I wish they all could be Croydon girls

Check out this article about how British girls are the slaggiest in Europe. It's got a snide, Tory attitude throughout, but some facts were incontrovertible.

This passage rang especially true for me:

We are told ad infinitum by bourgeois commentators that over here we do not have a culture which properly understands or appreciates alcohol; instead of enjoying a nice glass of Sancerre with our meal at an agreeable pavement cafe, accompanied by, say, a plate of olives and some peasant-recipe crusty bread, we swallow vast gallons of acrid plonk with a bag of Walkers and then throw up in the bushes and stagger home with an ill-considered partner.

It's like he's telling my life with his words.