Honestly, I didn't know anything about Queen until I got to college and started meeting some queers. And we wouldn't play it at a heterosexual event like a dance.
That's it! Freddie was way beyond Elton John gay, more like Little Richards gay.
Back then no entertainers came out openly gay. And Elton John wasn't so obviously gay either.
It was a weird time. A gay group could come out with a song about homosexual encounters at the YMCA, and middle-america would sing along, making signs vaguely simulating homosexual sex, never drawing the connection.
Road rage is caused by people taking driving way too seriously. I ride with people all the time who talk to the other fucking drivers as if they were close friends that had just betrayed them.
The way to get rid of road rage is just not to give a fuck about what other drivers are doing.
We're oddly moving into a third world economy. While I was reading that I was thinking "These people should have learned to hustle for work. "
Suddenly I realized, that's the way they do it in the third world. In the third world no one goes to college, gets a good job, works for 30 years and retires. No, they're always hustling for work, like I used to do. And like everyone in America is learning to do.
Nah, the dot is now claiming that since the gypson spec doesn't specify feces, the Chinese could sell us drywall with 50% human feces and it would pass spec.
Well, if the ASTM never said anything about sulfer in gypsum, doesn't that mean there's not supposed to be any?
What if the Chinese sold us gypsum with 10% radioactive uranium? That would be ok because the ASTM guidelines never put a limit on radioactive material in gypsum?
I believe that. For 9 years I leased BMWs, and never had any problems with the dealerships. Then I decided to get a GM car, and it was a mess. After a while I realized that the salesmen just weren't used to dealing with a customer who told them what they wanted. They didn't know how to locate a car or even followup. All they knew was the hard sell.
You can build stuff pretty damn cheaply with slave labor and absolutely no concern for human life.
How many dozens of chinese died building that facility? We'll never know. We do know 10 chinese died building the olympic facility.
"China hushes up Olympic deaths
At least 10 workers have been killed while working on the Olympic stadium but, in a rush to complete the project, Chinese officials have denied the deaths
The problem has always been that the car dealers are too powerful at the state level, and have a lot of power within the manufacturers. Ford tried to get rid of their dealership network in the 80's, but too many states passed laws against it. Saturn was another attempt to bypass the dealers, but it was eventually killed within GM.
Imagine if computer sales still only went thru computer stores and VARs. The auto manufacturers are basically working thru a 1950s sales model.
I ran across this yesterday. Does anyone think that a country that doesn't enforce drug safety rules with it's own population has a procedure for ensuring food safety in a factory?
"• Parents from Shanxi Province trekked to Beijing to complain to the central government about a vaccine manufacturer that has been putting out a product that causes two to three years of epileptic seizures in children before eventually killing them. The manufacturer has bribed local vaccination officials to make the vaccine mandatory in kindergartens in the province. In an effort to suppress the story, the provincial government sent police officers to Beijing to arrest the parents and forcibly take them back to Shanxi.
• Grease from the gutters near restaurants is being collected by the homeless and sold to small, illegal shops. After minimal treatment, the grease is sold back to Chinese restaurants as cooking oil. Allegedly, for every 10 restaurant meals, at least one is cooked using gutter oil.
• Inmates in Yunnan prison have been “dying in their sleep.” When family members have inquired about the bruises on the body of the deceased, they have been detained by police for questioning.
• A man in a village in Sichuan Province was heavily beaten by officials after he tried to report them for corruption. The village is poor, but the local party secretary managed to embezzle at least $700,000-$800,000. The man who was beaten decided to take the law into his own hands and kill all the village officials and their male children. In all, 14 were murdered; the killer says he feels no remorse.
• Just a couple of days ago, a 90-year-old man and his 68-year-old son set themselves on fire as they were being forcibly removed from their family home to make way for a new development of luxury villas.
Many American parents are emotional cripples. I left home at 17 and always figured that it was normal to want to get the fuck away from your parents. But after traveling around a bit I've found a lot of families actually get along.
I don't think it was that complicated, even tho that's what they say in the history books.
When Germany did the unconditional surrender they knew it probably meant little more than the allies would put their own governments in place.
But historically, when an Asian power did the unconditional surrender thing to a western power, it meant a bunch of westerners moving in, selling them opium, and then putting everyone to work on sugar plantations.
And no Asian power had ever pissed off a western power as much as the Japanese had. From their view massacres were certainly possible.
By allowing them to keep their emperor, we were signaling the Japanese that, indeed, we expected there to still be a japan after the surrender.
Oh, they were ready to surrender. They just didn't want to do an unconditional surrender. In the end, of course, we gave up and accepted a surrender based on the condition they could keep their emperor.
Yea. But there is no private property in communism. For some odd reason an economic system that takes away their pickup trucks and their TVs just didn't appeal much to the workers. go figure.....
France had the largest and most modern equipped land army in the world. If de Gaulle, whose books on military strategy the Germans had studied, had been running things France would have mopped the floor with the Germans. Instead, tho, these 70 year old generals who had first learned warfare in the 1800's were running things. They just didn't have a clue on modern warfare. For example, they couldn't understand tanks except as a form of self powered artillery. So when the Germans invaded they did what they were taught to do in the 1800's with artillery, they had the tanks disassembled and shipped to the front line on trains.
de Gaulle was pissed. He wrote about how he got near the front lines, ready to fight, and no one could tell him where his fucking tanks were.
What you're forgetting is that there's a major chunk of Europe between Germany and Russia.
Hitler planned on sterilizing all the slavs in the new greater Germany. I think a thirty year cold war, which had relatively few American causalities, is vastly preferable to a hugely powerful genocidal Germany controlling much of Europe.
Oh, it's Churchhill's fault. If he hadn't of declared war on Germany to protect Poland, which automatically brought France into it, Hitler would have just taken a huge chunck of Russia and made his leiberstroud or whatever the fucked he called it.
