you can take the man out of essex.....

It's not that I love Essex, in fact I've hardly ever been there but there are a few pleasant little country pubs with ponds and ducks outside for the kids etc etc and plenty of people called Sharron, Michelle, Darren or Dazzer and Wayne or perhaps Wazzer? Who knows? And yes, I have a got a book of Essex Girl jokes. But the hackles really start to rise when some toffee-nosed, middle-class wanker who sounds like he's got a poker stuck up his arse starts to sneer at the working classes, for the heinous crime of coming from a place he has probably never been to! And what's more is when the butt of the joke is our becks and his new tattoo, 'he just can't help himself you see, you can take the man out of Essex but you can't take the essex out of the man...' Oh please, if you are going to sneer please try to be original.

The problem with ex-pat dinner parties is that they are full of such wankers all competing with each other to see who can sneer in the most unoriginal, conservative, patronisngly hideous way. And then have the affront to pretend that they are actually very subversive in their own little ways. They sneer at the French (because naturally they all holiday in France) because there are rules forcing men to wear tight swimming trunks at public pools there but they never ask why, when you know perfectly well that they are exactly the kind of people who all wear tight swimming trunks themselves and wouldn't be seen dead in anything that looks as remotely fashionable, i.e. working class as a pair of baggy shorts down to their knees!

And as if that isn't bad enough I have met three people this week (GCs) who didn't know who Nelson Mandela was! Where have they been living all these years?????

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A big thank you to Kostas for correcting me on my error in saying that it was Plato that was executed by the Athenian State for corrupting the young. It was, as he said, Socrates that took Hemlock for his so called 'crime'. We only heard of this, and of Socrates wisdom, from his pupil Plato, however.I think I am right there.
Still my point I think is still valid. Ancient Greek regimes with this history and their reliance on slavery are no model for modern states. That was my main point.