tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4772027578282097356.post3517082469888780178..comments2023-07-18T06:25:37.562-07:00Comments on Ramblings of an urban crazy man...: 'After you dear boy...'Urban Crazy Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13686616731777551239noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4772027578282097356.post-39136931159942686352009-01-26T15:27:00.000-08:002009-01-26T15:27:00.000-08:00Tom,Let me explain a point from my previous commen...Tom,<BR/>Let me explain a point from my previous comment. I think that the poor British expected to get their turn and enter a lifeboat, but like I said, they were cruelly cheated by the shortage of spots. <BR/>As you've from your other blog, class also played a role. Would the British middle-classes or 'poor' have been so polite if they had been allowed to get near a lifeboat?<BR/>Cheers cos67costick67https://www.blogger.com/profile/08145105880352235209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4772027578282097356.post-27289545322244342452009-01-22T16:11:00.000-08:002009-01-22T16:11:00.000-08:00Tommy, calm down.Almost all the men on the Titanic...Tommy, calm down.<BR/>Almost all the men on the Titanic died. You're talking about one man in a boat were almost a thousand men died. Not very scientific.<BR/>Bush, as always, is a special case of someone who knew he could do anything, and yet was a complete idiot. However, too much politeness in an emergency is akin to folly. The rest of the deaths are due to the hubris of the captain and crew, the fact that there weren't enough life boats and mainly the fact that the ship was held together with sub-standard bolts. <BR/>I can comment on the behaviour of today's British. The vast majority now 'put on' politeness in such a way that it usually makes me sick. I am usually polite because that's the best way for a workplace to hum along, I find that Brits don't believe me. They think it's an act and so they prod me in various ways. Of course, this is not 1912, innit?costick67https://www.blogger.com/profile/08145105880352235209noreply@blogger.com