Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Where Are The Immigrants ?
That was the Zimbabwean news response to the Olympic opening ceremony, was he watching another channel ? If anything, I would have said that Danny Boyle was slightly guilty of over-representation of Black and Asian faces with each scene carefully choreographed to demonstrate Britain's multi-cultural and ethnically diverse, and the most obvious scene of immigration was the actual re-creation of the Windrush and the first wave of Caribbean immigration. What of your violent colonial past ? asked the same correspondent. Well, come one, no country is going to put on parade their past transgressions in this sort of thing. Although if he thought there wasn't anything counter-culture going on, then he wasn't listening to the music either.
Friday, July 27, 2012
How To Be British
There are some spot on observations, and a host of cliches and stereotypes in the BBC 12 Part Guide To The UK.
"The English are British and lots of people think the British are English but that annoys the Scottish and Welsh because although some think they're British and some think they aren't and some think they are but don't want to be, they all agree that they definitely are not English. The Irish mostly think they are Irish, apart from the ones who are Northern Irish. Some say that makes them British and Irish. But others disagree and say they should just be Irish and then some say they aren't British either but part of the United Kingdom. People from England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland can all play cricket for England because they're British as can those from Ireland even though they aren't British. So can South Africans. The English play football for England unless they aren't that good when they might try to play for Ireland. Those from the Isle of Wight are English, from Anglesey are Welsh and the Orkneys are Scottish, but although that means they aren't from the island of Great Britain they're still British. The Channel Islanders depend on the crown which is what the Queen wears but they aren't in the UK and those from the Isle of Man are the same, apart from their cats."
"He never gets his round in." There is no more damning assessment of one's character to be heard in the British Isles.
"The English are British and lots of people think the British are English but that annoys the Scottish and Welsh because although some think they're British and some think they aren't and some think they are but don't want to be, they all agree that they definitely are not English. The Irish mostly think they are Irish, apart from the ones who are Northern Irish. Some say that makes them British and Irish. But others disagree and say they should just be Irish and then some say they aren't British either but part of the United Kingdom. People from England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland can all play cricket for England because they're British as can those from Ireland even though they aren't British. So can South Africans. The English play football for England unless they aren't that good when they might try to play for Ireland. Those from the Isle of Wight are English, from Anglesey are Welsh and the Orkneys are Scottish, but although that means they aren't from the island of Great Britain they're still British. The Channel Islanders depend on the crown which is what the Queen wears but they aren't in the UK and those from the Isle of Man are the same, apart from their cats."
"He never gets his round in." There is no more damning assessment of one's character to be heard in the British Isles.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Her Children Shall Rise Up And Call Her Blessed
"Votes for Working Women," Suffragette (7 Jan 1913).
http://www.dhr.history.vt.edu/modules/eu/mod02_vote/evidence_detail_10.html
Friday, April 3, 2009
GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL INFECTED AT BIRTH BY GOD VIRUS
Please, watch this video:
It would appear that General Medical Council and all the Royal Colleges are infected with God Virus too. I wonder how the non-infected manage to survive there. Presumably, unaware.
Having been infected for years with GOD Virus GMC has ordered me to write a Personal Development Plan without ever even asking if I had one. Thinking is not required at GMC.
How about remedial GMC training in the form of compulsory Personal Development Plan? Here is the first lesson:
Will GMC make sure I go to hell for writing this sort of thing? Of course. Here is their welcome:
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