More English pairs who represent English earnestness vs. English microaggressiveness:

• Queen Elizabeth II vs. Prince Philip
• Paul McCartney vs. Mick Jagger
• Eric Idle vs. John Cleese
• Cat Stevens vs. Elvis Costello
• William Wilberforce vs. Duke of Wellington
• Shelley vs. Byron

Here’s a greatest hits collection of Prince Philip’s mesoaggressions, such as:

“If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.”