Oh, how we’ve fallen!

“STOICISM is something the British are world-famous for. They carry on; they make do; they seldom complain, but form an orderly line to take whatever Fate may throw at them. At very bad moments—the Blitz, for example—they laugh and tell jokes against the enemy. Modern Britons are by and large a feebler and non-queuing race, as hedonistic, wasteful and complaining as anyone else…”

Jack Scott and Reg Varney, British icons | Jack Scott and Reg Varney | The Economist