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The short version, when it comes to my comments policy, goes down to a line taken from the (mediocre) second opus of the Matrix:

"I built this place. Down here, I make the rules."

Let's elaborate a bit:

  1. Try to stay on topic. If you have a beef against the cow-fart(1) induced climate change and this post is about monkey spanking(2), then it's not the place to draw your sword(3).
    I have nothing against a freewheeling conversation, but if it's off-topic AND stupid or offensive, then it will have a badly limited lifespan.
  2. Consider the two following statements…
    • I'm totally open-minded when it comes to rational ideas.
    • It is quite obvious that Anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, Islamism, Nationalism, Racism, Collectivism(4) and Multiculturalism (non-exhaustive list) exist in complete contradiction with Reason.
    … And guess the total amount of tolerance you can expect from me if you indulge in any of these.
  3. If you shall persist in these ways nevertheless, understand that I'm not spending countless hours of work on this site to "reach out", "debate" with you, "understand" your "root causes" or "learn" about your religion. Unlike race, ideology is something we choose, and for which we must bear all responsibilities. I loathe your sick mindset and what you defend and promote. I've heard all your pitiful excuses for your despicable totalitarian psyche and your compulsion to coerce or enslave your fellow men and women in the name of some "greater good".
    So understand that this is not a public forum: it is my outpost in the culture war you wage against me, my kin, my rights and my freedom — thus, you will only be tolerated here, and only if I decide so. I call the shots and I owe you nothing. As a matter of fact, I don't like having you around, so the only argument you're truly entitled to hear from me would come, if you insist, amplified through the barrel of my Sig-Sauer high powered rifle(5) — because when it comes to intolerant scumbags, I'm an intolerant bastard.
    So keep your distances, and nobody gets hurt.
  4. I also have a very limited patience for social-democrats of all race and creed, center-of-center jellyfish and buttermonkey(6) hybrids, Blame-America-First (and always) Libertarians (usually of the Rothbardian school), Hollywood idiots & Festival-de-Cannes cretins and those Parisians who fancy themselves as an elite when they are nothing but the developed world's rednecks(7). However, I tend to ignore them, so they may consider themselves lucky if they manage to draw some sarcasm in colorful language from me.
  5. Yeah, and don't get me started on journalists and the Wonderful World of Mainstream Media...
  6. American and British soldiers (including the Commonwealth) stand on a special pedestal in my personal pantheon. Disrespect them here, and you'll quickly wish you'd rather stand naked in Mecca during Hajj, wearing only a sign that reads "Muhammad was a pedophile".
  7. I may moderate, remove or edit anything and give neither excuses nor explanations. It has nothing to do with "censorship": I am not a State, you are not a coerced citizen of said State and so you are always free to express yourself on your own facility and by your own means. Commenting is not a right, it is a privilege I grant or take away, according to my right as the owner of this place.
  8. My site is not awfully biased: it's shamelessly opinioned. If you're on my side, you get my vote and are free to rant 'n' roll. If not, live with it or go rot in the gutter.
  9. Oh and, if you're a vegan, be advised that I hunt, kill, cook(8) and eat all sorts of animals, and thoroughly enjoy the whole lot of it. Have fun with your carrots, Doc.
  1. Ha ha. Beef. Cow. Geddit?
  2. It's been known to happen.
  3. Neither is the guestbook by the way.
  4. That includes of course all its variations: Socialism, National-Socialist, Communism, Fascism, etc.
  5. With a loud 'Bang'
  6. Nope, don't know what species is that either, but it does sound like a particularly vile creature, doesn't it?
  7. Tell me London, New-York, Sydney or Tokyo, but Paris is a dump.
  8. Frequently in some sort of wine sauce or with loads of tears-pulling spices. Grapes and pepper count as veggie stuff right?

AVERTISSEMENT : selon mon expérience, ce qui suit ne s'applique pas à 99% de mes lecteurs. Malheureusement, l'expérience prouve aussi qu'il faut que cela soit écrit pour le pourcentage restant.

La version courte, concernant ma politique pour les commentaires, se résume à une ligne tirée du second (médiocre) volet de Matrix:

"J'ai construit cet endroit. Ici, je fais les lois."

