These are the people the Righteous are trying to control. The people who even the Romans didn’t manage to squash, the ones who convicted Oliver Cromwell of being a git and even though he was already dead, they dug him up and hung him anyway.
There is widespread flooding. What are the English doing? They are doing this.
Many of England’s neighbours routinely hate them. I think they are, mostly, amazing.
Unfortunately they also have most of the Puritans. I can see why. If you hate individuality and fun, where else would you find so much of it?
You are absolutely correct about the life-killers.
It’s why I loved the Spanish so much and profoundly respected their approach to life (fun-centric rather than status, self importance-centric). Unfortunately a combination of EU attitudes and Brit expats has wrought havoc with that culture. They resemble porridge more and more every day.
The English do have a tremendous resilience that has withstood centuries of onslaught. Long may it continue.
But I do disagree with your use of the word Righteous. It should be self-righteous J
Haha, “nobody loves us, we don’t care!”
Isn’t that what Millwall supporters used to sing? Oh, wait….they’re English too…
Modest airbrushing could add a lit Capstan and voilà, the ideal rival for poofy Marlboro Man. Surely nobody daft enough to smoke would notice?
If ‘nobody daft enough to smoke would notice’, then what would be the point of doing it? You should take up smoking, Melvin. Might stimulate those brain cells.
“Might stimulate those brain cells.” Watching bigots foam at the mouth does it for me, LG. Just as surely as no bigot has the ability to see a different point of view, no smoker ever noticed deceptions and trickery in tobacco advertising.
You like to look at bigots? Take a look at the worst-rated comments on this article – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2209830/Mothers-anger-man-stubs-cigarette-3-year-old-sons-head-Nottingham-street.html
All smokers are evil and all smokers deliberately stub out cigarettes on children’s heads even though it has only happened once, and even though the definition of ‘stubbed out’ is stretched rather thin for the sake of sensationalism. Does that fit your definition of ‘bigot’?
How about those who insist that all smokers only smoke becasue they have been fooled by advertising (of which there has been none for quite some time) and that nobody smokes becasue they like it? See a bigot in there?
Perhaps the smoker’s wish to simply be left alone constitutes bigotry? Feel free to explain.
I’d also be interested to know whether you think ‘deception and trickery’ only applies to tobacco advertising, and whether it is or is not the basic premise of that entire industry.
Finally, feel free to ramp up the insults but remember that here, you have to be able to take it if you want to dish it out.
Lighten up, Leg-Iron. I rarely stay to comment but I was unable to resist this one. The thought of Capstan Man smoking during improvised skiing, brought back memories of fanciful tobacco commercials.
Old fella, your sharp and analytical brain is probably better than my easily-distracted and discursive one, at writing a piece analysing why it’s the English who are so specifically targetted by the GramscoFabiaNazis, and also why it’s the Anglosphere in general that’s often in the firing-line. I’d be interested in your thoughts on this matter.
Umm. and by “English”, I probably mean “Generalisd-British”. I can’t see Welshman or Scots or Irish putting up with that sort of crap either.
I don’t have a clear theory, and it’s probably complex, but I think at least part of it is temperament. Look at the reaction throughout the Muslim world to the cartoons, then the film, then the cartoons again. They explode in rage, but a few days later, all but the hard-core fanatics have forgotten all about it. Didn’t like it, made their feelings clear, back to real life.
Italians can flare into full fury in an instant and be your best buddy in another. Most of southern Europe is like that. Also, all of them will nod sagely when told about new laws and then ignore them entirely.
The Chinese look like they are completely under the State thumb but it’s the only place I’ve ever seen a traffic-directing policeman thrown up his hands and walk off the road. Nobody paid him any attention at all.
I suspect that, at least in part, it plays on the British character aspects of slow-burn anger rather than riot and get it over with, and also the ‘nobody likes a show-off’ attitude. Combined, a manipulator could use those traits to set off a slow but consistently maintained hate against anyone different. Notice that they use the same anti-smoking template over and over? Notice that it just keeps on working?
It’s always ‘big tobacco’ and ‘big booze’ and ‘big salt’ and ‘big cheese’ – the perceived rich flash-boys with fancy cars and sharp suits. They are always coming for your cheeeldren. They are going to make your children into one of those filthy beatnik types, and everyone who speaks out against attacking these show-offs is paid by them.
As I said, I don’t have a fully coherent theory but I think they have found a way to use the particular British character strengths against the British.
Being ancestrally Italian, they won’t work on me. I’ll just fly into a rage
“One wrote on Facebook: ‘That’s great news that he’s back with us and well done to the first aider who really did save his life.’”
And that is “news”? No offence to that particular lad but one of these days someone might post “Actually he was a violent twat and nobody liked him” or would that be a hate crime?