Part of e-mail received from someone in Belgium:

[veek]

Talking of lanuage abilities: today a demonstration on the big square in Gent with 4.000 school children, some just 5 years old, shouting: 1, 2, 3, 4, we don't want a fucking war. Proves that they can count and swear in English.

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[maga-dogg.livejournal.com]

When the British Empire is gone, all it will leave the world is the phrase 'fuck off' and the game of association football.

Can't remember who said that, but he wasn't far off the mark.