Bastiat’s famous Candlestick makers’ Petition
Frédéric Bastiat
Pétition des fabricants de chandelles
It’s candle makers, not candlestick. Worth getting the translation of the epochal text right, no?
Bastiat’s famous Candlestick makers’ Petition
Frédéric Bastiat
Pétition des fabricants de chandelles
It’s candle makers, not candlestick. Worth getting the translation of the epochal text right, no?
Off topic but it’s about France, so hey.
The BBC on turmoil in France about pensions reform and the public reaction.
“Instead, people seem more inclined to believe the arguments of the left and far-right”
Not “the left and the right” not “the far left and the far right”.
Always the right is the far right.
BBC impartiality.
Surely any fule kno that a candlestick is un chandelier in French
My wife once met a chap who made his living repairing chandeliers, which are a step up (ho ho) from candlesticks.
Pub quiz question: how do you clean a chandelier?
Dunk it in a tub of water?
Tub of gin. Water leaves deposits.
I saw a documentary about it, I think it was called Only Fools and Horses. 🙂
“Pub quiz question: how do you clean a chandelier?”
Not like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFuYIi5-igc
(skip forward to 2.30)
Ah, beaten to it…
“Water leaves deposits.” Unlike some banks.
“Tub of gin. Water leaves deposits.”
Blame faulty memory. I was sure I’d seen film/etc of immersion cleaning, and smugly remembering that the Trotter Method was wrong. 🙂