Another visit from Sir Alan Torque-Sniceley, of the Tingrith Tories. He told me that Francis Maude was talking rubbish about storing petrol in jerry-cans.
Sir Alan always keeps a complete back-up of one tankful of petrol at any one time. But he's not breaking any health & safety laws. He keeps it safely stored in the spare Bentley.
I was wondering about the racial element of describing Fuel Cans as Jerry Cans?
ReplyDeleteAfter all, they were named by British Troops who originally discovered them while capturing them from the German Army. We than took them into use. But, now in the interests of Equality and Anti-discrimination legislation, and the Human Rights Act, surely we need to abandon such antiquated terms and rename them as something peculiarly british - Say, Panic Cans?
Cameron-Cans or CamCans
ReplyDeleteCan into the panic Maud[e]?
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