I look forward to having to hear about how this is a crime against humanity from all my lib co-workers soon!
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every english person who went to a private school is an agent of the state and some of them even know it
As someone who went to an English private school this is 100% true
Also they are just full on class warfare. Our headmistress referred to the local population as “pond scum” once
That perilous yellow haze in the photo proves it to be the work of that dastardly paragon of scientific cunning - the Fiendish Dr Food Munchu.
This reminds me of a quote from Catch-22, it has the same naked obsession with the 'rightness' of profit that reads like it isn't supposed to be satire but which I can't help be seeing as comedy:
Major Major's father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down. His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major's father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county. Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap,” he counseled one and all, and everyone said, “Amen." — Catch-22, Joseph Heller
I thought Catch-22 was a satire
It is, I guess the 'dry' delivery reminded him of this.