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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 1794 Views
I am now confused Camilla - 23/01/2011 05:34:31 PM 1151 Views
You won't be the only person Stephen - 23/01/2011 06:21:23 PM 1051 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 1184 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 1127 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 1081 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 1040 Views
Those protests were only violent by British standards. Tim - 23/01/2011 11:54:15 PM 1215 Views
Really? Camilla - 24/01/2011 12:03:38 AM 1017 Views
But... Wibble - 24/01/2011 07:28:17 PM 1075 Views
Re: But... Camilla - 24/01/2011 07:30:39 PM 1327 Views
What protests? Wibble - 24/01/2011 07:26:49 PM 1153 Views
Re: What protests? Camilla - 24/01/2011 07:28:40 PM 1015 Views
Re: What protests? Nebhead - 25/01/2011 09:23:17 AM 1153 Views
There's a new objection Camilla - 25/01/2011 11:38:25 AM 1063 Views
I didn't object... Nebhead - 25/01/2011 11:47:11 AM 960 Views
Re: I didn't object... Camilla - 25/01/2011 11:49:36 AM 947 Views
If you look at the bottom of that list... Nebhead - 25/01/2011 11:58:24 AM 1008 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 543 Views
Should I start chiming in on Norwegian politics now that I'm here...? Joel - 24/01/2011 12:42:03 AM 1048 Views
Why not? Camilla - 24/01/2011 08:49:07 AM 1109 Views
'Cos I doubt you'll like what I have to say, for one thing. Joel - 26/01/2011 01:55:13 AM 1141 Views
Re: 'Cos I doubt you'll like what I have to say, for one thing. Camilla - 26/01/2011 08:42:04 AM 1162 Views
I misconstrued your sarcasm, sorry. Joel - 26/01/2011 10:23:40 AM 1304 Views
That's been a while coming, hasn't it? Cowen seems to be losing it. Legolas - 23/01/2011 05:48:30 PM 1091 Views
Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Stephen - 23/01/2011 06:27:27 PM 1155 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Legolas - 23/01/2011 06:33:26 PM 1095 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Stephen - 23/01/2011 07:19:03 PM 1203 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Legolas - 23/01/2011 07:57:05 PM 1046 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Stephen - 23/01/2011 09:29:03 PM 1160 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Legolas - 23/01/2011 09:46:20 PM 1119 Views
I think Adams is an Irish citizen, and not a British one. Tim - 23/01/2011 11:45:34 PM 1074 Views
Re: I think Adams is an Irish citizen, and not a British one. Stephen - 23/01/2011 11:53:12 PM 1064 Views
The part that I find strange is... Tim - 23/01/2011 11:58:27 PM 1042 Views
Re: Certainly. he's been on dodgy ground for a couple months. Stephen - 23/01/2011 11:45:39 PM 951 Views
I found out something else today which makes it even better. Tim - 24/01/2011 10:37:45 PM 1270 Views
I was reading your post and going "what about the Chiltern Hundreds"? Legolas - 24/01/2011 10:44:32 PM 1059 Views
Today's news: it got better again! Tim - 26/01/2011 07:51:51 PM 1132 Views
Oh, alternatively we could elevate him to the House of Lords. Tim - 26/01/2011 11:08:44 PM 1092 Views
Awesome idea. Something like "Baron Adams of Londonderry", I'm thinking. *NM* Legolas - 27/01/2011 07:54:26 PM 527 Views
We made his arch-rival a Lord, after all, so it would only be fair. Tim - 28/01/2011 08:26:15 AM 1028 Views
"This is the voice of a life peer" Michael - 28/01/2011 02:18:04 PM 1158 Views
Here you go Elaine - 25/01/2011 12:55:33 PM 1191 Views
That's the site I found too. Tim - 25/01/2011 01:25:56 PM 1017 Views
Right. Elaine - 25/01/2011 01:42:49 PM 1260 Views
well, the only interesting thing in swedish politics is a wikileaks document and the reactions... jh - 23/01/2011 06:21:00 PM 1129 Views
That's interesting Stephen - 23/01/2011 06:32:05 PM 1096 Views
What is inappropriate about trying to keep out barbaric unskilled people? Tom - 23/01/2011 10:59:53 PM 1103 Views
The inappropriateness is the generalisation in the claim Camilla - 23/01/2011 11:16:52 PM 1097 Views
Generalizations are inappropriate when they are disproven by statistics, and appropriate when proven Tom - 24/01/2011 07:33:14 PM 1034 Views
I've looked into the statistics a bit more. Tom - 24/01/2011 09:11:52 PM 1042 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 1086 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 972 Views
Schweden schafft sich ab, eh? Tom - 24/01/2011 07:31:33 PM 1251 Views
Not to mention... ßelals Girl - 26/01/2011 07:55:26 PM 959 Views
ßelals Girl - 26/01/2011 07:46:19 PM 1079 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 1041 Views
I'd support that Stephen - 23/01/2011 11:26:20 PM 1103 Views
Ironically, if you de-officialised Irish you could get EU money to help preserve it. Tim - 23/01/2011 11:48:14 PM 1005 Views
I never realised that Stephen - 23/01/2011 11:54:43 PM 1044 Views
But why, why? Tom - 24/01/2011 08:35:43 PM 982 Views
Because it's the only thing justifying their insistence they're not British? Legolas - 24/01/2011 10:03:54 PM 1050 Views
But all language learning should be purely voluntary (after what parents teach their children). Tom - 25/01/2011 03:05:28 AM 1025 Views
What, so you don't think students in high school should be taught foreign languages? Legolas - 25/01/2011 06:34:21 PM 1053 Views
Irish is the mother tongue of about 7,000-15,000 people at most. Tom - 26/01/2011 05:04:00 AM 1080 Views
Wikipedia says it's more like 40k-80k. Legolas - 26/01/2011 06:41:41 PM 1450 Views
And Elaine, Stephen, or any other Irish people here: do feel free to comment. *NM* Legolas - 26/01/2011 06:42:36 PM 532 Views
Inflated statistics from what I've read. Tom - 26/01/2011 09:45:51 PM 990 Views
They might be, indeed. Elaine - 27/01/2011 01:08:09 PM 1239 Views
More to the point, are YOU interested in learning Irish? Tom - 26/01/2011 05:15:18 AM 994 Views
Calling Ireland the new Sodom and Gomorrah, are you? Legolas - 26/01/2011 06:02:05 PM 1141 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 1089 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 976 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 1132 Views
So Australians and New Zealanders are really English then? Austrians are just Germans? Tom - 25/01/2011 03:01:14 AM 1089 Views
I never said I agreed . Tim - 25/01/2011 08:19:11 AM 1056 Views
I would suggest that a distinct dialect does the job just as well majander - 25/01/2011 02:23:59 PM 1101 Views
That's a very good point. Tom - 26/01/2011 05:06:32 AM 1072 Views
Indeed. Legolas - 26/01/2011 06:06:00 PM 1112 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 946 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 927 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 478 Views
What the hell happened to the Celtic Tiger Country? *NM* Blaine - 24/01/2011 05:47:12 AM 602 Views
Thrown away on bling and tat, unfortunately. Elaine - 24/01/2011 01:01:27 PM 970 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 1049 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 935 Views
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