An English friend recently described someone as "overfamiliar," and I realized that in the US that concept doesn't exist.
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English culture at its best consists of an endless series of exquisitely refined microaggressions.
English culture at its best is a kind of earnestness that becomes genius at the extremities.pic.twitter.com/m897TQYtjX
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Incidentally, thanks for setting me up like that. One couldn't say such a thing as a top-level tweet, but I think I'll get away with it as a reply.
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An interesting dichotomy in English culture: earnestness vs. microaggressions: Charles Darwin vs. Isaac Newton Gladstone vs. Disraeli George Orwell vs. Evelyn Waugh John Keats vs. Jane Austen Charles Dickens vs. Lewis Carroll George Harrison vs. John Lennon
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So good!
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Actually Brits hate being earnest.
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strong convictions loosely held.
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