Wednesday, July 24, 2013

A sign of the Times

Seeing the above road sign, on the way to work, my initial reaction was, what the hell does that mean, "modified speed cushions", naturally I quickly decided that Transport for London, had become car friendly replacing the cruel speed humps designed to cause pain and damage to vehicle suspension with something altogether softer and humane.

Wrong, where there had once been manageable speed bumps, in this particular North London road, it appears to me that some sneaky mean group of road planners who probably don't drive have decided to inflict maximum hurt. The "cushions" are a cruel joke offering extreme discomfort.

Language evolves, words change, the urge to invent new ways to express never seems more important than when involving communication with us proles.

Why? often to sweeten the unacceptable and unreasonable, locally we now know that a three million pound debt accrued by a foreign ferry isn't a loss? Britain has the best police force in the world but is regularly on the news for corruption.

Without euphemistic language covering the backsides of the incompetent how would we get through day, without a revolution.

9 comments:

  1. I think you mentioned Hillsborough recently but didn't give the Kent connection. David Phillips later Chief constable of Kent.

    Here he be

    And here be be close to David Blunkett 2002

    And here be gone in an instant 2003

    As you know it is good to blog on the local connections for national stories.

    I think they hadn't got space to make the word solidified ?

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    1. Back in the fifties, Kent Police had a chief constable, one Colonel Geoffrey White, who had come to the post from that of Chief Constable of then strife torn Cyprus and had previously served with the Royal Military Police during WWII.

      What relevance has this to speed humps, well, actually, none, but as we seemed to have embarked on naming former Kent Chiefs, just throwing in my two penny worth.

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  2. Orwellian language is creeping in, it plays havoc on the minds of the uninitiated or inobservant, which is the intention.

    This country is a basket case, by design.

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    1. But surely the masses are wakening up to the fact, Rick, and all us Orwellians are about to get our come uppance. Leastways, isn't that what you said on another day or was that a sneaky piece of plagiarism by one of my colleagues. Keep trying, old chap, but we do have your number.

      Just to keep on thread, the road humps are all part of the plot. They are designed to cause mass impotency.

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    2. CULTURAL MARXISM: The Corruption of America

      http://youtu.be/gIdBuK7_g3M

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    3. Good morning, Rick, or should that be good afternoon. Thanks for the reading matter but I think I will stick to Wilbur Smith.

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  3. Kent Police launch Most Wanted pages on website which is a good thing. Recognise any of the criminals?

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    1. Yep, one looks like the aquifer man, sort of wrinkled and bent where the kerosene has eroded his outside whilst the polluted water attacks his inside.

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  4. Tony why don't you ban comments ? They only people that reply sound like they have been smoking crack !

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