stupid fuckers, that has been tried since the 1790's!

Post #200,816 by boxley 3/27/05 10:22:03 PM Reply	stupid fuckers, that has been tried since the 1790's! Afghanistan has piss poor soil to grow crops, the only thing that grows worth a shit is poppies, let them grow it, auction it off like a tobbacco auction ensuring they get premium prices, make morphine inKabul and ship it to whoever wants to buy it, destroy the rest. HOW FUCKING HARD IS IT! watching another failed poppy eradication project thanx, bill All tribal myths are true, for a given value of "true" Terry Pratchett [link\|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/\|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/] Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 48 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #200,817 by boxley 3/27/05 10:26:36 PM Reply	cool! marlowe version of both sides marlowe version: being simplistic and jingoistic [link\|http://www.mrdowling.com/613-opiumwars.html\|http://www.mrdowling...13-opiumwars.html] From 1839 to 1842, China fought what we now call the "Opium Wars" with Britain. There are many ways to look at a problem. Here are two views of the situation from the perspective of the Chinese and the British the other thing mentioned was the chinese refused to allow tea plants to be exported, they did make their way to india and elsewhere thanx, bill All tribal myths are true, for a given value of "true" Terry Pratchett [link\|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/\|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/] Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 48 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #200,832 by Andrew Grygus 3/27/05 11:52:08 PM Reply	Chinese tea restrictions. The British definitely wanted tea plants so they could grow the crop at home and cut out the trip. They bribed officials to get plants, but since neither the British nor the Chinese knew you couldn't grow tea in Europe the Chinese fooled the barbarians by selling them decorative camellias instead of tea camellias. The British quickly found they couldn't grow camellias except in green houses (too expensive for producing tea) and that they'd been slipped decoratives anyway. Flower fanciers took to the new plants and started breeding showier varieties. Soon these new varieties were being sold back to flower fanciers in China. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]

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