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| themadhippy:
--- Quote ---The local MP won't even come to hustings because he knows he has it in the bag and if only the poor sods that vote for him looked at his voting record. --- End quote --- Toe the party line or risk expulsion,regardless of what the voting majority there supposedly working for want,around here its HS2,our local mp wanders around the constituency saying hs2 bad mmkay,there parliamentary voting record tells a different story Its about time manifesto promises becomes a legally binding contract,maybe include each candidates parliamentary voting record on there vote for me leaflets for good measure |
| paulca:
What were we talking about again? |
| Simon:
I'm sure someone will remember soon. |
| MK14:
--- Quote from: Simon on July 21, 2020, 04:11:32 pm --- --- Quote from: MK14 on July 21, 2020, 03:55:52 pm --- --- Quote from: daqq on July 21, 2020, 03:41:04 pm ---Slovakia --- End quote --- Talking of which. That is where (Slav / Slovakia) the word SLAVE, comes from. Also, they were (I believe), WHITE. Ironically, it was actually 'people of colour' or whatever neutral word(s) I should be using. That enslaved them. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter1.shtml --- End quote --- wow how did you dig that up, looks like something out of the nineties they forgot about. --- End quote --- As funny as the following might sound, it is NOT a joke. I think it would really happen. If I posted part of it on the BBC website (where user comments are allowed), it could get moderated and/or banned. On racial grounds. Also, they might not be able to publish things like that, nowadays. I already knew (the gist) about 'Slav's', and googled it to get a reference. The BBC looked like a nice reliable source. The origins of many innocent/innocuous sounding words. Can be pretty terrible/horrible, if you bother to look at how the word was originally created. E.g. February has so few days in it. Because past Roman emperors 'stole' the days from it, so their own months could get 30/31 days in it. E.g. August (Augustus Caesar), which actually was originally suppose to be called 'Sextilis' / 6 or 6th. But that is a story for another day. |
| paulca:
Would be interesting to share a link on the comments section. With a suitable (out of context) appetiser quote... just like they do. |
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