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Re: Stasi service at local restaurant

You guys have given me a lot to work with. This is more material than I bargained for, but it is a goldmine and the seam is rich. I know this sounds weird, but, thank you. It's going to go in the book, probably the opening chapter now. Thank you. FWIW, yes, I was the one who posted about an autistic...
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Topic: Stasi service at local restaurant
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by Hollamumma
Fri Apr 22, 2016 10:15 am

Re: Stasi service at local restaurant

Yah. Not so baffling if you credit the notion that people decide where they stand on an issue based on their experience (real, live experience, not the second-hand variety that you all seem to thrive on, living by proxy on this forum -- which I will *never* visit again as it reminds me of nothing so...
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Topic: Stasi service at local restaurant
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by Hollamumma
Mon Apr 18, 2016 9:47 pm

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That's a false equivalence and I think you know it. Apples and oranges. Or rather no apples! God this is dumb. I swear it's like watching a nuclear detonation in a fish tank. Whatever. I'm done.
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Topic: Stasi service at local restaurant
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by Hollamumma
Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:59 pm

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Some people are crazy and funny that way. You guys are crazy and mean. Seriously. It's a little weird watching you all seethe. I never raised my voice to the server at Tamra. I've spent most of the day laughing. But I'm really glad I don't have to stay in this place. Seriously. I'll never forget wat...
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Topic: Stasi service at local restaurant
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by Hollamumma
Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:51 pm

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I see your tag proclaims "I'm a cowboy." So no anxiety of influence about the United States at all, I see. You guys are crazy.
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Topic: Stasi service at local restaurant
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by Hollamumma
Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:45 pm

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Or V.S. Naipaul's response to graffiti when he arrived at Oxford that proclaimed, "keep Britain white." The future Nobel laureate merely inserted a comma between "Britain," and "white." Why do you guys always have to hate somebody? It's the U.S., it's the E.U., it's who...
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Topic: Stasi service at local restaurant
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by Hollamumma
Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:41 pm

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Most of you have probably never heard of Gore Vidal, but I leave you with his observation on seeing Tony Blair elected in 1997: "one doesn't bring a measuring rod to Lilliput." Man, was he clairvoyant.
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Topic: Stasi service at local restaurant
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by Hollamumma
Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:34 pm

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And for all of you clutching your pearls and tiaras, you might go back and note the fact that I only commented on the state of this island (which the locals bemoan with all the shrill outrage that only Mr. Murdoch's readers can summon) after being treated to a string of nasty and laughably inaccurat...
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Topic: Stasi service at local restaurant
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by Hollamumma
Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:27 pm

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Ok, again responding to your comments: "You should have given him the benefit of the doubt and wait before posting." I did. This all happened Thursday morning. I only posted on NVN this morning after going 12 rounds with Rob. Which --as I said -- dwarfs the time involved in the original en...
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Topic: Stasi service at local restaurant
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by Hollamumma
Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:21 pm

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Ok, this I have to simply deconstruct: "Public transport in London and the U.K. generally is much better than public transport in the U.S." OH REALLY? Have you ever been on a cattle car gasping for air, pressed to the wall or the gills or the other person's ribcage, and looked up to realiz...
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Topic: Stasi service at local restaurant
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by Hollamumma
Mon Apr 18, 2016 12:20 pm

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My own hunch is that what you suffer from with respect to those of us from across the pond, is what Freud called an anxiety of influence. Yes, it's a psychological condition. It has to do with the fear of losing one's identity. You seem to be having a broad-based, all-fronts, no-holds-barred identit...
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Topic: Stasi service at local restaurant
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by Hollamumma
Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:40 am

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And while I'm on the topic, get a better attitude. In the time it took me to write that post -- about 3 minutes -- two more people chimed in with rubbish about Americans. We're really not that different from you. Except insofar as we clearly don't nourish the same visceral, embittering loathing of t...
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Topic: Stasi service at local restaurant
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by Hollamumma
Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:23 am

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Wow. I don't know why I expected sanity from this forum but so far it's batting 1 for 6. Certainly I am not suggesting the role of the Stasi was to insult people with bad porridge though it is a funny image. That is indeed an exercise in sarcasm. I'm amazed for sheer irony (and lack of self-awarenes...
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Topic: Stasi service at local restaurant
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by Hollamumma
Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:19 am

Stasi service at local restaurant

I had a fascinating and somewhat shocking experience at Tamra last week. I'm writing not only because of what happened, but what happened after it. Long story short, I ordered porridge with apples. It came without apples. I asked for it to be made as it was described on the menu and sent it back. FW...
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Topic: Stasi service at local restaurant
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by Hollamumma
Mon Apr 18, 2016 6:32 am

Re: Northcote House Nursery

And since it's late and my husband's asleep but I'm not tired let me regale you with a tale about some other places: we applied to l'Ecole de Battersea when my son was one. We were told that applications could only be submitted after the parents completed a school tour. Happily, we offered to come b...
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Topic: Northcote House Nursery
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by Hollamumma
Fri Oct 16, 2015 10:44 pm