The Curmudgeon

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Saturday, April 23, 2016

Ballooning Britishness

Local authorities have been forced to intervene in the restaurant business because the British are too embarrassed to ask for a glass of water. Eighty per cent of people drink tap water at home, but being a customer at a restaurant routinely involves interacting with staff who are offering a commercial service. In such circumstances, most British people have trouble enough calculating the minimum acceptable tip and showing just enough disapproval at the service staff's ethnic fetishes, without being drawn into the intricate and distasteful business of asking for things as well. Hence they tend to plump, if that is the verb I want, for letting their spawn guzzle nominally fruit-flavoured hypersugar juice instead. Where avoidance of parental discomfort is involved, years of playground persecution followed by an early heart attack is evidently a reasonable price for the children to pay.

1 Comments:

  • At 3:35 pm , Anonymous cosmo said...

    Bear in mind all these "waiting staff" probably don't really know what it is to drink CLEAN water. Water that comes from the world's "ater factory".

    Water collected in the most exclusive swimming-pools of the land, topped up with generous helpings of liquid oxygen and liquid dental-floss. (So as to keep the nation's youth's teeth strong and sturdy right up until the ripe old age of 64.)

     

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