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Chirac upset by English address President Chirac is a proud defender of his native language French President Jacques Chirac showed his temper at the EU summit when a French business leader addressed delegates in English. He stormed out of a session when Ernest-Antoine Seilliere said he chose English "because that is the accepted business language of Europe today". Mr Chirac told reporters on Friday he was "deeply shocked" that a Frenchman chose to address the summit in English. Protectionism has emerged as a hot topic at the Brussels summit. Mr Chirac's protest came when Mr Seilliere, the French president of the employers' association UNICE, said he would address the meeting in English. Business language According to a French official, Mr Seilliere was interrupted by Mr Chirac, who asked him in French why on earth he was speaking English. He replied that English was the working language of that particular session and the accepted business language of Europe today. Mr Chirac, Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy and Finance Minister Thierry Breton left the room. Mr Chirac returned to hear the French president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, address the leaders in French. French pride It is not the first time Mr Chirac has made a point of defending the French language in the international arena. At previous gatherings he has stuck to French, using an interpreter to translate into English, despite the fact that he has a good understanding of English, having spent time in his youth as a Harvard student and forklift driver at a US brewery. Mr Seilliere went on to urge EU leaders to "resist national protectionism in order to avoid a negative domino effect". Italy has accused France of protectionism over a controversial deal to merge Gaz de France and Suez, which was a takeover target for Italian firm Enel. Mr Chirac rejected the charges on Friday, telling reporters: "When I hear talk of French economic protectionism, for me that is complete nonsense". French used to be the lingua franca for most EU business, but with the expansion of the EU to 25 member states, English is becoming even more dominant. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, who often switches between languages in speeches and press conferences, later stuck to French in his address to the meeting.

Can you add a 'banging-your-head-off-a-brick-wall smiley? 109982[/snapback] Done!

It's somewhere over there.... (it's not Arizona though )

Don't bother - my mate had a few, I've never known an animal who's shit smells so bad!

Obsessed!

yes! Stick "area 51" in the search field and away it goes to some place in Arizona!

Shit forum software tbh!

go for it!

Surely 'banned' means unable to log in?? (it does on every other forum i've been a member of and I'd suspect that those who are banned from N-O can't log in to browse...)

So he's been banned has he?? http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/...n=profile;u=201 This bit in particular makes interesting reading:

While we didn't show much of an attacking threat, I actually think we pushed the ball round well today and were light years ahead of how we were playing under Souness. Good to finally see Craig Moore turn out for us and he made a couple of decent blocks near the end - perhaps he will be an asset after all. Elliott should never have been sent off mind, SWP never came into contact with him, nor did he deviate his path - IMO, he was playing for the free kick by playing the ball one way and running at the player and Bennett fell for it.

He was in the travel cot tbh. 109259[/snapback] he's progressed from the moses basket then?

You wanting a cloth to wipe the egg off your face?

Whata amazes me more than anything was that the Chronicle reported a story from a German 'newspaper site' which if they'd done a minimal amount of digging, they'd have realised had only existed for a couple of weeks.

Admit it....it was Wacky kipping on the couch wasn't it?

Sounds like the work of a smooth operator! So how do you actually blue-jack someone? I've tried it but can never get into anyones phone. Have they got to have their bluetooth active? 109211[/snapback] Yep, it must be active.... I believe what he did was make a business card which just said "hello" and she responded to it. A few messages later he had her number, the rest is history.... The bastid!

There's a lot of people at out place called: Nokia 6310i Nokia 6230i T630

One of the blokes in our office picked up his latest bird by 'Blue-jacking' her while she was on a train. He said there was two women and him in the carried, one was as fit as fuck, the other had a face which was a cross between a welder's bench and a bulldog sucking on lemons. Two names came up when he searched and he picked one using 'eeny meeny miney mo'... And it was the fit bird who's phone started beeping. The jammy bastard always comes up smelling of roses, I've met her as well and she's gorgeous...

genuine..... i said genuine!

But Nazi Flags, avatars etc. are ok? Righto. 109076[/snapback] yep 109106[/snapback] Hypocrisy 109107[/snapback] I haven't deleted any Nazi flags nor have i deleted any avatars... But I support the reasoning behind why someone did. If someone had a 'genuine' greivance with the nazi flags, i'd get rid of them, no one has raised anything at present though so they stay. People might be offended by the 'jolly roger' as well but unless they say anything, it remains. Not hypocrisy...

But Nazi Flags, avatars etc. are ok? Righto. 109076[/snapback] yep

It was in poor taste, my thought was that it had to go.

WTF?

this is what gets my goat this article makes it out to be legit: 'reports eminating from' .... 'reports in the local newspapers' this then in turn is indexed by google, newsnow etc then some 3rd party journo picks up the hoax and bam - carToon story #276578 108987[/snapback] ergo, he's proved beyond doubt that you can never believe what you read or hear in the media

precisely... Can't remember Chappers ever getting this much shit for winding people up on Radio 1