I loved this,a French comment on the UK.
Binge drinking.
Binge drinking is a national sport practised in the streets of towns throughout the kingdom on Friday and Saturday evenings or, during the week, at the pub as soon as the office closes. The idea is to drink, drink, drink until you drop.
British eccentricity.
Devotees of the queue, ardent monarchists, fanatical darts players, weather obsessives, devourers of biographies, gardeners, eaters of toast with baked beans in tomato sauce ... the British are the kings of eccentricity.
No sex please, we're British.
Let's be charitable and put ourselves in the place of our poor British friends. How can they not have a (big) problem with sex when:
· Every morning, their newsagent spreads out under their noses the front pages of the tabloids covered with close-ups of silicone-enhanced breasts and buttocks, an absolute turn-off without an ounce of eroticism
· Until 1996 there was an "annual charity ball for sex maniacs"
· The Kama Sutra was banned until 1963
· The 1,500 shops in the Ann Summers chain (the Marks & Spencer of sex toys for adventurous couples) sell a million dildos every year.
Under these conditions, how do you not go completely bonkers?
books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,6000,1457558,00.html
