March 15, 2005

Happiness

Yep! I ate some chicken tonight along with fettucine al fredo and some fried corn. In honor of douchebag douchebag I opened a bottle of beaujolais. Just trying to help the French economy which needs all the help it can get.

Liberal commenter, Jimmy posted the following on my Health Care post.


I find it odd that you compare the US and France so subjectively. Our perspectives on unemployment, employment, and health care, standards of living...all different. To say one is better than the other...a little absurd.

Does money make us better? Does being overworked help us? As you've said, we're now a country of unhealthy, overweight, violent, workaholics. And the benefits are? Oh, that's right...good medical care and money. Well, if our culture wasn't what it is, perhaps we wouldn't need it. I'd give up out fantastic medical care or our luxeries for mediocre if 2/3 of all the young women I met were attractive.

Wouldn't it be a better comparison to gauge the happiness of each population?

So living in France, amongst a bunch of dirty, stinking. backstabbing, ungrateful cowards would make you happier?

My reply:

Jimmy - Are you unhappy? I'm not. I'm very happy as are most of my rich friends who spent all of our lives exploiting poor people. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Of course I'm subjective. I see the world through my own lens. Where would you like to live? Here, or France? If it's France, why are you still here? What is the number one country in the world that people want to emigrate to? Is it France or the United States? Hint. It's not France.

We have the strongest economy. We are still the land of opportunity. We're still on the rise. France is on the decline. Their social welfare state is imploding. Ours will too if we cannot figger out how to address Medicare and Social Security.

His response:

People emigrate to money, and the US is where it's at. It doesn't mean living in the US makes for a happier existence.

I stayed in Montpellier for a little while. It was nice. I'd live in France if I could get a decent paying job to sponsor me for a work visa. There are probably other places I'd go first, but, yeah...France seemed alright to me. I wouldn't mind a year or two, there.

Shall I bring up the Maslov hierarchy of needs that I learned in my sociology class? Y'know, all that food, shelter, and protection stuff. People migrate to the United States because we are the land of opportunity. To many people money means happiness. It sure means happiness to me.

Working 31.5 years at IBM allowed me to live the good life. Along the way I was able to oppress widows and orphans while investing my money to become one of the eeeevil rich. I have enough money that I could probably live anywhere in the world. I own two BMW's (German company douchbag douchbag. You know. The country you surrendered to in WWII.) and a Toyota pickup. I also live in a 2500 square foot house. Can you match that buttmunch buttmunch? Throughout the world you hear about the American Dream. You never hear about the French Dream.

Since according to Jimmy, I guess, money does not buy happiness, I asked him why he didn't just move to France and take a low paying job. If money does not buy happiness, and he is not happy here, why is he here? Why not take a subsistence job in France?

His reply:

I'm sure there's a lot of places I could go and just barely get by. And, if I were unskilled, that would seem like a great option.

However, until I can speak another language fluently, I can do the most good here, with a higher paying job. After all, power is the ability to choose the redistribution of wealth. I will not abandon my responsibility for happiness.

So, until I'm bilingual, it looks like you're stuck with me.

Did you notice that "redisribution of wealth"? Spoken like a true communist. Jimmy, you're in the wrong country. You belong in France. And look. He says he is not happy. Why not learn Spanish and go to Cuba. They have "free" health care and could use your skills.

I guess Jimmy is just another unhappy liberal who is unhappy living in the United States but for some reason (in this case not being bilingual) doesn't want to leave.

Jimmy, fucktard fucktard would love to have you in France. Maybe you could stay with him until you learned French.

Delta is ready when you are.


Posted by denny at March 15, 2005 09:33 PM  
Comments

Jimmy, 25% of frogs are on tranqs.

They're pouring 15 billion euros in to make sure their HC doesn't suck like Britain's.

On 4 common cancers US leads all of them w/recovery rates.

Posted by: Sandy P on March 15, 2005 10:21 PM

Move to Quebec.

