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Good metaphor of what the EU represents. A 120 pages manual on how to be a completely dull person.
by refraincomment 6y ago
Good metaphor of what the EU represents. A 120 pages manual on how to be a completely dull person.
- mhh__ 6y agoAnd? Don't you want your politicians to be boring, really
- Tor3 6y agoA 120-page manual about good writing practices - and that makes the reader a dull person? I read through the beginning of the document and it looks good to me. It seems to be a well-written readable document which can be immediately useful for people writing company documentation (such as myself - occasionally I have to pause writing code all day).
- Uberphallus 6y agoAnd most importantly, consistency among documents produced by the same body.
- pavlov 6y agoLegislation that needs to be translated into 24 languages is better off dull than ambiguous.
- refraincomment 6y agoDon't make me laugh about accuracy. EU is the most incompetent AND dull institution in the world.
- cromka 6y agoWe're all eagerly awaiting the most recent "World survey: the assessment of incompetence and dullness of the para-governmental organizations" report you forgot to link to.
- ithkuil 6y agoBut they will gladly fund a research into whether what you just said is correct or not.
- dkjaudyeqooe 6y agoI'll never understand why some British people feel the need to loudly and obnoxiously rail against the EU, especially post Brexit. Is your current situation not the utopia you once imagined? Or was/is the idea that the EU must be destroyed at all costs, one taunt at a time, if necessary? Either way, good luck.
- cromka 6y agoI think they progressed from denial onto anger nowadays.
- Morvan 6y ago>Legislation that needs to be translated Maybe that's your real problem right there.
- Uberphallus 6y agoYou don't really want to be creative when producing legal documents. Other (supra) government bodies have similar style guides.
- me_me_me 6y agoTry MTV or any other reality tv then. > A 120 pages manual on how to be a completely dull person. Trump is what you get otherwise. Popularity contest with hollow interior.
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- BossingAround 6y agoI look at the IBM style guide and Microsoft style guide fairly frequently these days. I wonder what does that say about the state of the US economy, politics, and ideology? Exactly the same amount as the EUC Style Guide about the EU, I'd wager.
- cromka 6y agoSure. How about 441-pages long US counterpart? https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2016/pdf/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2016.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2016/pdf...