Ker-slack

From: dode <dode(pee)@tystie.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Feb 20, 2002

The noise the swing doors in alt.slack make as I run off for my
holiday or vacation as you funny american folks insist on calling
it. As a edge-of-european I'd just like to nod in the general
directrion of my 35 days vacation a year, plus an additioanl 5
extra this year due to extra-slack carry over ffrom last year. We
work less hours, are less efficient, we get more holidays, and
further toward the heart of the ebast we even get annual riots dn
sheep burings.

communist scum?

I do hope so.

See those that I read in three and a bit weeks.

--
doh'd
change the pee to p for email.
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From: rlan538885@aol.comnobozos (RLan538885)

> As a edge-of-european I'd just like to nod in the general
>directrion of my 35 days vacation a year, plus an additioanl 5
>extra this year due to extra-slack carry over ffrom last year.

Yeah, but we rule the world. Just ask us.

"100,000 lemmings can't be wrong"
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From: "Alliekatt" <alleykatzen@hotmail.com>

"dode" <dode(pee)@tystie.com> wrote in message
news:1014238183.5134.0.nnrp-08.9e9888c3@news.demon.co.uk...
> As a edge-of-european I'd just like to nod in the general

Do you mean the _real_ edge of Europe?

When I was in Ireland I was floored at the fact that the white collar
workday started somewhere around 11 AM and ended around 4 for dinner, then
the pubs started filling by 7. What amazed me further was that regardless
of this, all the buses were on time even when the lorry drivers were on
strike, the shops closed promptly at 5 and everyone except the prods don't
even get home until midnight-thirty after boozing. With schedules like
that, life is a holiday. Except for that they're Irish and therefore must
act like crusty pessimistic begrudging guilt-ridden party wankers with a
sense of humor vinegared by gluttonous irony and a lust for political
intrigue. Even if they're happy in private. But if they see you twice in
the same pub they're sweet on you. Except for that you're British, right?

What I appreciated the most, however, was that the diners in Dublin still
opened at 6 AM for heart attack on a plate, for road workers, prods, and
those of us touristy yanks still used to Minnesota Dairy Farmer morning
schedules.

alliekatt
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From: "Alliekatt" <alleykatzen@hotmail.com>

"Ned Wreck" <NedWreck@usenetserver.com> wrote in message
news:NnZc8.1534$08.97810@e3500-atl1.usenetserver.com...
> > except the prods don't
>
> Do you mean "plod'? aka "the filth"?
> I assume you're referring to the police.
> I was just curious.
>
> Ned
> hammered, again.

No, those are the gardaí. They usually have nothing to do but corner a
singing drunk with 5 squad cars and a paddywagon.

---begin tangential rant here---

I meant protestants. Usually a bit more liberal and pleasant in the
Republic of IRL than they are here in the US, (especially the southern US),
though still teetotalers with starched undies. The wackyprods here are Bob
Jones University types, they're as kill-catholic-psycho as the
anti-provisionals are kill-the-brits-psycho, who never heard the words "good
friday". Bob Jones U funnels American money to that insane hate freak Ian
Paisley.

They're all idiots, what can I say. Yanks should keep their gun money the
hell out of Ireland, and let Bob Jones University and the pro-IRA gunrunners
try to burn each other on their own ground instead of fighting their hate
war on other soil.

The problem now is, the anti-provisional IRA idiots are getting all the
anti-terrorism attention, and even-uglier idiots like Paisley and the UDA
are getting buttloads more hate support for their sanctioned terrorism,
marching their little asses off as the Brits mewl and puke over 9-11,
setting Sinn Féin over the hot seat.

Both sides are enough to make me sick. This is why I dance around my little
bel-fire on May 1. Piss on St Patrick and bring back the druids. His only
purpose is to make me shitloads of money playing music on one weekend out of
the year, for a bunch of stupid yank-wankers drinking green beer. Here's to
St Patrick, fuck him. Here's to Martin Luther and the Queen, fuck them both
harder. Here's to Connie, who can fuck them all for not being able to take
a joke.

And I still love the fuckin' place. Go figure.

---end rant---

alliekatt

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