EU learning the hard way

[m0n1k3r]

where your belovedly efficient and humane EU commissioners welcome them all with open arms

It is the British EU commissioner who is in charge of security and anti-terrorism.

[TheGreenBastard]

Doesn't work like that I'm afraid. Britain's fault for having colonies in the past.

Interesting. So people now must be punished for acts by our ancestors.

How far back can we go? Ancient Egyptian slavery? Islamic imperialism? The countless empires that predate "Britain"?

[DimPrawn]

Interesting. So people now must be punished for acts by our ancestors.

How far back can we go? Ancient Egyptian slavery? Islamic imperialism? The countless empires that predate "Britain"?

A big fat prehistoric ape like sub-human creature once thumped another one.



Must we all pay for MF's previous actions too?

[Major Hassle]

Interesting. So people now must be punished for acts by our ancestors.

How far back can we go? Ancient Egyptian slavery? Islamic imperialism? The countless empires that predate "Britain"?

As far as it takes to fit the story, Rory

[SpontaneousOrder]

As far as it takes to fit the story, Rory

Careful - you're verging on 'bigotry' there. Wouldn't want you to get banned for expressing an idea that the mod doesn't like, or triggering a mod's tendency for projection (That's what bigotry means, FYI).

[Major Hassle]

Careful - you're verging on 'bigotry' there. Wouldn't want you to get banned for expressing an idea that the mod doesn't like, or triggering a mod's tendency for projection (That's what bigotry means, FYI).

The Bigotry of our modern Politically Correct society is as we vacillate expressing itself in rivers of blood....

[Mordac]

It is the British EU commissioner who is in charge of security and anti-terrorism.

A sneaky little ploy by Juncker so that if anything goes wrong (as if it would ) the rest of Europe will blame Britain. Or am I being a tiny bit too cynical...?

[WTFH]

Careful - you're verging on 'bigotry' there. Wouldn't want you to get banned for expressing an idea that the mod doesn't like, or triggering a mod's tendency for projection (That's what bigotry means, FYI).

Ah the man without a dictionary is back.

The word bigot is a contraction of the phrase "By God, I'm right". Nothing to do with projection and everything to do with hating anyone who has a different view to you. It's a very isolationist standpoint, previously used in religious arguments, but seen in other areas too.

[Major Hassle]

Ah the man without a dictionary is back.

The word bigot is a contraction of the phrase "By God, I'm right". Nothing to do with projection and everything to do with hating anyone who has a different view to you. It's a very isolationist standpoint, previously used in religious arguments, but seen in other areas too.

As with many things it depends upon which cup you sip from.

1590s, "sanctimonious person, religious hypocrite," from French bigot (12c.), which is of unknown origin. Earliest French use of the word is as the name of a people apparently in southern Gaul, which led to the now-doubtful, on phonetic grounds, theory that the word comes from Visigothus. The typical use in Old French seems to have been as a derogatory nickname for Normans, the old theory (not universally accepted) being that it springs from their frequent use of the Germanic oath bi God. But OED dismisses in a three-exclamation-mark fury one fanciful version of the "by god" theory as "absurdly incongruous with facts." At the end, not much is left standing except Spanish bigote "mustache," which also has been proposed but not explained, and the chief virtue of which as a source seems to be there is no evidence for or against it.

[SueEllen]

A sneaky little ploy by Juncker so that if anything goes wrong (as if it would ) the rest of Europe will blame Britain. Or am I being a tiny bit too cynical...?

Nah cos most of Europe doesn't know what their country's commissioner is responsible for.

Also the last one in head of something like finance resigned due to Brexit, so they put a British one in Security as even if we leave we are extremely likely to co-operate on that.