Antisemitism !

[Krausse]

Because of my name, according to Crosswordfan, I am Jewish ! I may well be, BUT does he have a right to comment on it ! ?

[jackthehat]

I'm surprised it's not more of a Scandiwegian name......

[Ann]

I can't understand this post either - you should be proud of your roots surely? DT wasn't against you in any way - I totally agree with Naomi. Please don't make something of nothing Krausse.

[naomi24]

Ann, //you should be proud of your roots surely?//

Exactly.

[joggerjayne]

I like Krausse.

Most of her posts have been quite jolly, and she did have a spare light bulb of an unusual shape and fitting ... (see post yesterday).

[Duncer]

I'm surprised it's not more of a Scandiwegian name......


I haven't heard the term "Scandiwegian" since I worked in Saudi in the early Nineties and a very drunk Londoner couldn't pronounce Scandinavian, so oit came out as Scandiwegian, causing much, (equally drunk) laughter. We always thought he had invented it.

[DTCwordfan]

You weren't drinking in the Royal Kingdom were you Duncer, tut tut.

The erstwhile keepers of the Two Holy Pubs.......

[Dee Sa]

nah Duncer used to pop over to Dubai where all the piss heads were and its leagal to drink unless you are Muslim, but they drink too.

[DTCwordfan]

I used to travel through the M-East extensively so more than aware of the watering holes, legal and otherwise, Dee Sa.....Can remember travelling Gulf Air for the very first time, Kuwait to Dubai via Bahrain and being surprised when I realised that alcohol was on board! The Kuwaiti Ambassador was sitting next to me and he had five hiballs of scotch on the two flights.....helped me get through the immigration at Dubai taking me through the diplomatic gate and avoiding half of Bangladesh and the Philippines in the main hall.

[DTCwordfan]

A present for MT.

From the aptly named, O Brother, Where Art Thou?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKLm7-KrQdMYouTube Link Here...

[DTCwordfan]

sorry didn't take first time......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKLm7-KrQdM

[237SJ]

I`ve got p1ssed as a fart in Saudi. An abeya is a good place to hide a bottle of homebrew port under. Another "fond" memory is when we used to do the Dubai-Muscat and the plane was full of Russian hookers who were going there and back with us to renew their Dubai passport stamps.

[FredPuli43]

It's odd, in present times, for anyone to be concerned about being thought jewish or to think that, if anyone alludes to it, they have anti-semitic feelings. When I was a new law student, lunching in hall, I was surprised to hear a girl ask "Are you Jewish?" of her neighbour. The answer in the positive was followed by a chorus of students saying that they were Jewish too, and discussions of which tribe they belonged to and what their Hebrew name was. I could sense a whole Jackie Mason routine in the making! She,of course, was Jewish herself.Even forty years ago, had it occurred to me, a non-Jew. to ask,the response would have been cautious, and best they'd have thought me meshugge (mad or eccentric).

But now, I thought,those days were gone and I'm surprised at an innocent remark being taken as insensitive or , in some way , hostile. Few, if any apart, perhaps, from some of the very old and the rabid, have any anti-semitic feelings. The rest have none and may be simply curious. Not all of us were the only goy (non-Jewish) members of 'the sons of the covenant' when students, but then not all of us had a Jewish friend who got bonus points for each fellow student she could recruit !