Old Stodgy British Ones in SE Asia: Can you even cotton to them, these days?

[GammaGlobulin]

Dear Folks,

 

There once was a day, very far back, when the old stodgy British stilted ones ruled this part of the world.

 

Now, mostly, these same guys, if they have not already left, in one way or another, either six-feet under, or some other way, by, for example....

Being flown back to England, in a medevac plane, to gasp out and eek out their dying days in the isle from whence they came.....

 

Seem to hold their noses high, as if they were still living in the Days of Raj.

 

Hard to say if they might actually be more intelligent than most of us commoners, but they pretend to believe that they are.

 

So, the question is:

 

Do you:

 

a.  Find them insufferable?

b.  Find they pitiable?

c.  Find they amusing?

 

It seems to me that their main claim to fame is that they still speak with this insufferable British accent of the years before the war.

 

If they do not get flown back to the British Isles, then what might become of them if they remain here in SE Asia?

 

It's just their sheer pretentiousness which makes them so very difficult to endure.

 

 

There once was a day when just being British meant that one felt entitled.....

To something.

 

Is this the case now?

Not hardly.....

 

Probably, ten years from today, or less, most of these old guys will be underground, anyway.

 

Still, even today, there are a few left hanging around these parts.

 

Where they every really good for much of anything, many years ago, in the first place?

 

Or, are they just as stuffy now....as they were....

Back then?

 

And, how do you even deal with them, when you meet one of them, before they kick off....

 

I am sure you have met one or two in recent decades.

 

Such weird anachronisms in their own right!

 

Regards,

Gamma G.

 

 

[stoner]

i was here first. 

[save the frogs]

53 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

It's just their sheer pretentiousness which makes them so very difficult to endure.

and your pretentiousness isn't?

[GammaGlobulin]

18 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

and your pretentiousness isn't?

 

What ever happened to your Profile photo?

 

I will miss it, much....

 

What do you call that?...

 

A semi-.....WHAT?

 

(Semi-Frog?)

 

 

[save the frogs]

yeah thats right, a semi fill-in-the-blank

[StreetCowboy]

We're still here.

Johnny Foreigners' petty jealous carping washes over like water off a duck's back

 

SC

[KannikaP]

14 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

It seems to me that their main claim to fame is that they still speak with this insufferable British accent of the years before the war.

I still speak with the 'insufferable accent' I learned in Ashton-under-Lyne, after the war had ended.

In my accent, why don't simply Pi55 O44!.

[StreetCowboy]

Back in the day, the richest British citizens declared UDI. No matter how independent children think that they are, maybe we should be grateful to our parents.

[GammaGlobulin]

2 minutes ago, StreetCowboy said:

Back in the day, the richest British citizens declared UDI. No matter how independent children think that they are, maybe we should be grateful to our parents.

 

Am I catching up?

 

 

[Denim]

On 5/25/2024 at 3:02 AM, GammaGlobulin said:

Hard to say if they might actually be more intelligent than most of us commoners, but they pretend to believe that they are

 

Be honest , your threads don't  exactly set the bar very high. Our labrador could get over it, but then , he is the smartest dog I ever knew.

[StreetCowboy]

On 5/26/2024 at 9:26 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Am I catching up?

 

 

Catching up, or catching on?

[GammaGlobulin]

7 hours ago, StreetCowboy said:

Catching up, or catching on?

 

Having caught on early, now just trying to catch up, before it's too late.

 

[saintdomingo]

On 5/25/2024 at 3:02 AM, GammaGlobulin said:

Dear Folks,

 

There once was a day, very far back, when the old stodgy British stilted ones ruled this part of the world.

 

Now, mostly, these same guys, if they have not already left, in one way or another, either six-feet under, or some other way, by, for example....

Being flown back to England, in a medevac plane, to gasp out and eek out their dying days in the isle from whence they came.....

 

Seem to hold their noses high, as if they were still living in the Days of Raj.

 

Hard to say if they might actually be more intelligent than most of us commoners, but they pretend to believe that they are.

 

So, the question is:

 

Do you:

 

a.  Find them insufferable?

b.  Find they pitiable?

c.  Find they amusing?

 

It seems to me that their main claim to fame is that they still speak with this insufferable British accent of the years before the war.

 

If they do not get flown back to the British Isles, then what might become of them if they remain here in SE Asia?

 

It's just their sheer pretentiousness which makes them so very difficult to endure.

