Re: The War On HLA

From: Beth (BethStone21_at_hotmail.NOSPICEDHAM.com)
Date: 10/25/03

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    mchiper wrote:
    > Beth wrote:
    > >That's what I like about Californians...you're all ever-so-slightly
    > >nuts (meant in a good way ;)...
    >
    > California..
    > I spent 2 years living there.
    > The only thing really wrong with it, is American.
    > The nice people come from else where.

    Oh, that's hardly fair...Randy's a Californian and he seems like a
    perfectly nice person to me :)

    > Like Japan, Mexico, and New York (but not for long).

    Well, I would agree about the Japanese being "nice" (note, this is not
    implying the others aren't nice or that I wouldn't agree that they are
    nice...I'm merely "focussing" my discussion here, that's
    all...nationality is secondary to me, anyway...there's "nice" people
    and "not so nice" people and they appear to be completely randomly
    distributed across this globe of ours with seemingly no bias applied
    due to any particular nationality ;)...in a very weird sense, mind
    you...as we are talking the land of feudal samurais, kamikaze pilots
    and so forth...but when you get on their good side, they're very much
    like the Irish and you can't find a nicer bunch of people...it's just,
    again like the Irish, if you get on their bad side...well, oh boy,
    you'll certainly know it, that's for sure (mind you, it's no
    coincidence that, actually, that about sums up every nationality that
    exists in some form...I'll leave the reader the exercise of drawing up
    their own conclusions on that one ;)...

    > San Jose CA..
    > More millionaire's per square foot than anywhere else.

    Despite it being called "English" measurements, we're officially all
    centimetres and metres over here (not that any actually pays any
    attention to the Eurocrats and we still carry on measuring things in
    inches and feet regardless of what's "official" in the Euro
    laws...plus, of course, we spell it completely differently...but I'm
    sure you've come to expect that of us whacky Brits and our
    spellings...I mean, even with the Americanisms bringing some
    consistency, our language is the very definition of spelling insanity
    ;)...although, of course, this wouldn't actually make a blind bit of
    difference, anyway...more per square foot should equally be more per
    square metre...

    > No people, just millionaires.

    Hey, millionaires are people too!! ;)

    > Look on the streets in residential areas - deserted, no children to
    be seen.

    Huh? What's your exact thesis here from this observation?

    Being a millionaire makes you infertile?

    Only cold, heartless ego-loaded screwballs who're too wrapped up in
    themselves to do something so "vulgar" as have noisy, pukey children
    put in the required "self-gratification" to make it to millionaire's
    row?

    I'm guessing you're putting your money on the second one, right? If so
    and there's good odds, you can put a few dollars on that option from
    me too while you're down the betting shop...

    Shows how tight-fisted they are, mind you...I mean, if they ain't too
    particular on the idea of raising kids, there's hardly any excuse on
    not being able to hire child care or a nanny to raise them up with all
    those myriad psychological problems that engenders...

    > Look at windows at night.. No lights

    Cool...I keep look out, you go in and grab their video recorder and
    TV...then we'll take it down to this person I know who "overlooks"
    where merchandise comes from...

    No, I shouldn't jest...those millionaires would probably take the
    above seriously -seeing as "scum" like me uttered the words and "they
    all look the same to me", as we're all effectively "foreign" to them,
    even when you're the same nationality - and, in their paranoia of
    losing $2.50 out of, ooh, 70 billion dollars, they'll waste half a
    billion on installing a "home missile defence system" (to only defend
    a quarter of a billion in property, you do the math ;), which ends up
    accidentally going off and decapitating the mailman the next
    morning...

    > If you want to meet some one from San Jose, go to Lake Tahoe.
    > Houses in SJ are to sleep in, on weekdays.

    Oh, well...at least there's _some_ useful purpose to them...I wasn't
    even reckoning that there was any purpose at all, other than to name
    drop the "area" you live in during conversations with the rich and
    famous...you know, like "oh, I do have a residence there but I spend
    most of my time in my villa in Europe or my yacht or my Alpine lodge"
    (when, in fact, they actually spend most of their time developing
    cronic alcoholism in parties...purely accidentally, mind you...it's
    just like they've got to accept a drink at a party and their
    inferiority complex means that they're all empty inside unless they're
    gossiping with that woman who's made of 80% synthetic materials about
    the non-events of someone else's empty existence to help them forget
    just how empty their existence is...classic psychological
    symptoms...they mix with others and talk about others, as a defence
    mechanism from the psychological damage that examining themselves
    critically in a mirror would do...although, nevermind, there's always
    Betty Ford's to sign in to, just in case you accidentally realise what
    an actual non-entity you've really turned yourself into...at least
    with celebrities like actors and musicians, they tend to actually have
    talent, interests and a life, providing joy and entertainment to
    others...the unnamed rich serve no pratical purpose whatsoever in
    society...no-one knows them, they don't actually do anything and if
    they were wiped out tomorrow, it would probably take decades before
    anyone even noticed...I mean, sorry, but, umm, what are they there
    for? I mean, at with the poor, you know they're all busy doing slave
    labour and so forth...at least there's some dignity and nobility to
    the poor's non-existence...it's no wonder the rich often make such a
    fuss of pretending to be "dignified" and "noble" because if they
    didn't try real hard then it doesn't come naturally from their
    position in life and it would let the cat out of the bag that they are
    actually highest on the "human insignificance" scale, where even those
    in poverty are doing a better job than they do without needing to
    try)...

    > >[ A quick gag for the Japanese or Japanese watchers (or anyone who
    > >watches "Adam and Joe in Tokyo" ..
    >
    > You jest.. (It was a gag, I did !! :-)
    > Until you've seen Japanese children thru seniors, learning
    > flower arrangement, you don't have a clue..
    > One flower, one leaf, one vase.. It takes hours to do right.
    > I quit watching after 30 minutes or so.
    > It's a spritual thing.
    > Less is more...

    Nope, that sounds absolutely magnificent to me...patience, tolerance,
    admiration of beauty, a creative and artistic pursuit able to bring
    joy to others, spiritually whole and cleansing, an appreciation of the
    wonderment of Nature brought directly to the future generations,
    taught to appreciate the high existential quality of inner peace above
    a constant conflict of ever restless arbitrary figures...for these
    kids will _really understand_ that "less is more" and not quote this
    truth in mocking tones like certain others might be tempted to do...

    Ah, it sounds like bloody paradise to me...you've help me nail down
    _exactly_ why I like the Japanese...they allot equal time to the
    spirit, to just being ever-so-slightly insane (good for the soul, I
    assure you ;) as to the body and rushing around screaming into mobile
    phones all day long...the perfect balance of calm with chaos, order
    with insanity, peace with violence, etc....the perfect recipe for a
    totally non-boring life where you experience a little of everything
    and, importantly, fear nothing...keep your tropical beaches with palm
    trees...that's just visual candy...now, this, to me, sounds like a
    real kind of "paradise" for once ;)

    Beth :)

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