Friday, September 28, 2007

You know in England we have parties

One hears all kinds of things in Skypeland. A lady from England with a really thick accent who lives in Spain gave us a very confused description, "You know in England we have a different system than you. We have parties you know. You know we have a Queen in England. You don't notice. That is my point. We have a prime minister you know. What do you have ? It has slipped my mind. I don't know what it is called. You have.. a ... a ...you dont have a king. ...what is it called?" Meanwhile people were trying to prompt her over and over and over, saying "president president president" but somehow she didn't get it...

She was completely confused about what a democracy is. She could not understand the difference between a representative democracy and a direct democracy. The more she talked, the more confused she seemed. She was quite upset when people sent her chat messages. And finally we had to move her down to try to answer her questions. And she was probably offended by this, and so she left...

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