{"id":8831,"date":"2011-04-14T16:26:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T20:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8831"},"modified":"2011-04-14T16:26:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T20:26:35","slug":"we-have-engineered-a-massive-unstoppable-essex-we-should-all-be-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/14\/we-have-engineered-a-massive-unstoppable-essex-we-should-all-be-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"“We have engineered a massive, unstoppable Essex. We should all be in jail”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this time of abject apologies of all sorts for historic wrongs, it’s time for England — East Anglia in particular — to acknowledge the sins of their past<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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As David Cameron told Pakistan that its current balls-out craziness was actually the fault of the British empire, experts pointed to the giant, stupid, disgusting country founded by some people from East Anglia.<\/p>\n

Julian Cook, author of America: What the Fuck Were We Thinking?<\/em>, said: “When Harwich-born Christopher Jones captained the Mayflower<\/em> in 1620 he began a process that would lead ultimately to genocide, the Ku Klux Klan and Grey’s Anatomy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Thanks to him and his insane passengers, the way was paved for a nation of heavily armed toddlers led around by an ever-changing roll-call of religious maniacs, grubby conmen and dead-eyed celebrities.<\/p>\n

“It doesn’t understand anything more than 15 minutes old — except creationism — and is littered with strip malls and heavily branded cheese pumps.<\/p>\n

“We have engineered a massive, unstoppable Essex. We should all be in jail.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

H\/T to Johnathan Pearce<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this time of abject apologies of all sorts for historic wrongs, it’s time for England — East Anglia in particular — to acknowledge the sins of their past: As David Cameron told Pakistan that its current balls-out craziness was actually the fault of the British empire, experts pointed to the giant, stupid, disgusting country […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-humour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2ir","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8832,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions\/8832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}