Weird development of this thread…

This discussion started with the fact that the US government has approved a law which gives a legal basis for the US to take military actions against one of it’s allies – and it ends with the complete impossibility for some to understand the grudge certain Europeans have against the US… Is it so hard to see that it’s exactly this attitude the USA has in regard of other countries is the cause for the negative comments the US gets?

Regards from the second-best country on earth,

Arthur

RE: Thanks Guys 🙂 🙂 🙂

I thought the Sealies now occupy a former boomer? I saw something about it, and a google search resulted in this boat being USS Kamehameha (SSN 642). Guess a sub’s a bit more seaworthy and a little less conspicuous. I don’t think a sub is a decent platform for fishing and waterskiing.

Regards,

Arthur

Not only Moscow

Moscow is good, St. Petersburg might even be better…BUT! Don’t forget the smaller provincial cities and towns. Ufa! Vladimir! Minsk (where i have seen about fifteen dozen loves of my life in two days)! Or just some vague outback dusty kolkhoz on the plains somewhere near the Volga… it isn’t fair, the natural resources that country has.

Georgii, since you were at Zhukovskii last august: there was this one girl handing out programs at the entrance. She was such an absolute beauty, it was a definate shame i visited the airshow only two days!

Regards,

a perfectly happy and by no means frustrated
Arthur

RE: Miss Universe!

Completely agree with Georgii! Russian girls are beautiful – and usually extremely friendly as well.

Too bad that in my many, many experiences with Russian cops (GAI… pfff… hate ’em) i have yet to come across one who doesn’t look and behave if he just got transferred from guard duty at some Gulag camp.

Regards,

Arthur

Ahum, Kelly…

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 22-05-02 AT 03:58 PM (GMT)]…where should we meet up for that cocktail? (preferably a B-52 of course).

Here i am defending the cause of some German-speaking Democratic Republic dissolved over a decade ago… picture taken last monday at the Pinkpop music festival in my usual state of drunkenness at such events 🙂

Regards,

Arthur

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RE: Anyone from Nijmegen?

As the whole of Nijmegen is one great party after the march, you wouldn’t have a problem with amusing yourself. It really is fabulous.

As for beers, you should stay away from:
– Oranjeboom. Disgusting.
– Leeuw. Somehow, your kidneys hurt the day after drinking this. Tastes good though.
– Lindeboom. Not too good, unless you want to spend the next day sitting on the toilet.

Good ones are Brand (very good actually) and Grolsch. Heineken and Amstel are brewed with Amsterdam canal water }>, no further comment on those.

Regards,

Arthur

RE: Word Game

Thin

RE: Favourite War Movies / themes

Movie?
Most definately
Dr. Strangelove, or how i stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb Best war movie ever, absolutely hilarious! Likewise, No Man’s Land is definately worth seeing. Very good in portraying everybody in the Yugoslav civil war as morons 🙂

Best war movie soundtrack? That should be Black Hawk Down. Nice crossovers of Northern African folk music combined with industrial guitars and noise. Yeah!
Other candidates IMHO are in no particulair order:
– Platoon (Sgt. Barnes being killed in slow-motion with Harper’s Adaggio for strings on the background – very painful combination),
– Full Metal Jacket (especially the singing of the Mickey Mouse Club-tune at the end),
– Vera Lynn singing “We’ll meet again” during the apocalyptic ending of Dr. Strangelove
– Although i’m not much into 60s music (with a special dislike for the doors), Apocalypse Now is musically interesting because Ministry’s NWO is built completely with samples from this film.

Regards,

Arthur