Today I have driven into work in a Swedish car, later I will take delivery of a French Citroen and already this morning my silicon valley Intel processor has opened invitations to car launches from Mercedes, Peugeot and some Americans.
On the plus side I cut myself shaving so have some red marks on my pallid English features. And my middle name is George.
That, however, is as far as it is likely to go on our patron saint’s day.
Unlike the diddly, diddly, die-do fest that is St Patrick’s day, my local will not be giving away crimson-crossed merchandise and heavily discounted bitter beer. There will be none of the malts, tatties, neeps and free Savlon of Burns night.
And since TVR went breasts up in the sand I can’t even drive an English car today unless I want to ‘enjoy’ the fundamentals of motoring in a Morgan or live in perpetual fear of scraped knuckles driving a Caterham or Westfield.
In fact, so dire is the situation that last week we were actually celebrating the news that General Motors, address downtown Detroit, was going to build the new Astra in Ellesmere Port rather than some far flung eastern bloc outpost of vodka abuse.
I suppose we shouldn’t complain too loudly. St George, after all, was a Turk who soldiered for the Romans. What is more he is the patron saint of Milan and Moscow, of all places and, understandably, Georgia where they celebrate today and in November. Oh, and the following: Canada, Catalonia, Ethiopia, Greece, Montenegro, Portugal and Serbia.
Frankly he is as much a mongrel as the British car industry has become.
Even so, as Billy Wobbledagger wrote in Henry V- The Richard III Years: “God for Harry, England and St George- my kingdom for a Ford Focus.�
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Zeratulss wrote...
24% of Americans believe that the Internet is able for a time to replace them with a loved one. For obvious reasons, such sentiments particularly prevalent among residents of the United States alone. Both men and women can replace the beloved, beloved trips to the World Network. However, the willingness to such transactions vary among followers of different ideologies: conservatives frowned relate to this idea, and the "progressive-minded" on the contrary, Nerkarat it.
Study company Zogby International also showed that every fourth resident of the United States have their own representation in the web-site or internet-stranichka. Creating internet-dvoynikov most passionate about young people (18-24 years of age) - 78% of them have personal Web page. In doing so, 68% of those surveyed said that the World Wide Web, they do not appear in its original capacity, their virtual overnight seriously different from the real.
Only 11% of Americans would agree implantable microchip in his brain, which would provide them with direct contact with the Internet. But the situation is changing, in the case of children. Almost every fifth resident of the United States would agree to equip their child safety device which would allow him to track the movement in space on the Internet.
10% of U.S. stated that the Internet brings them to God. " In turn, 6% are convinced that because of the existence of the World Wide Web God away from them.
And how you feel? Sorry bad English.
Posted by: Zeratulss | November 13, 2007 8:45 AM