BS: Watching Paris Burn

Subject: BS: Watching Paris Burn
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 12 Nov 05 - 10:24 PM

Who's burning France?

Gee, isn't it Islamic youth?

Subject: RE: BS: Watching Paris Burn
From: pdq
Date: 12 Nov 05 - 11:10 PM

No, Martin. Hollywood is just filming a new Terminator movie. The smoke and fire is just special effects.

Since the State of California constitution won't allow the governor to have a second job, this Terminator will star Michael Moore. He takes revenge against people who fired on him, having mistaken Moore for a rabid water buffalo.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching Paris Burn
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 12 Nov 05 - 11:14 PM

Funny, I mistook Michael Moore for a human cheeseburger, or even better, a complete phony.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching Paris Burn
From: mg
Date: 12 Nov 05 - 11:52 PM

I don't know their religion. I am sure they live in terrible circumstances, which doesn't mean they can burn things up. Why did France wait 10 days to impose curfews? Why did we in Katrina? Why did we in Iraq? Why does any society let its youth wander around at night with no supervision? It is their biological imperative to get into at the very least mischief..at the most we have riots, gang terrorism, etc...and I am all for wholesome supervised activities at least for the younger teens who should never be set loose on society (any of them, any group you can think of..).

Subject: RE: BS: Watching Paris Burn
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 12:40 AM

Oh for chrissakes, quit rambling.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching Paris Burn
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 01:00 AM

Pat Robertson made you say that.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching Paris Burn
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 01:03 AM

No he didn't. He did make me want to take a dump, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching Paris Burn
From: GUEST,Earl
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 03:01 PM

"Stop ramblin', stop your gamblin', stop stayin' out late at night..."

Subject: RE: BS: Watching Paris Burn
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 04:02 PM

Go home to your wife and family.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching Paris Burn
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 04:34 PM

and avoid the next line.....

Subject: RE: BS: Watching Paris Burn
From: pdq
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 10:03 PM

"Sit down by the fireside bright".

Yep, BillD. Sounds like a bad phrase to use in Paris right now.

BTW, France now allows marshmallow roasting but only by Fiat.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching Paris Burn
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 14 Nov 05 - 04:09 AM

Fiats' are shite, I should have bought a Citroen.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching Paris Burn
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Nov 05 - 04:21 AM

FIAT = fix it again tony.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching Paris Burn
From: GUEST,DB
Date: 14 Nov 05 - 05:50 PM

It's quite probable that youths are burning cars in Paris because it's seen to be cool to do so (well, it's rather warm, actually - but you get my meaning!). We, and the media, are assuming that they are doing it because they're poor - but I suspect that they're doing it because it's become fashionable - a much greater motivator than poverty.
God, I'm so cynical in my old age!!

Subject: RE: BS: Watching Paris Burn
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 15 Nov 05 - 09:56 AM

Maybe, but you're right.

Subject: RE: BS: Watching Paris Burn
From: M.Ted
Date: 15 Nov 05 - 04:13 PM

Hereabouts, they burn cars after reporting them stolen because they owe the finance company more than the car is worth--"They" being middle-aged white suburbanites--

Subject: RE: BS: Watching Paris Burn
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 12:35 PM

A couple years ago, I was staying in a hotel, a renovated building in the Latin Quarter of Paris. On my second day, I glanced at the desk in my room and saw - an ash tray. And I said to myself, "Good grief, I am staying on the sixth floor of a building with no way out but a narrow, winding, wooden staircase. There is no fire escape. There are no smoke detectors. And they don't just allow guests to smoke, they encourage them."

I'm never going to stay in a place like that again. I cheerfully renounce "historic, romantic and quaint" for "intelligent."

Paris must have thousands of unsafe buildings like this. It is time for France to join the twentieth century. (The present century would be too much to hope for.)

Subject: RE: BS: Watching Paris Burn
From: gnomad
Date: 17 Nov 05 - 05:27 AM

They are just showing how well their integration into French ways has taken: Take to the streets, burn stuff that doesn't belong to you, it's a riot.

Leeneia: it is a few years since I visited France, but unless things have changed a lot I think you will have been in a very small minority as a non-smoker. They would be less likely to offer a room with no ashtray than one with no window.