Elves
Welcome to this week’s I Call Bullshit, a weekly column on, well, bullshit. Gather round, kiddies, today we’re going to look at elves and gnomes and nymphs!
Bullshit is a funny sort of thing, it’s everywhere, all the time, but gathers more thickly in certain parts of the world. Some places are dedicated to clearing a way through the muck, while a growing number of sites (both virtual and real) are dedicated to creating steaming mounds of the stuff.
Places of learning, schools and universities and the like, should be in the muck-clearing business, but plenty of them are actually spreading the stuff around – teaching homeopathy, rubbish post-modern post-colonial reinterpretations of fairy tales, and so on. And in Iceland, there’s a school that teaches eager minds about elves – all 13 varieties of ‘em!
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