tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post338254445327229475..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: The Existential Fight - Eh?Bryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-62381354586783822862007-06-23T17:18:00.000+00:002007-06-23T17:18:00.000+00:00I'll grant you Cantona.I'll grant you Cantona.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-62675741262777927092007-06-22T14:58:00.000+00:002007-06-22T14:58:00.000+00:00Whoa there Brit! Jacques Tati was pretty funny. A...Whoa there Brit! Jacques Tati was pretty funny. And that Millenium Dome frog was a bit of a livewire too. Not to mention Eric Cantona's hilarious utterances.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-11859995455838747332007-06-22T14:29:00.000+00:002007-06-22T14:29:00.000+00:00I pity the Poles, forever caught between the devil...I pity the Poles, forever caught between the devil and the...Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03071928294799081845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-33840373916143117172007-06-22T14:02:00.000+00:002007-06-22T14:02:00.000+00:00Anyone ever read Wall St & the Rise of Hitler? Int...Anyone ever read Wall St & the Rise of Hitler? Interesting to see who was doing the funding of those lovely Nazis. For example:<BR/>Prescott Bush, George W.'s grandfather, as Vice-President of Brown Brothers Harriman, helped finance the Nazi war machine and tried to hide his Nazi dealings during World War II.<BR/><BR/>Prescott Bush was also a director of two Nazi front organizations: the Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708539533684206357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-18343974937538055532007-06-22T13:13:00.000+00:002007-06-22T13:13:00.000+00:00Antoine de Caunes is that rare thing: a funny Fren...Antoine de Caunes is that rare thing: a funny French comedian.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-23950569707038027932007-06-22T13:10:00.000+00:002007-06-22T13:10:00.000+00:00I don't recognize the name, Nige, but there was a ...I don't recognize the name, Nige, but there was a French politician in the fifties who said: "I am often accused of being anti-German. Nothing could be further from the truth. I love Germany. In fact, I love it so much I want two of them."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-14581736982608359172007-06-22T12:45:00.000+00:002007-06-22T12:45:00.000+00:00As Antoine de Caunes once said - 'Why does everybo...As Antoine de Caunes once said - 'Why does everybody hate the Germans? Just because they ruined the 20th century for the rest of us...'Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-91325830736201123972007-06-22T12:40:00.000+00:002007-06-22T12:40:00.000+00:00It's incomprehensible from this side of the Channe...It's incomprehensible from this side of the Channel, Peter.<BR/><BR/>I also don't understand the fuss made about English football fans singing WWII songs to the Germans. When you do something as bad as the Germans did, the least you should expect is a few generations of being reminded about it. <BR/><BR/>Much as I enjoy visiting modern Germay, I can't abide these attempts at Euro historical Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-69807705986313567832007-06-22T12:23:00.000+00:002007-06-22T12:23:00.000+00:00If I were a German leader dreaming of the Fourth R...If I were a German leader dreaming of the Fourth Reich, I think my strategy would be to get everyone in the world to feel the depth of our pain and contrition for the Third. Then I'd move in at midnight.<BR/><BR/>From this side of the pond, these efforts to hide, erase and re-write Euro-history are surreal. A few years ago, we had the King of Norway here making a speech about how the Vikings Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-32845494385803025942007-06-22T12:21:00.000+00:002007-06-22T12:21:00.000+00:00well I've stopped listening - everytime they menti...well I've stopped listening - everytime they mention 'the poles', I think they mean the referendum.<BR/><BR/>Is that Rod Liddle by any chance, Boris Johnson's drinking partner?Ian russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11106519805045337505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-91353700566373372382007-06-22T11:44:00.000+00:002007-06-22T11:44:00.000+00:00Uniquely in humans, say the existentialists, exist...Uniquely in humans, say the existentialists, existence precedes essence. This cannot be said of the EU, a rationalist enterprise. Just thought id' add that.Bryan Appleyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-7077196931875144862007-06-22T11:41:00.000+00:002007-06-22T11:41:00.000+00:00I wondered about that too. I heard existential as ...I wondered about that too. I heard <I>existential</I> as something like <I>in the manner of an existential fight</I>, that is, with great intensity. The tolerably clear - at least to me - point was that Blair had spurned the opportunity of an intense but winnable fight. <BR/><BR/>Not often that I get to accuse you of being literal-minded.Cirdanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06161072165681849178noreply@blogger.com