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Old 03-26-2004, 10:47 PM   #14
taffarel
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Posts: 26
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As an aside, I checked out your website - you are definitely a good writer but you seem to be very angry about many subjects. There are many hints in your articles that you are intolerant of those with different beliefs (Jewish leaders, blacks, gays, Liberals, to name some). I mention this only because it makes the anger that shows in your posts on the other thread much more understandable
Agreed.

I'm from Scotland, and was particularly disgusted by some of the things you had to say about Europe.

The one that really gets me is that you wish to attack critiscise people for racism, yet you seem to be condoning it in your very own words with your intolerance of others beliefs?

Do you live in the UK? Do you actually know or have any experience of asylum seekers in the UK? Do you have any personal first-hand knowledge of exactly what feelings and sentiments are ocurring in the UK, or the rest of Europe? Oh, and I find it more than a little offensive that you feel the right to tar everyone with the same brush, by simply labelling someone as European and autmatically assuming that they all feel the same way about things.

Here's something.....

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Other nations like Britain are also dealing with anti-immigrant, anti-Arab, anti-black, and anti-Semitic movements on unprecedented scales.
Anti-Immigrant......ok. Do you have any idea's why, or do you just plan to attack?

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They continue to paint this country as racist and intolerant, while presenting themselves as enlightened and superior. Unfortunately several European countries have begun to show the true extent of their own xenophobia with some startling legislation.
Oh, please.....this is total nonsense. Your arguments are offensive, and it's quite startlingly clear who is the xenophobe. As an aside Xenophobia is a fear of anything alien or foreign......if that's the case, then baseball must terrify "Europeans"......so must Ice Hockey, and American Football.....lets not even get started on basketball, Macdonalds, Burger King, Hersheys or anything else. Sad fact, Europe, especially Holland and the UK have embraced many of America's cultural "Exports", and will continue to do so.

Here's a fact....we all came on to this Earth in the same way....we're all made out of the same components.....try some tolerance, and some understanding, it'll make you a better person.

Sorry for dragging that off topic. Anyway, personally, I've been playing OOTP since it's third incarnation, and love the game more than any other to be honest. Waiting with baited breath? Can't live my life properly for being anxious about it's release? Nope.....I still have OOTP5 and still enjoy playing it........got quite a few other games to play as well, so I think I can live with myself for the time being
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