Oh it gets worse than that: when Windsor Castle was damaged by fire, the Royal Family launched a public appeal to get funds to repair it. Fucking bastards.
I sit corrected, jjimm, although I still contend that the OUTSIDE flower beds were not The Nasty Yanks.
This does sound too weird, though, that the helos and the Secret Service would deliberately ruin prize roses. Are there any pictures, any collaboration outside a couple of left-wing tabloids?
Here’s an aerial shot of BP. The flowerbeds are in the back gardens and are private. Unless her Maj is complaining about the ones on the other side of the roundabout that were probably squashed by protesters.
But yeah, I don’t doubt that the tabloids are at best exaggerating.
Another questions for the pilots among us: Wouldn’t an experienced pilot know how to land without damaging an aging tree? Is that routine in helicopter landings? Are the helos the Royal Family uses much smaller?
The SS have been notified.
nitpick Reagan was here aswell. Went to see where his family came from. He was shot at as well so the point remains.
Mullinator All US presidents be they Rep or Dem have been welcomed in Ireland. Ireland feels a very close connection with the States and is very pro-US. Clinton loves it over here. He’s bought 2 houses on or around golf courses IIRC. He was majorly involved in the peace process and seemed to really give a shit about Ireland.
Bush would be dodging protests over here. Yes he would have lots of people who were happy to meet him but nothing like all who came before. This isn’t a anti-US thing it’s a anti Bush/Admin thing.
He put me in this place. “If you’re not with us, you’re against us” Well I and a shit lot of people aren’t with you Georgey boy.
I’ve seen it.
I meant all US presidents that have come here naturally.
I meant give a speech in College Green - unless Reagan did too? I admit I wasn’t clear.
Mehitabel, I was wrong about second the picture I posted - that is indeed taken from the rose gardens that surround the Victoria Monument in front of Buck P.
Thanks for the pix, jjimm. Which are the gardens in contention? And I must say I see some nice wide open spaces there–why wouldn’t the helos land there?
Yeah there’s a very large grass area out back. Hell they’d probably get Marine 1 into the center court yard.
Wouldn’t it be more accurate to say his administration are taking your conveniences away one by one? If your freedoms were being taken away, you wouldn’t get to go to the commissary in the first place. You wouldn’t get to go whale-watching. You sure as hell wouldn’t get your own fishing boat. We didn’t think the terrorists would be training 5 years to fly planes into skyscrapers either. It’s hard for me to believe you actually meant that paragraph seriously.
I find this part dubious: how can a well-tended garden with trees and pools and other landscape features that aren’t FLAT AND BARE be designated as a helicopter landing area? If such were really the case, blame whoever the twit was who told them to land there.
I dunno, maybe the same reason no other civilian is allowed in those areas because they’re POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS and THEY MIGHT GET IN THE WAY OF RESCUE???
How can you put traumatized flamingoes on the same level as casualties of war? Good Og, get a grip! You seem to be the one who’s been playing too many video games.
Slight nitjack/hipick here, but…
I’ll try to remember this on Thursday as I sit down to a feast of hot dogs. And I’ll remember that we have no gastronomic heritage the next time I eat New England clam chowder, Yankee pot roast, Maine lobster, Maryland crabcakes, southern fried chicken, Texas chili, or Hawaiian shave ice.
Sorry, but as long as we’re fighting ignorance, let’s remember that the pretzel is not only not the height of American quisine, but is not even American.
And for those of you who think that England has no quisine, you got something against vindaloo?
And now back to your regularly scheduled Bush Bash.
Hey, a pretzel almost served a very important function during this presidential administration.
“Ah yes, the ol’ “All British food is terrible” argument. Coming from the country whose primary contributions to international cuisene are the hamburger, the hotdog and the pretzel.”
tdn served up some good ones, to which I will add barbecue, Cajun food and jennyrosity you are an ass.
Words fail me… Wonder if he’s gonna put some of that oil money to gallant use, and make it up? hmph (Yeah, riiiight…)
“And for those of you who think that England has no quisine, you got something against vindaloo?”
Exactly.
Most British (I’m guessing you really mean English) food bashers have never been there and tried any. Most of those that have been there probably stayed at a cheap hotel near Victoria Station and sampled soggy fish and chips at some nasty joint in the Strand operated by a Pakistani.
Of COURSE there’s bad English food. There’s plenty of bad American food, too. Those of us who can tell the difference try to avoid the bad. I’ve had DREADFUL food in Paris, for example. The very home of the word cuisine.
As far as President Bush is concerned, why all the whining?
I agree with Saint Zero. You don’t like him, vote for someone else. Just please stop bitching about how he “stole” the election in 2000. I think the case was examined and decided on by the Supreme Court. Are we saying they’re all Bush lackeys? I don’t think so.
Sore fucking losers is the phrase that comes to mind.
Well now you’ve all got nine Democrats to choose from. Good luck.
- PW
For the record, I hate electronic voting machines. No beef there.
So… lemme work on that first part. I haven’t seen any evidence (solid! not hearsay, or “allegations”) that people are being kicked out for being either Republican or Democrat.
Doest this count as an example?