 

 

There once was a day when just being British meant that one felt entitled.....

To something.

 

Is this the case now?

Not hardly.....

 

Probably, ten years from today, or less, most of these old guys will be underground, anyway.

 

Still, even today, there are a few left hanging around these parts.

 

Where they every really good for much of anything, many years ago, in the first place?

 

Or, are they just as stuffy now....as they were....

Back then?

 

And, how do you even deal with them, when you meet one of them, before they kick off....

 

I am sure you have met one or two in recent decades.

 

Such weird anachronisms in their own right!

 

Regards,

Gamma G.

 

 

Never read so much shoyte.

[daveAustin]

Personally find all of you lot (boomers usually) insufferable no matter where you hail from... a rather entitled bunch that talk a lot but with little input to the world.

I'm a Brit and while I kind of get what you mean (anyone lording it up can F right off!), but there is a propensity in the world to hate on the British, esp the English, because it is the thing to do and for merely speaking sans accent. Much of it may be warranted, but there is also an envy factor in there. Read some history, dude, and realise that without some of these guys' input you would still be killing one another and rolling around in the dirt etc.

[susanlea]

3 minutes ago, daveAustin said:

Personally find all of you lot (boomers usually) insufferable no matter where you hail from... a rather entitled bunch that talk a lot but with little input to the world.

I'm a Brit and while I kind of get what you mean (anyone lording it up can F right off!), but there is a propensity in the world to hate on the British, esp the English, because it is the thing to do and for merely speaking sans accent. Much of it may be warranted, but there is also an envy factor in there. Read some history, dude, and realise that without some of these guys' input you would still be killing one another and rolling around in the dirt etc.

UK ranks 3rd for world inventions but none of the modern day plonkers who drink Chang beer had anything to do with it.

[GammaGlobulin]

14 minutes ago, daveAustin said:

Personally find all of you lot (boomers usually) insufferable no matter where you hail from... a rather entitled bunch that talk a lot but with little input to the world.

I'm a Brit and while I kind of get what you mean (anyone lording it up can F right off!), but there is a propensity in the world to hate on the British, esp the English, because it is the thing to do and for merely speaking sans accent. Much of it may be warranted, but there is also an envy factor in there. Read some history, dude, and realise that without some of these guys' input you would still be killing one another and rolling around in the dirt etc.

 

I completely agree with you.

 

This boomer generation lost touch with reality, while dropping acid and dropping out, back in the 60s.

And the world has been on a Bad Trip, ever since.

 

I do/did not identify with those nitwit-hippies, by the way...

 

 

[BobBKK]

Do you:

 

a.  Find them insufferable?

b.  Find they pitiable?

c.  Find they amusing?

None of the above, as I am one - so dear fellow sling ya hook in another direction

[GammaGlobulin]

2 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

 

You seem easily bored this Saturday.

Or, are you just enjoying your tea....

 

[John Drake]

On 5/25/2024 at 3:02 AM, GammaGlobulin said:

Do you:

 

a.  Find them insufferable?

b.  Find they pitiable?

c.  Find they amusing?

 

They were better than what's here now.

[saintdomingo]

3 hours ago, susanlea said:

UK ranks 3rd for world inventions but none of the modern day plonkers who drink Chang beer had anything to do with it.

What about the non-plonkers who drink Leo, Tiger or Guinness.

[susanlea]

8 minutes ago, saintdomingo said:

What about the non-plonkers who drink Leo, Tiger or Guinness.

Guiness drinkers are ok.

[saintdomingo]

3 minutes ago, susanlea said:

Guiness drinkers are ok.

BTW you had nothing to do with it either so what are you on about.

[susanlea]

7 minutes ago, saintdomingo said:

BTW you had nothing to do with it either so what are you on about.

I've have brewed my own beer.

[RSD1]

11 minutes ago, susanlea said:

I've have brewed my own beer.

Nobody cares. 

[RSD1]

4 hours ago, susanlea said:

UK ranks 3rd for world inventions but none of the modern day plonkers who drink Chang beer had anything to do with it.

OMG, you'll just type any old foolish garbage won't you? 

[susanlea]

6 minutes ago, RSD1 said:

Nobody cares. 

You do. You stalk me non stop. 

[RSD1]

Just now, susanlea said:

You do. You stalk me non stop. 

Projecting. 

[Jeff the Chef]

As in all people, wherever there from, there are good, bad and indifferent, the trick is to sort the wheat out from the chaff.