JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"basskisser" wrote in message
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Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On 15 Sep 2006 08:17:03 -0700, "basskisser"
wrote:


Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:57:18 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:20:16 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

Yeah - but it's in France!!

Who the hell would want to go to France?

You've never seen the Seine?

Nope.

Trust me it's worth a trip. You don't even have to stay overnight -
day trip from London on the high speed Chunnel train, *that's* a
trip.

That would require me to go to London and I'm not going to do that
either.

Them people talk funny.

"As a young man goes to Paris,

as every young man should"

-- Kingston Trio: Raspberries, Strawberries, 1958

There is nothing in Paris that I have the slightest interest in
viewing.

Just when I think you can't possibly get any more narrow minded, this
gem comes along.

Ok bassy - you obviously want your rhetorical ass kicked again.

Just how does the statement that I have no interest in anything in
Paris, France make me narrow minded?

You have to look further. Anytime anyone here mentions anything about
any country other than the U.S. you instantly and always say negative
and rude comments about that country. That IS narrow minded. You say
there is nothing in Paris that you would have the slightest interest in
seeing? How do you KNOW that, if you've never been there, and will
never go because you BECAUSE you narrow mindedly think there is nothing
there for you?
Broaden your horizons! The Louvre, Moulin Rouge, dinner cruises on the
Seine, Orsay, grand cathedrals, and this list goes on and on.


It's this, with a different hat on:

"I don't like eating fish"
"How have you had it prepared when you didn't like it?"
"I've never had it. I just know I don't like it".

Yep, I had an old farmer uncle who was exactly the same way. He would
never, ever try anything new. I often wondered how he got to like
anything if he would never try anything new! He wouldn't eat shrimp
because they looked like a grub to him! He never, ever tried ANY type
of chinese food, just because it wasn't beef or potatoes. He was beside
himself when the U.S. tried to convert to the metric system saying "our
system has worked for hundreds of years, why change?"