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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here... Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:14:59 -0800 Organization: nil Lines: 56 Message-ID: <vi2st4$318rh$1@dont-email.me> References: <lp3qduFb8jqU1@mid.individual.net> <5f1024bb-1145-580f-2f01-b62a2b7736eb@example.net> <vgm4h4$i6h$1@panix2.panix.com> <ec451275-6f39-133a-05f8-08d89148a9fc@example.net> <vgr1ph$qrk$1@panix2.panix.com> <c849ddbf-d9ac-1968-0ced-8f9a20f7be41@example.net> <16a4jj99fble10u2gf9ukhvni2o8srrb3p@4ax.com> <fam4kj1g48craheid4tq4m4v836qbbtmac@4ax.com> <2fa4b243-ea2a-c968-45df-cc55cb8d4fb0@example.net> <vi07q5$2dhvt$1@dont-email.me> <a1657fc7-ec60-fdd0-e8e9-509eb6250cdb@example.net> <vi25dl$2r06d$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 23:15:00 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2114dd52ff0d7b536e3e644887c51ebd"; logging-data="3187569"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/T2RaXSfmsz3NhS7uSTCn5" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:3LPFGn/qiQatMcjMS9lhg7ka4O4= In-Reply-To: <vi25dl$2r06d$1@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3379 On 11/25/24 07:34, Cryptoengineer wrote: > On 11/25/2024 4:59 AM, D wrote: >> >> >> On Sun, 24 Nov 2024, Cryptoengineer wrote: >> >>> On 11/24/2024 4:08 PM, D wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, 23 Nov 2024, The Horny Goat wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 07:58:50 -0800, Paul S Person >>>>> <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> This seems to be a reasonable (but not optimal, perhaps) place to >>>>>> point out that the very areas you are most attracted to may not be as >>>>>> accepting of "furriners" (and even less so of "immigrants") as you >>>>>> might like. >>>>>> >>>>>> Of course, if you look like a Northern European and speak English >>>>>> without a foreign accent ("foreign" possibly including the Northeast) >>>>>> and don't wave your green card in their faces they may never catch >>>>>> on. >>>>> >>>>> Maybe I should start driving south - I don't have a green card but >>>>> accent-wise could probably pass. >>>>> >>>>> But then my daughter has lived in the UK for 10 years and no one would >>>>> ever confuse her with a Brit when she speaks. >>>>> >>>>> (Nor physically despite the fact she is descended from seven different >>>>> European nationalities no further back than her great great >>>>> grandparents) >>>>> >>>> >>>> 7!?! How is that even possible? ;) >>> >>> Assuming no inbreeding, you have 16 great-great grandparents. >>> Its perfectly possible for them to come from 7 different >>> countries. >>> >>> pt >>> >> >> Noooo.... in europe we care about the purity of our race! What "race" is pure? Maybe the Basque who kept to themselves? > > We American mutts rejoice in our hybrid vigor. > > pt When we are lucky enough to have Hybrid Vigor we would rejoice in it. bliss - excessively pale due to parental units.