Posted by: Sandy P on March 15, 2005 10:22 PM

Sandy - But the health care is "free".

Posted by: denny on March 15, 2005 11:43 PM

Well, of course it's "free," what do you expect when they free-ride off our military and our seniors by not paying their fair share of prescription drug prices?

People shouldn't ask why are we paying more, it should be why are they paying less?

Can you imagine of Americans really started thinking that?

Posted by: Sandy P on March 16, 2005 01:06 AM


By the way: Bruno Peyron has just defeated Steve Fossett in the circumnavigation. He did it in 50 days instead of 57 for (he's great anyway) Steve and his boat Cheyenne.

Come on friends: u won't let the latest French technology spank ur ass this way no?!

But then Lance Armstrong has wone our Tour de France 6 times in a row. he spank our ass but good.

Posted by: coward on March 16, 2005 03:48 AM

hej Denny,

As u worked for IBM 31,5 yrs, I guess u know this one (or is it , as usua when something hurts you, a crap said by "Dimocrats-liberal"? :) )

Check this out:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jun2001/ibm-j27.shtml

or

http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/articles/auschwitz.html

And this one details few more companies:

http://www.stockmaven.com/dowinduname.htm

And let's talk about the Marshall Plan by looking this link:

http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/57.htm

Marshall Plan, a gift coming from the heart of US workers like Denny like to say? to an ungrateful Europe? Well well, business is business as usual with u guys. So thanks anyway but what was good for us, what good for ya! If our economies were fucked up so were your! It's as simple as that!
of course, article in English are always a little orientated.. It's hard to challenge your mind and critic mind when u got access to only one source of info.. too bad


My friend:

For USA, above all democratic bullshit you try to make us believe for 100 yr, only business counts (Thanks Dick Cheney and Halliburton.. and so on)

have guts, don't be once again a chicken, let these links..

and france only business counts. Oil for food. we france like to stab in back and be ungrateful for help from us.

Posted by: buttwipe on March 16, 2005 05:26 AM

Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand are all English-speaking nations that value "redistribution of wealth" far more than America. New Zealand and France are almost indistinguishable in values and global outlook; they are only divided by a language.
________________

Your new troll is such an adult. I am overwhelmed by the intellectual vigor needed to have e-mail addresses such as vomit@republican.fr and ha@hahahahahaha.com. Truly a intellectual giant of our time. Just look at the sentences "of course, article in English are always a little orientated.. It's hard to challenge your mind and critic mind when u got access to only one source of info..." and we can see we are dealing with a champion of intellect. Best to steer clear of him lest you have your brain overwhelmed by his mental puissance.

I am a little at a loss--given that he is such a towering genius, this should be expected--how Denny, who writes a blog on the Internet only has access to "one source of info", as though Denny is incapable of using Google, going to a bookstore, watching the History Channel, etc. I guess that is what separates vomit@republican.fr from everyone else: he has access to more than one source of info, so much so that it allows him to write incoherent phrases such as "article in English are always a little orientated" and "and critic mind when u..." that only he, in his elevated state of consciousness, is able to comprehend. Verily, were he to make it intelligible to the rest of us, it would take a vouchsafing on par with Zeus coming off Mt. Olympus to aid a child in wiping his buttocks...or one could use an online translation tool like babelfish or google, but geniuses don't need such things.

And I fail to see--I know, I know, I am not worthy of comprehending it--how a French individual beating an American in a race has anything to do with France or America as a whole. I suppose if the Chinese gymnastic team beats Americans at the Olympics, then China is a better nation. If Croatia beats America in basketball, then Croatia must be superior. Since my last three bosses were, respectively, an Indian, a China-man, and a Russian, those respective countries are better than America. Some might consider such a logic track infantile, risable, beneath contempt, and unworthy of comment at all. However...as this came forth from the fingers of a towering intellect, basic logic and reasoning need not apply.

