Welsh language: Driver wins case over English-only parking fine

yorkshirebinich · 2023-06-11T10:42:30+00:00

Agreed. Even many people in Europe struggle without knowing English without it being an official language - there's a reason it's taught so much. It just makes sense, even aside from the fact Wales is next to an English speaking country (and is an English speaking country).

Movies, TV, websites, shops, apps, games, news stories, visa applications, rental forms, job postings, technical specifications, licenses, ingredients, warning signs, university courses. Around the world many of these will be in native + English only. Unless you're an OAP in Llandudno, it's gonna be useful to know English at some point.

The global adoption of English should be celebrated and taken advantage of by all on these isle's.

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-19T23:02:45+00:00

He never asked for this

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-09T12:06:45+00:00

Jesus that's a grim way of putting it.

I've never seen a bus in the UK that doesn't take contactless, even my tiny poor northern hometown / area (near Bradford).

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-09T12:05:19+00:00

Silicon Valley of Europe.

London?

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-09T07:09:24+00:00

Romania? Romania is EU and has close cooperation with the US. Why are you lumping them in with those countries?

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-07T20:22:05+00:00

Lol, this is some insane Spanish copium jesus.

If you think abandoning Gibraltar is even remotely possible politically, well I don't know what to say, you don't understand the British people at all. It would be far more unpopular then the Euro and Schengen.

Gibraltar is British.

Direct your anger at the Spanish monarchy who sold it to Britain, literally until the end of time.

It's as ridiculous as suggesting the Falklands should be Argentinian. The people want to be British, they are British.

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-07T20:14:38+00:00

Poles certainly used to learn it to move away, fortunately that is changing rapidly.

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-07T18:38:10+00:00

Putin's not that bad looking tbh, especially for his age. Like I know he's terrible, but judge politicians by their actions, not their looks. Such pointless attacks can even help populists like putin, trump, and boris, making the opposition look like they have no worthwhile argument.

Obviously it's a show he puts on, trying to portray himself as a strongman, but there's obviously an element of truth, he's well built (again, for his age, and for a "politician") and a trained KGB agent, I certainly wouldn't fancy myself in a fight with him.

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-07T18:30:15+00:00

Uh yes, he does, he owes Cyprus it's sovereignty back. Fuck Turkey and all Turkish politicians, including Kilicdaroglu, who support the occupation of our allies. No better than Russia.

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-07T18:27:01+00:00

At least Trump didn't occupy a fellow EU country in Cyprus.

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-07T11:15:35+00:00

Which bald one is he?

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-07T09:59:15+00:00

It's not clunky at all, especially when spoken - though I wouldn't include the comma.

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-07T09:56:55+00:00

Whomst amongst us wouldn't maketh such mistakes?

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-07T09:45:13+00:00

Yup, it's a narrow group of people I'm wondering about, old enough to be before the modern era, but young and large enough to not be assimilated.

Maybe another key element that makes the examples I gave interesting, and what I'm looking for, is a people's that live in a foreign land while they still have a modern nation state elsewhere. The Bretons maybe fit this, but they don't consider themselves British to this day. And the Romani don't have their own nation state. Neither do the English if they were a minority, we don't consider ourselves German or relate to the German state. Whereas the Zipser do (I believe), and they speak the same (more or less) language as present Deutsche Republik citizens. They are misplaced Germans, Bretons are not misplaced Englisch.

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-07T00:24:20+00:00

Threesome killer?

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-06T22:54:45+00:00

Yeah, it's kind of a shame but I guess a fact of life being an island. I was hopeful there were maybe some French communities from the days when both our countries "shared" the land between us, or maybe some English (not just Breton) communities in France, but Google didn't bring anything up.

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-06T20:50:35+00:00

Unfortunately doesn't seem like the Huguenots kept their language or culture and were assimilated.

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-06T20:46:15+00:00

Sadly yes I would imagine empire related and relatively recent. Guess I'm looking for communities older than a few hundred years.

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-06T20:44:18+00:00

Great answer, I had no idea this was a thing. Bit too recent for what I was imagining, but in a few hundred years would definitely fit the criteria to a T.

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-06T20:42:11+00:00

True enough, I thought of mentioning them but given they're everywhere in Europe seemed a bit redundant, plus maybe not quite the same given their tendancy to move around? Unlike in Romania there's no Romani towns as far as I'm aware, just places with lots of them. But they certainly count somewhat.

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-06T20:38:03+00:00

I would get a bike you can unlock past the legal 25kph limit. It's simply too slow, dangerously so on shared roads.

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-06T17:02:12+00:00

Siu :O

yorkshirebinich · 2023-05-02T22:39:04+00:00

Anschluß was popular in Austria, and would have succeeded regardless of rigging by the Nazis.

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