result #126624 - ENGLANDS NOT SO GREEN AND PLEASANT LAND

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ENGLANDS NOT SO GREEN AND PLEASANT LAND

[+] ballot by quirk99
ACTIVE May 09,2008 - Sat May 09, 09

England, famous across the world as the country of Shakespeare, royalty, fair play and manners, is a nation of " overweight, sex-and-celebrity-obsessed TV addicts ", according to a new tourist guide.

The " Rough Guide to England ", which was written by four British travel writers, says that there is nowhere " so fascinating, beautiful and culturally diverse, yet as insular, self-important and irritating, as England ".

The country has been scarred by the 2005 London bombings and the Iraq war, making it a " querulous, quarrelsome country " that could be in the grip of an identity crisis, it says.

English people may hold forth on politics, law and order and immigration, but also lap up " celebrity chit-chat ".

"As a glance at the tabloid newspapers will confirm, England is a nation of overweight, binge-drinking reality TV addicts," it says.

Reserve is still a key national trait -- attempting a conversation with a stranger "can be seen as tantamount to physical assault", the guide says -- and a person's accent is the equivalent of a consumer brand.

Social inequality is rife, too, as "a tiny aristocracy, who in some cases trace their roots to the Norman Conquest of the eleventh century, still own most of the land" and there is an attack on creeping materialism.

The guide also rails against " identikit " provincial towns and " overpriced, under-funded public transport ".

Foreign tourists are also warned that the English are "the most contradictory people imaginable ".

" However long you spend in the country you'll never figure them out," it adds.

But the guide is not entirely negative, reserving a soft spot for the country's love of animals, generosity to charities, irony, its openness to refugees, thriving arts and culture and the soothing quality of BBC Radio 4.

Personnaly I've known this for years. I'vr always believed we should have followed the french example. It's been downhill from then on.

Sounds about right	7
I think it's all about bad teeth	3
no thats to depressing for me to accept as reality	0

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if youve never listened to radio 4 I suggest you try it.

by quirk99 on Fri May 09, 08 4:58am [+]

Voted : Sounds about right
Keep watching that television, chavs. They don't call it programming for nothing. 012

by _Beelzebubba on Fri May 09, 08 6:40am [+]

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