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[johnny9fingers]

Sort of managed to calm down from yesterday's apoplexy. Which is a win of a kind. I didn't break any obvious blood-vessels; I have not run amok through the neighbourhood screaming at the top of my voice; I haven't as yet menaced anyone for not being in possession of the relevent facts.

I mean, I don't expect too much from folk: not everyone will ever know who Wittgenstein was or what his views on things were - but not to know whether Winston Churchill was a fictional character or not was just a step too far for me to take lying down.* 

I do wonder sometimes whether we deserve to be part of the dominant culture on the face of the planet?

I do know that many English speaking people don't appear to be worthy of using the language of Shakespeare: perhaps we should leave it to the people who care about it a trifle more like the French and the Germans.


Gods, I'm full of it at the moment.


*Almost a perfect 'Colemanball'.

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[jimi45.livejournal.com]

are you sure churchill was real? i always though he was one of those bogeyman type characters british parents invented to scare their children. sort of, "mind harold wilson or the winston monster will come get you!"

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Look, don't ask me to be nice about an Harrovian....but on a more serious note, Wilson was more the monster to scare the kids, but neither comes close to:
"Margaret Thatcher, milk snatcher" the derivation of which comes from the removal of free school milk when she was Education secretary.

Maggies one decent act was that she resisted the introduction of library book charging. I don't know if it balances the rest.