Saturday, July 31, 2010
Yikes, now they are demanding the Kohinoor back. What if the Brits demanded all the stuff they built back from us? We'd have to dismantle legendary things like Howrah Bridge and pack it off among other things, thus depriving future generation of Bongs to enjoy the priceless joke, 'I'm enjoyeeng the breej on the breeze'. Though must say, good of Cameron to admit that Brit museums would empty out in a flash if they started to give our antiques back. At least he was being honest. As for the Kohinoor, remember standing in queue to see it at the Tower Museum and coming back utterly disappointed. It looked lost in the hideous purple (or is it blue, can't be bothered to google) crown and much much smaller than expected. Instead what moved me and made me want to write patriotic comments was Tipu Sultan's automated tiger at Victoria and Albert museum. Was feeling patriotic enough to write 'Wapas Karo' type stuff in the Visitor's Book while going out. Have no idea why, perhaps it's because I devotedly watched The Sword of Tipu Sultan (Had strange taste in those days), whereas nobody ever made a serial on the Kohinoor diamond. That figures.
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They can't ask for our breezes back. They were built with our money and our labour, though their engineering. We have nothing to return to them but our bureaucracy and I wish we could dust that off, dump it into crates, and send it back.
The Kohinoor, btw, was much much larger when they took it. It was an uncut diamond. They thought it was ugly and cut and shaped it. So now it's small and ugly.
Bunny
Oh c'mon, there IS a generation that will refuse to send even the bureacucracy back. It will deprive them of chances to write long winding archaic sounding letters and assuming false importance.
No no, such people will write letters to the editor. And job applications.
Everyone wants to send the bureaucracy back, including the bureaucracy. Phoren posting, no?
Bunny
Oh, good, I wasn't the only one who thought the Kohinoor was much ado about nuffink.
Why doesn't somebody take away the new monster I've to put up with instead?
Subs
Will we have to send back English? Which language shall we blog in once we send English back... ???
Colours: If they take back English, their lives would fall apart without the BPO industries.
Bunny
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