I ran across a very interesting article today titled “Why I Love Australia.” I highly recommend reading the whole thing (it’s short), but here’s a snippet for those too lazy to click on links:
In the Australian House of Representatives last month, opposition member Julia Gillard interrupted a speech by the minister of health thusly: “I move that that sniveling grub over there be not further heard.”
For that, the good woman was ordered removed from the House, if only for a day. She might have escaped that little time-out if she had responded to the speaker’s demand for an apology with something other than “If I have offended grubs, I withdraw unconditionally.”
God, I love Australia.
I certainly do have respect for a country that has politicians who can call people “sniveling grub[s]” with a straight face.
then why don’t you move there?