Unless you fully appreciate this peculiar mindset and its implications you will never truly understand the English. Try repeating the above mantras to yourself every day for about twenty years, and you’ll get the idea. Recite them in a resignedly humorous tone, adding the odd ‘mustn’t grumble’ or ‘never mind’ or ‘better make the best of it’, and you will be well on your way to becoming English. Learn to greet every problem, from a piece of burnt toast to World War Three, with ‘Typical!’, somehow managing to sound simultaneously peeved, stoical and smugly omniscient, and you will qualify as a
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I sort of agree with this and yet don't, at all! Yes, that trait is there and runs through many of us but.......I think when life is less easy for people, they get more forthright. People get fed up and when they feel someone is 'taking the piss' , thats it! There will be trouble and things will be said that need saying!!!
