thinking about poms other day, monarch and stuff, then had a rather contradictory thought about they’re a bit parochial (to use the word nicely) in some ways too.
how does that work.
what’s Liz like a license to be a happy child or something.
where do you get that in Australia, out of a can of beer, or a wine glass.
transition said:
thinking about poms other day, monarch and stuff, then had a rather contradictory thought about they’re a bit parochial (to use the word nicely) in some ways too.how does that work.
what’s Liz like a license to be a happy child or something.
where do you get that in Australia, out of a can of beer, or a wine glass.
Hang on, let’s think about how long you and I have been here and old Liz and all of that.
roughbarked said:
transition said:
thinking about poms other day, monarch and stuff, then had a rather contradictory thought about they’re a bit parochial (to use the word nicely) in some ways too.how does that work.
what’s Liz like a license to be a happy child or something.
where do you get that in Australia, out of a can of beer, or a wine glass.
Hang on, let’s think about how long you and I have been here and old Liz and all of that.
Checks dictionary meaning of word parochial.
“having a limited or narrow outlook or scope. Parochial attitudes. Synonyms: narrow-minded, small-minded, provincial, insular, narrow, small-town, inward-looking, limited, restricted, localist, conservative, conventional, short-sighted, petty, close-minded, blinkered, myopic, introverted, illiberal, hidebound, intolerant”
I see now why you said “to use the word nicely”. You mean it in the sense of provincial, inward-looking and conservative, not in the sense of small-minded and intolerant.
Why do you think that’s contradictory? I don’t see the contradiction. Having a single language adds to being parochial. Even the USA has Spanish as a second language in the south, and even Germany has some towns where the dialect is a form of French.
> what’s Liz like a license to be a happy child or something.
I suppose it is. Hadn’t thought of that.
> where do you get that in Australia, out of a can of beer, or a wine glass.
At a wild guess, if we have it at all, from our beach culture.
transition said:
thinking about poms other day, monarch and stuff, then had a rather contradictory thought about they’re a bit parochial (to use the word nicely) in some ways too.how does that work.
what’s Liz like a license to be a happy child or something.
where do you get that in Australia, out of a can of beer, or a wine glass.
Bleedin’ stereotypes.
mollwollfumble said:
roughbarked said:
transition said:
thinking about poms other day, monarch and stuff, then had a rather contradictory thought about they’re a bit parochial (to use the word nicely) in some ways too.how does that work.
what’s Liz like a license to be a happy child or something.
where do you get that in Australia, out of a can of beer, or a wine glass.
Hang on, let’s think about how long you and I have been here and old Liz and all of that.
Checks dictionary meaning of word parochial.
“having a limited or narrow outlook or scope. Parochial attitudes. Synonyms: narrow-minded, small-minded, provincial, insular, narrow, small-town, inward-looking, limited, restricted, localist, conservative, conventional, short-sighted, petty, close-minded, blinkered, myopic, introverted, illiberal, hidebound, intolerant”
I see now why you said “to use the word nicely”. You mean it in the sense of provincial, inward-looking and conservative, not in the sense of small-minded and intolerant.
Why do you think that’s contradictory? I don’t see the contradiction. Having a single language adds to being parochial. Even the USA has Spanish as a second language in the south, and even Germany has some towns where the dialect is a form of French.
> what’s Liz like a license to be a happy child or something.
I suppose it is. Hadn’t thought of that.
> where do you get that in Australia, out of a can of beer, or a wine glass.
At a wild guess, if we have it at all, from our beach culture.
>I see now why you said “to use the word nicely”. You mean it in the sense of provincial, inward-looking and conservative, not in the sense of small-minded and intolerant.
fairly much
I was thinking a monarch is part of or representative of a social structure, somewhat elevated.
of course it was Queen’s birthday celebrations the other day, and had Brexit in mind too.
where I was going though was to the retreat from globalism, the idea that taken to its extreme it may be a type of oblivion.