“..Call me a spoilsport but I’m glad my dad wasn’t a lesbian..”
(it’s jeremy clarkson..opining on lesbian parents being cited as ‘better parents’..
as you can imagine..this has clarkson somewhat engaged..
and i know that clarkson himself ‘engages’ a lot of people..
but the man can write..)
“..When it comes to sweeping generalisations, I am the daddy.
All Germans have no sense of humour, all instruction manuals are pointless, all cruise ships are ghastly, every single American is fat, all golfers are boring
.. and all Peugeots are driven by people you wouldn’t have round for dinner.
Of course, I’m well aware that most generalisations are nonsense.
I know several very funny Germans, and Obama Barrack is actually quite skinny.
But without generalisations, anecdotes would take two years, points would never get made, comedy would suffer ..
.. and everyone would sound like James May: ..
..“Actually, 42.7% of instruction manuals are quite useful; but first let me quantify ‘useful’ . . .”
Life would be a terribly dreary assault course if every fact had to be precise, but, that said, generalisations have no place in serious scientific research,
.. which is why I was a bit startled to read last week that a government adviser from the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners said lesbians made better parents ..
.. than what we can no longer call “normal couples”..”
go to source/story>>Call me a spoilsport but I’m glad my dad wasn’t a lesbian | Jeremy Clarkson - Times Online