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Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x03 - "The End is the Beginning"
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I think one needs a distinctly Japanese response to this comment: "Oh, my!"
I actually have a first edition of that book that I got from the old Science Fiction Book Club back in the seventy's around here someplace.
But it's been many, Many years since I read it.
Given what Picard is trying to allegorize, I think that some bringing in of current affairs can be expected. But let's do it with less needless editorial swipes at the Orange One. As mentioned, Miscellaneous or TNZ is the place for that sort of thing.
I want to think that this was meant in jest, but you may want to explain the joke to me. Generally saying "fuck you" is a good way to get a quick Warning.
you do recall what fuck you, sir" is?
Just like South Park showed, all politics boils down to a choice between a giant douche vs. a turd sandwich.
And I prefer Vulcan ears over Romulan Ears.
And I prefer Vulcan ears over Romulan Ears.
it's a quote from one of the ten best sf books written in america ... it doesn't mean what everybody thinks.
... the us army after nam decides that the ordinary grunt needs to swear about their officers and thusly replaces yes, sir! with fuck you, sir! - its henceforth standard army speech.
... i linked to the book
really, that's american culture not european misfitserea
the book
Or maybe Cornwallis?
The point being that Lafayette was on our side, fighting for the Revolution, but this random dad was teaching his kids that Lafayette was the enemy. So, yeah, the fact that the French played a big part in helping the colonists beat the British is possibly not as well remembered as it should be.
Alas, I could not think of a graceful way to correct him with embarrassing him in front of his kids, which I suspect would not go over well, so I had to bite my tongue and vent on the internet years later.
If I remember correctly it is used when the characters come to attention and is considered the appropriate response.
As I said it's been a long while since reading it.
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Louis also bankrolled the US government.Or maybe Cornwallis?
The point being that Lafayette was on our side, fighting for the Revolution, but this random dad was teaching his kids that Lafayette was the enemy. So, yeah, the fact that the French played a big part in helping the colonists beat the British is possibly not as well remembered as it should be.
Alas, I could not think of a graceful way to correct him with embarrassing him in front of his kids, which I suspect would not go over well, so I had to bite my tongue and vent on the internet years later.
Or maybe Cornwallis?
The point being that Lafayette was on our side, fighting for the Revolution, but this random dad was teaching his kids that Lafayette was the enemy. So, yeah, the fact that the French played a big part in helping the colonists beat the British is possibly not as well remembered as it should be.
Alas, I could not think of a graceful way to correct him with embarrassing him in front of his kids, which I suspect would not go over well, so I had to bite my tongue and vent on the internet years later.
come on, skip the von and get a parade
Didn't we use that money to build ships?
My Revolutionary War rememberings from school are also kinda vague now.
Mine too. I kick ass on European history.
Fitting, because on my reading of it, the book is a wish fulfillment fantasy for a scifi nerd who is desperate to get laid. Even his lesbian subordinate turns out to want to bang the main character.
I actually did a very early morning run with Mr. Takei back in the early 80's.
He came to a Star Trek Convention here in Albany, NY.
That was a lot of fun.
you sure we read the same book?
I think the prevailing attitude we have these days is, “what have you done for us lately, bitches?” We tried to bail their dumb asses out of the failed colonial mess they created for themselves in Vietnam and it took kicking Saddam’s ass (twice), a third-rate dictator at best, to finally excise those demons that haunted us for decades.
The French can most definitely go fuck themselves. But, we digress. That’s not really what this thread is about.
Yeah ... I'm thinking that upon reading a couple of excerpts of that book back then, is the main reason I got it.
I was a horny dog in my 20's back then.
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