Clearing up a common confusion

[blamebrampton]

This is a nation with SOCIALISED medicine:


This is a nation with SOCIALIST medicine: 


SOCIALISED =/=SOCIALIST
and, just to be absolutely clear,
SOCIALIZED =/= SOCIALIST

Please feel free to print this out and distribute it if you find yourself listening to the sort of people that have seen me screaming at the news coverage all week.

I swear, if I was an American and some of the Libertarian loonies leading 'community' concerns came to my door, I would scream: 'COMMUNIST CONCERNS?? AIEEEEE! Fetch me the shotgun, Fido! Time to shoot me some trespassing Reds!'

Admittedly, this raises the questions why an American me would have a dog trained in gun fetching, and speak like Christopher Walken taking the piss, but let's just move on.

Comments

[raitala.livejournal.com]

If Brammers were an American...the mind boggles.

Speaking of cultural idiosyncrasies, Google Translator translates the Finnish word 'rahvaanomainen' (usually translated as common or vulgar) as 'non-U'. LOL! Not, I think a totally mainstream translation :D

[fourth_rose]

Given that these people use the insults "nazi" and "communist" interchangeably, I doubt explanations will help...

Of course, I say that as a diehard socialist who knows what the term means ;-)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I KNEW Nancy Mitford had faked her own death!

An American asked me to marry him once. I'm still a wee bit afraid ...

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I have decided to embrace Barney Frank and loudly declare 'It's like arguing with a dining table!' when such idiotic attempts at rhetoric are trotted out.

Where are the intelligent conservatives of yesteryear?

[raitala.livejournal.com]

Her spirit is haunting the internet, casting traps of obscure elitist English-usage for the unwary.

There would be lots of upsides. You may not get to benefit from a welfare state of any kind but you would get a really, really big fridge all of your own.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I would have killed him within the week. Although, as you point out, I could easily have hidden the body in his whitegoods for long enough to flee the country ...

Net!Nancy is probably the reason people who write bad porn receive static shocks on leaving their desks.

[raitala.livejournal.com]

I LOVE the idea of Net!Nancy.

"Now really that is just too bad!" *zap*

[fourth_rose]

*nods*

A friend of mine always uses the phrase "like trying to talk French with a cow" on such occasions...

Where are the intelligent conservatives of yesteryear?

I guess that compared to what "conservative" has come to mean these days, they're all considered liberals now ;-))

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

'I think you'll find that isn't newsworthy.' *crashes Twitter*

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I love that phrase, too! And I fear that you are right. Oh dear ...

[raitala.livejournal.com]

Her and Evelyn Waugh have probably been responsible for all the glitches in Twitter, LJ and facebook recently *nods*

They also want to know what has happened to the intelligent conservatives.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Ghost!Evelyn used to haunt Hollywood, but gave up in disgust when Titanic won Best Picture. He decided to work with Net!Nancy when Auberon died and began frequenting all the best clubs in the afterlife.

Nancy made Evelyn cry with laughter when she accurately observed that Ronald Reagan was, retrospectively, a great Conservative intellectual.

[niennas-gift.livejournal.com]

Don't get me started. No seriously. Don't. get. me. started. My country has some of the most ignorant - and dangerous - people of anywhere I can imagine. If this health care legislation doesn't pass, I will be unspeakably pissed off.

Don't you love how we fling around terms we don't understand?

[raitala.livejournal.com]

Hee! Can't see being dead stopping those two's grand belittlement of everyone and everything. God knows there is still plenty for them to get their teeth into :P

[raitala.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, everyone knows accuracy is just gay! ;)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I comfort myself in the knowledge that, despite the assertions of your rubbish televisual media (print still has bastions of excellence), most Americans are sane, thoughtful and compassionate people.

Now if we can just convince politicians to turn the bloody television off!

And every country has its morons. Yours just has more cameras to capture them. Still, Barney Frank brought great joy to my week. I'm thinking of sending him a thank you card.

(BTW, *hugs!* OH! And the post office found my package, it is wending its way back here, and I will send it to you again!)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Milton Friedman is more afraid of Nancy than Decca, which is quite the feat given that Decca knows her explosives.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It does make me tremendously happy, yes ;-)

[raitala.livejournal.com]

Loosing the odd limb, especially when you are already dead, is not that worrying. Nancy, however, can destroy the whole fabric of your being and your right to exist, just by making a cutting observation on your table manners or trouser turn-ups.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

His comb-over.

[oldenuf2nb.livejournal.com]

I love you so hard right now, you know that, right?

Here's the problem for us American's. White, over middle-aged, undereducated sheep posing as conservatives=/=intelligent. Like Barney Frank said; it's like trying to have a conversation with the dining room table.

[rickey-a.livejournal.com]

Quotes the Gospel"

[sarcasticpixie.livejournal.com]

Barney Frank's one of mine! I promise, Massachusetts is a different kind of state. We've had mandatory health care reforms in place since July 1, 2007, and while the execution's been messy (it's a combination of employment legislation and low-income guidelines and it's what I spend my days dealing with), the idea behind it is noble.

Barney also claimed that he couldn't finish the Starr Report because it had too much hetero sex in it.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I think I am in love.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

hee! Alas, like so much satire, so true ...