His Highness wrote-
Quote:Q. Which 18 stone man rode the Grand National winner?
A. Lester Piggott's cellmate.
I don't get that one. Lester was a flat race jockey the likes of which we will never see again. Casting aspersions on his sexual orientation is bloody treason. He never rode in the Grand National anyway. He did ride in a hurdle race once but his insurance company refused to cover his value after that so he withdrew.
On general chavvery this might be of interest from Mr Burgess's auto-biog -
"There was always an amateurishness in colonial administration, and even in technical specialisation, which was deemed desirable by the British, who have never trusted professionalism. Sir Frank Swettenham, one of the founder Malayan administrators, laid down succinctly the qualities desirable in a new recruit--good at games, not so good at studies, unmarried and amoral enough to employ a sleeping dictionary, not too matey otherwise with the natives, clubbable. He might have added something about artistic taste, or lack of it, but that, like a fear of intellectualism, is probably implied in the first two items."
Chavs are nothing new. It's just a new label.
