Political correctness or cowardice?

Today’s Le Figaro had a link to this website:

http://www.slaveryfootprint.org/

You are supposed to answer questions to find out how many “slaves” you have working for you.  Apart from all the complaints that this does not work on many browsers and that you have to insert an American zip code before you can answer the  questions,  my complaint is that the politically-correct Yanks who dreamed this up cannot differentiate between slaves and poorly paid workers.  We know that slavery is still widespread in the Arab world and parts of Africa. But those who work in sweatshops, often in insalubrious conditions, usually get paid some sort of pittance.

I got onto the survey using Google Chrome, but the whole thing was so badly laid out that I gave up.  But in trying to make consumers feel bad, these Americans are going about  things the wrong way.  Workers may be earning very little, but would they prefer to be unemployed and earning nothing?  I doubt it. Why not attack the real slave trade instead of the soft target of western consumers?

What do you know!

Yesterday evening, our grandson and his girlfriend came to dinner. The young lady is one of the modern breed of youngsters, who are perfectly at ease with everyone – she must be it’s the second time she’s come to visit us in two weeks!

She is a teacher – and how refreshing it was to hear her say that she insists on good spelling and grammar – and how it annoys her that so many of her students don’t even know what the capital of Queensland is, let alone that Paris is the capital of France.

We in Oz do not have Winston the Dog Advertisement, but I have often wondered, when seeing it on UK TV, how many youngsters know who the ‘Real Winston’ was…

I found this article in today’s Daily Mail, and thought “Hurray” at last someone is speaking out…

Just when are we going to insist that ‘facts’ are more important than opinions.

RWC trivia – a test (of useless information)

Did you know that in every world cup except the first (obviously) the winning nation had to defeat the holders en route?

Two big games for our northern hemisphere members tomorrow, while you’re waiting for kick off here’s a bit of the fun stuff that we’ve been discussing and questioning of late, there’s one or two fascinating titbits here;

  1. Name the capital of New Zealand, the one before the current one and the one before that? Wellington, Aukland, Russel – Cuprum
  2. Who is the only sportsman ever to represent his country in both the cricket and rugby world cups?- Rudi van Vuren Namibia – Cuprum
  3. These flags all represent nations who have participated in rugby world cups, any ideas?
    First batch of flags

    Fiji, Zim., Samoa, Ivory coast – solved by Cuprum

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