Élaborons un brin :

  1. Il existe une subtile différence entre "être familier" et "traiter familièrement". Cela signifie que les culs-sales qui s'imaginent débarquer ici et me tutoyer comme si nous avions gardé les piquets de grève ensemble verront leur contribution à la conversation éradiquée sans autre forme de procès. Quelle que soit la pertinence de ladite contribution. Même si vous n'êtes Vraiment Pas Content® avec ce que j'écris, cela ne vous dispense pas de surveiller vos manières : tant que je n'ai pas été présenté à votre chère Maman, nous nous vouvoierons. Vu ?
  2. Évitez le hors-sujet. Si vous avez une rancune à l'égard de l'impact des pets de vache sur le changement climatique et que cet article traite de la fessée de macaque(1), alors ce n'est pas l'endroit d'où lancer votre croisade (2).
    Je n'ai rien contre une conversation à bâtons rompus, mais si c'est hors-sujet ET stupide ou insultant, ça aura une durée de vie salement limitée.
  3. Considérez les deux affirmations suivantes...
    • J'ai une ouverture d'esprit totale en ce qui concerne toutes idées rationnelles.
    • Il est évident qu' Anti-américanisme, anti-Sémitisme, Islamisme, Nationalisme, Racisme, Collectivisme(3) et Multiculturalisme (liste non-exhaustive) existent en complète contradiction avec la Raison.
    ... Et tâchez de devinez la dose totale de tolérance que vous pouvez attendre de moi si vous cédez à l'une de ces sirènes.
  4. Si vous deviez cependant persister dans ces voies, comprenez que je ne dépense pas un nombre incalculable d'heures de travail sur ce site pour vous "tendre la main", "débattre" avec vous, "comprendre" vos "causes profondes" ou "apprendre à connaitre" votre religion. Contrairement à la race, l'idéologie est le résultat de nos choix, et nous devons en supporter l'entière responsabilité. J'abhorre votre mentalité tarée, et ce que vous défendez et promouvez. J'ai entendu toutes vos pitoyables excuses pour votre détestable psyché de totalitaire et votre compulsion à forcer et réduire vos semblables en esclavage au nom d'un quelconque "intérêt général".
    Comprenez donc que ceci n'est pas un forum publique : c'est mon avant-poste dans la guerre culturelle que vous lancez contre moi, mes semblables, mes droits et ma liberté — vous ne serez que toléré ici, et seulement si je le décide. Je tire les ficelles, et ne vous doit rien. En fait je n'aime pas vous voir dans le coin, et en conséquence les seuls arguments de ma part auxquels vous puissiez réellement prétendre, si vous insistez, se transmettent par le canon de ma carabine de fort calibre Sig-Sauer(4) — Parce dès qu'ils s'agit d'ordures intolérantes, je suis un salaud d'intolérant.
    Alors gardez vos distances, et personne ne sera blessé.
  5. J'ai aussi un patience très limitée pour les sociaux-démocrates de toute confession et couleur, les centristes-du-centre fruits de l'union d'une méduse et d'un cul de singe, les Libertarés de l'École Rothbard conditionnés au "C'est la faute à l'Amérique, toujours et partout", Les Idiots d'Hollywood et les Crétins-de-Cannes, de même que ces parisiens qui se prennent pour une élite alors qu'ils ne sont que les bouseux du monde développé (5). J'ai cependant tendance à les ignorer, et ils peuvent donc s'estimer chanceux s'ils arrivent à me soutirer ne serait-ce qu'un sarcasme en langage fleuri.
  6. Ouais, et ne me lancez pas sur les journalistes et le Monde Merveilleux des Medias...
  7. Les soldats Américains et Britanniques (parmi lesquels j'inclue le Commonwealth) prennent place sur un piédestal particulier dans mon panthéon personnel. Manquez leur de respect ici, et vous souhaiterez rapidement vous trouver plutôt à la Mecque en période Hajj, tout nu avec seulement une pancarte autour du coup sur laquelle on puisse lire "Mahomet était un pédophile".
  8. Je peux modérer, supprimer ou éditer quoi que ce soit, sans fournir d'excuses ni d'explications. Cela n'a rien à voir avec de la “censure”, pour une raison très simple : je ne suis pas un État, vous n'êtes pas un citoyen opprimé dudit État et demeurez donc libre de vous exprimer sur votre propre support et par vos propres moyens. Commenter n'est pas un droit, c'est un privilège que j'accorde ou refuse selon mon droit de propriétaire des lieux.
  9. Mon site n'est pas affreusement partial, il est impudemment orienté. Si vous êtes de mon côté, vous avez mon aval et êtes libre de disserter à l'envi. Sinon, faites avec ou allez crever dans le caniveau.
  10. Oh, et si vous êtes végétarien, sachez que je chasse, tue, cuisine(6) et bouffe toutes sortes d'animaux, et que j'apprécie le tout sans aucune retenue. Soyez heureux avec vos carottes Docteur.
  1. C'est déjà arrivé.
  2. C'est aussi valable pour le Livre d'Or.
  3. Ce qui inclue aussi ses variantes : Socialisme, National-Socialisme, Communisme, Fascisme, etc.
  4. Avec un gros 'Bang'
  5. Londres, New-York, Sydney ou Tokyo, d'accord. Mais Paris, c'est un bled de cul-terreux.
  6. Généralement avec une sauce au vin, ou alors des poignées d'épices à t'arracher la tripaille. Le raisin et les piments, ça compte comme trucs de végétarien, non ?

