Did anyone stay up to watch it then?

[Burney]

I have no truck with Austrians, sir c. Odd people

Yes, well we've only ourselves to blame. We allowed them to get away with the absurd fiction of pretending they were a victim of Nazi aggression as opposed to a keen and willing participant in it. As a result, they don't feel they have any amends to make (unlike the Germans, whose consciousness of being a criminal nation is the only thing that makes them even vaguely tolerable).

[Pokster]

Yes, well we've only ourselves to blame. We allowed them to get away with the absurd fiction of pretending they were a victim of Nazi aggression as opposed to a keen and willing participant in it. As a result, they don't feel they have any amends to make (unlike the Germans, whose consciousness of being a criminal nation is the only thing that makes them even vaguely tolerable).

Poor form to slag off Austrians on the day one of their greatest sportsmen (a shortlist, I know) died

[Burney]

Poor form to slag off Austrians on the day one of their greatest sportsmen (a shortlist, I know) died

I remember that joke about Elizabeth Taylor going into hospital to get her labia trimmed and receiving flowers with a card saying

'Thanks for the new ears!
Niki Lauda'.

RIP