Reply to: I've decided to learn Chinese

[mcquiggd]

Ah yes, but I have embraced the local culture.... I drink Glayva, fine single malts, eat neeps and tatties, and shop at Scotmid and Margiotas...

They thought I was a soft southerner until I out-drank a Scots squaddie and a Glaswegian friend, and after that they made me an honourary Scotsman.

My other half is English, granted, but apart from that Ive gone native. All I have to do now is wait until the money runs out, claim housing benefit, start selling heroin, then I can claim asylum.

[planetit]

You shoud be celbrating the fact that a different culture has been allowed to invade your homeland

"An Englishman abroad in Scotland"

[mcquiggd]

Racist!

You shoud be celbrating the fact that a different culture has been allowed to invade your homeland and establish its own enclave, and will soon start burning cars and demanding preferential treatment...

Tsk!

You would have thought everyone would have been indoctrinated by now, but oh no, theres always one

[wendigo100]

don't you think that it would make more sense for schools to teach chinese and Urdu than French & German? Would be far more useful

I think it would make more sense to teach English to all those mono-lingual Urdu or Hindi speakers in Bradford and Southall.

[mcquiggd]

Mmmm... my belief is that Dutroux (sp?) was locked up but the Police did not throroughly investigate the network due to ... ahem .. 'political interfence'. The synopsis from the media is that judges, mp's etc where involved.

For lawds sake tell her to stay away from politicians... sound advice for us all, unless you are Zeitghost, who has sharp, pointy teeth....

[wendigo100]

They will still burn your car / sheep and rape you underage daughter on a school trip.

My underage daughter is going to France next week on a school trip. France doesn't bovver me, but she's going to Belgium as well...

[mcquiggd]

Why bother spekaing French these days? They will still burn your car / sheep and rape you underage daughter on a school trip. Why bother going as far as Iraq, theres plenty of evil 26 miles away from dover for our lad Tone to concentrate on....

[expat]

Spanish is spoken in more countries than any other language except English.

Mostly in South and Central America. If you're not going there, you don't need it.

But I do like the idea of cutting out French as the first foreign language. That really annoys them.

[PerlOfWisdom]

don't you think that it would make more sense for schools to teach chinese and Urdu than French & German? Would be far more useful

Spanish is spoken in more countries than any other language except English.

[stackpole]

don't you think that it would make more sense for schools to teach chinese and Urdu than French & German? Would be far more useful

And how many UK people need to converse in Mandarin?

We're in the European Union, not some sort of Sino-UK twin town arrangement.

[threaded]

Mandarin you dip stick.

[AtW]

Where is the "Hands up and take me to your leader"?

[~Craig~]

don't you think that it would make more sense for schools to teach chinese and Urdu than French & German? Would be far more useful

[stackpole]

The guy at the Chinese restaurant near my office always says "Cha" whenever he sees me.
I am not sure what it means though.

Nor am I, but a chinese bloke at my school used to call me that if I kicked him in footy matches.

[Statistician]

The guy at the Chinese restaurant near my office always says "Cha" whenever he sees me.
I am not sure what it means though.