Comments on: Dear Abby: My girlfriend is a circus fat lady and she’s hankering after Argentine beef. What’s a skinny boy to do?

By: Cincinattus Jr.

Cincinattus Jr. — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:27:16 +0000

Thanks for that. Middle-aged gray cells.

By: David

David — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:08:54 +0000

I’ll have to dial back the politeness for this explanation.
Ms. Light appears to dislike left-of-centre politics, and does so with inflammatory remarks.
Berserker appears to find Ms. Light’s comments so inflammatory as to be comedic.
By appending “This message brought to you by Freedom Fries.” He’s suggesting that Ms. Light comes from the same school of thought that would rename a snack simply because of the imagined connotations that the word “French” brings to them. He himself is, apparently, not so deeply entrenched in the same politics as Ms. Light and as such has applied his appendation to highlight his distaste of her comments.

By: Cincinattus Jr.

Cincinattus Jr. — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:02:03 +0000

Thanks but your clarification leaves me even more confuzzled. Unless Ms. Light’s post is wholly tongue-in cheek, I read it as consistent with the position of some on the “right wing” (I abhor such imprecise labeling but use it since you did). As a consequence, I do not see why the “right wing” press would want to rebut her comments.

By: Kenneth Payne

Kenneth Payne — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:42:14 +0000

Entertainingly, someone arrived at this post with the search term:

‘i want my girlfriend fat’

Do keep us posted with how that goes…

By: David

David — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:50:54 +0000

I believe Berserker is employing the same ad-absurdum argumentative tactics utilised by some sections of the American right-wing press to rebutt Ellie Light’s comments.

By: Cincinattus Jr.

Cincinattus Jr. — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:00:29 +0000

Can you translate for those of us who are too obtuse to understand your post?

By: Berserker

Berserker — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:47:30 +0000

“American Leftists will sacrifice Americans if it means ruining the USA.”

This message brought to you by Freedom Fries™

By: Ellie Light

Ellie Light — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:46:54 +0000

American Leftists will sacrifice Americans if it means ruining the USA. Why would Brits think the Left in the USA hold them in higher esteem than they do our own soldiers?

Obamao hates the West. Better get used to it.

By: David Betz

David Betz — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:43:16 +0000

Eamonn, I think we pay our diplomats enough to say it more, ahen, diplomatically, but fundamentally I think ‘kindly f*** off’ is the actual and correct response.

By: Oldpilot

Oldpilot — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:15:05 +0000

‘Britain has 10,000 troops in Afghanistan, and Argentina has none’

Hear, hear! The debt that Britain owed the US for its support in the Falklands fracas has been repaid many times over in Iraq and the ‘Stan, and it is we who are now the debtors. But you have to understand that, for the first time in its history, the US has a president whose roots are not in the British Isles or northern Europe. Obama is a first-generation Kenyan-American who was reared on Pacific islands. He doesn’t particularly like you guys, no matter how many prizes you give him. Blue skies! — Dan Ford