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?)

 

 

Edited May 24 by GammaGlobulin

[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!.

Edited May 25 by KannikaP

[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.