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Now This Just Isn't Funny
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The French company have released the design for the new blue passport:
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For those not in the know:
French group wins contract to make UK passports after Brexit
https://www.ft.com/content/e1578076-2d5e-11e8-a34a-7e7563b0b0f4
'A national humiliation': UK's post-Brexit passports to be made in France
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/a-national-humiliation-uk-s-post-brexit-passports-to-be-made-in-france
The people in my circle of Yanks are paying attention to Brexit and are all Python literate. A good laugh is being held in a growing number of inboxes.
old slave
FELIS RESPICIENS
A good laugh is being held in a growing number of inboxes.
From the increasing hullabaloo on this little island, it is difficult to distinguish between the laughter and the groans of despair.
Yeah, the "We laugh in order not to scream" thing is wearing a tad thin on this side of the pond too.
I shall cut out and keep it!I found this pic on facebook and I thought you guys might like it.
This is not false news, this petition really was submitted to Parliament:The French company have released the design for the new blue passport:
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For those not in the know:
French group wins contract to make UK passports after Brexit
https://www.ft.com/content/e1578076-2d5e-11e8-a34a-7e7563b0b0f4
'A national humiliation': UK's post-Brexit passports to be made in France
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/a-national-humiliation-uk-s-post-brexit-passports-to-be-made-in-france
Petition: Remove all French words from the cover of new British passports.
The vote to leave the EU means people voted to Take Back Control. Control of their borders, their culture and their language. Whether 'Dieu et mon droit' and 'Honi qui mal y pense' have existed as mottos in England for ages is irrelevant. French is an EU language and has no place on a UK passport.
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/163824
The petition contained the following words inflicted on us by those ghastly French:
petition, remove, cover, passport, vote, people, culture, language, existed, ages and place.
(and motto is Italian)
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Marcius
Tribune
But making Ænglisc great again leaves one in bed with zee Germans.The petition contained the following words inflicted on us by those ghastly French:
petition, remove, cover, passport, vote, people, culture, language, existed, mottos, ages and place.
l'bogo
Venetian Mask
They have to shut they mouth and erase all inscription in all places, a complete revision of the dictionary, too many words are Latin! EU language!This is not false news, this petition really was submitted to Parliament:
Petition: Remove all French words from the cover of new British passports.
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windar
Teller of Tales
That would be sort of like changing all the Spanish named cities in California. "I can't go to your party next weekend. I have to fly out to The Angels."This is not false news, this petition really was submitted to Parliament:
Petition: Remove all French words from the cover of new British passports.
The vote to leave the EU means people voted to Take Back Control. Control of their borders, their culture and their language. Whether 'Dieu et mon droit' and 'Honi qui mal y pense' have existed as mottos in England for ages is irrelevant. French is an EU language and has no place on a UK passport.
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/163824
The petition contained the following words inflicted on us by those ghastly French:
petition, remove, cover, passport, vote, people, culture, language, existed, mottos, ages and place.
andy01
Magistrate
This would also leave the British Army lost for words:This is not false news, this petition really was submitted to Parliament:
Petition: Remove all French words from the cover of new British passports.
The vote to leave the EU means people voted to Take Back Control. Control of their borders, their culture and their language. Whether 'Dieu et mon droit' and 'Honi qui mal y pense' have existed as mottos in England for ages is irrelevant. French is an EU language and has no place on a UK passport.
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/163824
The petition contained the following words inflicted on us by those ghastly French:
petition, remove, cover, passport, vote, people, culture, language, existed, ages and place.
army, artillery, brigade, battery, corps, corporal, dragoon, defense, engineer, envelop, fusilier, flank, grenade, general, hussar (via French from Croat), infantry, and so on.
(Although I suspect the petitioners also are inspired by Monty Python.)
old slave
FELIS RESPICIENS
All this anti-EU talk is no laughing matter, though the tears are real. Time for a little one-liner:
My neighbor came at me really aggressively, asking if I knew anything about her underwear disappearing from her clothes line; I can tell you I nearly shit her pants.
My neighbor came at me really aggressively, asking if I knew anything about her underwear disappearing from her clothes line; I can tell you I nearly shit her pants.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
If the UK would purify English from culinary terms of French origin, all that will remain to eat is 'haggis'
It is not new. Remember the 18th century traditional 'The roast beef of Old England' :
When mighty Roast Beef was the Englishman's food,
It ennobled our brains and enriched our blood.
Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good
Oh! the Roast Beef of old England,
And old English Roast Beef!
But since we have learnt from all-vapouring France
To eat their ragouts as well as to dance,
We're fed up with nothing but vain complaisance
Oh! the Roast Beef of Old England,
And old English Roast Beef!
(full tekst on) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roast_Beef_of_Old_England
, all that will remain to eat is 'haggis'It is not new. Remember the 18th century traditional 'The roast beef of Old England' :
When mighty Roast Beef was the Englishman's food,
It ennobled our brains and enriched our blood.
Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good
Oh! the Roast Beef of old England,
And old English Roast Beef!
But since we have learnt from all-vapouring France
To eat their ragouts as well as to dance,
We're fed up with nothing but vain complaisance
Oh! the Roast Beef of Old England,
And old English Roast Beef!
(full tekst on) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roast_Beef_of_Old_England
both 'roast' and 'beef' came into English from Norman-French
That’s downright rousing, Eulalia. Makes me want to rise up and soundly thrash those dastardly Spaniards for what happened in 1588!
l'bogo
Venetian Mask
I'was looking to the link above.
ONLY 513 PEOPLE WAS SIGNING FOR IT
513 PEOPLE? over 66.000.000?
Can be a serious problem?
American SF writer Poul Anderson once wrote an article titled "Uncleftish Beholding," which is how we’d say Atomic Theory without Greek, Latin, and French loan words.
https://msburkeenglish.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/uncleftish-beholding-aka-atomic-theory.pdf
Probably one of the reasons only 513 people signed that petition, l'bogo.
https://msburkeenglish.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/uncleftish-beholding-aka-atomic-theory.pdf
Probably one of the reasons only 513 people signed that petition, l'bogo.
andy01
Magistrate
It isn't. It is 513 people joyously taking the piss out of the absurdity of it all.
At a time when people are spluttering with rage, friends breaking with friendship over their opinions, thank God for those 513.
I know which way I voted and would vote again. Good friends, with good reasons, think the opposite. What has that to do with our friendship, except that they can help me see the other side of the argument more easily. Their reasons are valid. I do not wish to force them, or they to force me.
In a worse time, a Civil War, William Waller wrote to his old friend Ralph Hopton: “...That great God who is the searcher of my heart knows with what a sad sense I go upon this service, and with what a perfect hatred I detest this war without an enemy; but I look upon it as sent from God and that is enough to silence all passion in me ... We are both upon the stage and must act such parts as are assigned us in this tragedy. Let us do it in a way of honour and without personal animosities...”
I don't think this will be a tragedy, but I like that understanding. Anything less is sad.
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