Re: American soldiers are weak and cowardly - Here's the proof!

[Keith Willshaw]

> wrote in message
thlink.net...
>

> > Trouble is you have to allow around 3 hours to get through
> > the security and check in process on US flights these days
> > but here in Europe I can get from London to Paris in that
> > period and clear customs and immigration on the train.
>
> True but they've been at it for longer in Europe. Americans are still
> getting used to the idea of all the security, and importunely allot of the
> personal that are manning the checkpoints aren't trained to the same
> standard or level the their counterparts in Europe are.

To be fair the main difference is that the trains are specialist
International
trains making many fewer local stops. It would be very hard to clear
the Toronto-New York train as it makes more than a dozen stops along the
way.

The other factors are that the distances between population centers
are much lower in Europe, this means that a city centre to city centre
journey of 500 miles is a long trip and that high speed rail can compete
much more realistically with air travel.

[Keith Willshaw]

"Kevin Brooks" > wrote in message
om...
> > Trouble is you have to allow around 3 hours to get through
> > the security and check in process on US flights these days
> > but here in Europe I can get from London to Paris in that
> > period and clear customs and immigration on the train.
> >
> > Keith
>
> You are exaggerating a bit, at least based upon personal experience.
> The general guideline for domestic flights is to arrive one hour
> before the flight; we just had four out-of-town guests arrive from and
> return to Chicago, and that hour was plenty for them both at O'Hare
> and at Reagan. Even if I took your example at face value, I would
> *still* be better off versus rail in most long-distance cases
> (guaranteed that the time it would take to clear security and fly from
> here to Boston would be one heck of a lot less than the seven or eight
> hours it would take by rail).
>
> Brooks

Not much based on recent experience

On my last flight out of Seattle (June this year) to SFO my flight was
due to leave at 7.40 and I arrived at the airport just after
5.00 and had no time to spare, arriving at the gate just as they
started boarding.

I spent over an hour standing in line just to check in and then another
40 minutes waiting to get through security. At this point they were making
everyone remove their belts and shoes and x-taying tme separately

The flight from JFK to LHR was almost as bad, my luggage was already
checked through but it still took almost 90 minutes to get from check in
to the gate.

Keith

[Brian Allardice]

In article >,
says...

>.....and one should include the US's allowing Canada to continue
>to exist as a non-productive dependency, insuring the vastly
>visible paranoid chip on many Canajun shoulders (or in some,
>bleedin' heart on their sleeves), in exchange for a modest
>supply of natural resources no other country could afford.

Hell... you don't actually want to run this place, do you? We would drive you
absolutely starkers
>
>Meanwhile, we let'em build Crown Victorias, gas bombs waiting to
>be struck from the rear, and sworn off of by many US police
>departments,

A cunning ploy, by, I dare say, a Yank company.... Our Hondas and Toyotas &c
are quite fine, thankyou very much.... this in just in line from the
Hindenburg/Pinto/Apollo difficulty with volatile fuels....


>The healthcare situation id
>precarious since at the current rate there will only be 36
>nurses left in the whole country within a decade, even young
>Filipinas will not emigrate there, LA being warmer,

Global warming is really working in our favour... we should be planning our
terawatt coal-fired plants now! Attracting Filipinas is no bad goal.....


>Meanwhile, you'll be out there, a'clubbing baby seals,

But they gobble up so much innocent cod!!!!!!

>longlining for the last school of cod, scalping the indigenes
>(figuratively, their pocketbooks) and training drivers to drive
>the tourist busses to the Fort Churchill city dump for "Bear
>Daze", the last growing job market in the whole frozen
>wasteland.

Hey, if you've got it, use it..... (pay no attention to those cans of white
spray paint....)
>
>Most of what I read posted by Canadians here about the US is not
>quite as accurate as the wisdom set forth above. With Coridon,
>paranoia has slipped well into psychosis and the need for
>medication has certainly ascended to "constant IV drip"
>dimensions. With most of the others it's simply a Douglas Fir
>sized shoulder chip, while Brian might get better if he would
>cut down to a few small whiskies befor missing dinner.

Och, wi' a fine Laphroaig, nothing whatsoever is missed.......

Cheers,
dba

(ah.... I am reading this in smn but I see it is going back to ramn Is that ok
with everyone... I almost never deal with headers.... and even then I generally
don't...so I've added smn, or at least tried to... and deleted the 'follow up'
is that ok? does it work? I've sent this back to smn and ramn, which I
don't know about What is the polite thing to do in such a case....?