tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512022050229968490.post6278456495139412850..comments2024-03-27T22:53:00.759+01:00Comments on A Hippo On the Lawn: High Noon (I mean high tide)Hippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09468795398813061897noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512022050229968490.post-71011167479363558222012-03-07T06:46:03.083+01:002012-03-07T06:46:03.083+01:00You see, Tom, I live in the dictatorial society of...You see, Tom, I live in the dictatorial society of the US, where we are entitled to as much justice as we can afford. The wealthy screw the impoverished - and the political officials are happy to shake hands with the masses and pick the pockets of the wealthy, doing their bidding for them. In other words, a highly civilized society... <br /><br />Freedom loving democracy you say? What's next, fairness and justice? For all peoples? No sir, not here. In the US, we have a Congress and a President, and then we have the general public. Essentially two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner...Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01312337645203095131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512022050229968490.post-79505301136451027422012-03-07T00:02:52.080+01:002012-03-07T00:02:52.080+01:00I hope this neighbour of yours doesn't read yo...I hope this neighbour of yours doesn't read your blog. No point in tipping your hand unduly.<br /><br />I think you showed great restraint and that you're right.<br /><br />On the 100,000 vs 1,000,000 thing, yes one number is lower than the other, but percentage-wise, you may have lost just as much or more. If you are tapped out at this point whilst he still has revenue and savings, then you have lost more.<br /><br />Easy to see why it'd be hard to like him.<br /><br />Since the full moon coming in the next few days, the tides will run a bit higher and lower. Twould make more sense to wait until the moon wanes, mark where the high water went, and take things from there.<br /><br />good luck,<br />meganmegan blogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04555646904983619596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512022050229968490.post-55613401319708741792012-03-06T22:41:13.324+01:002012-03-06T22:41:13.324+01:00Hippo, mine wasn't paranoia so much as a reque...Hippo, mine wasn't paranoia so much as a request for advice. Is it preferable in this situation to let him know, or are you putting it together secretly for now?<br /><br />I'm ignorant because I come from a society civilized enough to have separated the classes more clearly: no bloke with that much cash would have lived close enough to me to cause him any trouble.Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05409883521642115031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512022050229968490.post-29762126751086204942012-03-06T21:48:30.440+01:002012-03-06T21:48:30.440+01:00Johnny D...
I am so glad you picked up the heavy ...Johnny D...<br /><br />I am so glad you picked up the heavy irony in that remark of mine. What reflection on our society that for my Mother, who was looking forward to retirement with my Father was actually better off with him dead. <br /><br />Clearly I can't ask him how he feels about it but two weeks before he died we were both in Bratislava buying antiques to stock the shop he was going to run in retirement so we both had plans which, for the first time in our lives, included each other.Hippohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09468795398813061897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512022050229968490.post-47280763407560500092012-03-06T21:27:18.576+01:002012-03-06T21:27:18.576+01:00Ursula,
you are quite right. This word verifica...Ursula, <br /><br />you are quite right. This word verification thing on blogger is just about incomprehensible and deeply frustrating. I have the same problem commenting on my favourite blogs. I have killed it on mine now so I hope that makes things easier for everyone.<br /><br />I never had anything to do with the Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti. Certainly not since 1991 and me suddenly resigning my commission and leaving for Africa about the same time as STASI files fell into West German hands was a vile coincidence.<br /><br />Josh, Phil, what kind of dictatorial society do you live in to be so afraid of taking photos?<br /><br />Angola is a People's Freedom Loving Democracy and under the eternal leadership of The Father of the Nation the Freedom Loving Peoples understand their duty to denounce anyone who disagrees to the State Security Services who dutifully remove their contaminating influence on society by jailing them.<br /><br />As this is a democracy, we now neeed evidence so I am authorised to take photographs, wallets, fingertips etc.Hippohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09468795398813061897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512022050229968490.post-40686590594101873002012-03-06T21:17:28.522+01:002012-03-06T21:17:28.522+01:00"... he had the decency to die in his garage ...<i> "... he had the decency to die in his garage six months before retirement so my Mother cashed in the full military, company death in service and widow’s pensions. Inland Revenue call that unearned income, so have most of that away but still, when he keeled over, it was the thought that counted. ..."</i><br /><br />Fucking unearned income - bullshit! Those arseholes need to appreciate the amount of 'earning' a serviceman's wife and family have to go through in a lifetime hitch just to keep them in a comfortable 'earner' without someone shoving a bayonet up heir rear end as they are frog-marched to a pockmarked brick wall or a stake on a beach at low tide.<br /><br />btw - you handled the Rico situation well but heed the advice of not being copped taking the photos and just who he may have in his pocket! Be prepared and stay alert!JohnDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00608216150220329902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512022050229968490.post-27267337888616675832012-03-06T19:38:47.336+01:002012-03-06T19:38:47.336+01:00Tom, since you appear to be a hands-on-man: If you...Tom, since you appear to be a hands-on-man: If you were a woman how'd you recommend to best deal with you, the man?<br /><br />U<br /><br />PS You weren't a Russian spy once, were you? Are you paranoid or something? To break into your comment box one needs two pairs of contact lenses and some imaginationUrsulahttp://bitchontheblog.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512022050229968490.post-62543099238057957052012-03-06T18:57:12.174+01:002012-03-06T18:57:12.174+01:00"On the other hand, a guy that breaks the law..."On the other hand, a guy that breaks the law in front of witnesses very sympathetic to you the results of which will cause some very obvious damage to your property, that is the guy you do not punch. That is the guy you are real nice to while searching for the before photos on the laptop and taking the after photos which will be duly presented to the relevant authorities deciding the level of compensation."<br /><br />Absolutely brilliant! Just make sure he doesn't have any of said relevant authorities in his hip pocket on graft. Don't tip him off though and let him see you taking any photos. Happy reading!Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01312337645203095131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8512022050229968490.post-42616363133219017282012-03-06T17:19:34.816+01:002012-03-06T17:19:34.816+01:00Sounds right to me, Tom. Between the idea for the...Sounds right to me, Tom. Between the idea for the store and the manner in which you've run it, you've definitely got some community credit built up. A question: Did you let him see you taking pictures?Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05409883521642115031noreply@blogger.com