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Monday, 22 October 2012
Ze Chermans
Look, I like a good bit of casual racism and xenophobia as much as the next man, but can we PLEASE stop this shit that Her Maj is German?
She was born in Mayfair, in London, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. If she's German because of that, does the fact that my dad was born in Hammersmith make him fucking Spanish? And what I'm I? Icelandic?
You don't understand. Someone born here, but with dark skin, is of course as English as tea and toast, cricket and real ale (or sharia law, burkas and knife wielding gangs, whichever represents England best nowadays). To suggest anything else would be racism of the worst kind.
But Her Madge is a white upper class female (only one step below the white upper class male at the top of the 'who one can abuse with impunity' list) and can therefore be safely derided as 'foreign' with not so much as the blink of a 'You can't say that its racist!!' eye.
You didn't really think 'the rules' apply to ALL the animals did you?
Although there is Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia ...
ReplyDeleteThank you. It has long been a "joke" that has puzzled me. Time it was put to bed.
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You don't understand. Someone born here, but with dark skin, is of course as English as tea and toast, cricket and real ale (or sharia law, burkas and knife wielding gangs, whichever represents England best nowadays). To suggest anything else would be racism of the worst kind.
ReplyDeleteBut Her Madge is a white upper class female (only one step below the white upper class male at the top of the 'who one can abuse with impunity' list) and can therefore be safely derided as 'foreign' with not so much as the blink of a 'You can't say that its racist!!' eye.
You didn't really think 'the rules' apply to ALL the animals did you?
Obnoxio - If your father was born in Hammersmith, he is legally Australian as every one of them has worked in a pub there at some point.
ReplyDeleteTeutonic? It's just a Tecknicality.
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