Perhaps spatial reality functions differently on the other side of the Atlantic, but here in London, something that is “two minutes’ walk and round a corner” from something else isn’t actually “in” the same place at all. I once had a poo in a pub about two minutes’ walk from Buckingham Palace. I was not subsequently arrested and charged with crapping directly onto the Queen’s pillow.
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Charlie Brooker on the “Ground Zero Mosque” (via nickdouglas)
I don’t like to make excuses for red staters, but in the overwhelming (geographic) majority of our nation, “two minutes walk and around the corner” is where you haul your garbage cans to get picked up, practically your front yard.
Anyone who has an issue with the Community Center (I refuse to call it a “mosque”) is either completely ignorant of NYC geography, or is just being an asshole. Or both.
