[AOB]

Regarding climate change:

"It's time for humanity to grow up."

Him lecturing about responsibility is like Joey Barton telling the world to "stop being so violent". How many kids to how many women in how many affairs is it, Boris?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58657887

[Nigredo]

And maybe take control of the situation rather than just turning up for press junkets then buggering off to Chequers at the earliest possible opportunity?

[Nigredo]

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/un-cli ... 021-09-23/

I actually need to compose myself before I start going into how gobsmackingly stupid and incorrect this is.

[Youngian]

A silent UN assembly didn't apprieciate the PM of the UK's Kermit and Miss Piggy quips. What a cunt.

[Cyclist]

And this is the Alex Johnson who's been telling other people to grow up, is it?

[kreuzberger]

This must now surely be grounds for anyone to claim asylum in virtually any country on the face of the earth.

[Oboogie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58654624

The pork haystack is feeling nettled.

Just thought I'd share my amusement at Boris Johnson's attempt to speak French.

As far as I can see the primary meaning of "Donnez-moi un break" is " give me an estate car".

I presume, but I've not checked, that is where we get the term "shooting brake" from - or maybe the French adopted it from English?

[Andy McDandy]

But it'll go down a treat with his core voters. And that's the point.

[kreuzberger]

But it'll go down a treat with his core voters. And that's the point.

I believe he is a fluent French speaker, something which would find little favour with the gammon.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Racism against the French* is widely considered acceptable in England.


*And the Irish, of course.

[davidjay]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58654624

The pork haystack is feeling nettled.

Just thought I'd share my amusement at Boris Johnson's attempt to speak French.

As far as I can see the primary meaning of "Donnez-moi un break" is " give me an estate car".

I presume, but I've not checked, that is where we get the term "shooting brake" from - or maybe the French adopted it from English?

I've always thought that a brake was a horse drawn carriage and a shooting brake therefore a carriage that took the gentry to the grouse moors

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ho Ho Ho, it's Let's Parlez Franglais. Easier than doing any work with an important ally.

[Oboogie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58654624

The pork haystack is feeling nettled.

Just thought I'd share my amusement at Boris Johnson's attempt to speak French.

As far as I can see the primary meaning of "Donnez-moi un break" is " give me an estate car".

I presume, but I've not checked, that is where we get the term "shooting brake" from - or maybe the French adopted it from English?

I've always thought that a brake was a horse drawn carriage and a shooting brake therefore a carriage that took the gentry to the grouse moors

Correct.
I believe it's derived from the Dutch word, 'brik', which is a form of horse drawn farm cart.
A shooting brake was originally as you describe. The motorised version used the same name which was an early form of, what became known as, an estate car or, more latterly, a people carrier. The French word for an estate car is a "break".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_brake

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Sometimes. It's another English word which confuses the Gallic lexicon.

[Oboogie]

Sometimes. It's another English word which confuses the Gallic lexicon.

Not just the Gauls! I expect this is old news to the railway buffs amongst us, but I've only just caught up with the derivation of vokzal which is the (transliterated from the Russian alphabet) word for railway station.

A visiting Russian delegation studying the embryonic English railway network were apparently shown Vauxhall station and adopted the name for their own designs, and it became the generic name for a station in Russia.

Funny old game, language.

[Boiler]

Not just the Gauls! I expect this is old news to the railway buffs amongst us, but I've only just caught up with the derivation of vokzal which is the (transliterated from the Russian alphabet) word for railway station.

Despite having an interest in railways almost since I could walk, I only learned that about a year or two ago myself - courtesy of a mate who gave me a present of a mug depicting an FD20-class locomotive when he visited the railway museum in Moscow.

The use of "Break" to denote an estate car in French I learned from car audio catalogues in the 80s!

"Station Wagon" is another matter, but I digress.

[mattomac]

Ah the British leading the way on climate change, always helps when you have no manufacturing base.

The guy who decided to host the G7 summit in one of the remotest villages in Cornwall and then decided to fly the 150 miles.

Not to mention the pointless red arrows wank fest, climate change only matters when you can lecturer others.

[Youngian]

Even Bolsonaro sees Johnson as a total bellend. The South American president also explained to the gringo that he's not running a banana republic and can't just 'have a word' to shift whisky.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whom he met this week in New York, asked him for an "emergency" agreement to supply a food product that is lacking in Britain.

Bolsonaro, speaking on his weekly webcast to supporters, did not name the product, but said he had passed Johnson's request to his agriculture minister, Tereza Cristina.

"He wants an emergency agreement with us to import some kind of food that is lacking in England," he said.

Bolsonaro said Johnson also asked him to help increase Brazilian imports of whisky from Britain, but he added in his social media talk that this was up to private business and not his government.
https://www.reuters.com/world/bolsonaro ... ce=twitter

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ha ha ha.

This would be quite the policy seeing we were told today that everywhere else had shortages of drivers.

[Crabcakes]

The long, slow, but inexorable crawl towards rejoining the EEA continues…