Kooskia Internment Camp In Idaho

@izzythepush,

What an irrelevant little **** you are. Insular, parochial . . . a complete chauvinist whose world view is predicated upon the principle that if you don't know about, it's not worth knowing. You can't come into any thread without telling us how wonderful and important little England is and how pointless everything going on anywhere else is. Fool.

1 Reply

@Setanta,

Always with the insults Malvolio, just because someone dares to disagree with an American. Like I said I'm sure you're both right, you can't move in Idaho for Europeans, and the streets of New York, San Francisco and Miami are deserted.

You're just a bigot who hates the UK, and nobody outside your small circle is remotely interested in what you have to say.

I'll let you have the last word again, but I won't bother reading it.

2 Replies

@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

Always with the insults Malvolio, just because someone dares to disagree with an American. Like I said I'm sure you're both right, you can't move in Idaho for Europeans, and the streets of New York, San Francisco and Miami are deserted.

You're just a bigot who hates the UK, and nobody outside your small circle is remotely interested in what you have to say. And as usual you've completely misunderstood what I've been saying. You can paraphrase Wikipedia, but you can't think.

I'll let you have the last word again, but I won't bother reading it.

0 Replies

@ehBeth,

Theres not much difference between the "terrain relief" between the Scottish Highlands (caledonides) and the Rockies(in the lower US). Consider that the rockies base levels are already 5000 to 6000 feet and extend to 10000 to 12000 feet total elevation, whereas the Caledonides (and Appalachians) all start at 400 feet of elevation and go up as much as 6400 feet into the air. Don't be fooled by elevation numbers when total relief is all you see.

0 Replies

I don't "hate the UK," and you have no evidence for such a smear. You weren't disagreeing with an American, Ehbeth is Canadian. As usual, you display your appalling ignorance. This thread is not about your silly little country, not matter how much you want to make every thread about you and about little England. As it happens, it's about Idaho, a subject about which you are profoundly ignorant, as you've already shown.

0 Replies

Now Izzy the putz is quoting himself. Vanitas, vanitatum.

1 Reply

@Setanta,

pardon me but I was talking about Rockies here.

The Canadian Rockies, on the other hand, have serveral peaks that are much higher in total elevation and relief than those in the lower US. Then McKinley (or Denali as the PC police want us to call it) and about 5 others in the ALaskan ranges are still higher intotal relief. but youd never know it from far away because the various massifs that contain all these northern mountains are like big boils on the earth

Enough geomorphology, now you can all get back to insulting the Brits

1 Reply

@farmerman,

I wasn't "insulting the Brits," you snotty s.o.b., i was pointing out to Izzy the Putz how ignorant and irrelevant he is. There are plenty of Englishmen here, or who once were here, with whom i get along just fine.

What difference does it make was base the mountains rest on? When you get to the top, you're still at that elevation, no matter what the elevation was at the end of the road you drove on to get to your base camp.

1 Reply

@Setanta,

yeh but you only see about 6000ft of total mountainous relief (That's the part that makes the "mountains majesty" not its roots)

By the way "Snotty Sumbitch" was my first nickname as a kid in Katlick school. I don't think that Izy the... is as toxic as JTT. Hes a socialist minded one but hes interested in many things. Hes as much a polymath as you.

How is it that you an I can name call and shout at each other and yet (I think) still retain a positive relationship?
I think Izzy the... is in the same tank.
Hes an ole fart
He has some information he is sure of
Hes easily ticked off (see item 1)

Maybe Im wrong but I think I could have a beer with him (If I drank beer)

1 Reply

The highest elevation i ever visited was, i believe, the road that goes south out of Los Alamos. We were at about 14,000 feet. In one stretch of coniferous forest south of town, there was still snow under the trees in June. The farm i lived at was at about 9000 feet. Even there, you felt tired all the time until you got used to the elevation. Los Alamos is in the Jemez range; the farm was in the Sangre the Cristo.

1 Reply

@farmerman,

You should go visit the Catlick thread Miller (Foofie) started. She wants to piss and moan about the new pope.

1 Reply

@Setanta,

Foofie is MILLER? no wonder they seem to agree with each other?

HAH !!

