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Re: Pakistan floods - "winning hearts and minds"

Hello Theo.

I blame the US tradition of mass consumption for that. It wouldn't happen in Britain. People would at most try to pull ahead in queue with vicious jabbing of elbows.

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Re: Pakistan floods - "winning hearts and minds"

haha that reminds me of the quote from "The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul"

"British pluck" said Dirk. "We used to be proud of it.  During the Blitz, you could go up to a clerk who just lost his daughter to a firebomb and ask for a pack of fags, and all he'd say was 'Filter or no filter sir?'"

"I expect you would, too" muttered a policeman.

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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