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Old 12-14-2018, 08:42 AM
 
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The NYT has been indulging in some serious Brit-bashing of late.
Among their more ludicrous stories is about local citizens stockpiling tins of food in advance of Brexit.
So they had another attempt at stirring the pot by putting out a tweet asking Londoners to recount their experiences of petty crime.
Thousands responded - although not quite in way the NYT expected.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1...-york-times%2F

https://spectator.us/petty-crime-london-new-york-times/

I suppose it makes for a bit of light relief from their relentless Trump-bashing but perhaps they didn't realise that Brits have a dry sense of humour and don't take too kindly to Yanks dissing their place.
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Old 12-14-2018, 08:43 AM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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#Woke
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Old 12-14-2018, 08:57 AM
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Location: Great Britain
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I look foward to my regular boiled mutton, poridge, gruel and lard.

Can you send some more land lease money and a red cross parcel.

I had my hand embroidered hankerchief stolen from my pocket the other day by a young blonde boy who I believe was to referred to as Oliver and another boy he called the Artful Dodger, whilst on the way home I also noticed a manwhistling in public, and to make matters worse there was a woman standing on the wrong sideo of the Tube Esculator.

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Old 12-14-2018, 09:04 AM
 
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I look foward to my regular boiled mutton, poridge, gruel and lard.

Can you send some more land lease money and a red cross parcel.



Funny you bring up fighting for crumbs and leftovers, you are grateful for.
If government gives, it certainly can take away and force you to beg.
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Old 12-14-2018, 09:11 AM
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Funny you bring up fighting for crumbs and leftovers, you are grateful for.
If government gives, it certainly can take away and force you to beg.
I usually go to the shops or order on-line for my food and not to the Government.
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Old 12-14-2018, 09:13 AM
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No doubt the racist ny times is opposed to the will of the britts, and doing the bidding of globalism.
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Old 12-14-2018, 09:14 AM
 
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I usually go to the shops or order on-line for my food and not to the Government.
The marching in the streets, begging their government, is for the peasants and below you. I get that.
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Old 12-14-2018, 09:17 AM
 
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Only the dullest and most easily influenced of people pay any mind to the NYT these days. It's not even suitable as fish wrap.
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Old 12-14-2018, 09:32 AM
 
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The marching in the streets, begging their government, is for the peasants and below you. I get that.
Oh my; this nonsense is brought to you from someone living in a veritable hodge-podge of government begging systems……

https://wellkeptwallet.com/statistics-welfare-america/

https://money.cnn.com/2018/02/13/new...now/index.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt...their-families
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Old 12-14-2018, 09:34 AM
 
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The NYT has been indulging in some serious Brit-bashing of late.
Among their more ludicrous stories is about local citizens stockpiling tins of food in advance of Brexit.
So they had another attempt at stirring the pot by putting out a tweet asking Londoners to recount their experiences of petty crime.
Thousands responded - although not quite in way the NYT expected.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1...-york-times%2F

https://spectator.us/petty-crime-london-new-york-times/

I suppose it makes for a bit of light relief from their relentless Trump-bashing but perhaps they didn't realise that Brits have a dry sense of humour and don't take too kindly to Yanks dissing their place.

Most of that was in the Daily Mail on line .
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