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From: Klompmeester on 22 Apr 2008 06:16 "Andreas Kohlbach" <ank(a)spamfence.net> wrote in message news:8763uad5gb.fsf(a)usenet.ankman.de... Klompmeester wrote on 21. April 2008: > > "Paul E Collins" <find_my_real_address(a)CL4.org> wrote in message > news:5eOdnZ9qMcNdRZbVRVnyjAA(a)bt.com... >> "OwenBot" <cheveron(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> in the same way that the French buy French cars and the Germans buy >>> German pop music. >> >> German pop music is *excellent*. >> > > If you're a German, it's overproduced cheese anywhere else. Successful cheese... Successful where?
From: BruceMcF on 22 Apr 2008 09:36 On Apr 20, 6:41 pm, OwenBot <cheve...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 20, 10:48 pm, "Klompmeester" <whowh...(a)andwhy.com> wrote: > > > Slap a "made in the UK" sticker on anything and the brits will proclaim it > > to be the best. > > I've never met anyone in the UK that thought British stuff was the > best. Adequate is usually the description. We buy it out of a > misplaced sense of loyalty and national pride in the same way that the > French buy French cars and the Germans buy German pop music. The > Americans, I notice, don't buy American anymore. Americans "bought America", first, in the aftermath of WWII when the US had such a massive lead in R&D and capital equipment that stuff Made in the US was likely to be the best, and then after that faded (which took some decades), because advertisements told us to "Buy American". I went away to OZ for a decade, when I came back, those adverts were gone. Indeed, the above is probably why they *didn't* ask "which was the King of the 1980's home computers" ... as the right demographic in the UK "which was your first home computer" and the results are far safer.
From: nem on 22 Apr 2008 11:12 OwenBot <cheveron(a)gmail.com> wrote in news: > I've never met anyone in the UK that thought British stuff was the > best. Adequate is usually the description. We buy it out of a > misplaced sense of loyalty and national pride in the same way that the > French buy French cars and the Germans buy German pop music. The > Americans, I notice, don't buy American anymore. It's rather hard to do that when one cannot find a kitchen appliance or a stereo or a TV that's American-made.
From: Duncan Snowden on 21 Apr 2008 13:54 Geoff Wearmouth wrote: > Flamewar? I was merely disseminating topical information. :-) > > Talking of the Guiness Book of Records, the British Broadcasting > Corporation reports that in Wales this weekend there has been the > biggest assembly of Sir Clive Sinclair's C5 electric tricycle > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7354449.stm > > It does give one a warm feeling. In the small of the back, roughly where the motor is? Could be nasty. -- Duncan Snowden.
From: Lister on 22 Apr 2008 12:37
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:54:12 +0100, Duncan Snowden <dss(a)ukonline.co.uk> wrote: >Geoff Wearmouth wrote: > >> Flamewar? I was merely disseminating topical information. :-) >> >> Talking of the Guiness Book of Records, the British Broadcasting >> Corporation reports that in Wales this weekend there has been the >> biggest assembly of Sir Clive Sinclair's C5 electric tricycle >> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7354449.stm >> >> It does give one a warm feeling. > >In the small of the back, roughly where the motor is? Could be nasty. Has one ever been driven from Land's End to John O'Groats? |