Posted on 11/09/2009 6:20:50 PM PST by libh8er
You see them clack-clacking along the pavement, fat-faced British girls with goose-pimpled thighs en route to the disco. In the third blast from his new book on the dumbing down of Britain, Quentin Letts holds Germaine Greer responsible for at least some of this destruction of feminine modesty and decency.
Foreigners retain a touchingly generous image of the British. They imagine us as people of gracious airs, opening doors for the infirm, standing when strangers enter the room. We say 'please' and 'thangyew' and 'don't mention it - I insist'.
Overseas caricaturists draw Britons as fastidious dressers, the men attired in Savile Row suits with polished brogues and a furled brolly, the women modest, twin-setted, pearled.
We drink tea from fine china cups and lay the table for breakfast, complete with marmalade spoon and cruet.
We address each other by our surnames, using respectful 'Mr' this and 'Mrs' or 'Miss' that. We read Beatrix Potter to our obedient, soap-scented children.
No we don't! When did you last see a twin-set? When did you last see a British woman blush? As for 'Cruet', he's that new French striker signed by United. We have become a nation of hard-ball hedonists, groin scratchers, beer-bellied burpers in armpit vests.
The 21st-century weekend aesthetic is: 'Why should we bother to tidy ourselves on days off?' Social climbing, once an improving rod for our backs, has vanished from large parts of urban society. When it comes to mufti and leisure time, the cry of modern Britain is: 'One for grunge and grunge for all.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1226464/The-First-Ladette-How-Germaine-Greers-legacy-entire-generation-loose-knickered-lady-louts.html#ixzz0WQ3N2PRl
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One can blame Germaine Greer for promiscuous tackiness, but she didn’t pass the welfare laws that make the whole scene financially tenable. Guys in suits did that.
I love the British press and their head lines!
Wow, I’m amazed that such an accurate portrayal of Greer and her ilk, and the consequences they wraught, is published in a legitimate newspaper. First the British press unflinchingly declares the true nature of Hasan’s crimes, and now this! Compared to the UK journalists, ours are a pathetic laughingstock.
It just seems strange that in Britain, so much further down the road to socialist hell, has a free press much bolder than ours. Has it always been this way, or have the consequences of their failed experiments become so obvious that even the reporters won’t ignore the situation anymore?
I haven’t heard anything about her in a very long time. Just earlier today there was a posting about how Jane Fonda enjoys her sex life at 71. Before the days over I expect a thread about Erica Jong. Talk about a ride of ancient valkyries.
England always had its low classes and louts, but it was the upper class and the CoE that was the model for, and guided culture, law, values, etc...
Now the “upper class” in England has disappeared, apparantly by self-destruction.
Thanks for THAT mental imagery.
Rose: Why is Onslow reading the Financial Times?
Onslow: I like to keep an eye on the economy. A bloke in my position has to wonder how long the country can afford him. If we don't get the economy right, people like me are gonna be in trouble! It's the duty of all of us to be concerned about the shrinking pound.
Daisy: And when I married him, I thought he was just a sex symbol.
Haven't heard anything about Gloria Steinem lately either.
I knew I’d left someone out. Now we have the four riders of the apocolypse.
Snicker. Nice one.
I loved both of those shows......funny british comedy...There was another one I am having a senior moment on the name about the owners of a hotel....
Fawlty Towers
Yea, you both got it...thanks....
Always liked “Waiting For God” myself.
Don’t know that one, is it an older one or new?
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