Roger Casement a British consul official to the Congo used the following terms to criticize his superiors in 1903.
- “a gang of stupidities”
- “an abject piffler”
- “wretched set of incompetent noodles”
I’m very curious about what exactly would make a noodle incompetent.
Source: Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost (1999).
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