[Senator Goldwater]

The bitch is back.

[Paleo Conservative]

You know the rules!

[CO Gal]

Perhaps, but I agree with her.

[SevenofNine]

OH MAN Joan Collins said that rack Alexis Carrington Colby Dexter

[goldstategop]

She is a conservative.... isn't too found of multi-cultural Britain. Her sister Judy, is a best-selling author.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Reagan Man]

Joan Collins! Who'da thunk it.

[F16Fighter]

Great rant by Miss Collins.

Who knew she was such an articulate conservative?

[wardaddy]

I agree with her.

We are incredibly coarser as well.

[Andy from Beaverton]

[RichInOC]

As Percy held the door open to let me through, a 6ft tall, middle-aged, horse-faced male pushed past me, trod on the hem of my dress and rushed outside to climb into the taxi that the doorman had waiting for us.

I call B.S. Charles has his own car and driver.

[mc6809e]

The problem is that people think "freedom" means the freedom to be a jerk.

The same thing is happening in the USA.

[skr]

a 6ft tall, middle-aged, horse-faced male pushed past me, trod on the hem of my dress and rushed outside to climb into the taxi that the doorman had waiting for us.

Only a male could push someone who looks like Ms. Collins aside. Certainly no man would.

[vpintheak]

Welcome to socialism and the do-whatever-makes-you-feel-good culture.

[snarks_when_bored]

As Percy held the door open to let me through, a 6ft tall, middle-aged, horse-faced male pushed past me...

Joan oughtn't to be talking about Prince Charles that way...

[DoughtyOne]

The woman is right on target. I don't single out the English though. Both England and the United States are imploding.

[drjimmy]

The London that Joan Collins is describing is really no different from when she was a child. Here's a passage from a book written around that time:

"The street was very narrow and muddy, and the air was impregnated with filthy odours. There were a good many small shops, but the only stock in trade appeared to be heaps of children, who, even at that time of night, were crawling in and out at the doors, or screaming from the inside. The sole places that seemed to prosper amid the general blight of the place, were the public houses; and in them, the lowest orders of Irish were wrangling with might and maim. Covered ways and yards, which here and there diverged from the main street, disclosed little knots of houses, where drunken men and women were positively wallowing in filth; and from several of the doorways, great ill-looking fellows were cautiously emerging, bound, to all appearance, on no very well-disposed or harmless errands."

[kaehurowing]

From the "Will There Always Be An England?" File . . . .

(Apologies to New Yorker Magazine.)

[Rocky]

Letterman doesn't like her. And now this column. Wow, two reasons to admire Joan Collins.

[My Favorite Headache]

We've become the 'Whatcha lookin' at?' culture. Why do young people consider it cool to be arrogant, swaggering and rude? Why do so many people in England seem so cynical and self-centred? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Here is your answer Joan...10 years of this leading the free world....

[MHT]

The rudeness she describes is partially a result of decades of entrenched socialism, hailed by US liberals as a symbol of their greater sophistication, compassion, and moral superiority. Socialism has built a culture where a man needn't marry the mother of his children because the state, not the father, provides health care, housing, education, and sometimes food. Without a male role model, discipline (particularly that of young males) is left to women alone who often cannot psychologically much less physically control their sons. Education is secondary to the pursuit of easily obtainable material distractions and "pubbing" is alot more fun than studying. The provisions of the state replaced God and anyone not primarily focused on the secular world is considered somehow provincial or stupid.

Too bad about the bully who should have known better taking her cab. But given the morality (and private behavior and manners) of the Royals, why expect more from the next rungs of society.

[Hildy]

Just the other day I accidentally bumped into a woman in a hotel. I stopped, turned around, and apologized profusely. She looked at me like I had just killed her puppy. She did not forgive me. I saw her again later and she snarled at me.