The Bloody British Quotes

“Perhaps no expression better encapsulates our attitude towards conflict (or its avoidance) than, “let's agree to disagree.” It is a neat, friendly and oddly poetic little piece of language, yet it also a miraculously dense blackhole of passive-aggression expressed at its very finest. It still says “you are wrong,” of course, but it also says, “you will continue to be wrong, perhaps forever, but unfortunately I’ve run out of time, energy and patience to unpack your wrongness.”
― Paul Hawkins, The Bloody British: A Well-Meaning Guide to an Awkward Nation

“The average day of a British schoolboy, at least in my humble experience, consisted of six hours of constant vigilance for fear of being “peanutted” (someone sharply yanking your tie) and/or six hours of constant vigilance for fear of missing out on even one small opportunity to peanut somebody else.”
― Paul Hawkins, The Bloody British: A Well-Meaning Guide to an Awkward Nation