Well, you will have to wait for my next trip over, when I will take a tape recorder. Try going into the Public Bar. I’m afraid the name is indeed used critically, particularly on the Internet, but you will have to forgive the English, they haven’t gotten over getting baled out in 2 World Wars.
You’re telling me. But using Access VBA modules is the best I can do on that particular computer, where the customer in too cheap to pay for VisualStudio.
Bated breath.
“The Public Bar”? What are you talking about?
Admittedly I’m London-based but I’ve been in pubs all over the place and haven’t heard this. It’s more likely to be heard in the wilds of Essex, say, which is prime UKIP territory, or perhaps in what few working men’s clubs still exist. But it’s not “common” by any usual definition of the word.
The obscure relevance of this remark aside, in my extensive experience the English don’t consider themselves to have been “bailed out” in two world wars. Mostly they snark at the US for not bothering to turn up to either war until they’d been going for a couple of years.
Really there is no end to your inaccurate statements.
Where in that title is the word “illegals” used as a noun?
That was the term objected to, not the word illegal as an adjective.
Jeez, not right there in the title at all. I suppose it’s elsewhere in the document, though, right?
Here’s an example of a friendly use……
Obarmy! It would be an understatement to say that the world breathed a sigh of relief this morning…
(Pictures: Newspaper front pages:Obama headed for White House, etc.)
Olly Courtney states he is ‘Ad Creative’ from London
In my exprerience, “paki shop”, to describe the local convenience store that is run by those of subcontinental origin as opposed to the one run by caucasians is something that is still somewhat common. I would not use it myself, nor would anyone in my immediate circle of friends; but it is something I occasionaly hear, and not necessarily from people being maliciously racist
http://www.uscis.gov/iframe/ilink/docView/PUBLAW/HTML/PUBLAW/0-0-0-10948.html
no, it ain’t. the phrase ‘Alien’ is used …’ Please take this up with the orgs I mentioned (FAIR, NumbersUSA, Chrtistians Against Illegal Immigration) as a matter of utmost
priority, before sundown if possible. Best of luck with yr crusade.
Well, thanks for the information. (Public Bar as distinct from the Private Bar, a distinction found in English pubs at least in the old days). I think most literate English would have to admit being baled (or bailed) out in WW2 at least- recent history I have read shows that it was touch and go whether Roosevelt was about to let the UK go down the drain, and not take valuable US resources with them…Churchill was able to persuade him however…
Say something mathy. You should be correct at least once per thread.
(prob. a new topic as I do not wish to highjack…)
(pls excuse name-dropping)
At a College (Jesus, Cambridge) lunch for the new Univ. Center of Math Sciences (they must have thought I was ripe for a donation) I had the privilege of sitting next to the Editor of the Financial Times (along w the Astronomer Royal, and Mary Archer, wife of Jeffery Archer, the notorious beneficiary of the judicial comment “is she not fragrant?” )
He said something like “America is the place where you can be anything you want”, and that struck me. End of story.
My cat’s name is Marla. End of story.
What was the difference?
You want a rule against people posting demonstrably untrue statements?
I don’t think such a rule would go well for you.
The distinction was between the Public Bar and the Lounge Bar. The former - spit and sawdust - for the working man, and the latter - carpets and slightly more expensive drink - was where you’d take a lady. Some pubs used to have a Snug, which was a cubbyhole for people who didn’t care to be seen drinking in public eg the vicar.
Alan won’t respond to me any more. I win.
Congratulations! That could indeed be interpreted that way. It looks a lot more like yet another adjective use though, describing the euphoria of the newspaper headlines, such as the Sun’s GO-BAMA.
Now all you have to do is dig up a bunch more to show that it’s actually common outside your racist bubble.
Your grasp of history is as poor as your understanding of anything else you have posted.
Despite your attempt to move the goalposts, the issue was not whether the Brits may or may not have been “baled out,” but whether there was any truth in your odd claim that they had “not gotten over it.” The first point is arguable. The second point is bullshit.
Now you are claiming that Churchill had to persuade Roosevelt to help keep the the UK from “going down the drain.” That is utter rubbish. At no time was Roosevelt ever considering letting Hitler conquer the UK. Roosevelt had to overcome a general isolationist attitude among the U.S. public, but he never had to be persuaded to oppose Hitler.
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Has atruelove had even one post without significant factual errors in this thread?
!
There were a couple of dozen that were too garbled to fact-check.
Please don’t let him know that there are other threads. :eek: