Letters: Still loving it

In response to Kate Muir's article "Romantic, clichéd, corny. We love it" (February 14), I confess that after reading the article I browsed through my DVD collection and watched and fell in love with Pretty Woman all over again. - Rebecca Smith, Parktown

Rotten apples or sour grapes

Oliver Roberts seems to think, in his article "Not so Great Britain" (February 14), that a few drunken soccer louts reflect the make-up of an entire nation.

Let's cut the bull and the tortured comparisons and try to understand that inevitably there will be a few rotten apples in any large basket. Indeed, there are many fine South Africans in South Africa and there are many fine Britons in Great Britain.

The fact that you won the rugby is not the be-all and end-all in a young nation striving for excellence. And if we are going to extrapolate general behaviour from isolated cases, don't forget that it was a South African who just won Mr Gay World. - Bryan Webb, by email

Who offends whom?

I agree with Roberts's sentiments in "Not so Great Britain". He is right about the louts that are taking over in England - that's one of the many reasons I had for leaving the UK to come to South Africa, but I haven't really found that many differences here.

The drunken-lout syndrome is high on the list of things wrong here but I think there's a much greater chance of them being offended by our behaviour than us being offended by theirs. - David Shorthouse, Rustenburg,