howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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whilst we are being intellectual bob, i always found that talk of wagners ring was in bad taste.
i shall try to be more middle class in future.
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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For me the Wagnerian opera I enjoy most of all is Die Meistersinger von Nurenberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg) which just sends me to another place.........no comments from any of you lot............
So much so that Michelle lashed out a couple of Christmases ago on a Deutsche Gramophon recording of it, the best I've ever heard. Mind you, it cost £80!!
True friends stab you in the front.
I agree with David H about the realism and hard work. But is it too late? I think it may be. Young people today just do not want to work. I know of a young man who has a family. He is self employed. He cannot get any work in his own line at the moment but refuses to do other less well paid work: I do not know if he thinks it is beneath him - he just says it's not worth it. In my time I have done cleaning, barmaiding, and worked all the hours God sends, anything to keep food on the table and a roof over our heads, but this is how I was brought up. Too many young people today think it should all be handed to them on a plate. Not all. Just too many. Work ethic is much stronger in some other countries/cultures than our own. Rant over!!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Alright! So Britsh women should become the slaves of Italian women then, and work and work themselves barren to pay for the Italian women's husbands' debits, while the Italian women sit there with their feet up! Try telling that to British women, Diana! I think with your "lazy" overture to define the situation and explain unemployment in Britain, you went right out of the theme, which is: should British women work themselves barren to pay for Mediterranean women to sit there all day with their feet up after their husbands in Italy went bankrupt?
We have to stay in the Eu to help sort this mess out .
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Re Alex D's post #24.Can someone please explain to me what the hell he is going on about....."women work themselves barren...."???
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Marek, in essence I think that he is referring to the fact that many women in the U.K. are forced to work through their child bearing years if they wish to build up anything approaching a decent standard of living (especially when coupled with home ownership).