I know I am unworthy but I went and found the 2003 GDP totals as compiled by World Bank. USA is first with about $10.8 trillion and France is 5th with $1.7 trillion. When you look at rate of growths between the two countries, you find France's at a blazing 0.1% and the USA's at a rather lethargic 3.1%. Wait...maybe I have my adjectives reversed.

We should all be honored to know Nietzsche's Superman has found time to grace us with his wisdom. I am forever humbled.

Posted by: addison on March 16, 2005 08:51 AM

u shouldhave read a liitle more our "conversations" that, Denny and we, have for few days..
i am an idiot, so i try to think and elaborate the same kind of intellectual process he use. unfortunately i too dumb as u can tell by me comments.

I promise to go away but i have to keep coming back to read because deny smarter than me.

PS: Republican are the one that elected Bush. Who is a great world leader . too bad we have Jackoff chirac who is typical france: coward backstabber idiot liar

Posted by: jerkweed on March 16, 2005 09:51 AM

I have read it all. Nothing I wrote would give the impression I have not. Your assumption was wrong.

By the way, if this were my site and someone wrote such poor English, I might just consider censoring him myself just to maintain overall readability. They have translators that would greatly improve your "writing". No cost to you, just a few moments of time. Here is one, give it a shot. You might like it when other people can understand what you are writing; you might come off as less a fool...or at least a more articulate one.

p.s., Your PS makes no sense. Republican should be plural (those pesky s's). Secondly, how is the information that Republican [sic] elected Bush supposed to be insightful or enlightening? Democrat are the one that elected Clinton. Wow, I feel smarter having written that, stating the obvious and all. The sky be blue. I like this.

And are you too cowardly to make a declarative statement concerning Bush? Afraid the black helicopters might show up to get the brave French Internet writer who stands up to George Bush or calls him names?

And, at least in America, it is "p.s.,", not "PS:".

Posted by: addison on March 16, 2005 10:17 AM

France is leading manufacture of white flags.

Posted by: French pussy on March 16, 2005 10:32 AM

By the way: I don't give a shit of Bush. God bless him

No, We came here 'cause of the French bashing stuff.
I don't mind of the rest, of USA, of Bush. Live in peace, buy as many guns and ammo as u can, slaughter as much as u can (nice week end for ya anyway). I don't mind.

But I mind when a genuis such as Denny use true arguments, point out reality, and point out what a bunch of cowardly cocksukers we are in France. Nazi were having the same logical and I don't like that because we surrender to them and had to have US rescue us because we such cowards. now we resent us because they did what we couldn't do. beat nazis.

This american give true vision of France and he's so funny to read! as u like to bash us, we like to try to bash him too but we too stupid to come up with creative insults.

Posted by: coward on March 16, 2005 10:39 AM

Addison - Don't you know that I get all my info off Fox News? My little troll suffers from a massive inferiority complex as do most French people. They realize history has passed them by and they will never relive their past glories. They are proud of their social welfare state with its low growth and high unemployment. He claims to have a great health care system but they had old people die of heat stroke in hospitals and nursing homes in 2003. Un-freaking-believable!

What is amazing is he seems to be unable to read the discalimer on my comment form and the rules of this site and then whines when I do exactly what I say I'll do when he post off topic stuff and uses uncreative insults.

I give him a pass on his English because he is, after all, French. I do feel sorry for him because he lives in a shitty country that will be a third world hellhole in about 30 years because of their population demographics and their imploding social welfare state.

Throughout the world, what is France known for? Cowardice and backstabbing. What is the United States known for? Freedom, liberty, and opportunity. There is the American Dream. There is no such thing as the French dream.

Read what this dude has to say. He's proud of being a lazy leech. That's why we outperform the rest of the world: we work harder and we are richer.

He's proud of the high Euro, while the French and German gummints are trying to get it down. The high Euro is bad for their economy but he's too stupid to know that. His knowledge of Economics, just like his knowledge of history and world affairs is abysmal.

He brags about his technology while his country built an aircraft carrier that never leaves port. Some technology.

