British spirit

Un post magnífico para retratar el espíritu británico. Via Kim du Toit.

Excerpts:

...“This is the attack that we have long been waiting for”, said somebody on Sky News. No, it isn’t. The attack we have long been waiting for, and still are waiting for, is one from a dirty bomb. By which I do not mean a device that explodes by calling everybody a cunt."...

..."Talking of which, which bright sub on the backbench of The Times was it who thought that we Brits needed the event to be described in the vernacular of Las Vegas? I don’t know if you’ve seen The Times, but they’ve taken to describing it as “7/7”.
Ugh. “7/7”, “9/11” – has nobody other than George Galloway worked out that it’s because of our bed-sharing with Americana that this has happened in the first place? We, being British, do not need “7/7”, thank you. We, being British, are perfectly capable of enunciating “July the seventh”. It’s bad enough standing around waiting for a bus that never arrives without blowing up, let alone having to suffer a terrorism of semantics."...

..."Undaunted by their display of singular ignorance of the location of London, BBC South West continued “The advice from police in the West tonight is ‘be alert but not alarmed’. But although the region is a long way from London and few would expect a bomb here, none expected a bomb on a red double-decker bus to Hackney”.
Oh, right. That’s up there with “Although the tsunami was centred on Thailand, it could have hit Trowbridge, because that also begins with a ‘T’”...

Siguen siendo los mismos que bajo las bombas alemanas ponían pizarras con los resultados de los combates aéreos como si fuera un partido de algo: "Ellos 7 - Nosotros 11"

El post completo está aquí, en un blog convenientemente titulado "An Englishman´s Castle"

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