THE THREAD!!!

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

See you all in a week my friends! Take care.[:)]

Drive safely dude. Enjoy your trip.

[Chickenboy]

Woot me with a Sunday morning tithe UNP.

[thegreatwent]

Tithe[&o]

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Yava

Hi an Hello.

I see some old faces and some "new" ones. [:D]

Anyways, long time no see.

Hello "Yava"! [:)]

Long time no see... [:(]


Leo "Apollo11"

[USSAmerica]

ORIGINAL: Yava

Hi an Hello.

I see some old faces and some "new" ones. [:D]

Anyways, long time no see.

Hi Yava! Great to see you! I hope everything is well with you. [:)]

[USSAmerica]

Good Sunday morning - Tithe. [&o][&o][&o]

[Yava]

Yup, sadly no time on my side. [:(] I got AE some time ago and I am playing a bit but against AI. 

[Yava]

ORIGINAL: USS America

ORIGINAL: Yava

Hi an Hello.

I see some old faces and some "new" ones. [:D]

Anyways, long time no see.

Hi Yava! Great to see you! I hope everything is well with you. [:)]

Hi Mike. Thanks, indeed it is. How are you? [:)]

[USSAmerica]

Things are great here, Piotr, thanks.  Are you still busy with school?

[Onime No Kyo]

Morning tithe.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Dixie's right.

And not for the first time [:D] Maybe someone should tell Mrs. Dixie that [;)]

Sorry buddy. I'm afraid we dont do miracles.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve




Yeah. In a Huyndai accent down I-80. [:D]

I would advise against that. The local law enforcement authorities might take that in dim light. Unless your Huyndai is souped up with radar absorbing materials, of course. Then youre probably fine. [:D]

I didn't say how fast I was flying. Most Cessna's and Pipers rotate at 75mph. Accents at a considerably lower speed! [:D]

OK so stalling down the I-80. Got it. [:)]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: USS America

You speak of Keanu Reeves but do not mention the Yoda CA beach bum of my generation, Sean Penn! Jeff Spicoli is my hero! [8D]

P.S. Punk kid! [:D]

There are quite a few. I mean, I could have brought Pauly Shore into it too. [:'(]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Mynok

Plus the obligatory nose-picking State Trooper who looks too young to drink. [:'(]

I can live with that. Most of ours look like SS recruiting posters.

[Yava]

ORIGINAL: USS America

Things are great here, Piotr, thanks.  Are you still busy with school?

Yep, writing my MA at the English dept and attending classes at the History dept. A lot of work... a lot... btw. I am collecting resources on Afro Americans in the Navy since it is a very very "forgotten" topic in Poland and I am trying to popularize the knowledge by writing an article for a magazine concerned with navies, sea etc...

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Terminus

What the hell has distance got to do with what I just posted? At 16, you're still in diapers, and shouldn't be behind the wheel.

At 16 , many (I would suggest most) American kids have part time jobs, help out with errands (such as carting their younger siblings around) and in general are on their way to becoming reposible adults. I might also point out that in every state I've been in (only around 42) ANY moving viloation results in the kid having their drivers licence suspended , higher insurance rates for their parents and the hairy eyeball of the justice system focusing on them full force. We've had a tradition in the country of trying ready our children for adult hood before adulthood. This probably dates from before the 2nd World war when so many kids (more than half) came from a rural background, and drove farm machinery , pickup trucks and tractors before 21. It's difficult to give up traditions that were seen as rights because there is no longer a need. Before you laugh , consider this: in how many parts of this country and in fact the world, do children still have the summer off even though they are no longer needed for agricultural purposes. And as a matter of point , a lot of kids graduate from high school at 17 (I did).

When I 1st started visiting Europe , there were many places where there effectively was no minimum drinking age. Even in 1983 in England I was frequently told that 18 was a relatively recent requirement. And today , with 17 being the youngest one can enter the US military (With parental consent and a few additional hoops to jump through).

And about those distance. Many kids do have to drive themselves to consolidated high schools. Buses are not always available. And there's a good rule of thumb, the bigger the distance between cities , the poorer the transportation system). Even large American cities (like for instance Seattle) have extremely poor mass transit systems. At my current abode (DC Metro) I can walk out my front door to jump on the Metro. When I grew up in Maine (in pretty affluent part of the state) I had to drive 120 miles to catch a train.

But I think the biggest reason T is that by 16 our kids don't wear diapers. they usually get rid of them in their 1st year.[:D]

The real answer to your point appears to be to create a working and reliable network of public transportation of buses, commuter rail an high speed rail to get the poor dears to their jobs in peace, instead on taking mom's Taurus and doing doughnuts in the school parking lot.

That wouldnt work, of course, since unlike Euros, we, and our kids, have long a go developed this sense of entitlement which says "why should I share my personal space with a stranger on a subway when I can drive?". Which is why no one ever thought twice about creating a decent network of coast-to-coast public transportation. It would flop.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Terminus




Bah Humbug! When I was a teenager, we WALKED to school every day, uphill BOTH ways, through 20 feet of snow, and if we HAD shoes, we counted ourselves blessed. Kids these days, with their IPhones and their Twitter and their garbage... No respect...[:@]

I Respect you T! (snicker, snicker, guffaw!). [:D] (You young punk! ) [:D]

Hey I grew up in northern New York. I did the same thing[:D]

Uphill.....both ways.....[:)]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Terminus

ORIGINAL: Mynok


I agree, but voting parents in this country would be up in arms if they couldn't avoid bussing their whelps around as soon as possible.

Bah Humbug! When I was a teenager, we WALKED to school every day, uphill BOTH ways, through 20 feet of snow, and if we HAD shoes, we counted ourselves blessed. Kids these days, with their IPhones and their Twitter and their garbage... No respect...[:@]

Ah, we used to DREAM of having garbage...[:'(]

We lived in a box on the side of the motorway......20 of us...........

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

Thank you brother Onime! [;)]


We went for a 1 day vacation on Saturday to near by (60 km) thermal resort (lots of indoor swimming pools)... [:)]

BTW, I am proud to announce that I can still hold my breath to swim under water (without jumping - starting in water in the swimming pool) the full length (25 meters) of 1/2 size Olympic swimming pool! [:)]


Leo "Apollo11"

So what youre saying is that me smoking is a bad idea? [&:]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

See you all in a week my friends! Take care.[:)]

Have a safe drive/flight. [:)]