Posted by: denny on March 16, 2005 10:42 AM

if my peepee were one centimeter shorter, i would have a scab on my ass.

Posted by: i stink on March 16, 2005 10:45 AM

haha! Le Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier? can't leave port. we jealous as USA has good aircraft carriers and a strong army. we have to depend on foreigners to defend us.

And part of our airport collapse recently. another triumph of our superior technology

Posted by: asshat on March 16, 2005 10:57 AM

Whats the deal with libs and free range chicken? Won't they pay for anything?

Posted by: Jeremy on March 16, 2005 11:02 AM

and did u like the link on the Renault Espace?
Isn't it a cool car?

Posted by: sss on March 16, 2005 11:21 AM

The latest in French values. And no, a picture of Donald Rumsfeld with Saddam Hussein, an ad hoc ally against a greater perceived threat (Iran), is not relevant or remotely comparable to Jacque Chirac buddying with Hugo Chavez, a Socialist dictator, in peacetime with no shooting war involving either country.

Remember, Chirac considered Saddam Hussein, ruler of rape rooms, murderer of Kurds, destroyer of Marsh Arabs, starver of millions of children, and human-shredding machinery aficionado, a "close friend".

Posted by: addison on March 16, 2005 11:21 AM

I much prefer the BMW Z3.

But Addison - that is the French way.

Posted by: denny on March 16, 2005 11:28 AM

Wow, I earned the pigeonhole of "Liberal Commenter"!

And Denny, you know damned well what my "redistribution of wealth" comment was about. Look at the sentence, for chrissake! In America we have the "ability to choose the redistribution of wealth." This is the true power of capitalism -- if you work hard, you will have more (money == power). But you want to label me as communist? Silly Denny...I didn't say I want the government to redistribute the wealth for you.

Posted by: Jimmy on March 16, 2005 11:54 AM

well.. i quite like the next Alfa Romeo 156 and waiting for the 157..

Posted by: ho! on March 16, 2005 11:58 AM

Jimmy - Do you not tend to lean to the left in your commenting? I'm sorry I misinterpreted your comment. Every time I see "redistribution of wealth" I go apeshit. Wealth is not redistributed. Wealth is earned. Redistribution says to me that wealth will be taken from one person (in our case, by the gummint) and given to another person.

Posted by: denny on March 16, 2005 12:14 PM

Denny,

One could view my comments as leftist, but then again, you fight so fervently for the right, *someone* needs to fight for the other side. I also get a kick out of playing devil's advocate.

It's alright. You are forgiven.

Posted by: Jimmy on March 16, 2005 03:02 PM

Jimmy,

If we as Americans are overworked, then are the French underworked? How do you judge if someone is overworked or not? If you rely on the personal testament from a person, wouldn't the majority claim they are overworked regardless of their origin? That goes along with the notion that according to each of us, we're ALL underpaid and I KNOW yours and my boss will say we are underworked.

If it's a standard based on hours, then how many hours should be used to reference an overworked mark? Forty? Fifty?

Something else that bugged me was the "2/3 of all young women I've met were attractive" statement. How long were you in France? Back in the navy we had this theory that 2/3 of all the women in ALL nations were beautiful. This is because the grass is always greener on the other side. After one's lived in the new host nation awhile the ratio of beautiful women to not so attractive appeared to be the same as here in the States. I suspect it has something to do with learning the language, more effectively communicating, and realizing that women everywhere are unfortunately(or fortunately depending on your perspective) the same.

I think I posted this too damn late.

Posted by: Crash on March 16, 2005 11:35 PM

Crash,

There are a number of ways to determine if someone is overworked. Sleep habits, comparisons to the average work week in other cultures, and public health statistics.

I don't think my boss would tell me that I'm underworked. I pull my weight.

The statement about attractive women was a criticism of the obesity epidemic in the US.

I was in France for 2 weeks. When I came back to the US, the first thing I did was I went to a breakfast deli with my brother. It was truly disgusting seeing all the morbidly obese stuff their faces. I never saw anything like that anywhere in Europe (except a few in Germany).