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  1. Nope, don't know what species is that either, but it does sound like a particularly vile creature, doesn't it?
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Comments | Commentaires

Papertiger | 4 years, 10 months ago
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United States
10/23 2003
04:07 PM

so thats what an artisan does. I’ve been wondering…

That teacher is hillarious. What I wouldn’t give to slip under a crack in the system and be admitted to this class, ( that is if I possessed a conversational knowlege of French). I would age him that’s for sure. After a semester with me he would beg for his Renault job back. Gray hair and a restored spine , thats what an American artisan in King Louis’ court has to offer.
SparcVark | 4 years, 10 months ago
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United States
10/23 2003
04:44 PM

Wow.

Just wow.  How many inacuraccies can a man cram into a single lecture?  Shot trying to reach Beverly Hills.  Wow.

I think this has been mentioned before, but I work in the healthcare industry here in the US (more or less), and it is hard to find a for-profit hospital.  All of our clients are not-for-profit, and every hospital I could think of (including the hospital in my somewhat podunk hometown) were non-profits.  (And Marquette General Hospital has an MRI facility and at least one neurosurgeon, for a population of about 22,000.)

Also, to refuse care is illegal - we lost a client or two because of all the money they spent on charity cases.  Long-term care can be a problem, but even the uninsured will be treated when they arrive.

That aside, I think the apprenticeship system is sound, and I’m sorry to hear the Ministry of Education doesn’t like it.  For my job (systems administrator), I learned more of my skills working on-the-job throughout college than I did in class, as good as the classes were.
Ms. Andi | 4 years, 10 months ago
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United States
10/23 2003
09:56 PM

I had my car worked on recently.  My mechanic and I had an interesting conversation.  We talked about baseball.  Golly, we Yanks are such simple folk.
Guillaume | 4 years, 10 months ago
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Europe
10/24 2003
02:16 AM

Unfortunately, I had the same experience lately. I’m a student in a french engineer school, whose name I won’t discolse until I graduate, and we have an ‘energetics’ course, where we’re supposed to learn everything about the engines.

The teachers, however - I nicknamed him ‘captain planet’ afterward-, spend the whole term telling us that the world was doomed because the American violated the Kyôto protocol, and if everything is bad in the world, it is because of the American, and, did I tell you that Bush is the worst moron ever? Which, engines? We are dealing with the problems of the world, little heartless student!

Hopefully, I spent some time in the us this summer, where I could find some real infomration about the Kyôto protocol and its inefficiency, and, oh yes, a piece of information about the engines.

During the test, of course, the questions were not about engines, but about ‘global warming’, and the teacher was essentially checking that you were thinking in agreement with the official party line.

Strangely enough, we are not able to retreive our sheets…

The more time I spend there, the more I question the usefulness of school, when you can go and find a more accurate lesson in any good american public library.
Gnarf | 4 years, 10 months ago
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Poland
10/24 2003
02:30 AM

Excellent!

I had a IES teacher (Initiation of Econmy and Social). He spent one year explaining us that everything was cheated in newspapers, that we should learn to read what’s hidden.

And what was the hidden truth? Companies, stock exchange, business, liberalism, USA are pure evil.

1 year of brain washing.
LaFéeC | 4 years, 10 months ago
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France
Website
10/24 2003
09:46 AM

J’en reviens pas !!

Franchement DF, qqun d’autre m’aurait raconté ça, j’y aurais pas cru..

C’est dingue, c’est scandaleux..

Par contre, je savais déjà qu’une bonne partie des profs d’apprentis étaient des syndicalistes qui voulaient pas bosser..

C’est affolant, je vais finir par faire des tas d’enfants que j’éduquerais moi même !! Sinon, quelle sera la relève ?!

biseS

Claire
Papertiger | 4 years, 10 months ago
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United States
10/24 2003
09:54 AM

So many people witnessing simular teaching level begs the question,

Is political leaning a requirement for a vocational teaching job in France?

