More madness
It is not that I normally engage in discourse on the decline of poor old blighty with the chap that was manning the till at Waitrose but I broke the habit of a lifetime & did so yesterday. He had just cut himself & was bemoaning the fact that he was unable to simply get a plaster. In increasingly sanitized Britain where all risk has to be ‘managed’ & preferably legislated against by the Health & Safety Executive, he now faced lengthy form filling.
As I am want to do in such circumstance, your humble correspondent plucked a fatuous comment from his extensive ‘the country has gone to the dogs’ repertoire only to be told if I thought that the supermarket’s accident book was bad – I should listen to this …
Checkout lad, when not leaking claret all over the bar code reader attends Salisbury College. He has been banned from parking his Mini in the car park, as it has the Union flag painted on the roof & thus, may cause offence to students or teachers from other countries & religions.
Now I am still shaking my head wondering why anyone who is either teaching or being educated at a college in southern England could possibly take offence at a car thus painted…& if they do, why don’t they simply get the phuque out of this country an go back to which ever fly blown sh*thole they came from & go and sacrifice goats or whatever the hell it is they do, to have a good time! If the Union flag causes offence, well tough – but to ban a bulldog’s car from a college car park for having one painted on the roof - it is just typical of the namby pamby bunch of utter nonces that are now running the country.
Now, if you will excuse me, I have to go & divert one of the bombers that are currently en route to Paris, because the Salisbury college’s principal’s office is deeply deserving of a laser guided bomb through the window. Pondlife!
& to think that with only the light of a tallow candle, great aunt Muriel went blind knitting balaclavas for lads in the trenches, for the country to come to this!
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I'll bet Checkout lad would have no problem parking his car in the lot if the flag on top was that of red China or the Soviet Union, or North Vietnam or North Korea or (you get the picture). As for offense, did those moral dimwits consider that anyone going to that school was in the country voluntarily and going to school voluntarily which should imply some amount of good feeling toward the government of the place represented by that flag? This makes me want to paint the stars and stripes on the roof of my car (living in the USA and being a citizen there and all).
Posted by: Windy Wilson | June 23, 2005 9:07 PM
From your comments, it appears that modern Britain suffers from a dearth of proud flag bearers. In some areas of the U.S., we have quite a large quantity of proud flag bearers. Hence, it would seem to me that the solution to the lad's problem is quite obvious. I hereby propose new legislation, to be signed into law by both the U.S. and U.K. governments, called the "Good Ol' Boy Temporary Expatriation Act", or the Redneck Lend/Lease act, if you prefer. A cursory examination of this act wouldn't lead one to believe that it is the solution to the aforementioned problem, until one realizes that we will be hand-selecting each and every Good Ol' boy sent to the U.K., and we shall also transport his Ford F"x"50 (where x = {1,2,3}) along with a gratuitous Confederate flag either painted on the roof of said vehicle, or tied onto the tailgate of said truck. "How will this solve my problem", you ask? I believe that we can be quite certain that if the sight of a Mini with the Union flag painted on the roof is enough to offend particular students and teachers present on campus, it is almost guaranteed that the sight of several dozen or even several hundred U.S. rednecks motoring around in their large Ford pickups proudly displaying a combination of the U.S. flag and the Confederate flag will cause the immediate death by heart attack or apoplexy of most of these profoundly sensitive individuals. The rest will undoubtedly lapse into a state of catatonia, and hence will never again be so easily offended. With the demise of the uber-sensitive Britain bashers, the lad's problems will be solved, and all the Good Ol' Boys can be properly repatriated. Personally, I own neither a pickup truck nor a confederate flag, but I would be willing to purchase one of each to contribute to such a worthy cause. ;-)
Warmest Regards from the States,
Joe M.
Posted by: Joe M. | June 24, 2005 12:38 AM
Joe: But what will the sight of the gun-racks in the back windows of the good-ole-boys' pickups do?
Posted by: markm | June 26, 2005 11:49 AM