Putting the 'mental' in judgemental
Mrs Spimfs old gran was bonkers. Example you say? I once saw a picture of her 'sunbathing' on Blackpool beach in the 70's wearing a one piece bathing costume, sunglasses, a plastic flowery shower cap, tights and high heels whilst clutching a big 'I'm the Queen' style hard case snappy handbag. She carried the bag everywhere because it usually contained hundreds if not thousands of pounds - banks were dismissed as 'conniving bastards' (maybe some of her ideas were actually quite sound in retrospect).

Eccentric/judgemental behaviour included spitting on the paper if she opened it on page 3, yes spitting ON the newspaper, her own newspaper. Aside from having once chased a women down the beach in Guernsey for having the effrontery to sunbathe topless and the notion that 'spastics' should be 'put down at birth' some of her other opinions were at best novel...

Her casual racism included a monumental mistrust of Jews to the extent she thought 'the Nazi's had the right idea' this was however slightly at odds with her assertion that all Germans were 'murdering bastards' (Japanese were slitty eyed wee murdering bastards).

But it was her attitude to black people that amused me most. She would look at a perfectly happy black family and with genuine pity and comment:

"poor souls, I suppose they have to live too"
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 16:57, Reply)