Perhaps some of you have taken a test to be a Vo/tec Teacher.

Were any of you passed over after “failing” the anti American aptitude test?
Nightfly | 4 years, 10 months ago
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United States
10/24 2003
12:52 PM

Sounds like American university in some ways.  College-aged coworkers in my department have told me some tales.  Did you know that Shakespeare’s Henry V was about Bush going to war with Iraq to steal their oil?  Or that Clinton’s statements on Saddam re: WMD were legit, while Bush/Powell/Rice/Rumsfeld’s well-nigh-identical statements on the same were false, simply because Clinton cared more?

I’m told of wonderful places in my favored land, called “flyover country,” where people actually learn things in school, and patriotism isn’t the last refuge of the scoundrel, and folks actually care enough to help other folks without (or instead of) talking about it.  I’d love to see it sometime.  Until then, there’s the dacha.  Keep it up DF, sounds like you may have found an unwashed brain in your mechanic’s shop.
Valerie | 4 years, 10 months ago
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France
10/25 2003
04:35 PM

Oh, Diss.  If it weren’t so sad, it would be funny.  But it’s good to know that some young French people actually have enough sense to see the Big Lie when they hear it.
Gina | 4 years, 10 months ago
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United States
10/25 2003
11:18 PM

All I can say is Holy S...!

A teacher’s manual?  That’s not good, but it does explain quite a bit.

There’s many people here in the good ole USA that decried our “generation,” but I’ve found that this said generation is now risking their lives in the current war.  While in two different locations, it all equals to one war.

And the voices I heard are all strong, and tell me they believe they are fighting on the right side.

Say what you like.

I have great faith in this “generation.” I hope to see a few of them go for Congress or Senate.  Hey, even President.  They’d have my vote.  They are true leaders.

They go to fight, where they are ordered.  And they get blasted for it.  Compare this war to Vietnam?

Please.  Some of the vets from ‘Nam were spit on.

I bet a few of the anti-war people will do the same.  All for following orders.  And where is the sense of that?

We need to finish whatever the hell we started.

This ain’t ‘Nam.  This is Iraq.  And there is hope.

I just hope the current Admin (read...Bush &ompany get a heads up) learn that.  Too much money is going to US companies instead of Iraq companies.  This wasn’t a third world country, after all.

Think about it.  Think Cheney.  If that doesn’t do it, think Haliburton.  Do a Google.

Not right.

The people of Iraq could reassemble quicker, cheaper, faster, etc....but no.

And now we have attacks.  Our guys are dying 1 or 5 a day without doubt.  That’s not right.

My point?

Iraq isn’t America.  The citizens of Iraq deserve a voice, deserve to re-define their country.  It belongs to them after all.  A lot of money is going to American companies.

And that isn’t right.

It’s time to let the people of Iraq help rebuild said country.

They aren’t happy, isn’t that obvious?

And as for the answers, I don’t have them.  But I don’t think we are listening to the people of Iraq.  If they want live under people who believe the women have no rights, the women should hide themselves or else it’s their fault they get raped.

Fine.  Have at it.

IMHO, I’m done.  You can only go so far.

We got rid of Saddam, and now they want him replaced by someone worse.  And the people of Iraq seem to want it.

Ok.  Let them have it.

And when they cry to us the Next Time about human rights....well, just ignore them.

After all, we are the Great Satan.
SparcVark | 4 years, 10 months ago
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United States
10/27 2003
12:44 PM

There was a poll taken of Iraqis recently, Gina.  You might be interested by the results - take a chance and look them up.

Iraqis are human like the rest of us.  They prefer freedom to tyranny, safety to danger.  Most want the US Army to stay until things have stabilized and they can elect a new government.

Note that this election of a new government will be through the courtesy of the armed forces of the United States, United Kingdom, Poland, and others.  No thanks to the EU and UN, to their shame.
JFM | 4 years, 10 months ago
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France
10/30 2003
01:45 PM

Americans!  Don’t laugh!  Such things also happen in the USA.  Now notice that this bastard is making his propaganda at TAX PAYER’S EXPENSE.  If you learn that your children (or other people’s children) are being indoctrinated then SUE, Start a class action against him and the institution employing him and don’t rest until he has refunded his unearned salary for his entire career.  Once a couple of them have been bankrupted by the parents of their pupils the others will stop abusing of their position.
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Date: 23rd October, 2003