Final post

On things to do with America anyway....

Did I mention we took a stretch limo back from midtown Manhattan to Brooklyn? Did I? If not, then what happened was we took a stretch limo back from midtown Manhattan to Brooklyn.

It was awesome.

Oh, and to add the long list of heinous crimes against the English language that the USA has produced is their pronunciation of 'paedophiles'. They pronounce it 'pedophiles'.

You may feel this is a minor difference, but it has dramatic consequences for the world. We all know that americans drive everywhere they can, even to the point of having drive through cash machines. I'd always attributed this to them mainly being a bunch of lazy fat-arses, but now I see the light.

Because a 'pedophile' is someone who likes walking (derived from the latin for foot (ped) and the stem of words such as pedometer). You see? It all makes sense now. On the other hand, the greek for 'boy' is 'paed'.

I'd drive everywhere if being seen as someone who liked walking came with a mandatory life sentence.

"Ah said he wuz a pedophile. Ah saw him walk, like, two whole blocks maaaaaahhn"

So a simple failure to speak English properly results in excessive driving and the associated obesity problem, but also means the price of petrol is kept artificially low in the US which puts more and more money in the hands of Middle Eastern countries, indirectly funding the rise of extreme Islam in Saudi Arabia and the current global terrorism threat.

So basically, inability to speak properly = terrorism.

A lesson for us all there.