Avgas in France has reached $7.50/gal !

"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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"Bob Fry" wrote in message
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So, no, I'm not going to remain silent when some ignorant (and proud
of it) mid-west yahoo vomits on this newsgroup.

Although stereotyping mid-westerners is also undesirable.

Welcome to Bob's world.

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On 16 Apr 2005 10:15:37 -0700, Bob Fry
wrote in
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On a personal level, the best vacation I ever had was my trip to
Europe, where my wife and I visited only France.

You speak with the wisdom of a cosmopolitan traveler. I suspect that
Mr. Honeck has never stepped foot in France or anywhere else in
Europe, else how can his provincial attitude be explained?


Reminds me of the time I was on vacation and passing through Utah. A
waitress in the delightful little town of Torrey said "you have strange
English accents, say where are you folks from?" "England", we replied.
"What state is that in?" she asked. We just smiled. Any further explanation
was going to be a mite challenging.
It is a common occurrence but then I do tend to be in places like Torrey
when I have vacations in the US.

cb

You and Gary deserve each other. Pot - Kettle - Black.

You seem to be quite good at slmming goups of people too, such as
midwesterners.

See ya. Not.

Plonk
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:

You and Gary deserve each other. Pot - Kettle - Black.

You seem to be quite good at slmming goups of people too, such as
midwesterners.

See ya. Not.

Plonk

Hey, plonk me too. I also think the French are morons.

"Newps" wrote in message
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Morgans wrote:

You and Gary deserve each other. Pot - Kettle - Black.

You seem to be quite good at slmming goups of people too, such as
midwesterners.

See ya. Not.

Plonk

Hey, plonk me too. I also think the French are morons.


Second that!

"Matt Barrow" wrote in
news

"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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In article ,
Andrew Sarangan wrote:

It may be true that hospitals provide emergency care without first
asking for insurance. However, they will ask for it afterwards. How
else do you explain the fact that medical bills are a leading cause
of bankruptcies in this country?

how about because medical care costs can be the single largest
expensive in someone's life?

And the fact that very few people carry catastrophic coverage any
more, figuring that $10 doctor visits are a better alternative than
covering the $250-500K situations.

Kinda like getting car insurance to cover oil changes, but limiting
coverage to $1000 and getting waxed when your $25,000 car gets
totaled.




20% of employed Americans do not have health insurance. Many small
employers do not provide any kind of health coverage. Those of us
fortunate to be employed by large organizations may not appreciate this.
If those people buy insurance, the high premiums will drive them into
bankruptcy with greater certainty than taking a chance without
insurance. Either way they are doomed.

Andrew Sarangan wrote:

Either way they are doomed.

A risk? Yes.
Doomed? Gimme a break.

Larry Dighera wrote:

On 16 Apr 2005 10:15:37 -0700, Bob Fry
wrote in
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On a personal level, the best vacation I ever had was my trip to
Europe, where my wife and I visited only France.


You speak with the wisdom of a cosmopolitan traveler. I suspect that
Mr. Honeck has never stepped foot in France or anywhere else in
Europe, else how can his provincial attitude be explained?

I can't speak for Jay, but I've travelled extensively in Europe, lived
in England for more than 4 months and have travelled in Asia a little as
well. I don't find the French terribly less friendly than other
Europeans, however, it is true that they are the least friendly of the
Europeans in my experience. The Brits, Germans and Russians are all
friendlier and more helpful to business travelers and tourists alike.

Having said that, the only group in France that I'd particularly single
out as being rude and very unhelpful are the taxi drivers. I used taxis
on my first three business trips there and each was a disaster. I
decided to rent a car and try driving after that figuring it couldn't be
as bad as dealing with French taxi drivers. I was right. Driving in
France wasn't bad at all and much better than putting up with arrogant
cabbies who seem to delight in causing their fares grief.

However, Europe in general doesn't come close to Asia in dealing with
business visitors and tourists. Japan, Taiwan and Korea are miles ahead
of anywhere in Europe.

Unfortunately, I've never had the change to fly privately anywhere other
than the US so I can't compare GA in Asia to Europe, but I don't think
either can compare to the US.


Matt

"Newps" wrote

Hey, plonk me too. I also think the French are morons.

I'm not plonking the anti French. Just the ones spewing forth loads of
crap, just because someone made a simple statement, jumping the ones who let
their fuel prices rise to crazy highs, while doing nothing.

While the French can be wonderful, there are some who really leave tourists
with a bad taste. I have had the worst service, and been treated more
rudely in France, than anywhere else. I was not being an "ugly American" at
the time, either.

If you ask me, this whole thing has been blasted way out of size. I'm done
with it, now.

See ya!
--
Jim in NC

Martin Hotze wrote:

mabe they fought against the system back then and you don't know about
having little heroes in your family.

Naw -- they were all over here by then. Changed the name to "Blackwelder", though.

George Patterson
There's plenty of room for all of God's creatures. Right next to the
mashed potatoes.