The fact that every girlfriend I've had enters bath water which I would describe, without exaggeration, as alarmingly scalding, & does so with complete composure, I regard as illustrative of the general insensitivity of the female sex.
"Damn the English race!" he muttered, rising from his bedstead (Engllish carpentry tradition, 1730s). He used the toilet (England: Sir John Harington, 1596), then the washstand (England: 1700), brushing his teeth with a toothbrush (England: W. Addis, 1780).
He turned the tap (England: Campbell, 1830s), spat into the basin (England,: T. Twyford, 1870s), and shaved with a razor (England: Huntsman, 1740s) before the looking-glass (English silvering process, 19th c.).
"A nation of tinkers & meddlers," he muttered, drying his hands on a towel (England, 18th c.).
The house stood on iron framing (England, Bage, 1790s) & cement (England: Aspdin, 1824), with sewerage systems (England: Lindley, 1810s.), thermosiphon heating (England: Fowler, 1828), and steam-engine water systems (England: Newcomen, 1712). He switched on the light (England: J. H. Holmes, 1884) and boiled a kettle (England: Hobbs refinement, 1955).
He made tea in a teapot (England: 17th c.) with a teabag (England: early 20th c.), stirring with a teaspoon (England: 17th c.), filling a thermos flask (England: Dewar, 1892).
"Bah! Tea again!" he said into a porcelain mug (England: pottery tradition, 1700s.).
He dressed in shirt, waistcoat (England, 1600s), trousers (England, 1600s), sweater (England, 1800s), suit jacket (England, 1800s.), & top-hat (England: Hetherington, 1797), fastening a belt (Anglo-American leather craft, 1800s) & boots (England, 1800s.), crossing linoleum (England: Walton, 1860).
He ate bread from an electric toaster (England, R. E. B. Crompton, late 19th c.), cut with a knife (England, Sheffield steel tradition, H. Brearley stainless steel, 1913), with butter, marmalade, sugar tongs (England, 19th c.), on a plate (England, J. Wedgwood, 18th c.), beside a tin can (England, P. Durand, 1810).
He opened post with a pocketknife (England, 18th c.), sorted it on an oak sideboard (English furniture, 18th c.), wrote in pencil (England: Borrowdale graphite, Cumbria, 16th c.) and fountain pen (England, H. W. Stephens, 19th c.).
"Letters from fools—every last one. May all England be damned," he said, posting them via postbox (England, 19th c.) with stamps (England, R. Hill, 1840).
He dressed, left, and slammed the door.
The same universal pattern——Nordic rule, southern subjugation——also operated in antiquity, despite the fantasies of Mediterranean supremcists, East Indian national chauvinists, & anyone else who prefers his nations to arrange themselves in neat, non-overlapping categories.
"What's the prognosis, Doc?"
"You're suffering from a severe love deficiency."
"Deficiency?! But I love more than anyone I know!"
"That's exactly why you're deficient. You can't just give your love away, you need to receive love too."
"Is such a thing even possible?"
"In theory."