Those people in Brussels have been playing the game called 'Harmonisation' again, I see

(a journalist's report - not a spoof - on yesterday at Brussels follows):


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From "EU REFERENDUM" blog <http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/>
11/9/04

The ministers decide

Having gathered in the Hague this weekend to sort out the intractable
economic problems of the EU, the budget, rebate, fiscal dumping and all
that, the EU finance ministers stormed into action to deal with an even
greater threat ­ member countries misspelling the word "euro".

From now on, according to a diktat handed down by the assembly, there shall
be only one approved spelling and no deviation shall be tolerated. Penalties
for misuse will be settled later.

The issue arose when the finance ministers of Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and
Slovenia pointed out that different spellings were in use in their countries
to ease its pronunciation. Some in the eastern countries who were having
difficulties "euro" had been spelling and saying it as "euria".

This is not "helpful to create unity and clarity in Europe", said Dutch
Finance Minister Gerrit Zalm, after he and his colleagues had managed to
squash this attempt at diversity. "See how decisive ministers sometimes can
be!" he added.

Next on the agenda is the question of whether the official plural is "euro"
or "euros", when the ministers will again revert to their decisive mode.

Meanwhile, a lone journalist, heard wandering off singing, "you say euro,
and I say euros", was quickly arrested. He will be sentenced yesterday,
after being found guilty of diversity.

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ENDS

Tony

You keep saying "UK=good, EC= bad"

Your agenda seems to have nothing to do with W&M

What was the relevance of your post to this website?

My guess is that Tony is stating how statist and petty and irrelevent the EU is; this transfers over to the realm of W&M where we view it as statist, petty, controllign influence that we must metricate. Be that influence from abroad or not.

be that influence from abroad or not (altho' Tony and many others beleive a part of the problem is our connectio nwith the EU and acceptance of certain practices of it etc. But I shall let Toyn comment further on this)

re (Beranger): "What was the relevance of your post to this website:

REPLY: Apart from the fact that Bryan Parry got it in one, may I remind you of this, which appears at the top of the headnote to: 'Metric v Imperial, the Great Debate':

"Unlike the other discussion boards run by BWMA, this forum is not geared to a particular topic. You may raise any issue you wish, for instance: the ease of use of the two systems, the relevance of the European Union, history and culture, scientific/mathematical points, the role of bureaucracy, or comparisons to other campaigns..."

"euria".

Are they taking the p*ss?

(think about it)

BTW - I always say "euros" to annoy the eu-ophiles.

Like I say "kihlomm itta" to annoy the metric extremists.

I hear that the Euro is to be renamed shortly as the Federal Union Currency Unit, with a suitable shorthand name, so shopper can call it by a suitable name.
Dr.S

re (Steve H): "I always say "euros" to annoy the eu-ophiles".

REPLY: In the same way, I always say 'pence' instead of 'pee'. Asking for 10 stamps at tuppence usually makes a dozy cashier look up for a moment. "Wot?"

Those are cheap stamps, unless I'm reading things incorrectly

Obviously, Tone likes to pay through the nose for his "Penny Blacks" But does he prefer the ones invented by James Chalmers or those of Rowland Hill?

Joking!!!!!

Lets get back to W&M rather than trying to wind people up on Scotland/England/UK/EC arguments (as in "EC so called art" vs. "advantages for SNP" as postulated by Tony on another thread)

I'm not here to argue politics, whatever Tony tries to do.....

"Unlike the other discussion boards run by BWMA, this forum is not geared to a particular topic. You may raise any issue you wish, for instance: the ease of use of the two systems, the relevance of the European Union, history and culture, scientific/mathematical points, the role of bureaucracy, or comparisons to other campaigns..."

In other words a UKIP style EU bashers charter.

The EU is immensly bashable.

<<In other words a UKIP style EU bashers charter.>>

REALLY?

So everyone here is bashing the EU then!

Conrad - all is forgiven - I didn't realise how much you hated the EU on this EU-bashing board!!! You must have simply composed your posts wrongly and "accidentally" made it look like you were totally in favour of the EU with examples of why, etc!!

LOL!

(talking about 'bashing', has "carly" left us yet again?)