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Being a man, I am unwilling to pull over and ask someone for directions, because this would imply they are somehow cleverer than me. And obviously they’re not, because I’m toasty warm in a car and they’re mooching around on foot.
Americans, remember, have got it into their heads that you can now wage a war without losing a single soldier or airman, and we see the same sort of thing with their weather too.
From the outside, Americans appear to be human – a little larger than normal, perhaps
the days when newspapers ran headlines saying ‘Fog in the Channel. Europe cut off’.
Every resort should have a place like this, a giant black hole that hoovers up precisely the sort of people that the rest of us want to avoid. Once you know they’re there, you can go somewhere else.
