What do you "assign" to the Shire? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Eldar14 · 03-19-2006, 02:26 PM

People who hold the door for other people.

the guy who be short · 03-19-2006, 02:36 PM

France.

How I'd love to live in a country where people aren't afraid to defend their rights.

I think I'll actually send Germany, too, for similar reasons. I quote my German friend:

"Shopkeepers can't limit the number of schoolchildren entering a shop. It's discriminating and stereotyping. Imagine if they said only three gays could enter at a time."

Mithalwen · 03-20-2006, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by the guy who be short

France.

How I'd love to live in a country where peopel aren't afraid to defend their rights.

It is less amusing when the transport workers go on strike with no warning and leave you stranded

Let alone the sheep.... and it is no coincidence that bureaucracy is a French word...... but even so I might go back....

littlemanpoet · 03-20-2006, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by the guy who be short

France.

How I'd love to live in a country where people aren't afraid to defend their rights.

I think I'll actually send Germany, too, for similar reasons. I quote my German friend:

"Shopkeepers can't limit the number of schoolchildren entering a shop. It's discriminating and stereotyping. Imagine if they said only three gays could enter at a time."

So that means that the shopkeeper is at the mercy of a whole squadron of schoolkids, the numbers of whom are beyond her or his ability to keep an eye on for the threat of shoplifting. How is this a good thing? Or are shoplifters protected under French law too? Can a French shopkeeper "discriminate" against squatters? vandals? spitters in the shop? Or are they all protected by French law too?

Okay, I'm being a bit testy, but this law looks to me like it belongs in Mordor. Doesn't the shopkeeper own the shop? Does the French law actually prohibit the owner of the place from deciding who can be there?

If that's the case, then it's the French gov't that actually owns the shop. I suppose a socialist approves?

Lathriel · 03-21-2006, 03:55 PM

I will send the last day of this semester to the Shire. It will be here in about three weeks and then FREEDOM. well...not exactly but close.

Feanor of the Peredhil · 03-21-2006, 04:32 PM

I'll send the clichèd light at the end of the tunnel... or is it the top of the well? Whatever it is that hits you when you least expect and makes everything exponentially better. That's Shire-worthy if anything is.

Laitoste · 03-21-2006, 05:58 PM

Last night, I had an hour and a half conversation with someone completely unexpected, who I have never really had the chance to get to know one-on-one. I have a sneaking suspicion that events like these already exist in the Shire, but I'll send it anyway.

the guy who be short · 03-22-2006, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by LMP the argumentative

So that means that the shopkeeper is at the mercy of a whole squadron of schoolkids, the numbers of whom are beyond her or his ability to keep an eye on for the threat of shoplifting. How is this a good thing? Or are shoplifters protected under French law too? Can a French shopkeeper "discriminate" against squatters? vandals? spitters in the shop? Or are they all protected by French law too?

You misconstrue me entirely. The assignment is not an attack on the shopkeeper's right to protect their property from thieves or vandals. The assignment is the stereotyping of all young people as pickpockets, the tarring with the same brush. All young people are punished for the actions of a very few. There is, in fact, a rather famous man in the Middle East who felt it entirely legitimate to punish an entire settlement with genocide for one man's failed attack on him.

Note also that the friend was German, not French.

I assign discovering prejudices within oneself. It gives motivation to change one's thoughts and ideas and to consciously re-shape oneself.

I also assign Latin. It's pretty.

03-19-2006, 02:26 PM	#1
Eldar14 Wight Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: the Cottage of Lost Play Posts: 182	People who hold the door for other people. __________________ "Come away! Let the cowards keep this city!" -- Fëanor to the Noldor

03-19-2006, 02:36 PM	#2
the guy who be short Shadowed Prince Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Thulcandra Posts: 2,343	France. How I'd love to live in a country where people aren't afraid to defend their rights. I think I'll actually send Germany, too, for similar reasons. I quote my German friend: "Shopkeepers can't limit the number of schoolchildren entering a shop. It's discriminating and stereotyping. Imagine if they said only three gays could enter at a time." Last edited by the guy who be short; 03-20-2006 at 12:33 PM. Reason: "speeling"

03-21-2006, 03:55 PM	#5
Lathriel Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Wandering through Middle-Earth (Sadly in Alberta and not ME) Posts: 612	I will send the last day of this semester to the Shire. It will be here in about three weeks and then FREEDOM. well...not exactly but close. __________________ Back again

03-21-2006, 05:58 PM	#7
Laitoste Wight Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Behind the hills Posts: 164	Last night, I had an hour and a half conversation with someone completely unexpected, who I have never really had the chance to get to know one-on-one. I have a sneaking suspicion that events like these already exist in the Shire, but I'll send it anyway. __________________ "If we're still alive in the morning, we'll know that we're not dead."~South Park

03-21-2006, 04:32 PM	#6
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	I'll send the clichèd light at the end of the tunnel... or is it the top of the well? Whatever it is that hits you when you least expect and makes everything exponentially better. That's Shire-worthy if anything is.