0 Replies

@Setanta,

Spent some time at Los Alamos for a project or two, nice country when ya got used to the elevation. I used to go into HYPER ventilation cause when I got out of breath Id overpant and get all loaded with Oxygen . The doc said I was like a Sherpa and hqd to learn not to breathe so heavily and just let my lungs act normally.
It worked, I was helping set up fencing for an animal expwriment at about 10K and didn't even get winded.

PS, back to potatoes, qe seem to be in another one of those pre famine conditions where states that grow potatoes (Idaho, Washington, Wisconsin, MAine) are each relying on one or two cultivar varieties. Idaho produces about 20 MILLION tons of one kind of potatoe. I think that's ecologically deadly.

1 Reply

@izzythepush,

Quote:

All the adverts for holidays in Florida, California and New York must be to try to lure Europeans away from the top tourist spot that is Idaho.

Not just Idaho, but yes I for one am happy happy happy that "All the adverts for holidays in Florida, California and New York must be to try to lure Europeans and others away". Keep them damn city folk where they belong. The only thing they're useful for is to help griz fatten up for the winter. Smile

0 Replies

@ehBeth,

ehBeth wrote:

izzythepush wrote:
The only people who'd want to go to Idaho are those that have seen all of the above, and some more, (Boston, Philadelphia, Richmond, Dallas, Pheonix,) first.

I know a number of people who have no interest in travelling to any of those cities but who would go to Idaho. Not everyone likes cities - to live in or to visit.

I agree. To really understand America, in my opinion, one might need to see a rodeo, a minor league baseball game, or its non-urban scenery. America is a nation of highways, not cities. And, the highways connect thousands of towns where people live their lives fairly insulated from the concerns of a world maintaining a balancing act of sorts. The same might be true in other nations, but cities seem to get the media press and tourists.

0 Replies

@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

I'm sure it's very popular with Americans, and has a lot of charm, but if someone had saved up enough money to fly all the way to America from Europe, Idaho would not be the No. 1 destination.

If I want to see mountains I can see them a lot cheaper in Scotland.

I was just about to recommend that you holiday in Scotland. In Idaho you might get into a conversation with some Born Again Evangelicals that do not want to hear about Israel and the Palestineans. They might be ready to build the Third Temple to hasten the Second Coming. Your views might go on deaf ears, so to speak. Most of America happens to be Protestant, and many of them are bible believing types.

0 Replies

@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

If people want to get away from it all, and experience the wilderness they're less likely to want to travel thousands of miles to do so when it's available at home.

Turn it around, how many people from America on a first visit to the UK would shun London and opt for rural Northumberland?

I'm shunning London too. Actually, I have no interest beyond CONUS (Continental United States). I did once get across Niagra Falls to see the Canadian side of the falls; quite an adventure for xenophobic Foofie.

0 Replies

@JTT,

JTT wrote:

Quote:
Everyone's heard of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Las Vegas, Washington DC, and New Orleans.

You couldn't pay me enough to visit those hell holes!

You might like the Smithsonian in DC. Also, the Lincoln Memorial.

0 Replies

@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

I'm sure you're right, the fact that you can't move in London without hearing an American accent, and that I've never heard an American accent in Northumberland, counts for nothing.

All the adverts for holidays in Florida, California and New York must be to try to lure Europeans away from the top tourist spot that is Idaho.

On the west coast of Florida, about two decades ago, there seemed to be many British tourists. I thought they were drying off, and thawing out, from life in England.

0 Replies

@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

Always with the insults Malvolio, just because someone dares to disagree with an American. Like I said I'm sure you're both right, you can't move in Idaho for Europeans, and the streets of New York, San Francisco and Miami are deserted.

You're just a bigot who hates the UK, and nobody outside your small circle is remotely interested in what you have to say.

I'll let you have the last word again, but I won't bother reading it.

Like Manhattan is an island, so is England (Britain). People on islands develop, in my opinion, with a culture that is different from the mainland.

The U.S. is a continent, large enough to fit three Europes into. Also, with a conglomeration of cultures. While English is spoken in the U.S., it did not make its culture. I do not compare the English/British to Americans, beyond similarities in language and possibly a somewhat similar sense of humor.

0 Replies

Kooskia Internment Camp In Idaho

Related Topics

Quick Links

My Account

able2know