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English Earnestness vs. Microaggressiveness

10/02/2020

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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.”