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The PC credentials of public sector bureaucrats have given us multilingual forms to fill and multilingual instructions on how to fill them in. Paragraphs in Gujerati, Urdu, Vietnamese, Arabic and, of course, Welsh, abound but where are the translations into Polish, Hungarian, etc.?
The big irony of the ‘racist’ Lotus revver is this: –
Lotus is owned by the Proton car company of Malaysia. Malaysia is a predominantly muslim country.
Oh dear!
Both our cars are VWs, though not the funny old Beetle type!. As most people know, the Volkswagen, or ‘Peoples’ Car’ was Hitler’s idea. Even though Adolf didn’t drive, he was keen on cars and he even did the initial sketch of the Beetle, which poor Ferdinand Porsche, who had worked on a beetle-like car for Mercedes in the early 30’s, was drafted in to design Hitler’s brainchild.
So am I driving a Nazi car? Well, after the war, it was the British who got VW production going again and the company was offered to British companies, including Morris, but there were no takers.
Porsche went on to refine his beetle design into a more sporting car and thus began the Porsche car company.
The concept of multiculturalism is fine as long as it is applied to in a spirit of friendship and shared basic values.
But one has to accept that multiculturalism has limits and so should not pander to any aspirations of cultural separatism or supremacism of any group.
You know how some people talk about ‘skellingtons’ instead of skeletons, while others, including George W. Bush (who should know better), say ‘nucular’ instead of nuclear. Well too many of the white middle-class PC brigade say ‘multiculurislam’ istead of multiculturalism!
This is England.
Our language is English.
Glaswegian: “Thas reet, Jummeh, kudna ‘grree wuthya mooer!”
Cockney: “Yer wah? Stahn da kerwoze! Can’t ya spake blinkin’ blardy English?”
Scouser: “****** @@@@ ****** !!!!! @@@@!”The train hit a maintenance vehicle while travelling at 120 mph (much below its maximum speed). If a normal high-speed train hit something of a similar size at that speed the scale of the accident would be similar – as has happened in the past.
The thing about the Transrapid was (hopefully still will be) that it could travel at 250+ mph, copletely smoothly, using less energy than a wheeled train – fast enough to compete with civil aviation over medium distances, taking into account travel times to and from airports and passenger processing times. Sadlly, planes crash too, of course. No form of transport can be guaranteed to be safe.
Doh! Back to the drawing board!
You lookin’ for a punch-up Bassy
Sorry, not now, I’m too busy!
Race, politics and religion are all capable of dividing the world. From that division, competing supremamacist ideologies might end up fighting for the spoils.
The pacifists shouted ‘peace’ at the enemy, so the enemy killed them!
In wars there are sides – like in football. In football if your side has the ball it’s a good thing but if the other side has the ball it’s a bad thing. The same with war – if your side has smart weapons that can take out the enemy it’s a good thing. If the enemy has smart weapons it’s not so good.
