A new post on MR Express (link) reports that Faller has declared bankruptcy in Germany. Hopefully they can come through this intact.
There’s already a thread on this in the general section: http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/t/159434.aspx. As I remember, several of the posters there thought that “sympathy” was a word in the dictionary between “shipe” and a type of STD.
LOL. Both a new word I had never seen before and the use of a favorite RAH quote from TMIAHM as a template for your comment - not bad [:D]
It is sometimes funny for me to see what weird fantasies (Edit: some elderly middle aged) conservative Americans (like Sheldon) has about “socialist Europe”. Must be due to getting a few too many of their “facts” about the rest of the world from “balanced” people like Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter or Bill O’Reilly.
Too bad we don’t actually have 12 weeks of vacation over here [:D]
BTW - in the interest of being “fair and balanced”, I guess I should add that there are some people in Europe with some pretty weird beliefs about life in the US, too.
Grin,
Stein
Person I used to work with used the word “shipe” to replace another not-so-socially acceptable term, as in “when the shipe hits the fan”.
You’ll have to clue me in on RAH and TMIAHM. Guess I’m too old to know what they mean. You can send me a PM if they’re socially naughty.
Oh, and the two things I miss about work are the 10 paid holidays and the 6 weeks vacation. Not quite the 12 weeks off you get, but pretty close.
And as regards those three names you mentioned, the less said about them the better!
mmm, painting with a very wide brush aren’t we Stein?
The biggest fantasy is the socialist belief that everyone wants socialism and if you don’t you must be brain washed by guess who? Thank god we have several sources of news, if the fair and balanced network makes you squirm, good. They are doing the job, perhaps you should stop listening to your “fair and balanced” sources, you are confused about who is dishing out the truth.
Don’t take this the wrong way, but many “elderly conservative Americans” aren’t concerned about socialist Europe, except when “socialist Europe” tries to convince us it’s a better way and that we should “change”
MInd your own business and stay out of ours, and keep your damn politics and beliefs off of a train forum.
Grinning
LOL. I googled “shipe”, and it seems like there is a urban slang word “shipe” too - which apparently means “sleeping with someone” in the literal sense of the words - ie actually sleeping in the same bed, without anything else happening.
Just seemed funny in the context of your quip about “sympathy” being a word in the dictionary somewhere between “shipe” and what you referred to as “some type of STD” [:)]
Not very naughty - there was an American science fiction author named Robert Anson Heinlein (often abbreviated RAH among Science Fiction readers). He was a decidedly conservative guy, who wrote quite a few science fiction books with a decidedly conservative bent.
One of his books was “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” (TMIAHM), which was about a moon colony which declared independence from earth in a fashion fairly reminiscent of the US declaring independence from England during the American War of Independence.
One of the quips he made in that book was “sovereignty is a word in the dictionary, somewhere between sober and sozzled” - which fit the exact same mold as your comment about sympathy (a word in the dictionary, between X and Y).
I jumped to the conclusion that you perhaps had based your quip on that RAH comment, but either you just reinvented that pattern independently, or you both based it on something else or something.
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Oh, and the two
What he said, and
I don’t get any paid holidays, I’m self employed.
The universal misery of capitalism is the unequal distribution of the blessings,
The universal blessing of socialism is the equal distribution of the misery. - Winston Churchill
I don’t need or want a baby sitter, my parents raised me to be able to care for myself.
Sheldon
And why should everyone have the same? Some have worked harder and deserve more, some have worked less and deserve less - What a strange concept that is.
Sheldon
Stein, exactly what age is elderly? making lots of assumptions aren’t we? 52 is elderly? And you wonder why we don’t want government run health care?
Sheldon
Am I ? Let’s continue and see 
Actually, I have not expressed my actual political opinions here. I certainly has not championed socialism (ie government ownership of the means of production) or advised you to change your country’s politics.
What I have expressed the opinion that people who thinks that “Europe” (a continent containing some 40+ different countries with quite a few different cultures, languages, economic conditions and with governments of quite a few different political stripes) is all “socialist”, and that everybody in Europe has 12 weeks of vacation, is just flat out wrong.
About as wrong as I would be if I lumped the policies of say Hugo Chavez and George W Bush together under the rather sweeping l
So your judging an entire population basing what you read here by 2 people here? That’s is no different than saying “everyone in Europe gets 6 weeks off” is it not?
Again, your being spoon fed, your only seeing one side, the left is just as guilty as anything you can blame of those people you mention. “Simpleminded thuggery” is a cute catch term you use to down play those views, if you can make them seem unintelligent and closed minded, the more it helps your argument, debate 101? “Abject partisanship” to you means anyone who disagrees with your views correct? “Silly name calling”?? I guess no over there engages in such behavior ( reference soccer?)
You see, insult me by assuming
Strictly [#offtopic]
I don´t want to put a torch to this already way too overheated discussion, but I am amazed, how little knowledge there is about today´s political and social life in Europe! Things have not changed since the early 1970´s, when I attended highschool in the US.
A mandatory health insurance and a state-owned railway system does not mean a country is socialistic! And a tighter social net keeps people from following false “leaders”.
Interesting, what an innocent little piece of news can create in terms of views and opinions.
With a big grin!
Well, that was fun. It has gotten way off topic, if kinda interesting in its own right [(-D], but the message is passed and we can hope to see the organization recover and continue to serve happy customers in our hobby.
-Crandell