To help raise moral standards I have removed the photo of Germaine Greer's orifice from the front page. It can now be found here. Please do not view the gusset if you are a miner, or if your religion regards Germaine Greer's bits as an abomination.
I just want things to be decent.
I clicked on 'here' above Hutton and nearly lost my brekkie. Is that her best angle? Probably. Anyway, I'm glad I'm not a personal friend; I'd hate to be relaxing on the sofa at her place after a decent feed when she decided to pass round the holiday snaps.
ReplyDeleteBut, more to the point, are the Irish British?
Being of late middle age and rather conservative, I tend to the view that they are. They are indigenous to these Isles and are British in the ethnic, linguistic, social and geographical senses. They (actually only the majority) can only be said not to be British in terms of the current political dispensation, which people take a damn sight too seriously in my view.
The point is that the settlement of Oz was massively disproportionately Irish. I don't know what conclusions Miss Greer would come to about the above-mentioned conundrum, but if, having brought the full weight of her intellect and erudition to the matter and decided that Paddy's not a Brit, that would render her observation vis-a-vis Ray Chisolm self-contradictory would it not?
Perhaps as a fairly intimate acquaintance you could point it out to the old girl next time you're round at hers for canapes and the corks are popping. It could be the subject for her next article.
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ReplyDelete"People who like football should be put in boxes and bulldozed into the sea." I still quote that one. Rolled gold.
It's very old now, isn't it? Much as I'd like to believe it's aged well, they very rarely do.
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