Apropo of nothing...
This is the third time I've watched some of Downton Abbey with mah Sweetie. I don't like it, not one damn bit. These are the people the guillotine was invented for. But I must say:
It occurs to me, the Head Butler is as awful a human being as the rich hemophiliacs living in the larger bedrooms. In a perfect world, I'd have one more basket ready.
Just saying.
Never watched a moment, but the flunkies, toadies & enablers of the nasty & aristocratically inbred are indeed equally (if not more) horrid than their "masters".
ReplyDeleteTo an extent, and having been to the UK a couple of times, and still being a huge nerd, I can understand the romanticization of the UK. Wales is the Shire, Scotland is desolately awesome, and 80shilling ale is the tits.
DeleteI don't understand the, particularly american, fetish for the Victorian era, other than every person watching that damn show imagines they'd be Lord Pederast-upon-Kent or Lady Spanksbottom, and not the scullery maid with a bell on a wall to summon you, or a tenant farmer who can be informed that he is homeless on a whim.
Lords and Ladies my ass.
Lord Pederast-upon-Kent or Lady Spanksbottom
DeleteWe'll be not-so-patiently waiting for the next installment of this exciting fan fiction series.
Ken Pederast left the Owlings-Worcestershire Gentlemen's club at the downing of the sun, having had a snifter of bangers and rum and a shag pipe. Indeed, it had been a troifter of an afternoon.
DeleteHis peers would be scandalized to see that he had Mary Sue in his brougham. The fine cutlery lass from the Owlings, handsome of face and quite a turn of ankle, and yet he knew that should he be caught in despoil with a class of such he should be rare theorated.
As they pulled into the gates of Barrelbarter, the ancestral home of the Pederasts, he caught more than saw the young trollope next to him pull a brash-sword from twixt her cloak and overcoat and set upon the ninjas that had materialized next to the carriage, damselining the brace of mares drawing the carriage.
to be continued...
Prude And Prejudice And Ninjas?
DeleteThe only thing worth romanticizing about Blighty is the production of a serious amount of punk, concurrently with New Yawk and Hell-A. And of course, being responsible for the Mekons.
ReplyDeleteTry Edinburgh and York if nothing else. No jokes - I'm not especially an anglophile, per se, but the UK has its points
Delete" fetish for the Victorian era"
ReplyDeleteDid you ever see that reality show where they took these idiots and made them live in Victorian era clothes and houses and jobs? They all melted down SPECTACULARLY, especially the kids...
No. Linkee or name knowledge?
DeleteDon't know about the reality show, but check out these doofuses:
Deletehttp://www.thisvictorianlife.com/
I think this was it:
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1900_House
Also too and such as: Cloud Cult in a couple of weeks, and Bruce Springsteen River Tour a couple of weeks after that....and then we are almost at Summerfest. Given that it is pretty much the anniversary of The Event, Summerfest will always be EVEN MOAR SPECIAL for me from now on....
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