I'm surprised that this forum isn't yet boasting a 28-page thread in P&L about JC's latin american antics. But perhaps P&Lers can't be a**ed?(*anyone who thinks that their comments about mexicans were in any way acceptable last week may want to consider the following: 1) imagine the reaction if you replaced 'Mexicans' with 'black people' in what they said and; 2) might want to find out more about how Mexicans are treated by the US and how they might be a little sensitive towards the kind of abuse given by the three last week)
You know, it gives one a comforting feeling to imagine that the only person harmed by JC's brand of idiocy is himself, that the more he does it the more of an Alf-Garnett buffoon he becomes.
But is that so?
I felt like 'showing off' the other day, so, flexing my dimly-remembered grasp of Spanish idiom, I thought I'd put together a comment to post in the Mexican press, touching on JC's previous form and what we (I mean Guardianistas like myself) really think of the idiot. I'd put together all the previous gaffes ("cambiar de velocidad .... cambiar de velocidad .... mirar el retrovisor .... matar a una prostituta .... cambiar de velocidad" - geddit?)
Then I googled a likely-looking Mexican daily and prepared to paste it in.
Alas! I chickened out. Looking at the other comments in that esteemed periódico, looking at the wholesale anti-British sentiments, looking at the "Hitler should have won the war" sort of stuff, I felt I was only opening up trouble. My Spanish just ain't good enough.
I hope that what I stumbled upon was the Mexican equivalent of the Daily Mail. But maybe not. I don't know. This is the real damage C***son inflicts on us...