Dear Walter the friendly ghost says that landing in Heathrow and visiting the UK is similar to experiencing life in a Third World Country. Wrong! It's more like landing in some Eastern European ex-Soviet State that is rusty from it's dimly lit core. Our economy is fucked (in certain key areas) and we are morally and spiritually bankrupt, led by lunatics and to make matters worse we persist on driving on the wrong side of our potholed roads.
These are just fleeting thoughts from the heartland of the UK's colonial dustbin somewhere beyond the wall of sleep. Odd bits of music and so-called worldly wisdom may creep in from time to time. Don't expect too much and you won't feel let down. As ever AI and old age are to blame. I'll just leave it there ...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Walter Kasper is wrong
Dear Walter the friendly ghost says that landing in Heathrow and visiting the UK is similar to experiencing life in a Third World Country. Wrong! It's more like landing in some Eastern European ex-Soviet State that is rusty from it's dimly lit core. Our economy is fucked (in certain key areas) and we are morally and spiritually bankrupt, led by lunatics and to make matters worse we persist on driving on the wrong side of our potholed roads.
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He didn't mean the facilities at Heathrow, to which "third world" is a reasonable description. He meant that the guy who stamps your passport is a Sikh in a turban and the woman in security has ancestors that came from Africa.
ReplyDeleteActually the Pope landed at Edinburgh airport, which is quite pleasant and friendly. It's whiter in its personnel than Heathrow, so it was probably a bit less disconcerting for him. (I'm being mean about the Pope - after all it wasn't him who said such an offensive thing. He said other offensive things instead.)