[BITList] FW: Fwd: The No1 Ladies Detective Agency author AlexanderMcCall Smith puts British to shame - Telegraph

[Malcolm]

Hugh,

 

Yes Hugh, they are, but if Scotland goes independent, there was a discussion
on the Newsnight program on the BBC 2 that they would have to go into the
Olympics as Scotland.

 

Malcolm.

 

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AlexanderMcCall Smith puts British to shame - Telegraph

 

Mike,

 

Brilliant books, and his views on rudeness are clearly based on his
experiences and those of others he knows, however, I am regularly 

discomfited by strangers nodding to me when I am not expecting a sign of
recognition.  Not getting a nod in the street is not the same as getting
snarl. The kind of rudeness that upsets me is that displayed by males below
a certain age on buses, effing this, and effing that.  A few months back I
had to put a 30-something thug in his place on a bus, and was shocked at the
indifference around me.  He threatened the driver, did his business
ticket-wise and stomped up the passageway glaring and swearing.  I told him
to sit on his arse and shut up.  Clearly he hadn't been spoken to that way
for many years, so he subsided and sat down, but still muttered
imprecations.  It took another broadside before he finally clammed up.  The
other passengers?  Facing the front.  Lips pursed. In shock. Hearing and
seeing nothing.

 

While I'm on it, to one side of the McCall Smith article there was
areference to one about a footballer by an ex-footballer.  I read, "Gary
Lineker: 'Team GB disrespected Beckham'."

 

When did "disrespected" become a word?  And whence came this "Team GB"
nonsense?  One commentator on TV attempted to take it a bit away from its US
origins by suggesting "Team Great Britain", and it does take it away a wee
bit. Another in the Independent asked what was wrong with "The British
Team"?  What is wrong with all of this is that the team is from the UK, so
it should be "The UK Team".  I take it athletes and others from Northern
Ireland are allowed in. An even worse situation exists in the mind of a lady
in the US who posted something about her family on a website I looked at
yesterday.  "They came," she said," from the English Isles."  Now there's a
thing.

 

Hugh. 

 

 

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