tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post2641577574611623254..comments2023-11-05T08:01:10.010+00:00Comments on Think of England: Dead Zebras and the British Class SystemBrithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-65996051126513133242009-05-13T14:54:00.000+01:002009-05-13T14:54:00.000+01:00Admirable sensitivity, Gaw.Admirable sensitivity, Gaw.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-80797009816339583072009-05-13T14:34:00.000+01:002009-05-13T14:34:00.000+01:00At the risk of seeming like a bleeding heart, I do...At the risk of seeming like a bleeding heart, I do think the use of the word 'chav' is unfair.<br /><br />In my experience there are quite a few shaven-headed, tattooed, hooded, hoop earringed, scraped-back pony-tailed people out there - some of them without a job - who don't deserve to be dismissed and insulted as 'chavs'. (By the way, not all these features will be found in a single person).<brGareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-49251704350107502882009-05-13T13:32:00.000+01:002009-05-13T13:32:00.000+01:00Yes we were told about the Turkish expertise at do...Yes we were told about the Turkish expertise at dodgy watches, Malty, but we both have an aversion to markets and haggling so we didn't get the chance to see them.<br /><br />Nice underdeveloped beach on the Med, mountains surrounding.. but they're building huge hotels all around so give it a few years and there'll be tat-sellers and pool bars all over it.<br /><br />Gaw - I wouldn't call these Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-77264604909390013182009-05-13T09:14:00.000+01:002009-05-13T09:14:00.000+01:00All this chav snobbery is pretty pathetic. It's a ...All this chav snobbery is pretty pathetic. It's a narrow, solipsistic and undifferentiating prejudice, which is directed against the only group of people left that a liberal can feel it's OK to mock and lord it over. We may feel threatened by the odd hoody but if you take an objective look at where power resides in this country, it's certainly not with them.Gareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-31429408609113526322009-05-12T21:46:00.000+01:002009-05-12T21:46:00.000+01:00So then, me old fruit, all two and three quarters ...So then, me old fruit, all two and three quarters of you are back safe and sound from a sojourn among the sceptred isles trailer park trash brigade in the land where muslimania meets christiansanity. One is so pleased that no mention was made in your dissertation of the Geordie branch of the chavite nation and jolly grateful I am for that.<br />Your post on the current state of the class divide maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-2470015498782905282009-05-12T10:13:00.000+01:002009-05-12T10:13:00.000+01:00Cheers chaps.Cheers chaps.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-49055950323839671932009-05-11T18:57:00.000+01:002009-05-11T18:57:00.000+01:00If Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath today, the ...If Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath today, the modern left would dismiss the Oakie protagonists as dangerous right-wing fundamentalsts and respond with critical reviews entiled: "What's the Matter With the Joads?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-80487047664027170252009-05-11T18:29:00.000+01:002009-05-11T18:29:00.000+01:00Welcome back Brit - and a damn fine post!Welcome back Brit - and a damn fine post!Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-63195189164572926352009-05-11T14:12:00.000+01:002009-05-11T14:12:00.000+01:00It still astonishes me how the veil of class obscu...It still astonishes me how the veil of class obscures. The woman in the last post may have been a petty-minded snob. But what if she meant 'I'm the sort of person who cares about food quality rather than quantity and I make sacrifices to eat well. Oh, and I also care about animal welfare and like to support businesses that are co-operatively owned'. Only in Britain could buying nice food be givenGareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9501938.post-12476340470483709092009-05-11T12:13:00.000+01:002009-05-11T12:13:00.000+01:00good to have you back!
nice piece too. although o...good to have you back!<br /><br />nice piece too. although one thing I really hate is categorization -especially along supermarket lines..<br /><br />There are many articles in the Sunday Times or the Daily Mail that seriously bug the shit out of me, but none more so than ones where some idiot writes all about how brave and amazing they were to visit an Aldi or a Lidl. As if by entering the storewillhttp://www.ruminantics.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com