Headline: Model Railroaders Solve World's Problems!!!

Well, they couldn't do any worse than the idiots in charge now - and I don't just mean US politicians :-).

Sorry, I forgot to mention, Gallipoli, Princess Diana, Jonestown, the Napier Earthquake, and the Great Cabbage Fart Panic of 1882.

Happy?

I know Jim Jones was an American.

CBix

Not everyone will agree with you about Princess Di being a tragedy.

The Queen Mother dies and goes to heaven, and the first person she sees there is Diana, whom she notices is wearing a halo.

"Blimey", says the Queen Mother, "You got a halo already, love?"

Diana blushes deeply, and replies, "It's not a halo, it's a steering wheel!"

That's better, Napier's earthquake was a New Zealand tragedy. Gallipoli was where we learned not to hand control of our military to other nations, it was a lesson we should remember!

A spelling mistake.?

Hey! Watch the one-downmanship here. Our idiots are dumber than your idiots.

I'm willing to enter them in the Monty Python 'Upper Class Twit of the Year' games to prove it.

Bill Dixon

That's the competition where everyone loses, only the winners lose more?

Greg.P.

nations, it was a

I'm not sure that's the best lesson to take from Gallipoli. There were British troops there also.

I think the more universal lesson might be: "Don't participate in stupid military adventures."

JP

Charles, These discussions can get out of hand and O/T rather quickly when someone stupidly decides to take an unfair shot at someone (God only knows why ) and its down hill from there. I just wish that they would have the courtesy to take these discussions to another forum. I have actually resorted to blocking download of messages from certain individuals who have nothing to contribute to the group besides venom of one sort or another. The way I see it, its like having a club where someone is constantly irritating the other members. The "block sender" command is like flipping a switch and they disappear. I highly recommend it.

Lynn

Lynn,

It just gets out of control sometimes so I make fun of it. My hope is that with a little humor people will realize there are other forums for off topic discussions.

I don't know what the argument could be for having world politcs discussions here other than it's model railroaders talking amongst themselves on a topic they have a common interest in.

I only check this group via the internet website so I can't really filter anyone out.

CBix

Actually I've run into it (and participated) in other newsgroups too. In particular, rec.woodworking.

The thing is that the groups dedicated to political discussions are populated by diehards who haven't changed an opinion on anything in 50 years. All they do is regurgitate the same line over and over.

While there's some of that here as well (and on MR too - see Froggy et al), I do occasionally see an unexpected response that proves there are some working brain cells left in the world :-).

They only ignore you when the moon is full???? You got some great kids!

LOL - Actually I guess the moon is always full -"somewhere" :-))

Old time Southern term for the battle of Gettysburg.

Quite frankly I'm just tired of all the anti-Americanism on that thread. I think it's time they started talking about model railroading on this model railroad newsgroup instead of all that other crap. It got so bad I had to killfile most of the trolls there.

No.

The "No" above answers that point.

I am not " snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com" - I assumed that that was you trolling and ignored it.

Regards, Greg.P.

Now, just how do we know that little kiwi. We can't just take your trolling word for it can we

You at least should be able to back me.