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vickyduckyOn The Weakest Link yesterday one of the questions was (words to the effect of) "In mythology what could vampires not eat; cheesecake or garlic bread?" Now I know it is easy to mock and my brain always goes completely blank when I'm put on the spot but I really hope I wouldn't have said 'cheesecake' like the man whose question it was. Even when they interviewed him afterwards he was still claiming to be mystified. It's one thing to be astonished at the gaps as well as the detail)in the knowledge of the students on University Challenge (I still haven't got over them not having read Jane Austen. Although to be scrupulously fair I didn't read any of them until some years after I'd graduated) but this took the biscuit.
There was an item on Today last week tied in to the Democrats convention about them drumming up votes from ex-pat Americans because apparently even if you were a staunch Republican when you left the US if you spent a year or more abroad then as if by magic you vote Democrat. This made me wonder two things;This made me wonder two things firstly is this a case of 'to see ourselves as others see us' or just the general disoprobrium with which many Republican 'values' are viewed outside America rubbing off? Secondly, if this works for British ex-pats? Not that there are many people prepared to admit to intending to vote Labour at the moment but I can't help wondering if in fact you become more right wing the longer you stay away or if that is just the impression I get from a very small personal sample.
It was utterly pitch black at 5am when I got up. Summer is over.
There was an item on Today last week tied in to the Democrats convention about them drumming up votes from ex-pat Americans because apparently even if you were a staunch Republican when you left the US if you spent a year or more abroad then as if by magic you vote Democrat. This made me wonder two things;This made me wonder two things firstly is this a case of 'to see ourselves as others see us' or just the general disoprobrium with which many Republican 'values' are viewed outside America rubbing off? Secondly, if this works for British ex-pats? Not that there are many people prepared to admit to intending to vote Labour at the moment but I can't help wondering if in fact you become more right wing the longer you stay away or if that is just the impression I get from a very small personal sample.
It was utterly pitch black at 5am when I got up. Summer is over.
