Okay. I haven’t been a New Yorker since Gerald Ford was President. And strictly speaking I’m trapped in an airport. Still. You should have heard my British Airways stewardess on the way over. The voice… very tall, too.
Sadly, that was the last attractive English woman I saw. More information soon, including a justification for being here.
Nothing can prepare you for what you are about to experience. And yet, its pleasant somehow, and they do some things right in England. You wont be asked to ID constantly for trivial things like drinking alcohol, for a start.
Be careful, Jack. British women have more residual fecal matter on their hands than women in any other developed nation.
They apparently don’t think much of washing their hands after pooping.
Dirty hands likely = dirty punani
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/why-some-women-dont-scrub-up-as-well-as-men-961404.html
“The difference between the sexes was starkest in London, where 21 per cent of women were carrying faecal bacteria on their hands, compared with 6 per cent of men. Women in Birmingham and Cardiff also outranked men for bacterial contamination, but in the north – Newcastle and Liverpool – stereotypes reasserted themselves and men had the filthiest hands.
The Dirty Hands study was conducted to highlight poor hygiene habits as part of the first Global Handwashing Day today. Commuters’ at five train stations were swab-tested for bacteria. The results, analysed by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine, also revealed a north-south divide.”
You are in the cultural Mecca of the English-speaking world.
All 400 million of us have a connection, one way or another, back to London.
400 million? There are almost that many English speakers in India alone. If you’ll pardon the phrase, English has become the lingua franca of the modern world.
Britannia no longer rules the waves but the Anglosphere drives the world. A large number of the most successful countries in the world are former British colonies (or de facto colonies like Japan was). Americans are lucky that our founding fathers were influenced by British enlightenment philosophers rather than those on the continent like Voltaire. The Brits did colonialism well. Something to be said for the rule of law, courts,schools, a post office and functioning civil service.
I think it’s interesting that the United States, Israel and India all fought to break away from Britain but unquestionably benefit from the historic ties to the UK. Of course, Gandhi only succeeded because he was fighting against a power structure that actually believed in morality. The Congolese didn’t do so well with the Belgians.
Uhh Ronnie look up the Bengal famine before you go espousing how great the British were to their colonies. British rule over India was characterized by incredibly high taxation, export out of expensive raw materials so that they could then be made into profitable goods in England and the violent suppression of any or all resistance. Yea they built the railroads, but the economic/cultural/political costs were enormous. Much of the conflict in the middle east and South Asia is also due to the British creation of artificial borders after they left their former colonies.
You think the peoples of the Middle East and South Asia are not capable of creating their own conflicts? That’s a bit like the folks who think that “native Americans” (I prefer the term Siberian-Americans, that’s where they came from) only waged war after the start of European colonization.
One could argue that the notion of a nation-state is a bit foreign to the Mideast in the first place. Allegiance in that part of the world has tended towards the clan and the faith, not the state.
The older I get the more convinced I am that people are people.
I think when you ship a guy thousands of miles to a land he has never been to and ask him to draw a border (Radcliffe Line), peace is the last thing on your mind.
I take more issue with you saying the British doing colonialism well(that’s kind of like saying the Confederates did slavery well, isn’t it?) somehow benefitted the colonies. In the case of India/South Asia specifically, economic exploitation was enormous and at times left millions dead and starving in the streets via food shortages/insane tax burdens. The fact that Britain introduced its court system, created a rail network (to move those valuable raw materials) does not make up for a century + of economic exploitation.
Compared to the Spanish and particularly the French colonies in the Caribbean, the southern U.S. states’ practice of slavery was indeed more humane. In the U.S., slaves were valuable livestock, in the French colonies they were disposable.
Slavery was a near universal practice, but somehow the U.S., which outlawed the slave trade in the Constitution and fought our bloodiest war over the matter, gets the bulk of the condemnation for the practice, even though it persisted in much of the world after 1865. The notion of having to self-flagellate for America’s supposed sins regarding slavery is oikiphobic.
In the U.S.
Uhhh, Japan was never a (defacto) colony of the British Empire. I believe you mean China. Japan and Thailand were both agreed to be hands off (more or less just as buffer zones) by the Western powers during the colonial times. This is partly why the Japanese got the big idea that they were different from the rest of Asia (eg the most “white” race of Asia) and later announced their intent on making the region entirely within their Monroeish sphere of influence.
I’ve known a few very pretty English birds .
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Here’s hoping they make Coke the correct way , with real sugar at least .
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-Nate
Well, since everyone else missed it, I’ll say it…
Nice MacNeils
THANK YOU. On their way to Recrafting #3, some time in 2016.
That’s awesome!
Mine are burgundy as well, but have a ways to go towards resole #1. It’s pretty amazing to think that if you take care of them, you’ll be rocking the same pair of shoes 10-15 years down the road
I bought these in 2002, they’ve been literally around the world with me, Europe, Asia, Nelson Ledges Road Course.
I prefer glossy black wingtips with steel toes , I can’t find anyone who still makes them though and my newest pars are over 10 years old and not worth re soling again .
Anyone know where I can get these ? .
-Nate
Redwing?
Some of the Red Wing shoes are welt-sewn and American made.
Heck, I used to be able to get French Shriners with steel toes.
The introduction of cheap, glued together shoes from China has made it all but impossible to find a decent, repairable, pair of shoes at a price that average Americans can afford.
The shoes that Jodi Ernst covered with plastic bread bags to protect them in the rain were probably better made than what her kids wear today.
I’m a bit of a shoe whore myself with an array of hand-made british, Canadian and american footwear. I’m a size 7 G british or 7.5 EEE american. Not an easy fit - so it is almost universally hand-made for me.
But my CSA-rated steel toe boots are Red Wing model 2414 with Gore-Tex. They are unbelievably comfortable. Almost like bedroom slippers.
I highly recommend Red Wing’s hand-made in the USA offerings.
Thanx but Redwing stopped making them years ago .
Rockport , Florsheim etc. all dropped it due I assume to low sales .
I’ll keep looking , I wish I knew where to have them custom made in Los Angeles .
-Nate