December 30, 2003
British Self-Deprecation Taken to an Extreme
Guardian Unlimited | Sweet smell of failure. The possible loss of the much-hyped (here, anyway) Beagle 2 Mars Explorer has caused some dark humor. This article is a particularly funny example of it.
It begins, “the stubbornly silent Mars probe Beagle 2 has reminded us what Britain does best: heroic failure….”
Posted by Michael : December 30, 2003 05:30 PM | Completely Different , UK | TechnoLinks
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The British do not take themselves half as seriously as they used to in the days of Rule Britannia, and even that is twice as large as it should be.
Posted by: william wallace at June 27, 2004 09:53 AMThe British do not take themselves half as seriously as they used to in the days of Rule Britannia, and even that is twice as large as it should be.
Posted by: william wallace at June 27, 2004 09:54 AM