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It was a joke.
And another joke.
Whatever, indeed! Ha ha.
Merry Christmas!
Picking on Brits a Bit
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It was a joke.
And another joke.
Whatever, indeed! Ha ha.
Merry Christmas!
In the US a significant number of parents let the electronics of the day do the baby sitting and child rearing. I know of some parents who do not have a plan or, even a serious concern regarding their children. The obverse of that are the many parents who do exact control of the children, are involved in school board decisions, insist on summer jobs for their school age kids, demand respect from them, dictate bed times and such and so forth. Which parental style has the best chance of giving society as responsible adult?
Grew up in Malaysia with an archetypal tiger/helicopter mum and extremely strict dad.
Sent off to boarding school in Australia when I was 15. It was like a being in a holiday camp, in comparison.
When my boys finished school, I offered them the chance to live away from home at a university college. Both opted to stay at home.
Speaks volumes of my wife's parenting skills, as I was pretty much a "hands off" kind of dad, after my own experiences.
I wouldn't advise dwelling on them , but a couple of sobering points :
1. We are subsidizing bastardry . Whether in the trailer park or the inner city . PAYING unmarried women to have babies.....
2. We are extincting ourselves . The low birth rate in traditional families is more than a little un-nerving .
Ohhhhh kaaayyy… so to keep the topic on track, how do Brits raise their kids? Send ‘em off to boarding school, maybe enroll them in a cricket game that lasts a few years?
What’s up? Narnia?
What’s up? Narnia?
So if the Brits don't rinse soap from their dishes, do they buy soap based on the flavor?
These plates are minty fresh!!!
On second thought, that would be too close to being a seasoning for British food. jk jk
My first marriage cost $3. The $3 was the cost of the license. If you among the first 20 couples to show up at City Hall, the actual ceremony was free. We had the distinction of being the only unpregnant couple in the line.Ok , I love my country & as a believer I try to love my fellow man . But as a whole , we are a self-indulgent , self-centered people who must have the nicest things even if it means going into debt ! These young couples live in what 50-60 years ago would be considered palaces !
It's not just houses . The average couple spends $33,000 for their wedding !
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My Mom & Dad had a church wedding , have 2 wedding pics (which I think her Dad took) .
Dad wore a suit & Mom wore a nice dress .
PS: I have you beat , fireground_piper . I live in a 500 sq ft house & am thankful & content .
(Being debt free is a great feeling)
The second marriage was a little fancier but to keep the costs low, Julie’s mother made all of the floral arrangements, the decorations, and we chipped in to cook the wedding dinner. We hired servers and stocked the bar and hired a bartender.
The wedding cake was provided by the top bakery in LA for wedding cakes at the time and in place of the usual wedding couple atop the cake we had his and hers Godzillas decked out in a tux and wedding dress.
A friend shelled out $150,000 for her niece’s wedding, which was cancelled at the last moment because they broke up and she was left on the hook for the cost.
I suggested to her that the next wedding should be a potluck in a park.
The wedding business is a major ripoff.
So, last night Mrs. Infantry23 and I were watching a great Christmas movie. Die Hard.
It was during this movie that I realized how great of a movie bad guy Alan Rickman was. I mean, quintessential bad guy as Hans Gruber. This got me thinking about some great bad guys of all-time.
For the group I would like to posit the theory that British bad guys take the cake vs. American bad guys. There's a certain je ne sais quoi. They seem more diabolical and debonair than their American counterparts. Perhaps more evil? More sadistic? Maybe that's only because they don't rinse the soap off their dishes.
Whatever the case, Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Christopher Lee, etc. There are some great British bad dudes in the movies.
It was during this movie that I realized how great of a movie bad guy Alan Rickman was. I mean, quintessential bad guy as Hans Gruber. This got me thinking about some great bad guys of all-time.
For the group I would like to posit the theory that British bad guys take the cake vs. American bad guys. There's a certain je ne sais quoi. They seem more diabolical and debonair than their American counterparts. Perhaps more evil? More sadistic? Maybe that's only because they don't rinse the soap off their dishes.
Whatever the case, Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Christopher Lee, etc. There are some great British bad dudes in the movies.
@Infantry23 It's probably their formal training, but Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet gave me nightmares as a teen. Then there is Kevin Spacey, ::;cough cough:::
But, yeh, the British do come across as evil better than Americans. Probably because we are all so lovable.
But, yeh, the British do come across as evil better than Americans. Probably because we are all so lovable.
ObviouslyProbably because we are all so lovable.
But, cinematically, we never expect Brits to be able to shoot very well. They are the Stormtroopers of Hollywood.
Bond and Robin Hood shoot well. The British "baddies".... not so much.
Actors that have played Robin Hood... Errol Flynn (Aus) Kevin Costner, Russell Crowe (Aus), Richard Gere... sure, there were some makes of Robin Hood with British actors, but the best Robin Hoods were American and Australian.
Ehhh, Bond was a gadget guy. But, sure, for the sake of argument.
Ehhh, Bond was a gadget guy. But, sure, for the sake of argument.
The Brits make good villains because even when they compliment you they are low key making fun of you.
I'm not caught up on this thread, but just thought I'd chime in. My wife and I often watch Escape to the Country (British real estate show), and we've noticed that without fail, the TV placement in the homes that they show is always whack. Like shoved in a corner or just in really inconvenient locations. We were just joking about it last night, in fact. Not sure if that's a common thing across the board over there, but it definitely is on that show!
Edit: But perhaps that says something about us Americans, having the TV be the focus of most living rooms...
Edit: But perhaps that says something about us Americans, having the TV be the focus of most living rooms...
What the hell else is there to do in a living room? If there wasn't a tv in there, I probably would never go in there, ha ha.
Haha, good point. What am I gonna do? Just SIT? Or even worse.... CONVERSE?!
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