{"id":2192,"date":"2004-01-30T18:36:52","date_gmt":"2004-01-31T10:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/31\/i-love-the-british\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:33:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:33:38","slug":"i-love-the-british","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/30\/i-love-the-british\/","title":{"rendered":"I love the British"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11853,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/money.guardian.co.uk\\\/tax\\\/story\\\/0,1456,1050425,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/money.guardian.co.uk\\\/tax\\\/story\\\/0,1456,1050425,00.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11854,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.kittyjoyce.com\\\/eric\\\/log\\\/archive\\\/000805.html#000805&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The way in which they can be <a href=\"http:\/\/money.guardian.co.uk\/tax\/story\/0,1456,1050425,00.html\" title=\"Guardian Unlimited Money | Tax | Funny Money\">utterly polite no matter the situation<\/a> never fails to fascinate and amuse me. It&#8217;s an art that is all-too-infrequently practiced on this side of the pond.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Dear Mr Addison, I am writing to you to express our thanks for your more-than-prompt reply to our latest communication, and also to answer some of the points you raise.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8230;your frustration at our adding to the &#8220;endless stream of crapulent whining and panhandling vomited daily through the letterbox on to the doormat&#8221; has been noted. However, whilst I have naturally not seen the other letters to which you refer, I would cautiously suggest that their being from &#8220;pauper councils, Lombardy pirate banking houses and pissant gas-mongerers&#8221; might indicate that your decision to &#8220;file them next to the toilet in case of emergencies&#8221; is at best a little ill-advised.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8230;The estimates you provide for the Chancellor&#8217;s disbursement of the funds levied by taxation, whilst colourful, are, in fairness, a little off the mark. Less than you seem to imagine is spent on &#8220;junkets for Bunterish lickspittles&#8221; and &#8220;dancing whores&#8221;, whilst far more than you have accounted for is allocated to, for example, &#8220;that box-ticking facade of a university system&#8221;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kittyjoyce.com\/eric\/log\/archive\/000805.html#000805\" title=\"Hooooon\">&#8230;pickhits&#8230;<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;City Girls&#8221; by Crack Machine from the album <em>Crack Rockin&#8217; Beats<\/em> (1995, 2:51).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than you seem to imagine is spent on &#8216;junkets for Bunterish lickspittles&#8217; and &#8216;dancing whores&#8217;, whilst far more than you have accounted for is allocated to, for example, &#8216;that box-ticking facade of a university system&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-2192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}