Porcupine_I on 11 July 2011
In my country many people frequently lie about the strength of their football team, because of some manly men sports inferiority complex / mass illusion / wishful thinking thing.
Also Beethoven was Austrian and Hitler was German!
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
