YCCMB Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Well, I laughed. Although regrettably the truth behind the blague isn't that funny.https://edukactus.wordpress.com/2015/11/01/identite-robert-menard-veut-interdire-les-chiffres-arabes-dans-les-ecoles-de-beziers/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 What about Arab contributions to the study of astronomy?Would he prefer school children to know nothing about that subject too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Because of this:www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2015/10/30/robert-menard-les-kebabs-et-la-culture_4800315_4355770.htmlA perceptive analysis of the politics behind it:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/24/dining/kebabs-as-a-political-statement-in-france.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1but there is a response:http://www.midilibre.fr/2015/10/31/beziers-un-festival-du-kebab-en-reponse-a-robert-menard,1234572.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 The le Monde link does not seem to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 [quote user="mint"]The le Monde link does not seem to work.[/quote]The first "w" of "www" is missing. Copy, paste to your browser, then add it [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Maybe some people in this neck of the woods are worried that kebabs will supplant the pizzas which feature heavily in local menus[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YCCMB Posted November 2, 2015 Author Share Posted November 2, 2015 All this sort of thing reminds me of the splendid sign that used to be outside the council office in Slough, which announced to all comers:"Welcome to Slough. A nuclear-free town"Another example of "We have spoken, and it shall be so" Pffft! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judith Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Morning BettyI remember that one! Just one of the dafter things Slough Town Council did whilst I lived there yonks ago! [Long before W1!] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 [quote user="nomoss"]The first "w" of "www" is missing. Copy, paste to your browser, then add it [:D][/quote]nomoss, I am in the midst of reading a Kurt Wallander detective story (fortunately already translated from the Swedish!) and I think that you could help him solve the mystery!Blimey, talk about attention to detail[:D] Me, I'm one of these "broad brush" persons and details pass me by[:(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Nimt, shouldn't that be broad 'blush'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 [quote user="You can call me Betty"]All this sort of thing reminds me of the splendid sign that used to be outside the council office in Slough, which announced to all comers:"Welcome to Slough. A nuclear-free town"Another example of "We have spoken, and it shall be so" Pffft![/quote]I remember that Slough, in the sixties, had signs all the way along the A4 announcing"Slough is safety town!", together with some very annoying synchronised traffic lights, which some used to try to race[+o(]Watching events on the TV programmes with cops chasing (mostly) kids in stolen cars in the Thames Valley, I can understand why the signs are no longer there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 [quote user="mint"][quote user="nomoss"]The first "w" of "www" is missing. Copy, paste to your browser, then add it [:D][/quote]nomoss, I am in the midst of reading a Kurt Wallander detective story (fortunately already translated from the Swedish!) and I think that you could help him solve the mystery!Blimey, talk about attention to detail[:D] Me, I'm one of these "broad brush" persons and details pass me by[:(][/quote]Any time you have a problem getting a live link to work, it's worth making sure that it makes sense - e.g. the prefix is complete, and no letters or words have been added to the link due to no spaces being placed before or after it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YCCMB Posted November 2, 2015 Author Share Posted November 2, 2015 All of which was eclipsed, for me, nomoss, when the council in Windsor (of a bit more interest to me then, as that's who we paid local taxes to) festooned the town with banners announcing how much they'd saved on council tax expenditure. I was,left to assume that they'd spent the savings on the poxy banners.Slough's strap line now appears to be something about being "green" yeah, right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 The lack of attention to detail was mine and I apologise..[:$] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judith Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 [quote user="nomoss"]I remember that Slough, in the sixties, had signs all the way along the A4 announcingtogether with some very annoying synchronised traffic lights, which some used to try to race[+o(][/quote]Don't know why you ever bothered Nomoss. All the time I lived there, I regularly visited a friend in Burnham (of Beeches fame) and returned home via the A4, to the east side of Slough, and I never cracked it .. the more you tried, the more they fought you!! I'm now pretty sure that if you stuck rigidly to the 30mph you got every stuck at everyone, or you got through, depending on the timing when you arrived at the first one!. I often went through the industrial estate instead (which had it's own set of challenges of course!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 [quote user="Judith"]All the time I lived there, I returned home via the A4, to the east side of Slough, and I cracked it !! [/quote]I didn't say that I tried to race the lights. I was on a pedal cycle at the time.You should really quote posts in full[:D]EDIT: Thinking back, it was in the '50's, not the '60's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 In the same humorous vein:https://edukactus.wordpress.com/2014/06/29/marine-le-pen-demande-linterdiction-des-langues-etrangeres-a-lecole/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YCCMB Posted November 3, 2015 Author Share Posted November 3, 2015 ? Although I'm not sure I should really be laughing. The FN's minds work in mysterious ways.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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