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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 06:51 pm
I was in the back of a cab, coming back from Tesco, and idly listening to the radio the cabbie had on when I heard the following exchange (it appears the show was covering an international mental health conference in Athens):

Interviewer: So you say that depression is more common in poor countries, and more common among the poor generally. Why is that?
Interviewee: [Momentary silence] Well...

Could it be, dumbass, they're depressed (at least partially) because they're poor? I mean, I don't know about you, but [sarcasm] in my area you can see the jolly old poor people, dancing down the streets in their joy at being underprivelidged. They are obviously having a whale of a time.[/sarcasm]

And while I'm on dumbasses...

I've been watching with interest on various journals including [personal profile] jonquil and [personal profile] ithiliana the storm caused when those two phenomenally ill-informed and actually rather stupid men decided to post their "questionnaire". I don't have anything to add to it that hasn't already been said by much more intelligent people than me. but: go fandom! Kill!

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