange it. Our argument is that this actually makes the car even more unsafe because there clearly is a fault and its not our problem if they can’t find out what it is and it cant be fixed so the car remains dangerous to drive on motorways. So our only course of action would seem to be the courts. Any views on what else we might do and what our chances of success might be?

Would football (soccer) benefit from making goals easier to score?

This could minimize the number games that are won only by penalty kicks, or also decrease the chance that a game needs to go into overtime. Look how many World Cup games were determined by a foul in the box or a shoot-out, e.g. Argentina vs. Germany, France vs. Portugal. Maybe tampering with the rules too much would be bad, but more goals might be good.

…or is this just a question from a dumb American who’s influenced by a country that doesn’t understand football?

Has euro-latins (french, Italians, etc.) shame of own cultures, imiting anglo-american way of life?

Europeans with culture much different of anglo-americans (Canadians, Aussies, zealander too) as frenchs, spanyards, Greeks, etc., imitates Football, Baseball, Rock Roll, Pop, Golf, cowboy (e.g. Italian westerns), Cheerleader, Halloween, Anglo urbanization (drive-in, drive-thru, etc.), etc.

In movies of Spain, France, Italy, etc., people of these places seem Americanized.

I’m sick of America. Should I move to France?

I am an American. I’ve never been to France or anywhere in Europe. But I hate my life here. I hate my job. My last relationship with a woman was nice but then ended horribly. I don’t have any good friends, really. If I hear Pink’s “Glitter in the Air” song one more time, I think I will lose my mind for sure. Shouldn’t there be a law about how many times they can play a song? I hate TV. I hate football, baseball, basketball, hockey. So I am thinking about selling everything I own and buying a one-way ticket France, and living there for the rest of my life. I have a feeling that things may be very different in France. I think I will find a better sort of person there, not so, not so…not so American! So, should I go? Who can give me any reason to stay in this country? I would move to Mexico, but I don’t think they really have a government–just drug gangs.

Who are international football’s world superpowers?

Brazil (5-time World Champions, qualified for every World Cup since it’s inception)?

Italy (4-time and current World Champions, appeared at every World Cup bar two, have one of the world’s strongest leagues)?

Germany (3-time World Champions, 3-time European Champions, every World Cup they have been eligible for, only failed at the first hurdle on one occasion (1938))?

Argentina (2-time World Champions, 14-time South American Champions, qualified for the last 10 World Cups)?

France (Former World Champions, 2-time European Champions)?

England (Former World Champions, strong league)?

Spain (2-time European Champions, qualified for the last 9 World Cups, strong league)?

I would also include the smaller nations of Portugal and the Netherlands as football powerhouses?

Potential superpowers

Uruguay (won the same Argentina, 2 World Cups and 14 Copa Americas)

USA (dramatic rise in the popularity of ‘soccer’ in a nation of over 300 million, qualified for every World Cup since 1990)

Mexico (football by far the most popular sport in a country of 111 million, 14 World Cup appearances)

Nigeria (one of Africa’s strongest ever sides, football the most popular in a country containing over 150 million people)

Possibly Russia as well (although they will not be gracing us with their presence this year)

anything to add?

how many proffesional divisions of rugby in France and how many pro teams?

Will Whales beat France at Rugby tomorrow?

I am an American in the UK. I love watching Rugby Union and have been watching the World Series in New Zealand. Will Whales beat France? And will NZ beat South Africa?

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European Rugby: Why France and Italy?

Apart from the UK (where the game originated) the only two European countries with a significant international presence are France and Italy. It’s easy to understand why the game grew in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa etc.

I was wondering why the game developed in France and Italy. Any ideas?

Have you been to Eiffel Tower in Paris?

It was awesome the view of Paris from the top. The wind… and reminiscing on movies like A View To A Kill and National Lampoon’s European Vacation.

POLL: French Fries or Free Health Care?

Do the French really get angry if you can’t speak French if you’re visiting Paris?

I’ve heard that they get really upset and will be rude to you if you don’t speak it, I honestly can’t speak a word of French without making some major mistakes. If someone came to my country for a vacation I wouldn’t expect them to learn a new language just to visit. I also wouldn’t become angry if people in another country didn’t speak English…I just don’t understand what the big deal is.
tyesa if you knew how to read then you would see that I already said I wouldn’t
I don’t mind learning more French I just don’t understand why some people say they’re hostile towards English speakers….

