Well, let's not exaggerate. Not the whole of London but still it was a grim spectacle. I guess, though, that no matter how momentous and tragic the event, there will always be someone to utter something incredibly stupid. And someone else to laugh at that.
While the rioters in England this week have looted shops selling shoes, clothes, computers, and plasma televisions, they've curiously bypassed one particular piece of merchandise: books.Emphasis mine.
To mollify my British friends: I didn't really have a full-blown belly laugh reading this. First of all, since I have a back pain that just kills me since I've opened my eyes this morning. And then, the Guardian... ehehe...
Hat tip: Louise.
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Glad to see you didn't label it as "funny", because it isn't. It might seem so at first glance, but the sad fact is that many journalists have completely lost their moral compass when it comes to the rioters (except for the Grauniad, which didn't have one to begin with).
Only in England: a principled raving mob, bypassing soon a bookstore in your neighbourhood.
Frankly, at some level (OK, buried deep enough) it is somewhat funny. In a way.
They took ipads and other tablets instead.
Come on Snoopy, this is 2011!
Er... I stand corrected ;)
Of course it's funny. I meant to say that we must choose not to see this as funny. The incredible stupidity behind this kind of statements would be hilarious if it were not promoted by influential news outlets.
According to some accounts, they did loot bookstores, but they curiously left the philosophy alone.
Just to think about it: if I were younger and looting a bookstore, I would have left philosophy alone too. That in spite of all my mom tried to teach me...
Ah, well, they're poor, you know? All that welfare, a monthly check, gratis, free health care, free education, it just isn't enough.
Now they got also undivided attention.
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