England is trying to choose a new Prime Minister today. This is how you vote:
Voters arrive at the Hare and Hounds pub which is being used as a polling station on May 6, 2010 in Corsham, England. Vote early. Vote often. Vote drunk!So we fought for and won our independence from these guys a couple hundred years ago so I could vote in a Catholic church while they get to vote in their pubs. Somehow it lessens the victory.
[Update: Andrew Sullivan adds the following about Britain's electoral rules:
Yes, you can vote drunk and you can bring your dog with you into the polling booth. You are also fully entitled to scrawl on your ballot terms like "Fuck The System!" What a civilized place.Have I mentioned that they get to vote in their pubs? Civilized, indeed.]
[Update II: One of his readers responds:
So those lucky bastards in Merry Ole England can vote drunk? At a pub, no less? While we poor unlucky bastards here in Indiana (who voted on Tuesday) can’t even BUY alcohol on election dayAlcohol is served in restaurants and bars on Monday through Saturday from 7 a.m. to 3 a.m. and from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. on Sundays.
Alcoholic beverages can be purchased from private retail package stores, and beer and wine can be bought in grocery stores, convenience stores, and drug stores. No alcohol is sold on Christmas Day and Election Day.”
If you don't need a drink on both Christmas Day and Election Day you obviously haven't been living in America lately.]
2 comments:
People who enjoyed life stayed in Britain.
People who didn't went to America.
People who enjoyed it a little too much got sent to Australia.
I don't know if that remark is original to yourself magpie but I like it in a historical and cultural sense. And as that pertains to current circumstances: I personally think you got a great deal, mate.
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