tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post3641465470387535808..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: Unwelcome Atlantic Cross-oversTwilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-78172744647263485292019-02-13T18:34:58.478-06:002019-02-13T18:34:58.478-06:00Wisewebwoman ~ You'd be great on Quora WWW, i...Wisewebwoman ~ You'd be great on Quora WWW, it's a good resource for excellent writers, and if not one of those it's just a matter of finding one's own niche - but I understand how you are already into so many things it'd be overkill! I found it as an alternative to Facebook, and have stuck with it for just over a year now. 'Keeps me off the street', as they say. :)<br /><br />LOL! I like the quote!<br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-81201602338369567052019-02-13T14:51:31.441-06:002019-02-13T14:51:31.441-06:00I try and roll with the times as best I can with t...I try and roll with the times as best I can with the odd explosion when I just can't take it anymore. I do enjoy these posts from Quorom where I have not participated as I confine my poor old overloaded self to other platforms of vent and vanish.<br /><br />I remember a book written by an acquaintance about the effects of American television in Ireland and indeed throughout the world:<br />A Great Feast of Light by John Doyle<br />Memorable quuote: "There was no sex Ireland until television."<br /><br />A fine line between geezer and griper, eh? :D<br /><br />XO<br />WWWWisewebwomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15281689872840844191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-46079699126715986402019-02-13T14:33:00.885-06:002019-02-13T14:33:00.885-06:00RJ Adams ~ I think we'll survive Trump, perhap...RJ Adams ~ I think we'll survive Trump, perhaps even learn something from the experience. I'm worried about Britain and Brexit though, because whatever way the cookie crumbles on 29 March, some group will remain p'd off for a long, long time, with little recourse. Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-55130516619875018812019-02-13T04:47:31.815-06:002019-02-13T04:47:31.815-06:00It seems that both countries appear hellbent on le...It seems that both countries appear hellbent on leaping over the cliff to chaos. America may prove better off. I doubt anything can prevent a chaotic Brexit, but maybe on the edge of that American cliff Trump could build a wall ;-)R J Adamshttps://sparrowchat.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-58788982266053875242019-02-12T15:01:34.921-06:002019-02-12T15:01:34.921-06:00RJ Adams ~ Yes - the 'philanthropy' was th...RJ Adams ~ Yes - the 'philanthropy' was theoretically good ("send me your huddled masses and all that") but doesn't work in practice most of the time. Even initially, with theoretical good intent, what happened was they came, they saw and they killed off most natives already here - all very philanthropic! :-/ <br /><br />No argument from me about any additions to the list of unwelcome crossovers - there are more at the full thread too, in other responses. <br /><br />I suspect things have become quite a bit worse on the unwelcome crossover front since I left in 2004. I remember being a bit miffed when some British pop singers used to imitate American accents, but that's about it - in my memory. I do clearly recall being royally pissed off when the USA would not agree to the Kyoto Protocol (I think that was the term) - that wasn't a crossover - it ought to have been a crossover, but in the opposite direction - and still, never has been. :(Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-39622236526655335362019-02-12T05:19:26.199-06:002019-02-12T05:19:26.199-06:00I will only disagree with one of Mr Blackburn'...I will only disagree with one of Mr Blackburn's positives from America: "the culture of philanthropy." We don't need philanthropy, we need the rich sods who (when it suits them) practice it to pay a fair rate of tax instead. And, of course, a government that uses the extra money correctly to help poor and sick people, rather than wasting it on war games.<br />I could add an awful lot more to the list of bad stuff to cross the Atlantic, or waiting to cross after Brexit, but I'll refrain from appearing too negative.<br />Well, OK, just three then: homelessness (now endemic in the UK), the drug company culture, and crap American TV that's now invaded the whole of Europe. No, I'll stop there, honest! But only because gun culture, political correctness, Facebook & Twitter, have already been mentioned.R J Adamshttps://sparrowchat.comnoreply@blogger.com