If you have free time

[AlfredJPruffock]

Aha , know I know that the author was in fact Mr Floyd , or should I say Mr S Barrat ?

At the core of that anger is the knowledge that they could go absolutely berserk with an axe if they didn’t bind themselves with all sorts of restraints, of manners, embarrassment and awkwardness and garden sheds.

War calls for people to go mad with axes. It’s a particularly risky business for the English as, once they start, they might never finish. It could go on until they’ve chopped up everything, destroyed themselves and the world

Careful with that Axe Tony ...

PS the author cliams to be Scots by virtue of being born in Edinburgh and spent all of a year there.

Well I spent twenty years of my upbringing in Scotland followed by seven years in London and I can tell you there is far more rage and anger in Scotland than England , just take a walk through Glasgow on a Saturday night if you are in any doubt.

Especially Scots women who can be very aggressive and rude.

Not so with the folks in the Highlands, but then again they do like to dance.

Get my drift ?

[AlfredJPruffock]

Interesting his comments about not being able to dance because of anger, I would say if you are not dancing, well then you are not really alive at all.

And as for this snippet ...

Anger has made the English an ugly race. But then this anger is also the source of England’s most admirable achievement — their heroic self-control. It’s the daily struggle of not giving in to their natural inclination to run amok with a cricket bat, to spit and bite in a crowded tearoom, that I admire most in the English. It’s not what they are, but their ability to suppress what they are, that’s great about the English.

Well Mr Floyd knew all about that ...

Hanging on in quiet desperation
Is the English Way

Time is Up
Song is Over
Thought Id something more to say ...

[IR35 Avoider]

I started reading this on Sunday, but stopped because I felt that an article by one guy describing a whole nation is more likely to tell you something about him than them, and I'm not interested in him.

[Rebecca Loos]

no I think it's quite accurate. Quite complimentary anyway don't you think? He's right about the humour thing

[Mordac]

I started reading this on Sunday. Then I realised that it was by AA Gill and I don't usually read anything by someone with initials, on the basis it's bound to be a load of pretentious boll0cks. On this occasion I was again correct.
How embarrassing a name does one have to possess before one has to resort to naming oneself after a motoring organisation? Alan Arsewipe? That'd pretty much do it.

[The Lone Gunman]

Isnt this whole piece a racist slur on the English?

[wendigo100]

This whole article was brought on because he is embarrassed by being caught out by the bloke at the Chelsea - Spurs match.

[sunnysan]

read this

Its pretty good

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...848835,00.html