16 August 2011

While London was burning

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.

9 comments:

Pisa said...

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.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Frankly, at some level (OK, buried deep enough) it is somewhat funny. In a way.

chairwoman said...

They took ipads and other tablets instead.

Come on Snoopy, this is 2011!

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Er... I stand corrected ;)

Pisa said...

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.

Yitzchak Goodman said...

According to some accounts, they did loot bookstores, but they curiously left the philosophy alone.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

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...

Dick Stanley said...

Ah, well, they're poor, you know? All that welfare, a monthly check, gratis, free health care, free education, it just isn't enough.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Now they got also undivided attention.