Proposed new vehicle excise charges

Champ wrote

When I were a lad it meant anyone who had a decent sun tan and had
been/was about to be brought to civilised ways of thinking and the
correct use for indoor toilets. Different these days of course but it
*never* meant the frogs, we don't want the frogs in our Empire thank you
very much

 

Indeed. From OED online:

wog

slang.

1. A vulgarly offensive name for a foreigner, esp. one of Arab
extraction.

1929 F. C. BOWEN Sea Slang 153 Wogs, lower class Babu shipping
clerks on the Indian coast. 1932 R. J. P. HEWISON Essay on Oxford 5
And here the Ethiop ranks, the wogs, we spy. 1937 F. STARK Baghdad
Sketches 90 When I return, Nasir fixed me with real malignity in his
little placid eyes. ‘I knew she wanted me to go,’ he said. ‘I could
see what she was thinking. They call us wogs.’ 1942 C. HOLLINGWORTH
German Just behind Me xiii. 258 King Zog Was always considered a bit
of a Wog, Until Mussolini quite recently Behaved so indecently. 1944
[see COME v. 39e]. 1955 E. WAUGH Officers & Gentlemen II. 323 He
turned up in western Abyssinia leading a group of wogs. 1958 Times
Lit. Suppl. 11 Apr. p. vi/3 We have travelled some distance from the
days when Wogs began at Calais. 1965 [see COMMIE]. 1982 J. SAVARIN
Water Hole I. iv. 42 He hated Arabs... They were all wogs to him.

2. The Arabic language.

1977 P. RAYMOND Matter of Assassination vi. 63, I can't speak Wog
and don't seems to be getting anywhere. 1982 ‘W. HAGGARD’
Mischief-Makers xiv. 157 ‘I've picked up a few words of wog, sir.’..
The driver spoke terrible barrack-room Arabic.

3. a. attrib. passing into adj.

a1963 J. LUSBY in B. James Austral. Short Stories (1963) 236 Wog
chappie scuttling around seeking safe side of the beast. 1970 G. F.
NEWMAN Sir, You Bastard viii. 234 We were hawking, and getting treated
like bleeding wog brush salesmen. 1973 Daily Tel. 31 May 3/2 Judge
Sheldon heard that trouble started..when white girlfriends of coloured
soldiers..were taunted by members of the Royal Scots as ‘wog lovers’.
1977 Drive Sept.-Oct. 112/2 Any foreign car, even a Ferrari or a
Mercedes, is a wog motor, unless it's a Yank.

b. Comb. wogland derog., a foreign country.

1961 [see NIG n.3]. 1967 ‘J. MUNRO’ Money that Money can't Buy ii.
24, I don't live in Wogland [sc. Spain] because I like it.

Hence also wogger; woggy a.

1922 JOYCE Ulysses 740 She called him wogger. Ibid. 741 She may have
noticed her wogger people were always going away. 1973 M. CATTO Sam
Casanova iv. 75, I met some kid in a night-club here, does some sort
of Woggy belly-dance. 1979 REESE & FLINT Trick 13 100 That woggy
fellow..was cleaning up.

 

Andrewr At Work wrote

So what is "****" an acronym of then?

 

"for unlawful carnal knowledge".

Load of old nonsense.

 

Not least because it's an old saxon word.

 

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That beats my source, the latest Wilbur Smith paperback. I owe
everything I mis-know about Africa and the Orient to his books

 

Meaning?

 

In Australia, the word wog is used to mean Greek and Italian
immigrants.

 

He's angling for a date with Lesley, innit? ;-)

(apologies to Lesley)

 

What about apologie to me?

 

Who cares?

 

Nor do the petrol stations...... ;-)

 

Nor do the petrol stations...... ;-)[/QUOTE]

Heh.

 

Dont be such a tart!

Oh, errr.... as you were... ;-)

 

No no no! That's what first turned me *on* to continental women %-)
What's this stupid fetish women have about shaving? Come to think of
it, what's the stupid fetish about men shaving too?

--
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Bike's are bosh, PC's are pointless, and the 1990's are nuts!
Bikes are great, PCs are super, and the 1990s are the time to be!
Save the apostrophe! Get 'em right! If in doubt, leave 'em out!!

 

WRT Victoria Beckham it wouldn't.

HTH

Paul.

 

The fuel problem doesn't affect the locals.

Income tax aside, although it may explain the cheaper fuel, better roads,
healthcare, railways, cheaper alcohol etc etc.

Are these such bad things? Especially the Sunday opening. The majority
getting a day off to spend relaxing or with the family rather than it
being another day of servitude?

 

I think that they have tax relief for families etc. so the tax system is
designed to 'support the family' by taxing single people heaviest.

I think that France has a lot of things right that we have lost sight
of.

 

WADR, because they may not have 300 miles to travel and a ferry to
catch.

And much higher indirect taxation (VAT at 22% or thereabouts) and much
higher social costs, higher insurance.....

.....but we've done this to death before.

Here, actually agree. I don't mind the shops being shut. Fuel
provision, though, I'd class as an "essential service" and when even the
French bitch about it, you know it's a cock-up.

 

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 07:39:48 +0100,

Yes it fucking is.

I'm part of the majority. It's only the minority of shop-workers that
I want to see forced to work Sundays ;-)

Oh, FFS, when will you stop going on about this? Nobody who lives here
has a problem 'cos they all have CBs so can buy fuel anywhere 24/7.
Furriners are only supposed to be on the autoroutes, where you can use
your quaint old-fashioned cards to your hearts' content, or even pay
with cash, if you prefer.