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"British left waffles on Falklands" is a moderately famous, ambiguous, historical newspaper headline from the UK [0] If you have absolutely no context and kno
by mac01021 8y ago
"British left waffles on Falklands" is a moderately famous, ambiguous, historical newspaper headline from the UK [0]
If you have absolutely no context and know nothing about politics or human society, you'll probably take it to mean that the British went to the Falkland islands and then when they left the left behind some waffles.
In actuality it meant that someone was waffling on a decision to be made regarding the Falklands ("waffling" means being indecisive) and that someone was "the British Left" (the liberal faction of parliament).
[0] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-haber/british-left-waffles-on-f_b_11803832.html https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-haber/british-left-w...