Captain Haddock wrote:Yup. Got mad daughters myself who occasionally reduce me to tears of laughter over their earnest and humourless outage over things which don't affect them and don't matter.
Found myself unable to watch the excellent West Side Story tonight on TV when I discovered that all the white actors who played Puerto Ricans in West Side Story wore dark brown makeup so it was obviously waaaycist.
Further viewing was also ruined (I was going to watch the original of Around the World in 80 Days) when I discovered that the future Duchess of Argyll was just 15 when the future movie star David Niven got her pregnant while holidaying on the Isle of Wight, her furious father sending her to a London nursing home for a secret termination (see statutory rape).
He didn't mention THAT in 'The Moon's a Balloon'!
Perhaps the younger generation, who seem unable to decide if they are a boy or a girl or a wardrobe, might do better sorting out their own silly little self obsessed lives rather than passing judgement on the past and imagining that they would have thought differently if they had been there and then.
If they open their bedroom windows and listen very carefully, the sound they will hear is the greater proportion of humanity on all five continents laughing at them and their various 'issues'.
Deflection is often the weapon of choice on here. Yet still there are those reaching for the like icon like performing seals expecting a fish.
NHS in a mess with thousand of vacancies across all key sectors? I know - I'll blether on about diversity officers totally failing to understand that they might actually help to fill some of those badly needed vacancies.
Charlie - a hapless individual more concerned with his own advancement and gratification? Let's play the forgiveness card and forget all about deriding 'God botherers' when it suits my cause.
And here's an example of society's woes. David Niven allegedly committed statutory rape sometime in the last century. I won't say a thing about Prince Andrew chumming up to a convicted paedophile who was so frightened of the consequences of his own actions that he begged and was allowed to top himself in an American nick. His financial advice must have been of staggering value or was there another reason perhaps?
There are self-obsessed folk on here for sure. Like AndyPol I'm quite happy to laugh at their various 'issues'.