I was aimlessly waiting for a train at the mayhem that is Clapham Junction today -and my girlfriend asked me why the British Transport system is so bad. I had no answer.
I've always noticed that in England, there is a certain grudging acceptance that what we do is rubbish. That our trains are late, that our workers are lazy, that we get knocked out in the semi finals of everything (usually in a pathetic manner).
The typical English mentality is to go, "*sigh* Why us?!?!"
Do you think this mentality is justified? Do we suffer from some sort of curse of averageness? Or is it our defeatest mentality that causes it all?
Matt
2006-10-25
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