How does one deal with repugs if you're on a travel tour

[Hardrada]

with them? If you are on a Rhine cruise for example, would one not feel a strong urge to surreptitiously chuck them overboard?

[sce56]

1. My sister went to Africa and lo and behold she kept her wits about her and

was careful not to get into a political argument with some young Texans who were on part of her trip she could tell they were repukes. It turned out later that she looked at a picture and saw the person she sat next to for dinner one night it was one of the Evil Twins! I'm glad she used her discretion she might not have come back from that trip if she pissed off the Devils Kids!

[Hekate]

2. Is this a hypothetical question? I would appeal to everyone's desire to have a nice vacation

Presumably everyone would have spent a sizable sum to be there and would want it to be pleasurable. Even if you all agreed on politics, talking about our current situation would be enough to ruin anyone's week.

Ideally everyone should take a break.

Hekate

[Bluebear]

3. Keep innocently pointing out how more advanced everything is in Germany...

how much cleaner, how wonderful Switzerland's politics are compared to the US, how wonderfully tolerant and liberal Holland is, how we really did France a disservice by blaming them for the Iraq war and renaming French fries....

even if you don't believe a word of it, you know it will get under their skin :)

Oh, and mention how Europeans all seem to speak several languages and isn't it funny that they don't have anything akin to "English only"...

Who knows, you might even have some great discussions!

[silverojo]

8. Yes, other countries do have official languages

Try finding official documents in German, while you're in Canada. ;)

[Bluebear]

16. Yes, tiny Switzerland manages to have FOUR official languages without exploding. nt

[crispini]

10. I love that tactic.

:rofl:

[Hardrada]

13. Good points!

[Cobalt-60]

4. Use the Kirk 12 step program

To paraphrase the Captain:
I know we're members of a predator species with a million years of river water on our hands.
But you can tell yourself "I will not chuck them overboard - Today!"

[MichaelHarris]

5. Just

what Hekate said and when they're not looking pee in their coffee.

[TreasonousBastard]

Absolutely not! I would...

regale them with the legends of the Lorelei and the Mauseturm. Perhaps even the Niebelungen. I would invite them to a tour of the Romermuseum under the Kolner Dom. I would relax with them in any of the wonderful beer gardens or konditorie overlooking the water.

I would marvel that after over 2500 years of some sort of civilization along the Rhine, it still maintains an almost pristine beauty through much of its length.

I would remind them of the lack of potholes on the roads, the excellently planned town walking areas, and the trains whose schedule you could set your watch by. And the curious lack of slums or other urban blight.

I would make sure they found themselves in the legal brothels, just to really shake them up.

I would force them to listen to as much Wagnerian opera as I could tie them down for.

And I would let them see for themselves that there is a very nice world outside of US borders.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Absolutely not! I would...

regale them with the legends of the Lorelei and the Mauseturm. Perhaps even the Niebelungen. I would invite them to a tour of the Romermuseum under the Kolner Dom. I would relax with them in any of the wonderful beer gardens or konditorie overlooking the water.

I would marvel that after over 2500 years of some sort of civilization along the Rhine, it still maintains an almost pristine beauty through much of its length.

I would remind them of the lack of potholes on the roads, the excellently planned town walking areas, and the trains whose schedule you could set your watch by. And the curious lack of slums or other urban blight.

I would make sure they found themselves in the legal brothels, just to really shake them up.

I would force them to listen to as much Wagnerian opera as I could tie them down for.

And I would let them see for themselves that there is a very nice world outside of US borders.

[Hardrada]

14. Those are good ideas although I presume we'll have a guide.

My other option is going on an Elbe cruise and I am thinking more of that. Berlin, Meissen, Dresden, Wittemberg ending in Prague I believe.

[EST]

7. That would work.

It would do well to remember that, consistent with Newton, actions do have consequences.
I have found, under somewhat similar circumstances, especially when outnumbered more than three or four to one, that adopting a wide eyed, eager to learn projection will make a difference and may even make it all tolerable. There are some payoffs, too. An incurable trait among the ideologically hidebound appears to be an overwhelming need to pontificate, lecture, and otherwise annoy anyone within striking distance. However, if you demonstrate the proper brand of whatever it is they are looking for, they are eager to gain you as an apprentice or supplicant, as well as a candidate for "conversion," ala Ted Haggard.

Another happy result of playing to their need for a sidekick or other sort of trained monkey is that they may actually come to like you, in a stern, Aunt Polly sort of attitude and each of these sloppy farts may get quite jealous of each other and you become like the high school majorette leader, with everybody willing to fight for you and protect you from their fellows, hoping for a chance to fuck you.

The actual happy event grows out of this, or can, with the master pretenders sneaking into each others' quarters, late at night, and knocking each other off.

This can be dangerous, so make it a practice to sleep in a shirt and pants, jock strap and socks. Wearing your gym shoes in bed is not very comfortable but should be considered, depending on conditions.
If you happen to be an attractive gay man, so much the better, since well heeled, stevedore brained, non producer repukes, even if hetero, are too chickenshit to face their own demons and have a secret desire to find out "what it's like" and will make up to you all the time and are very manipulable.

This can also be very dangerous and could get you killed, so, try it all at your own caution and risk and I did not suggest any of it.:D :evilgrin: :toast: :toast:

[Hardrada]

11. I think I will just pretend to be some kind of secret agent

and wear sunglasses and ostentatiously take notes on their conversations.

[zbdent]

9. Well, I would keep pointing out, loudly, that this is one of the people

who is blindingly supportive of Bush ... in heavily public places ...

And then let them see what kind of service they get from the natives ...

[VelmaD]

12. regardless of time or location the solution is always...

to hit them over the head with a shovel, roll the body up in a tarp, and throw it off the nearest bridge.

[treestar]

15. I would marvel at their being there, I mean, this is not Amurka,

but old fashioned irrelevant Europe, and they are spending their $$ in them furrin' places that are full of liberals and wussies! I would take pictures - you never know, one might want the Repuke nomination, then this would surely harm them with their would-be supporters.

Then I would chuck them overboard.

:hi:

[Hardrada]

17. We think alike!!