Comments on: Eurozone economy to keep on shrinking through 2013

By: MelonCollie

MelonCollie — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 05:14:49 +0000

The French would be running so fast they wouldn’t even pause to be rude about it.

Adjoran on February 22, 2013 at 8:20 PM

Hahahaha! Running faster than your nose after eating a hot pepper.

By: John Kettlewell

John Kettlewell — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 05:02:12 +0000

Engineering crises daily baby!!

Remind me what it was that Woodrow Wilson stated…

By: Lew

Lew — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 03:39:54 +0000

There is just no way anybody is going to paper over the deep cultural split between the Baltic/Atlantic cultures and the Mediterranean cultures of old Europe.
Especially with a treaty arrangement expressly designed to avoid a vote of the people involved. If I remember correctly, there were only three countries that ever voted on membership. Denmark rejected it and Ireland had to vote twice to get it passed.
I confess to a sketchy knowledge of EU history, but I believe that it was created by a bunch Euro-Bureaucrats and presented to each country as a treaty, subject only to ratification by the government, with the specific intention of avoiding any direct vote of the people.

By: ButterflyDragon

ButterflyDragon — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 03:18:24 +0000

Everyone knows it’s the Republican’s fault. Just ask Obama.

By: DarkCurrent

DarkCurrent — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 03:01:42 +0000

All you need to know about Europe is that it thinks it’s a continent.

By: eon

eon — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 02:24:44 +0000

And yew thought yew knew everything.

Scrumpy on February 22, 2013 at 8:36 PM

Thanks. I didn’t know that one!

cheers

eon

By: Lost in Jersey

Lost in Jersey — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 01:43:03 +0000

The French would be running so fast they wouldn’t even pause to be rude about it.

Adjoran on February 22, 2013 at 8:20 PM

+100

Now that was funny.

AZfederalist on February 22, 2013 at 8:24 PM

I concur. Brilliant.

By: Happy Nomad

Happy Nomad — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 01:37:19 +0000

We really should start a pool to bet when the Eurozone ends and the various nations start printing their own currency again. The problem was not in the concept but in the fact that, in true European fashion, they established rules so that all partner nations would be contributors. And within months if not weeks they started breaking their own rules.

By: Scrumpy

Scrumpy — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 01:36:34 +0000

Ok it’s been 10 mins since anyone last posted anything so here goes:

GIVING THE FINGER

Isn’t history more fun when you know something about it?

Giving the Finger Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous weapon was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as “plucking the yew” (or “pluck yew”).

Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, “See, we can still pluck yew! “PLUCK YEW!”

Since ‘pluck yew’ is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative ‘F’, and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute are mistakenly thought to have something to do with an intimate encounter. It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as “giving the bird”.

And yew thought yew knew everything.

By: AZfederalist

AZfederalist — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 01:24:25 +0000

The French would be running so fast they wouldn’t even pause to be rude about it.

Adjoran on February 22, 2013 at 8:20 PM

+100

Now that was funny.

By: Scrumpy

Scrumpy — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 01:23:57 +0000

Adjoran on February 22, 2013 at 8:20 PM

Hahahahahahahahaha so funny!!

By: Scrumpy

Scrumpy — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 01:22:47 +0000

Mimzey: The french wouldn’t sully themselves by eating an English Crumpet!! ;-)

By: Adjoran

Adjoran — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 01:20:58 +0000

Again, Germany regrets not building at least ONE tank factory during the Cold War years.

How many would it take, really? A couple of dozen, rolling behind a lead Rabbit flying a big “Fahrvergnügen” banner, ought to do the trick.

The French would be running so fast they wouldn’t even pause to be rude about it.

By: Eurozone economy to keep on shrinking through 2013 | Evil of indifference

Eurozone economy to keep on shrinking through 2013 | Evil of indifference — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 01:13:11 +0000

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By: canopfor

canopfor — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:53:54 +0000

France’s new Socialist government is having trouble engendering an optimistic business climate? Whaat?!
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The French,should contact Hopey for tips!!
(sarc)

By: AZfederalist

AZfederalist — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:51:52 +0000

He said France has major structural problems, and also said business activity may have been crimped by confusion over the government’s economic policies.

Oh, there was no confusion, businesses rightly saw the confiscatory policies being planned by the socialist government and took appropriate steps to minimize exposure and losses. Funny that, people respond to policies that affect them negatively.

By: Lost in Jersey

Lost in Jersey — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:35:34 +0000

what a coincidence.

By: Mimzey

Mimzey — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:31:37 +0000

Whats going on over there? Have all the protests and riots stopped and everyone is back to sipping tea and crumpets..or is nothing being reported because socialists don’t want any focus on the fruits of their ideas?

By: MJBrutus

MJBrutus — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:29:34 +0000

The outcome of Italy’s election may be rather interesting. If Sergio pulls an upset (the polls have him down) then Italy will proudly march in Greece’s footsteps. Not that the alternatives are sincere about fiscal restraint, but Berlesconi will open the doors wide open to social spending and taxation.

By: KOOLAID2

KOOLAID2 — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:24:36 +0000

the USA is trying to keep pace!