Loz I really don't get it. It's just banter. You think the English are bad, wait for the Icelandics. They are the most sarcastic set of people you wil ever meet. Sarcasm doesn't seem to really exist in most of the rest of Europe. Very strange.
Maybe they're eating too many frog's legs and it's clouding their judgment...
JOKE
Everyone understands sarcasm in Europe, not just the brits or the icelandics, you need to go out more....
But the Brits have The Benny Hill Show ...and this, only the brits can understand...
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Sorry to distract from the important topic of that Personification of Englishness, the Late Lamented Sir Benny Hill, but I can't resist posting the following article, which is actually about the topic of this thread:
Bernard-Henri Lévy explains why you're wrong about Dominique Strauss-Kahn. - By Tom Scocca - Slate Magazine
Now, I have a certain fondness of Bernard Henri Levy, but he has come to personify the unthinking 'attack defense' of DSK's fans and friends, who are so upset about his alleged mistreatment. And please, will someone please help Bernard button his shirt? So louche! Is chateau Bernard Henri Levy?
Also hilarious - Michael Bloomberg's quote about perp walks. Now he is against them.