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Come on yourself, of troy. The issue was about language suitable for use in Parliament. The excuse given was "everybody does it". I have heard kids justify shoplifting "because all the kids do it."
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Geez, give over, Bill. IT DIDN'T EVEN MAKE THE NEWS IN ZILD. That should tell you something!
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In other words Pfranz, NZ Parliament is so bush league
anything goes. I deplore oonly vulgar language in legislative session, which this apparently was. What are the standards in UK?
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Same as in the US. Ignorance and form are more important than intelligence and public interest ...
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Shift happens, get over it. Now bugger off.
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Yeah, what he said, bugger it all! You try to explain, and whaddya get? Sweet bugger all. Sheesh.
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OK, having had a bit of fun,I'll assure you I was not really in earnest. It does show the hazard of using obscenities so constantly the meaning gets lost.
The best reason for having a hig;h standard of taste in a parliament is to avoid violence resulting from an MP appli;ng a fighting word to a colleague.
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Does anyone remember a silly old TV sci-fi series called "Battlestar Galactica" on which the humans spoke their own outer-space slang? One of the words, never defined on the series, was felgercarb -- which meant something very bad, but the viewer never knew what. It entered, briefly, the English vocabularies of pre-adolescents, but then exited, when the series went off the air, I think.
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Does anyone remember a silly old TV sci-fi series called "Battlestar Galactica" on which the humans spoke their own outer-space slang? One of the words, never defined on the series, was felgercarb -- which meant something very bad, but the viewer never knew what.
Rather like the most vile expletive in the HHG universe - Belgium. (And yes, I will confees to remembering "Galactica")
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Dear Father Steve: I don't remember Battlestar Galactica, nor did I ever hear the word felgercarb. I went into a Yahoo group site by that name, after warning about adult content, but could learn nothing of the content withou joining. I am not a joiner, which incidentally used to be a very nasty put-down.
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