Is this the most stupid thing written on the internet ever?

I've made my fair share of stupid blog posts, but this one is a beaut.

You can find it here, on the website of scrubby journlist Neil Clark.

Listen to this. It's wonderful stuff:

"Not wearing hats... ...has become an unnatural national obsession [in the UK.] If you go to any other country in Europe, you will see people wearing a wide variety of hats; in Britain it is somehow deemed 'fashionable' not to wear one."

From this canny bit of social commentary [Is that what it is? - Editorial Bear] Neil then goes on to draw the only natural conclusion from Britain's shocking disdain for appropriate headgear. It's clearly "evidence of how dysfunctional normal social interraction has become."

I'm not making this up. He admits Britain's obsession with social networking sites like Myspace and Facebook is 'further evidence' - but his primary source is Britain's reluctance to wear stuff on their heads.

"The Spanish, French, Belgians and Italians," he concludes, (who you'll remember are often seen "wearing a wide variety of hats") are: "busy socialising in the real world. And because of this, they know, far better than the British seem to do, the difference between a 'friend' and an acquaintance."

So THAT's what's wrong with British culture today! There I was, blaming it on the rise of the wretched Chav underclass - or the social dysfunction that leads British born muslims to blow themselves up in the London Underground. But I was way off.

It's all because we don't wear enough hats.

So do your country a service this Christmas! Buy somebody you love a hat!