Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-27-2008

[andrewducker]

• More tea needed!
  Speaking from his hotel room, a British businessman, who did not want to be named for security reasons, told BBC News he had pushed the furniture against the door for protection. He said he had heard gunshots, blasts and people running along the corridors throughout the night. "It's not the most pleasant of experiences," he said. "I suppose it's a question of British stiff upper lip."
  (tags: Britishness Mumbai terrorism)
• Girls prefer the arts, boys prefer science
  Exactly the kind of article that should lead to bad journalists being rounded up and shot.
  (tags: journalism sexism)

Comments

[marrog.livejournal.com]

*Grins*

I meant the one about about young men who aren't liberal having no heart, and old men who aren't conservatives having no brain.

Although I guess as a chick I get to do as I please...

(But I'll never read the Daily Mail)

[andrewducker]

"If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."

Not actually Churchill: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Misattributed

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I wondered as I posted it whether it was actually Churchill, but as it was quite late I couldn't be bothered checking.