Reality meets face

You may remember this little diatribe by Katie Grant:

Where the English are unattractively soft, the Scots are endearingly tender. Where the English are yobbish and aggressive, the Scots are manly and tough. Where the English are insufferably arrogant, the Scots are grittily stubborn.

Well, via Freedom and Whisky we see that somehow Katie's world view has recently been subjected to some unfortunate and deplorable revision:

ON FRIDAY morning, I looked out into our small garden to find a certain amount of chaos. Pots had been smashed, the bench overturned and all manner of climbing greenery pulled off and scattered. Yobs had invaded, tempted, no doubt, by the piles of scaffolding irritatingly left outside our back wall by the firm constructing new flats opposite.

She reflects:

THIS trifling story is not nearly as exciting as recent ones concerning toddler vandals with spray guns or disrupted funeral processions. Having a plant pot or two broken is hardly the equivalent of being "happy-slapped". It does, however, illustrate that mistake of thinking that yobbery is confined to one section of society.

One section or one nationality Katie. Keep repeating that.

Posted by John at May 23, 2005 12:00 PM | TrackBack