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I'll bet you a tenner that the English didn't understand either the historical references, sarcasm or humour of your post.
And that is why Research Engines were invented…
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Also, you do realise that you've just breached Article 4 of the law of 23 february 2005?
Err, I broke a lot f... stupid laws in the past (but in Foreign and Savage Countries, it doesn’t count) so can you light my lantern (directly translated from French)? :sweatdrop:
All you need to do to join the Commonwealth is beat England at one of their national sports.
But you must remember that, on accasion, they will beat you.
Eh Pape?
They might even spell their own language correctly.
Bit more the on an occasion... being a Kiwi we get thrashed regularly.
I thought you spell the way we do.
Only occasionally ~;)
So you spell like Americans?
I'm confused:help:
To put you out of your misery, Wigferth, Pape was joshing you about this post:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wigferth Ironwall
where you spelt occasion wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wigferth Ironwall
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I never knew non-Yanks "joshed". Learn something new here everyday, I do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost
Ah, cobblers. You know I'm dyslexic. You should have seen the thread where I said a woman's complexion was "floorless"
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*Pockets IA's tenner*
*rushes off to the store to finally buy some food *
Light your lantern? Non. That is why Research Engines were invented…:beam:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brenus
But seriously. I was refering to this law. *
I'm glad is was repealed. I do not disagree with the intent of the law, but it has been getting a bit much with official state history. I never minded the law against holocaust denial. But the opponents were right. It was a pandora's box, that opened the way for government interference on every historical subject. The Holocaust, Armenia, colonialism.Quote:
The February 23, 2005 French law on colonialism was an act passed by the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) conservative majority, which imposed on high-school (lycée) teachers to teach the "positive values" of colonialism to their students (article 4). The law created a public uproar and opposition from the whole of the left-wing, and was finally repealed by president Jacques Chirac (UMP) at the beginning of 2006, after accusations of historical revisionism from various teachers and historians,
Un passé qui ne passe pas (A past that doesn't pass...)
The debate lifted on the February 23, 2005 law point out, however, to a further debate in France concerning colonialism, which is linked to immigration. As the historian Benjamin Stora pointed out, colonialism is a major "memory" stake that is influencing the way various communities and the nation itself represent themselves.
Official state history always had a hard time accepting the existence of past crimes and errors. Historian Olivier LeCour Grandmaison also criticized the law. Indeed, the Algerian war of independence (1954-1962), previously qualified as a "public order operation", was only recognized as a "war" by the French National Assembly in 1999. [5] In the same sense, philosopher Paul Ricœur (1981) has underlined the needs for a "decolonization of memory", because mentalities themselves have been colonized during the "Age of imperialism."
Our colonial past is too much of a controversial subject, with too many emtionally charged and directly oppossed opinions to leave it to any official history.
*J'espère que cela éclaire votre lanterne. ~;)
As an outsider looking in, I beg the question. Does the UK have any laws similar to the French laws for protection of culture? You know, those ones meant to retard all competition to their culture and language? When i first heard of these I thought of the first laws for "cultural protection" passed decades earlier to the east of france...
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You're joking right? We pretty much have the reverse, whic is, indirectly, responsible for the binge-drinking culture.
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Originally Posted by Wigferth Ironwall
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England doesn't have culture. Everyone knows that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wigferth Ironwall
And Scotland still claim they are somehow swamped by it. They just need excuses for why their culture revolves around getting drunk and knifing people... :)
You don't even do much English history in school besides the Tudors. The Empire? What was that?
“Does the UK have any laws similar to the French laws for protection of culture? You know, those ones meant to retard all competition to their culture and language? When i first heard of these I thought of the first laws for "cultural protection" passed decades earlier to the east of france...”
Just a short question before to go to work before my first reaction: Are you comparing France of nowadays with Nazi Germany? If yes, just read the French laws. It is mainly to stop the import of English word in official language when the French word exists. That is very very very dangerous for democracy…
Are you this kind of American who when earring the word “French” you take you gun?
“The February 23, 2005” Oh, this law… Well, this absolute non-sense was the equivalent of the other non-sense for blaming all misery on colonialism. But it is not to the Assembly to decide to high light one particular point of a very complex process… And it created immediately a question for which (colonial) Empire: The first one or the Second one?
This new fashion to apologise for every things or the absolute need to be “genocided” is ridiculous…