Orwellian Eurospeak/Euphemisms

[sasguru]

1. "ECB's executive board member José González-Páramo rejects the idea that ECB bond buying is quantitative easing"

Other EUphemisms:

2. "Stability mechanism" - Making a country completeley unstable by screwing it into the ground so it is in depression and has no chance of paying its debts ever.
3. "PSI (Private Sector Involvement)" -- screwing private sector investors into the ground so that they are completely uninvolved in getting paid back




You couldn't make it up

[pacharan]

How about all the PC newspeak that abounds these days.

I can't stand the word gender.

What's un-pc about the word sex when differentiating between membership of the male or female camp?

[sasguru]

How about all the PC newspeak that abounds these days.

I can't stand the word gender.

What's un-pc about the word sex when differentiating between membership of the male or female camp?

It sounds like a wind tunnel in here

[Mich the Tester]

It sounds like a wind tunnel in here

That's Zeity farting again; usually it stays in TPD but if he's really bored it might come blasting over here.

[northernladuk]

That's Zeity farting again; usually it stays in TPD but if he's really bored it might come blasting over here.

Come on Mich, you know what this thread needs don't you!!!

[AtW]

WTF it has got to do with Orwell who was British?

[sasguru]

WTF it has got to do with Orwell who was British?

Because, dumbkopf*, Orwell was a master at pointing out political phrases that are the exact opposite of reality.


*FFS where do we find these cretins.

[Bunk]

WTF it has got to do with Orwell who was British?

Sometimes reading your sentences is like chewing on glass.

[sasguru]

Here's another:

"Selective Default" = Bankrupt

[AtW]

Sometimes reading your sentences is like chewing on glass.

bon appetit