Monday, 24 August 2009

The Grande Olde Duke of Yorke was a right bastard

Read:

The grand old Duke of York,

He had ten thousand men;
He marched them up to the top of the hill,
And he marched them down again.

And when they were up, they were up;
And when they were down, they were down,
And when they were only half-way up,
They were neither up nor down.

In this day and age. I don't think nursery rhymes about armies with
bi-polar disorder is appropriate.

And while I certainly

have a degree of admiration for The Grande Old Duke of York in not only clinically diagnosing 10,000 people with bi-polar disorder but also assembling them into an army and then marching them up a hill, I cannot condone his exploitation of people with mental illness.

Glad we've cleared that up.

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