Tired of the EU and their demands

[wwjd_kilden]

You guys are making me hungry!

...and reminding me I still don't know who to vote for when election comes up in Norway.
Maybe I should just hide under a rock until it's over

 

[Depleted]

The American Democratic party (Hilary) is basically the American Labour party and the Republicans (Trump) is the American Conservative party. As a general rule (though there are exceptions) the Republicans are the party the Evangelical Christians support as they are anti abortion and anti most things the Bible condemns. I am being very simplistic here but this is the basics.

The problem with Christians supporting the Republican party for "moral grounds:"
-- Trump has no problems with abortion.
-- He's pro homosexuals et.al.
-- We've been supporting the Republicans since 1972, (the year our courts decided abortion was fine on a national level, even though it's the job of legislators to create law), and it's still abortion-on-demand. Worse yet, it's now government paying for the abortions (and baby-part sellers, aka Planned Parenthood.) The only thing needed to change the 1972 Court ruling is for some President to say no to the Supreme Court. This is our sixth "conservative" President since then that won't just say NO! And yet, every election they blow smoke up our skirts and we follow them to the ends of the earth absolutely sure we're being lied to all the way. (Or stupid as whale dung.)

We're really not a Christian nation, unless we're talking ethnic background. Most of our "christian" notions have to do with ancestral ties, not God changing us. "My parents were _____ (fill in any denomination presumably Christian), therefore I'm a Christian."

And, if you were on this particular forum last year, you saw what I mean.

 

[Depleted]

I understand that he was hounded and they do that to all Christian politicians as soon as they are aware but he still should not have said what he did. It is a shame I agree.

Same thing they do over here.

 

[Amazing-Grace]

The problem with Christians supporting the Republican party for "moral grounds:"
-- Trump has no problems with abortion.
-- He's pro homosexuals et.al.
-- We've been supporting the Republicans since 1972, (the year our courts decided abortion was fine on a national level, even though it's the job of legislators to create law), and it's still abortion-on-demand. Worse yet, it's now government paying for the abortions (and baby-part sellers, aka Planned Parenthood.) The only thing needed to change the 1972 Court ruling is for some President to say no to the Supreme Court. This is our sixth "conservative" President since then that won't just say NO! And yet, every election they blow smoke up our skirts and we follow them to the ends of the earth absolutely sure we're being lied to all the way. (Or stupid as whale dung.)

We're really not a Christian nation, unless we're talking ethnic background. Most of our "christian" notions have to do with ancestral ties, not God changing us. "My parents were _____ (fill in any denomination presumably Christian), therefore I'm a Christian."

And, if you were on this particular forum last year, you saw what I mean.

I guess it's difficult for politicians to resist conforming with the rest of the world. It's what the whole world wants - abortion, gay marriage and to be god of their own lives. Christians, sadly are now a minority in the west and it's going to get worse. Politicians want votes and for that they must appeal to the majority...like selling one's soul to the devil...

 

[Depleted]

Let me fix this for you...

Now let's be politically correct here. Lol


Biscuits Cookies!

Scones - sweet dough/pastry If sweet, muffins. No sweet added, biscuits.

Dumplings and stew/gravy. Made with savoury dough usually with
suet and herbs. Yup! Dumplings!

Cupcakes

Bagel

Scone

Now you can eat like an American. lol

 

[Miri]

Ooohhh you're frying a teddy bear

 

[Depleted]

Be thankful that we dont have a political system like theirs. I find ours tedious enough. If our campaigns ran as long as theirs I reckon I would be in a funny farm long before the final result.

What makes you think the USA isn't just one massive Funny Farm?

 

[wwjd_kilden]

Hmm, I agree with both versions of scones.

I think I use biscuit and cookie interchangeably ... it is confusing to a poor viking to keep learning two conflicting kinds of English!

but speaking of that, we have Jaffa Cakes here, but we call then Jaffakjeks
...but they're not kjeks! (Kjeks is dry/ crispy) .... so it seems we don't even know our own language up here!

 

[Depleted]

Haven't tried it, but just about anything else goes with red-eye gravy.

So redeye gravy is the men's answer to chocolate for women?

 

[Depleted]

Ahem.


This is a tea cake, toasted with lots of butter, yum.

Sadly everythings off the menu at the moment, I'm trying to lose some weight

Nooo, that's a bagel without the hole. lol

 

[wwjd_kilden]

*googles red eye gravy*

Coffee?? In gravy? What?!

 

[Depleted]

Oh dear lol...Tory is just another name for a conservative - it really is that simple.

Tony Blair was Labour but he was a little more to the right than...say Jeremy Corbin, after Margaret Thatcher did so well in election campaigns the Labour party had to make themselves more appealing to the middle ground voters and so they re-invented themselves calling themselves "New Labour" but the "new" has since been dropped and now with Jeremy Corbin as leader it has again swung far left as in the old days. Our Labour party would be what you guys would call "Liberals".

I hope this all makes sense to you Lynn.

Thatcher was every bit "Tory" though, right?

