What are you thinking right now?

[Caspin]

There were quite a few like that at uni with me as well. Whenever they'd go off on some anti-English rant I'd let them run on for a while and then ask if they felt that way about me. They'd look aghast and fall over themselves in their efforts to assure me that this was not the case, usually resulting in me being bought more drinks per night than I could reasonably be expected to put away in a month, even in student days. I guess Scots show their love for you by number of drams.

I find that most irrational prejudices fall away when you make people confront them with examples close to home. I had a family member who was expressing a lot of homophobic views. I asked if she applied these to person x,y,z, naming three friends of mine that she didn't previously know are gay. As soon as she realised that she was saying cruel things about people she had met and liked, she changed her tune.

Right now I am thinking that the England team are going to melt in Brazil and might need to be carried around the pitch in buckets. I am watching them play against Peru with my brother. Rooney just went off and he looked completely trashed. It'll be a bit hotter in Brazil, boys! Better get acclimatised.