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What is inappropriate about trying to keep out barbaric unskilled people? Tom Send a noteboard - 23/01/2011 10:59:53 PM
If I were running a country I'd try to avoid letting massive numbers of unskilled workers who support honor killings come into the nation, by force if necessary.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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So the Irish government has basically imploded. Stephen - 23/01/2011 04:47:10 PM 1733 Views
I am now confused Camilla - 23/01/2011 05:34:31 PM 1100 Views
You won't be the only person Stephen - 23/01/2011 06:21:23 PM 999 Views
You do realize Britain is pretty much the envy of the Western world at the moment? Legolas - 23/01/2011 06:27:05 PM 1123 Views
Re: You do realize Britain is pretty much the envy of the Western world at the moment? Camilla - 23/01/2011 06:34:47 PM 1060 Views
I did. There was more violence than in ours, that's true (ours have none so far, knock on wood). Legolas - 23/01/2011 06:41:34 PM 1032 Views
Re: I did. There was more violence than in ours, that's true (ours have none so far, knock on wood). Camilla - 23/01/2011 06:43:41 PM 976 Views
Those protests were only violent by British standards. Tim - 23/01/2011 11:54:15 PM 1131 Views
Really? Camilla - 24/01/2011 12:03:38 AM 960 Views
But... Wibble - 24/01/2011 07:28:17 PM 1024 Views
Re: But... Camilla - 24/01/2011 07:30:39 PM 1272 Views
What protests? Wibble - 24/01/2011 07:26:49 PM 1103 Views
Re: What protests? Camilla - 24/01/2011 07:28:40 PM 958 Views
Re: What protests? Nebhead - 25/01/2011 09:23:17 AM 1096 Views
There's a new objection Camilla - 25/01/2011 11:38:25 AM 1015 Views
I didn't object... Nebhead - 25/01/2011 11:47:11 AM 905 Views
Re: I didn't object... Camilla - 25/01/2011 11:49:36 AM 874 Views
If you look at the bottom of that list... Nebhead - 25/01/2011 11:58:24 AM 957 Views
And Britain had to live with the Conservative Wilderness for 15 years before it could get there *NM* Roland00 - 24/01/2011 02:43:16 AM 519 Views
Should I start chiming in on Norwegian politics now that I'm here...? Joel - 24/01/2011 12:42:03 AM 997 Views
Why not? Camilla - 24/01/2011 08:49:07 AM 1053 Views
'Cos I doubt you'll like what I have to say, for one thing. Joel - 26/01/2011 01:55:13 AM 1079 Views
Re: 'Cos I doubt you'll like what I have to say, for one thing. Camilla - 26/01/2011 08:42:04 AM 1099 Views
I misconstrued your sarcasm, sorry. Joel - 26/01/2011 10:23:40 AM 1252 Views
That's been a while coming, hasn't it? Cowen seems to be losing it. Legolas - 23/01/2011 05:48:30 PM 1027 Views
Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Stephen - 23/01/2011 06:27:27 PM 1100 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Legolas - 23/01/2011 06:33:26 PM 1040 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Stephen - 23/01/2011 07:19:03 PM 1146 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Legolas - 23/01/2011 07:57:05 PM 985 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Stephen - 23/01/2011 09:29:03 PM 1107 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Legolas - 23/01/2011 09:46:20 PM 1063 Views
I think Adams is an Irish citizen, and not a British one. Tim - 23/01/2011 11:45:34 PM 1019 Views
Re: I think Adams is an Irish citizen, and not a British one. Stephen - 23/01/2011 11:53:12 PM 1011 Views
The part that I find strange is... Tim - 23/01/2011 11:58:27 PM 990 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Stephen - 23/01/2011 11:45:39 PM 897 Views
I found out something else today which makes it even better. Tim - 24/01/2011 10:37:45 PM 1198 Views
I was reading your post and going "what about the Chiltern Hundreds"? Legolas - 24/01/2011 10:44:32 PM 1005 Views
Today's news: it got better again! Tim - 26/01/2011 07:51:51 PM 1072 Views
Oh, alternatively we could elevate him to the House of Lords. Tim - 26/01/2011 11:08:44 PM 1031 Views
Awesome idea. Something like "Baron Adams of Londonderry", I'm thinking. *NM* Legolas - 27/01/2011 07:54:26 PM 500 Views
We made his arch-rival a Lord, after all, so it would only be fair. Tim - 28/01/2011 08:26:15 AM 974 Views
"This is the voice of a life peer" Michael - 28/01/2011 02:18:04 PM 1105 Views
Here you go Elaine - 25/01/2011 12:55:33 PM 1124 Views
