I agree with all of that Morgita except for the attempt to give us a kick up the butt, his normal response to any criticism is to make a comparison to something else, usually in the UK.
If someone remarks about children being beaten, he will quote Dickens and Workhouses, as if that comparison justifies the brutal act. If someone comments on food, he will tell us about some salmonella infested greasy spoon that he once ate in near Manchester, if you complain about harassment in Luxor, he will resort to telling us that we are all accosted on a daily basis by beggars in Manchester or some other such city. I have said this before, but Stan seems to have lived in some real dumps, eaten in some really awful places and associated with some real lowlifes if that is the extent of his knowledge and experience of the UK, no wonder he left us all behind to share his largess with another culture. Everything he says is coloured by some comparison to life here, a life that most of us normal people do not equate with.
It actually beggars belief that someone can live in a third world country where everything from obtaining a driving licence to getting your hair cut involves corruption. Where the electricity is off more than it is on, where the water is undrinkable out of the tap and where it is either too hot to move during the day or filthy with dust. Where your internet is usually rubbish and your rubbish is usually dumped in the street or the nearest canal. Where you are likely to die if you go to the local hospital and they openly ill treat animals. Where they have no visible police force and when there is they abuse the populace. Where women are treated as chattels and children are routinely beaten in schools!
Yes it does sound a lot like the UK .................. NOT!
And yes Morgita, there are several versions,
that is why I quoted a few rather than just the one, but most are attributed to the Jesuits.
