Sean Connery... The only real Bond, IMHO ... but Bond is a dinosaur too
I love this
" .... In 2009, Connery recalled a conversation in a taxi:
When I took a taxi during a recent Edinburgh Film Festival, the driver was amazed that I could put a name to every street we passed. "How come?" he asked. "As a boy I used to deliver milk round here," I said. "So what do you do now?" That was rather harder to answer...." Extract from Wiki
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Though I fundamentally agree with you about being easily upset Philippa, the other side of that coin is that we are now more sensitive about giving offence and folk are far less willing to accept the dismissive justification ‘can’t you take a joke?’
A few decades ago - I remember it well in the school playground and, to a smaller extent, in the workplace - racist, sexist or homophobic teasing and banter went unchallenged. People are now willing to call out such language. The world is unquestionably better as a result. I do not find it acceptable or excusable to tolerate someone’s inappropriate language or, worse, actions on the grounds of their advance age. Unless the brain is impaired by dementia or similar we are all capable of learning and changing in my view. That said, applying the standards of 2020 to what one said in 1970 is crossing a divide possibly unfairly.
Posts
I love this
" .... In 2009, Connery recalled a conversation in a taxi:
When I took a taxi during a recent Edinburgh Film Festival, the driver was amazed that I could put a name to every street we passed. "How come?" he asked. "As a boy I used to deliver milk round here," I said. "So what do you do now?" That was rather harder to answer...." Extract from Wiki
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A few decades ago - I remember it well in the school playground and, to a smaller extent, in the workplace - racist, sexist or homophobic teasing and banter went unchallenged. People are now willing to call out such language. The world is unquestionably better as a result. I do not find it acceptable or excusable to tolerate someone’s inappropriate language or, worse, actions on the grounds of their advance age. Unless the brain is impaired by dementia or similar we are all capable of learning and changing in my view. That said, applying the standards of 2020 to what one said in 1970 is crossing a divide possibly unfairly.
His comments are disturbing, and so is the testimony of his first wife about being beaten unconscious by him.