That's the site I found too. Tim - 25/01/2011 01:25:56 PM 958 Views
Right. Elaine - 25/01/2011 01:42:49 PM 1194 Views
well, the only interesting thing in swedish politics is a wikileaks document and the reactions... jh - 23/01/2011 06:21:00 PM 1079 Views
That's interesting Stephen - 23/01/2011 06:32:05 PM 1041 Views
What is inappropriate about trying to keep out barbaric unskilled people? Tom - 23/01/2011 10:59:53 PM 1056 Views
The inappropriateness is the generalisation in the claim Camilla - 23/01/2011 11:16:52 PM 1031 Views
Generalizations are inappropriate when they are disproven by statistics, and appropriate when proven Tom - 24/01/2011 07:33:14 PM 979 Views
I've looked into the statistics a bit more. Tom - 24/01/2011 09:11:52 PM 993 Views
I take it you're talking about the Middle East in its most narrow sense here. Legolas - 24/01/2011 09:56:22 PM 1024 Views
... the fact that they are asylum seekers, and their skill certainly shouldn't matter in that case. jh - 24/01/2011 07:08:14 PM 913 Views
Schweden schafft sich ab, eh? Tom - 24/01/2011 07:31:33 PM 1186 Views
Not to mention... ßelals Girl - 26/01/2011 07:55:26 PM 903 Views
ßelals Girl - 26/01/2011 07:46:19 PM 1030 Views
Hopefully they'll stop using Irish officially as a way to cut down on unnecessary costs. Tom - 23/01/2011 10:57:08 PM 978 Views
I'd support that Stephen - 23/01/2011 11:26:20 PM 1049 Views
Ironically, if you de-officialised Irish you could get EU money to help preserve it. Tim - 23/01/2011 11:48:14 PM 953 Views
I never realised that Stephen - 23/01/2011 11:54:43 PM 975 Views
But why, why? Tom - 24/01/2011 08:35:43 PM 936 Views
Because it's the only thing justifying their insistence they're not British? Legolas - 24/01/2011 10:03:54 PM 999 Views
But all language learning should be purely voluntary (after what parents teach their children). Tom - 25/01/2011 03:05:28 AM 963 Views
What, so you don't think students in high school should be taught foreign languages? Legolas - 25/01/2011 06:34:21 PM 996 Views
Irish is the mother tongue of about 7,000-15,000 people at most. Tom - 26/01/2011 05:04:00 AM 1023 Views
Wikipedia says it's more like 40k-80k. Legolas - 26/01/2011 06:41:41 PM 1396 Views
And Elaine, Stephen, or any other Irish people here: do feel free to comment. *NM* Legolas - 26/01/2011 06:42:36 PM 500 Views
Inflated statistics from what I've read. Tom - 26/01/2011 09:45:51 PM 936 Views
They might be, indeed. Elaine - 27/01/2011 01:08:09 PM 1179 Views
More to the point, are YOU interested in learning Irish? Tom - 26/01/2011 05:15:18 AM 937 Views
Calling Ireland the new Sodom and Gomorrah, are you? Legolas - 26/01/2011 06:02:05 PM 1084 Views
I don't think it's as fun as Sodom and Gomorrah, at least not post-crisis. Tom - 26/01/2011 09:48:54 PM 1038 Views
Re: I don't think it's as fun as Sodom and Gomorrah, at least not post-crisis. Legolas - 27/01/2011 08:42:21 PM 918 Views
Presumably because they agree with J.R.R. Tolkien and Tómas Sæmundsson about language's importance. Tim - 24/01/2011 10:16:05 PM 1081 Views
So Australians and New Zealanders are really English then? Austrians are just Germans? Tom - 25/01/2011 03:01:14 AM 1034 Views
I never said I agreed . Tim - 25/01/2011 08:19:11 AM 996 Views
I would suggest that a distinct dialect does the job just as well majander - 25/01/2011 02:23:59 PM 1033 Views
That's a very good point. Tom - 26/01/2011 05:06:32 AM 1011 Views
Indeed. Legolas - 26/01/2011 06:06:00 PM 1055 Views
The thing is, people who feel really strongly about that usually insist it's a separate language. Tim - 28/01/2011 04:20:57 PM 883 Views
It's really more about having a unique silly costume to wear at Miss Universe pageants. Tom - 26/01/2011 05:09:10 AM 877 Views
You're confusing what we sell to gullible American tourists with what we actually value . *NM* Tim - 28/01/2011 04:15:01 PM 447 Views
What the hell happened to the Celtic Tiger Country? *NM* Blaine - 24/01/2011 05:47:12 AM 574 Views
Thrown away on bling and tat, unfortunately. Elaine - 24/01/2011 01:01:27 PM 909 Views
The Celtic Tiger is dead, Ireland had a GDP contraction of 14% in the last two years. Roland00 - 24/01/2011 01:47:06 PM 993 Views
It's still there, but it aimed a bit too high and got a bit scorched. Legolas - 24/01/2011 10:07:36 PM 880 Views
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