Just Katie

[quote user="Gluestick"][quote] Seriously though, it is so crass and shallow to be judged purely on wealth, clothes and schooling rather than the heart and mind.  [/quote] I quite agree, Katie. However that's the way it be!   [/quote] I know that's the way it be Gluey, but as long as you agree with me that these 'twonks' are shallow, then I am happy. [:)][kiss]  

[quote user="cooperlola"]Touché, Katie.   We haven't progressed much over the centuries have we?[/quote] Cheers Coops! But why do you think that is?  Also, can anyone enlighten me as to what middle class is and, what one would have to do, (or be) to call themselve this?     

[quote user="Gluestick"] Sorry Katie: I was responding - badly! It's been a hard day - to your earlier comment, viz: [quote] We can be who we want and fool who we want can't we?  Personally, I try not to get 'sucked in' by anyone.  Even hubbies new 'best mate' [/quote] No matter what clothes etc we wear and no matter how much money we have, it is still impossible to break certain social barriers, was all I meant.   [/quote] Wow, that must be a nightmare for all those sad social climbing sorts who hang around  trying to 'get in'.  Seriously though, it is so crass and shallow to be judged purely on wealth, clothes and schooling rather than the heart and mind. 

Bleu??? Now that IS scary [:D]  

[quote user="Clair"]I see that you've already started to complain, just like I recommended in my list [:D] You're on your way to be a true Parigot...[:P] [/quote] [:$] Ooops, I have proved you right.  Another complaint.  Why do the waiters give me burned offerings for steak just because they hear me speaking English?  I have even ordered it rare and it comes back like brown card [:@] Got wolf whistled at the other day by a policeman enjoying a smoke.  [:-))].  Dont get many of those to the pound in Surrey do we?

No Gluey;  I meant the army guy is the shallow idiot for judging someone over their schooling. I think his actions were dispicable. [+o(]  You said in an earlier post that "One can have the toys but if one hasn't got the background it doesnt give a stuff".  A stuff to who?? What on earth motivates these cranks like Mr ex army guy to think people would want to bother with them just because they went to a certain school? I bet the pl onker even judged him on his Rolex too!!

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY stops in Paris [:@]

[quote user="Gluestick"] After a couple of sentences of badinage, the ex army chap said, "Where d'yer go to school?" in clipped public school tones. After the acquaintance said something like "Cheam Secondary Modern", the army type muttered something like, "Quaint.........." and thereafter never spoke to him again. One can have the clothes; one can own some of the toys: but if one doesn't have the right background, then it doesn't matter a stuff. [/quote] Quite right Gluey,  if the crusty old codger judged me on my schooling, I would never speak to him again either.  I mean, how shallow are these idiots? [:D]

Thank you all for your kind words Xx DZ.  I thought you already lived in France.  So what part are you moving to?

[quote user="Albert the InfoGipsy"]Here in lovely Morbihan I find that drivers usually stop if you even look as though you might be considering crossing a zebra.[/quote] That is because Celts are the best Albert [:)]

[quote user="Gluestick"]   Having met a number of the protoypical glove trotting billionaires and worked with a few on certain projects, it always amazes me how totally unlike the public's perception they actually are.   [/quote] All depends if they are 'old money' or 'new money' [:D]

[quote user="Gluestick"] Yes Katie, clothes and other accoutrements are an excellent way to fool the gullible. [/quote] Exactly, and in many guise too. Tuxedos, Oike Wear, and 'ladies at Ascot' outfits worn by The 'real' Ascot and Henley crowds or ragamuffins from sink estates with AWOL fathers.  We can be who we want and fool who we want can't we?  Personally, I try not to get 'sucked in' by anyone.  Even hubbies new 'best mate'    

My son is very enterprising Gluey. He takes many guises.  He wore his Sunday best to carry out his little scam on the aeroplane and indeed totally fooled his drinking chum who, may have judge him very differently if he saw him in his 'oikewear' on a saturday afternoon. Clothes are a very cheap tool to fool people don't you think? Catch me if you can is a film starring Leonado di Caprio.  It is a true story of a fraudster.  I forget his name, but the man was a genius..... You should watch it.[:)].  He played the part and fooled the world

