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« on: November 18, 2003, 01:37:38 pm » |
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The ACO have a link to a petition on their webpage, maybe Gilles can explain the purpose, but it has online Yes/No voting and Google translates the questions thus:
YES - with an intelligent road safety policy, divided, responsible!
NOT - with a blind and not adapted repression!
I do wish they'd give some indication of which way they wanted me to vote....
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« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2003, 03:15:45 pm » |
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Just asked one of the French chaps in the office, and it made no sense to him
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Reality is an illusion caused by alchohol deficiency!
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« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2003, 06:12:04 pm » |
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Try putting it through this http://www.freetranslation.comAnd it says Petition BIG MOBILIZATION OF THE USERS OF THE ROAD WITH L’AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF L’OUEST Yes : To a political intelligent road security, divided, person in charge! No : to a blind oppression and adapted no PETITION to MR. l’attention The President of the Republic which means ?
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Take life by the horns and live it.
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Steve Pyro
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« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2003, 06:23:36 pm » |
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Gilles, over to you, or is this a strange dialect of French only spoken by web site translators ??
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Steve East Anglian cobras
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« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2003, 08:54:10 am » |
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It's mainly lobbyists international technocratical dialect.... ... akas "Brussels language"
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Le Mans is life, anything before and after is just waiting...
... it's not the taking part but the winning that counts !
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« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2003, 09:16:30 am » |
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Can anyone translate "Brussels Language" (French variety) into English?
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Scarred old slaver know he’s doin’ alright.
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« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2003, 09:36:43 am » |
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The Brussels Language is a dialect only spoken by a very tiny community within the EU. There is nobody outside this community who understands what they are saying or doing.
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I don't care - I'm a racing driver and I'm here to win, not to finish third.
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« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2003, 09:56:27 am » |
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No one knows where they are spending either, the 90 Billion that enters there coffers yearly, has not been accounted for correctly for the last 9 years.
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Some people will tell you that slow is good - and it may be, on some days - but I am here to tell you that fast is better. H S Thompson 1937 - 2005
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« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2003, 01:24:36 pm » |
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Oh please, come now that really is rather harsh - it is, after all, only 90% of their £70bn budget that they can't track.....
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"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." Mario Andretti
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« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2003, 04:15:27 pm » |
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It means never bother with automatic translators. They are crap.
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« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2003, 06:26:48 pm » |
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KPY , with my french its a god send. You may not have rememembered but i had to get Gilles to ask for some more bread....... I am not as good as you, although Lingua Phone is helping to over come that one.... Bonjour , Je Voudrais a petit peu du pain , monsieur....
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« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2003, 06:36:58 pm » |
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Lingua Phone is helping to over come that one....
Isn't that one of those little keyboards that Rolf Harris used to advertise, and sounded like a dalek Can't quite see how you can get one to speak French though. Was Dr. Who shown on French TV??
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« Reply #12 on: November 19, 2003, 07:01:24 pm » |
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Steve man, you've got all confused. The Rolf Harris machine is one of them Cunnilingus things.
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Steve Pyro
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« Reply #13 on: November 19, 2003, 07:09:40 pm » |
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Steve man, you've got all confused. The Rolf Harris machine is one of them Cunnilingus things.
Confused.........So when my wife asks me to give her that, what she actually wants is a quick electronic rendition of "Three Blind Mice" then ??
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« Reply #14 on: November 19, 2003, 07:16:36 pm » |
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More than likely, if she is like most women, when their drunken, unshaven, husbands come back from the pub and want to indulge in a bit of playing of the old pink harmonica.
Telstar!
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I wouldn't sit there if I were you, it's still a bit wet.
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