How can I talk my parents into doing this?

I am in my 2nd year of french- and I really want to take a summer vacation to Paris, but i can’t go by myself. How can I talk my parents into taking a summer vacation to Paris 2011? Thanks!

I need help with a French vacation?

I am 14, and have taken about a year of French. I have been to France a couple times before, and my dad often travels there. We were talking about my parents, my friend and i going this summer.
I want to go to be more surrounded by the language. My dad wants me to be able to spend time with a host family during the day, and be with my parents at night. He also wants it to be a smaller village where I can truly experience the culture. We usually go to Cannes, St. Tropez, or Paris.
Do you have any ideas on how we can truly experience the culture, without having to apply for one of those extensive pre-college summer programs that include housing?
I am open to any suggestions!

What shall we do with Chateau Clegg?

When we finally sort Our Masters out and pack them off to some Victorian prison (renationalised, of course), what should we do with Chateau Clegg?

I did wonder about a university annexe – faculty of modern languages, NO FEES etc, but have you any better ideas? And what about our other exploiters and oppressors noble piles (I meant buildings, not the sort of afflictions they deserve). What do you think?

For reference – see ‘Which way will Nick Clegg turn? – Times Online
25 Apr 2010 … His parents own a 10-bedroom chateau in France and a large ski chalet in the
Swiss Alps. (Clegg himself has a £1.5m home in London and one …’
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Foxy, I appreciate the irony, but what should be done AFTER the movers and shakers of the last 31 years have been sent down for a long stretch? There will be an awful lot of enemy loot for redistribution back into the service of the public good. Buildings that can become NHS rehabilitation centres, university annexes, retired workers’ holiday hotels, etc – and what about the other kinds of recovered loot, from yachts and jewellery to works of art?

Incidentally, it’s nice to see this has got the Misalliance supporters’ knickers in a twist – do any of them have loot of their own that the fact that this has been asked gives them cause to worry about?

Ahmadinejad: Mideast countries will erupt like a volcano . Will we bomb Iran..?

‘Get ready; be prepared, you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them. 8 After many days you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war-EZEKIEL 38

Iranian president says region’s nations will follow Islamic Republic’s lead and ‘stand firm in the face of (Israel’s) murderous operations against oppressed Palestinian people’

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3495521,00.html

France signs nuclear cooperation deals with Arab countries-http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3497885,00.html
BOLTON SAYS ISRAEL MIGHT HAVE TO STRIKE IRAN

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125007

Russian fleet and air force stage biggest naval exercise off France since Soviet era-http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Russian-fleet-and-air-force.3699711.jp

Politics: what tv news channels do you watch? Do you subscribe to any print news magazines or newspapers?

We watch CNN, Al Jazeera, Sky News, CNBC, Euronews, France 24, RT (Russian). We also get Bloomberg, Press TV (Iranian), NHK (Japanese), CNC and CCTV (both Chinese) but don’t them much. We had Fox News but dropped it from our package, we have enough comedy channels already. In the States is CNBC considered “liberal”?

We used to subscribe to Time Magazine, didn’t renew, probably will though. In the States you’re lucky to get some great publications at great prices. Subscriptions here in Ireland aren’t so cheap. Btw, which would be considered more liberal, Time or Newsweek?
No offence but Press TV is not very impartial (who is to an extent?) Al Jazeera is by far more impartial than PTV.
Yeah, The Guardian is a good newspaper. If I buy a hardcopy newspaper it’s either The Guardian or The Independent, both British newspapers but they have a small but loyal following in Ireland plus they’re cheaper than the Irish rags.
The National Review, I signed up for a trial of that a few years ago. Got 5 or 6 free copies I think. It’s conservative and I’m not that way at all but still, it was free : )
Never subscribed to National Geographic but did subscribe a few years ago to their travel magazine, National Geographic Travel I think it was called. Subscribed to Esquire too but not much politics in that, lol.

Why is Europe pressing for no-fly zones over Libya more than anyone else?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12697639

The USA basically said it wants nothing to do with a no-fly zone, a move which shows it is unwilling to get involved in the Libya conflict. But it appears the UK and France really want this to happen. why is this? France have already officially recognised the rebels are the legitimate government of Libya today.