(And, oh my! Tories are what I am, however, that word has a strange taste to me, because the Tories were loyalists during our Revolutionary wars. They were "American bad guys.")

 

[Miri]

Nooo, that's a bagel without the hole. lol

Nooo. lol tea cakes are soft bread like, fruity.

Bagels are chewy, except the hole

 

[Depleted]

Another way of thinking of it.

Labour want to give everything away to the poor. Benefits, get rid of student fees, free
OAP care, nationalise the railways, build houses for poor, tax tax and tax the rich to
pay for it. etc and bankrupt us in the process. Labour also want to cut the military and
get rid of the nuclear defence deterrent. (Not that everything they want is bad,
some is good).

Conservative (also called Tories) want all the scrounging poor to work even for a pittance.
They want to sanction people who can't find work, make everyone pay for everything,
cut benefits and pensions. Get more people to pay for own health care. Give big tax
incentives to the rich and encourage business. (They like playing Scrooge but again not
everything is bad).

Then there are the liberals, they call themselves liberals but it has nothing to do with
policy it's just their name. No one knows what they want they have never been in
power independantly. They did form a coalition government with conservatives at one
point. But all they seem interested in doing is trying to change the voting system in their
favour. In the hope one day they will make it big.

None of the above have any connection to religion. So in that senses none are liberal
or traditional in regards to past values and God.

In the past I have voted Labour, but this time I just could not vote for someone
so contrary as Corbyn, he seemed to change his mind from one day to the next.
Plus we really do not need someone who will not bankrupt the county in the middle of
Brexit. He only got as many votes as he did because he said he would cancel all student
fees. So all the students voted for him - poor deluded souls!

He didnt say where the money was going to come from to pay for all the fees.
Plus in the UK, students don't have to start paying back their student loan until they
are earning over £21,000. So if they never get a decent job, they never have to pay
it back. Plus when they do start to pay it back, it's only something like £30 a month
if that! They probably spend more on beer each month than that. So really there was
no reason to cancel all student fees. But the students thought he was the best thing
since sliced bread.

Thats why I don't like Corbyn, I like people who are straight, not conniving trying to get
the popular vote in sly roundabout ways. If 5 year olds could vote he would have
offered them free lollipops just to get their vote.

Oh and there was another massive issue, it came out that some students got two votes,
one in their home town and another in their university town. A petition was started
asking for an investigation.


https://www.theguardian.com/politic...udents-backing-labour-corbyn-general-election


Nigel Farage says Labour excelled at General Election because students voted twice | UK | News | Express.co.uk


https://www.change.org/p/uk-elector...m_content=nafta_share_post_title_en_2:control

Not as different as I thought. Our Labor Unions vote for the the liberals. Big Business prefers conservatives, and mostly for the memories of what those parties did for them.

 

[Billyd]

*googles red eye gravy*

Coffee?? In gravy? What?!

This is the best picture I could find. Dunk one of Mama's biscuits in it and you are hooked.

It's a great breakfast side, even if you use one of them fancy American fast food biscuits.

 

[Depleted]

I guess it's difficult for politicians to resist conforming with the rest of the world. It's what the whole world wants - abortion, gay marriage and to be god of their own lives. Christians, sadly are now a minority in the west and it's going to get worse. Politicians want votes and for that they must appeal to the majority...like selling one's soul to the devil...

The stupid thing is "the whole world" doesn't want abortion or homosexuality as common-day practices. 2% get abortions. 3% come under the banner of "gay pride."

Politicians aren't catering to the majority. They're catering to the squeaky wheel. And 94%-95% are going along with it because, "well, maybe there is something to it. After all, it's on the news every night."

No kidding it's on the news! It's their agenda, and darn tooting, the two groups are marketing their wares well. We're simply the dumb schmoes being led by the nose-ring.

 

[Depleted]

Ooohhh you're frying a teddy bear

They go great in redeye gravy. lol

 

[Depleted]

Nooo. lol tea cakes are soft bread like, fruity.

Bagels are chewy, except the hole

Ohhh, than that's an "English muffin!" You don't even call your own muffin the right name?

Leave it to a country that thinks French fries are chips. lol

(Now I know what the Brits call an English muffin. I still want to know what the French call the French fry/chip.)

 

[Depleted]

Good news for the UK. The EU has found a new money-stream.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...cord-2-7-billion-eu-fine-for-skewing-searches

Little problem. We're capitalists over here! All of us, even if we can't figure out how to produce a dime. That IS Google's business idea! Pay for advertising. Who can tell them where their competition has to be placed on their site? If I want to see what Microsoft is selling, I'll search Bing. If I want to find what Google is selling, I'll search Chrome. "Buyer Beware" is such an old saying, it's till found in Latin in Rome! Yeesh!

It's our responsibility to understand what we're using. And, yessh! When I go to a supermarket I can pick out different brands only from what they're selling. How stupid would I be to think that's all the brands right in front of me?

Want your brand seen? Then buy the space!!!

Which court does this go through? Because Google is American, not Europe!

 

[Amazing-Grace]

What makes you think the USA isn't just one massive Funny Farm?

What makes you think we don't?