Go to almost any city in China on Spring Festival and you will see an awesome site, enough fireworks to fight a war, and (almost) none of them used safely.

Hell, if you just look at this city on wedding days you can see how dangerous the “past time” is here.

In Anglo Saxon fuedal times local peasants were allowed ‘foraging rights’ to help themselves to timber and any wood fallen from trees within the local parish. (The law still stands)

To stop distruction of his best trees the gentry or landowner used a man to protect his ‘park.’ It was a piece of woods fenched off, the park keepers job was to keep the ‘pheasants in and the peasants out’ He was eventually called the ‘parker’ hence the name, today he would be called by the Victorian name of ‘gamekeeper’ Thought you may wish to know.

With a bloodline like yours you should’t be speaking in American nasal tones but perhaps an Oxford accent of pure English beautiful tones and superb English grammar!

How can you say we are misleading in English when we invented the language! it is that you misuse this wonderful ‘tool of comunication’ That is the problem!

The Name Parker is very English and the family crest ‘Court of Arms’ has a very medieval English image. All the more reason for you to chose Anglo Saxon words instead of profanity to express yourself! It lowers the tone from debate to debase argument.

You had a dig at the British Empire! where does that come into the discussion! Which Nations are you implying? America, Canada, Australia, Etc, all flourishing, except the former, but I have confidence in them. The Indians, that nation in the Sub continent now flourishing, and their use of British English as a national language. It has given them a lead in the commercial world; shortly to be richer than the USA. Please don’t confuse these Indians with the American ones, who I believe because of constant harrassment are now almost extinct!