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Arabic writing on police cruisers angers Americans
03-15-2018, 02:57 PM
Arabic writing on police cruisers in London, Ont., angers Americans
Never mind that it's a language in use in the city by a large minority of the population.
Never mind that it isn't the only non-Latin text on the cars.
Never mind that it isn't on every car.
Never mind that
it's been there since 2009.
Some intolerant and xenophobic idiots are tying up the police switchboard with their complaints about how they think
a single word identifying the car in a minority language has something to do with religion.
<deep sigh>
Grow up, will ya?
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RE: Arabic writing on police cruisers angers Americans
03-15-2018, 05:31 PM
If there were nothing else to tell us that the person complaining is an ignoranus*, this would:
Quote:The writer also questioned why "police" is not spelled out in French, even though both French and English spell the word exactly the same.
*
ignoranus,
n. a person who’s both woefully mis/uninformed and also a bit of an @$$hole.
(I got that definition from a
Washington Post commenter using the handle "Poo American.")
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RE: Arabic writing on police cruisers angers Americans
03-15-2018, 10:53 PM
OMG, we should have seen this coming! You can't spell mooslems without moose! Pretty soon halal poutine will be flooding over the border!
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RE: Arabic writing on police cruisers angers Americans
03-16-2018, 07:40 AM
Better halal poutine than Vladimir poutine, right?
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RE: Arabic writing on police cruisers angers Americans
03-16-2018, 09:36 AM
(03-16-2018, 07:40 AM)robkelk Wrote: Better halal poutine than Vladimir poutine, right?
I should probably refrain from remarking about "putain" ... but I won't.
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RE: Arabic writing on police cruisers angers Americans
03-16-2018, 10:53 AM
Is this where we revive the "Putin on a Ritz" memes from a few years ago?
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RE: Arabic writing on police cruisers angers Americans
03-17-2018, 02:05 AM
![[Image: putin_on_the_ritz.jpg]](https://bigtengirl.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/putin_on_the_ritz.jpg)
Yes.
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