Rich and lazy nation
Feb. 4th, 2006 11:53 pmКиплинг - поэт, которого в Англии стесняются. Примерно, как в Израиле - Ури-Цви Гринберга.
Хотя умри - лучше не скажешь.
Dane-geld
(A.D. 980-1016)
Rudyard Kipling
IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation,
To call upon a neighbour and to say:—
“We invaded you last night—we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ’em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say:—
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray,
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to says:—
“We never pay any one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost,
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!”
Если хотите пример позора - вот, эксперты находят 25 причин, по которым не нужно перепечатывать эти дурацкие карикатуры.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2024369,00.html
ВВС извиняется, что в кадр мельком попали страницы из датских газет - в движении, не в фокусе.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2024274,00.html
Хотя умри - лучше не скажешь.
Dane-geld
(A.D. 980-1016)
Rudyard Kipling
IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation,
To call upon a neighbour and to say:—
“We invaded you last night—we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ’em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say:—
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray,
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to says:—
“We never pay any one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost,
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!”
Если хотите пример позора - вот, эксперты находят 25 причин, по которым не нужно перепечатывать эти дурацкие карикатуры.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2024369,00.html
ВВС извиняется, что в кадр мельком попали страницы из датских газет - в движении, не в фокусе.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2024274,00.html
Последний, впрочем, был нормальный
Date: 2006-02-05 12:36 am (UTC)A.C. GRAYLING, philosopher
“Free speech is the fundamental civil liberty. Without it none of the others is possible. I applaud the newspapers in Europe that have shown solidarity with Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten newspaper by reprinting the cartoons, and regard our own Foreign Secretary as pusillanimous in buckling to the artificially inflated hysteria of those who think that feeling offended gives them a licence to censor other people’s freedom to criticise and satirise whomever they wish.”
Re: Последний, впрочем, был нормальный
Date: 2006-02-05 12:41 am (UTC)pusillanimous. Звучит-то как. :-)
pusillanimous
Date: 2006-02-05 12:56 am (UTC)(если есть "великодушный", должен быть и "мало-", и "ничтожно" :))
А мысли да, читаю. Есть причина ;-) про которую до поры до времени помолчу :)
Girl Power! :-)
Date: 2006-02-05 12:44 am (UTC)http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2025730,00.html
Первый раз вижу, чтобы политик первой величины назвал вещи своими именами.
Re: Girl Power! :-)
Date: 2006-02-05 12:54 am (UTC)Re: Girl Power! :-)
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Date: 2006-02-05 07:38 pm (UTC)http://stilo.livejournal.com/309481.html
http://pics.livejournal.com/drugoi/pic/001d8w1f
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Date: 2006-02-05 09:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-05 09:54 am (UTC)А российские каналы прикрывали вуалью.