And I never knew that all events of fifty years ago should be erased from memory and never referenced. You should tell every one in great debates and general questionsabout the history blanking requirment of your arbitrary selection, there are people in there still talking about the ancient Greeks, Eqyptians and even the Neanderthals, way before the Vichy assholes that I had the temerity to mention. Can you point me to the ebay sale where I may find a pair of rose-glasses so that I can ignore the past too?
Fair enough, could you tell me where you are from so that I may hold the transgressions of your countries past against you?
Do you think your average German today wants to gas Jews, Homosexuals, Roma and trade unionists?
How about the average American wanting to keep black people as slaves or murder the Native Americans for their land, or round up every Japanese person and put them in internment camps on the off chance that they might be enemy soldiers or spies?
I’m not one for rose tinted glasses, but I’m certainly not one for broadstroke jingoistic bullshit either.
You said it, man. My sentiments exactly. I live in a suburb of Amsterdam, and I have a car because I need it for my work. I have a parking permit, but I NEVER take the car downtown. It’s absolutely pointless. Should I live downtown, and not need a car for business purposes, I’d get rid of it altogether. I still have a motorbike, anyway.
The Parisian proposal is an interesting one. There’s a similar debate going on in Holland right now, where the proposal is to tax cars that emit more at a higher rate. The main focus is (older) diesel engines. As much as I like my diesel, if it’s demonstrated that it’s a polluter and I’m forced to buy a soot filter for it, then so be it. I might have the means to buy a nice car, but I don’t have the right to pollute the city I live in.
As for the size issue: I’m pretty sick and tired of X5’s and Range Rovers taking up 1.5 parking spaces, essentially incapacitating 10% of the parking space in my neighbourhood. Get those fucking tractors to the countryside where they belong, please, and buy a damn Mini already.
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You appear to be having problems with referencing past events with the grammatical future tense. Are you confused about the two?
You mean the spelling, grammar, ignorance and logical fallacies don’t give it away?
Dublin could do with such a law. I gasped the other week when I saw some twat trying to drive a hummer through the tiny Temple Bar streets. The wheels were on the kerbs and people had to stand in doorways :rolleyes:
Straightforward case of dangerous driving. I’d have phoned the police. Too many people think big vehicle = increased right of way.
I take it the driver was met with the appropriate Temple Bar welcome, i.e. smashed pint glasses across the windshield of his castle on wheels? 
Pint glasses put under his wheels
If it had have been at night Coldie that’s exactly what would have happened. Mostly sober tourists during the day.
Well, there’s your problem. If you had curbs like we do in America, then there wouldn’t be any…
…Whut?