Firefly

I'm sure I've seen a re-writing history thread somewhere but can't seem to find it now. Don't know if this has already been posted and I'm not sure where this should go but I just came across this

The Society of Qualified Archivists


The Duke of Wellington, saviour of Europe

We were visited by Jacinta Sprout-Davies * and the whole experience proved very traumatic. Jacinta criticised our descriptive lists as being reactionary, Fascist and politically incorrect. Staff were hurt and offended. Until Jacinta’s visit we were proud of our high standard of descriptive listing. To give you an example of how some of our descriptive lists had to change, I will compare our original description of a letter from the Duke of Wellington to Jacinta’s revised version.

Letter from Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Apsley House, London to Sir Lionel Scratchrace MP, Bloggsbridge, Loamshire, describing the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) and its consequences. Wellington describes Napoleon as a tyrant and ogre, the French as stinking of garlic and thanks God the peace of Europe has been assured for generations to come, the Code Napoleon denied imposition on England and the British Empire and its numerous good works preserved as a beacon of justice for all civilisation.

Following Jacinta’s revision, the description now reads:

Letter from Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Apsley House, London to Sir Lionel Scratchrace MP, Bloggsbridge, Loamshire, in which he makes racist and chauvinistic remarks about the French people, criticises Napoleon’s enlightened social and political theories and objects to the fulfilment of European Union, the harmonisation of legal systems, a single currency and imposition of post-democratic governance, instead favouring reactionary forms of government, populism disguised as democracy and the upholding of Anglo-Saxon world dominance.


I just can’t see what's wrong with our original description!
We thanked Garth for his contribution.

The Bear

A fun item, it made me laugh, but it's not quite what it purports to be.

Hunter

Would she be pro-european by any chance...

Sounds like sour-grapes to me. Or did she manage to add a section describing what europe would have been like had Napoleon won?

Firefly

haha no idea. Now Bear has me curious what this is about.

The Bear

Look deeper into the item, and also 'thesocietyofqualifiedarchivists'.

Firefly

Mcdonalds? I'm slow Bear I need a map!

aha!
The Society of Qualified Archivists, whose tag line is “Taking British archives forward in the battle against political correctness,” is a great and fun-filled blog as only an archivist can create. There’s also a lot of serious stuff here around the Great Game of politics, records keeping and archives.

The Bear

It's a wind up based on a rather dangerous thing that seems to have been created as part of the continued push towareds "right think" and "right speak" by New Labour multiculturalism social engineers that SHOULD be valuable but WILL be abused.

Firefly

I got it now sorry. Told ya I'm slow! I guess I'm finding it hard to find humour in this

chikrodah

I'm hoping that at least one of their 'patrons' is a wind-up too....