Twinkles little girl gets herself into a right state when she she visits the UK and  hears the ice cream man coming[:D].  She cannot believe it.  Val 2, it is incredible that in your 20 years, you have not seen an ice cream van.  It would be a truly unique experience for the french and maybe a very good business. What I would point out though, is that the French have this unbroken rule of no snacking between meals.  Therefore maybe parks and fetes would be better than doing the rounds:

If it is DEFINITELY my right of way, they will be glared at.  Cheers all[:)]

I pushed my husband around Nice in a wheelchair for two weeks and they did not give an ounce of respect, despite the circumstances,

I don't know what you would make of my 18 year old son Gluey.  On the last leg of our recent around the world trip, he sneaked his way into business class.  He does not dress like a street oike or anything.  I reckon he looks a more like the 'new money sort'.  Anyway, he rang his dad (yes I am still married to him[:)]) and told him about the lovely meal he was having and like you, he was well impressed with the glass drinking vessels and even more impressed with the chilled fine china plates for salad. After he had eaten his supper, he sat at the bar.  Just him and the flight director who asked him why he was on the flight and why he was flying business class.  My son saw this as a great oppotunity to do a bit of blagging.  They shared a few cocktails then my son got bored and went back to his seat to enjoy a few more video games. My son has always had the blagging gift but I was surprised this guy he drank with believed my son so easily. Have you seen the film catch me if you can? [:D]

[quote user="Polremy"]Have sent you a pm. I think! Have lost all confidence in my computer skills!![/quote] Who have you sent a PM to?

[quote user="cooperlola"] A French friend told me that once the pedestrian has a foot on a crossing then he/she has priority.  But I would not like to test this theory, would you?  [/quote] Well actually, I test it all the time en masse with many other pedestrians but nobody ever stops.  On the pelican crossings, and when lights turn red, they do stop, but as soon as a gap between pedestrians emerges, they drive through it [blink]

I would love to do that too!!!  I bet it is the funniest thing in the world.  Dont you love it when you get so scared you just cannot stop laughing? 

[blink] Can someone please enlighten me to the rules of zebra crossings (without lights) in France.  Thank you

Exactly Gluey,  it is the new money sorts who feel they have something to prove that give me a headache too. Now TPT............what a girl!![:)]  I love her to bits and would love to be her best mate. My husband has new best mate, Eton educated and heir to one of the worlds largest alcohol producing empires.  He is great fun too.  I really like these people myself.  They dont judge or brag do they?   I think they just like  to be part of whatever gang they chose tho hang out with.  Mind you, this guy can be a bit of a pain when he has had one over the top, if you know what I mean. Many years ago while in Paris, I got dragged into the Ritz .  As you say Gluey, nothing wrong with a bit of top dollar service but I really think you pay for the name and get ripped off in the process dont you?  In my opinion, there are far more interesting places to visit.

Sat on the banks at Trocadero with a crate of beer, a few bottles of wine and a gang of mates.  Fantastic night with the moon behind the Eiffel Tower.  Many people splashing around in the fountains and being cheered by the crowd. 

[quote user="Gluestick"] Hopefully, the theme might be a traditional English wedding. You know: The Bride and groom are attended by their five kids who are acting as junior bridesmaids and page boys. The bride's father takes out a second mortgage (He'll be bloody lucky at present!), to pay for the photographer, a designer wedding dress with matching outfits for the bridesmaids and pages; the two hundred year old stage coaches, the videographer; the poet; the wedding organiser; and a wedding breakfast costing £20,000 in an old castle and for the evening, a babbling buffoon DJ who plays loud nasty noises at such a high sound level, all the guests can't hear properly for a month afterwards. The best man boffs the senior bridesmaid: four of the bridegroom's friends fight with four of the bride's brothers and the police have to lock 'em all up. The happy couple jet off to Bali and spend their honeymoon banging down Mai Tais and riding around on elephants when they are not scuba diving. After three weeks they jet back to their new four bedroom detached house with a swimming pool, snooker room and a new  4 X 4. And six months later they are planning a divorce!   [/quote] But much more fun than Lah di Dah ing in the Ritz pretending to enjoy a boring cucumber sandwich, dont you think Gluey?

[quote user="cooperlola"] Dress for yourself.  Feel comfortable and happy.  St*ff whatever anybody else thinks. [/quote] I love you Coops [kiss]