Due to an unfortunate series of events a number of years ago, I ended up desperate for ANY reading material and read lots of things that I normally wouldn't choose. One of them was a book called Watching the English, written by an anthropologist about English behavior. It ended up being more interesting than I expected, though I've forgotten most of it. Only one thing has really stuck in my memory from the book, and that's the author's example of the quintessential English protest: "What do we want?" "Gradual change!" "When do we want it?" "In due course!"
Due to an unfortunate series of events a number of years ago, I ended up desperate for ANY reading material and read lots of things that I normally wouldn't choose. One of them was a book called Watching the English, written by an anthropologist about English behavior. It ended up being more interesting than I expected, though I've forgotten most of it. Only one thing has really stuck in my memory from the book, and that's the author's example of the quintessential English protest: "What do we want?" "Gradual change!" "When do we want it?" "In due course!"