Doowop wrote-
Quote:It's all very well to try and be PC about it all and look down on people who feel a certain degree of patriotism, but fook it, I'm proud to be English, and take great pride in any sporting victory that comes our way.
One might be tempted to think that the hysterical outburst of national pride in the wake of seeing a bunch of overweight professional sandwich-board men slog their way through a semi-final is in direct and just proportion to the residual guilt of those classes of society whose contributions to the national welfare come in on the negative side of the balance. Dentists, who having had their training funded by the taxpayer then think they can hold everybody to ransom, accountants, who help fat cats to fiddle their taxes, lawyers who drive sad couples into fighting so that neither of them get anything out of the wreckage, advertising agents, who tell us nothing but lies, banking staff, who do things they didn't ought, and all the rest of that effete bunch of smirkers who pollute ten times faster than me. The louder they chant on their armchairs the more suspicious any first year psychology student would be bound to get.
"Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings" Bob Dylan.
"Never was patriot yet, but was a fool." John Dryden.
"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race". G.B.Shaw.
"Nation means war." Anon.
"Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on a dunghill". Richard Aldington.
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel". Samuel Johnson.
"I worry that patriotism run amok will trample the very values that the country seeks to defend." Dan Rather.
"So to be patriots, as not to forget we are gentlemen." Edmund Burke
"Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measels of the human race. " Albert Einstein.
"For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn."
Nothing PC about it DW.
