Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 01/17/2011 12:13:46 PM PST by markomalley
Standpoint magazine carries an interesting first-person piece by an unnamed vicar’s wife who has been living away from home:
I have just returned to London, where I have lived since I was 11. I have been away for four years, living as an ethnic minority in a monocultural part of the world, amassing a host of stories to tell to disbelieving friends. On the whole, I am glad to return. I shan’t miss some locals’ assumptions that, being a white woman, if I was outside after dark, as I occasionally was, usually to walk the few metres between my house and the church, I must be a prostitute eager to give them a blow job. I shan’t miss the abuse my priest husband received: the daubing of “Dirty white dogs” in red paint on the church door, the barrage of stones thrown at him by children shouting “Satan”. He was called a “f***ing white bastard” more than once, though, notably, never when in a cassock. I will also not miss the way our garden acted as the local rubbish dump, with items ranging from duvets and TV sets, to rats (dead or twitching) glued to cardboard strips, a popular local method of vermin control to stem the large numbers of them which scuttled between the rubbish piled in gardens and on pavements. Yes, I am very glad to have left Britain’s second city.
The full article is worth reading, but here are a couple of excerpts that paint a truly depressing picture, compared to which Theodore Dalrymple’s accounts of the city seem like HE Bates novels:
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
Islam is the problem, from Mad Mo in the bat cave until now.
Not only there, but here as well. If we don’t think that this same sort of problem cannot infect us, we are sadly mistaken. Whether it is Islamic extremism, or out of control illegal immigration (without consequences), our country will eventually fall victim to the same destruction as the U.K.
Best place to get a curry in the entire country though.
Every cloud and all that.
You’d get explosive flatulence from that..
I don’t like curry.
Are you insane?
Perhaps, but not because I don’t like curry. What’s the attraction of having your taste buds burnt out by some evil inedible oriental mash?
Thanks very much for posting....crosslinked here:
UK White children in Birmingham 'a minority' this year because of immigration
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