Originally Posted by
Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
That's nothing, H. I've just had to explain to the FCO in London what the F and the C actually stand for and why there not the same.
Seriously. I rang up London cos the Paris embassy phone line wasn't working and after a chat, get told to go to the website of the Paris High Commission.
We don't have a high commission in Paris, say I.
Yes we do.
No we don't. It'll be an embassy.
No. It's a high commission.
No. We only have high commissions in Commonwealth countries and France isn't in the commonwealth, so it's an embassy.
Let me check......... Oh. You're right.
This institution used to run 20% of the globe, H. Now they don't even know what their own name means and what the difference between being a full forreigner and a civilised commonwealther is.
I think we should get the Indians over to run us.