Of course, this is all based on my opinion that fat chicks are not attractive.

Posted by: Jimmy on March 17, 2005 11:55 AM

About fifty years ago, the U.S. Navy shipped me by train from Washington, D.C. to San Francisco to disembark to Japan for the Korean conflict.

We had an overnight layover at Dallas, TX and went to the YWCA for a dance. I had never seen 100% beautiful long-legged women before!

After a bumpy 50 years with the gummit, I ended up retired in Houston.

Uh...what happened to all the 100% beautiful long-legged women?

AC

Posted by: AC O'Brein on March 17, 2005 12:46 PM

Jimmy - As to attractive women, I echo the "grass is greener" theory. I think the women in Italy are very attractive, but then, I was only looking at the young ones. Remember the stereotype of Italian women getting heavier as they age. At the same time that we have the obesity epidemic here we have young women suffering from anorexia.

And the French? Remember their bathing habits.

I grew up in Missouri, but I think Southern girls are incredibly beautiful. Atlanta is full of them.

Posted by: denny on March 17, 2005 01:00 PM

I dunno, Denny...

I live in a college town...I see all the young girls comin' in...and yeah...there are some pretty ones, for sure...but over 50% are overweight. Just like the rest of America.

Anorexia is a bullshit middle class disease. They should all be given real problems to worry about. Cry me a river, bitches.

And as far as the bathing habits thing goes...isn't that just an antiquated myth? Like European women not shaving their legs? I smell more petruli oil here than I did stinky French in France.

Posted by: Jimmy on March 17, 2005 02:40 PM

I'm glad to read , at least , an unpartial comment Jimmy. And it is not myth. In France we seldom bath. that is why we use so much perfume. we are envious of Americans. They are brave and we are cowards.

Posted by: douchebag douchebag on March 17, 2005 03:12 PM

Look Frenchy, I'm not your friend. The last thing I need is someone with nonsensical sentence structure on my side. I'm just trying to dispel some irrational notions so that we may have civil discourse.

So...go back to your corner.

Posted by: Jimmy on March 17, 2005 03:26 PM

Jimmy - Now be nice to the frog. I tolerate him because he is a lot of fun. He was warned about what would happen if he didn't follow the rules, but he insists on being a guest in my home and insulting his host. If his insults were creative and amusing I wouldn't alter his comments. He keeps getting more and more pissed off which of course amuses me.

What college town do you live in? I agree with many of our women being overweight but, here in Atlanta, there are many mega-babes. I used to live right next door to one. All right, she was from Ireland, but she was a fox with a beautiful Irish accent. She married a friend of Algore and moved to Nashville. I was distraught. The one across the street was married and she and her husband moved to Philadelphia.

Check out the local health clubs. There are many women who are trying to keep the weight off. You just gotta know where to look for them.

Posted by: denny on March 17, 2005 03:43 PM

jimmy, never said we were friend: I hate american. noway we be friend.

Posted by: butthead butthead on March 17, 2005 03:59 PM

Load up and head north ass matter. In Canada (Oh Canada) they have all of the attitude but none of the atmosphere of France. And Canada is filled with douchebag tit huggers that are afraid of their own damn shadow, just like France. They don't have a military to defend them, just like France. And best of all that gay thing plays out well in Canada, just like France. I'm am not sure but I believe the women in Canada smell terrible and have pit hair, just like France. You can talk with a French accent and nobody would be the wiser that you were a complete dumbfuck, educated in a public school in the U.S.A. Beep beep! The short bus pulled up, get your extra chromosome and hop on refuckingtard. Next stop Montreal.

Posted by: jcook on March 18, 2005 01:44 PM

Did jcook just call me "ass matter"?

I had myself a Quebecois chick. She bathed regularly, was shaved in all the right places, and smelled sweet.

Posted by: Jimmy on March 18, 2005 05:28 PM
Post a comment