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  1. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Re. Mary Shelley: it was ironic, given that the Shelleys had views on marriage and the family that were considered radical in their day and probably would today still be seen as avant garde in large areas of Texas or Oklahoma.
  2. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Are you describing an aspect of native Hawaiian culture here? I have found with the generality of Americans that they are often fairly formal and polite, contrary to the stereotype, and certainly more so than most white ‘Brits’ today (British people of Black or Asian heritage often have an...
  3. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I remember as a schoolboy seeing an old (1930s?) Hollywood adaptation of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’. It was described in impeccable but anachronistic American English as ‘Based on the Book by Mrs Percy B. Shelley’.
  4. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I agree. I loathe this false informality. I would add to it that I do not want to be on first name terms with my lawyer, doctor, accountant, dentist, or any other professional with whom I have a friendly but formal relationship rather than an actual friendship.
  5. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Taking two days off (I’m self-employed) and will enjoy reading and listening to music. And drinking (water of course).
  7. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    We’re all dooooomed. …
  8. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Going back to catastrophist headlines: I saw one a few days ago: “Risk of death increases when you’re mourning your loved ones”. Okay. You’ve just lost your significant other, your sibling, your parents, close friend, etc. Do you really need to be told that you might die of grief? Enough already.
  9. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Let me assure you that some of my best friends are Americans who have very advanced knowledge of geography. It is they, far more than me, who mock their compatriots about this. I think there is a residual element of Manifest Destiny in all this. Quite a few of your fellow countrymen think, at...
  10. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Burkina Faso, formerly Upper Volta. I deliberately chose a place that was obscure (from a European or North American standpoint) and hot. Americans have an interesting relationship with geography. I can remember a UCLA graduate on my postgrad course back in the day asking: ‘Is India near...
  11. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Agreed. It is essentially a “self-help”, consumerist approach to health and “wellness”, with Big Pharma pulling the strings and promoting toxic products - rather like the poisonous ‘elixirs of life’ taken in some ancient civilisations. I must qualify the above statement by making clear that I...
  13. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Agreed. And it’s always applied to things that make life enjoyable.
  14. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The latest media thing, after being told we’re going to ‘enjoy’ the heatwave, is to have endless warning to stay out of the sun at all costs or - to use the immortal words of Private Fraser in ‘Dad’s Army’ - ‘we’re all doooomed’ … As usual in modern Britain, there’s no middle way. That brings...
  15. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    @Peacoat : this must be proof for you that British guys are eccentric.
  16. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    I have one. ...
  17. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    Hi John Thanks for that. Another to add to my collection. Can’t wait for Woolly Pully weather again.
  19. Ticklishchap

    Ever Been On The Radio?

    Which sport was it - if you can remember?
  20. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I very much agree. We are talking Seventh Circle of Hell. Fortunately I am working from home for the next week and don't have to venture into central London from the SW suburbs. I am not designed for this type of weather, being fair skinned with dark red hair, etc. My ancestors came from North...
  21. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    … Going back to the ‘ticked off’ theme: Heatwave headlines crying out: ‘London to be hotter than Ouagadougou’ or something. … WTF .
  22. Ticklishchap

    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    That Kent State photo has acquired iconic status over the decades.
  23. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In the latest instance it is a company I have worked with for some years. I have had a grovelling apology from the boss, but he seems not to understand fully that this type of email is unacceptable. It’s reassuring in a way to know that it isn’t just the U.K.
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