I thought that was a mandolin henpecking all the way through... It's the one about obsolete penicillin on the black market?
That's one of the themes, @CanadianLori , yes. Not so much 'obsolete' penicillin as diluted penicillin sold to hospitals by good old Harry Lime, racketeer and wanted man in post-war Vienna. But mainly I think it's about 'loyalty' to old friends, comrades, and lovers, and how far it can be stretched without irreparably damaging our own morality. Brilliant film. And to quote Lime: '"As the fella says, in Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock"
I may have mentioned, before some of the newer members joined GC, that there was a boy in a local school who decided to identify as a dog (think there had been a lesson on how people identify themselves) and every time the teacher called his name he barked. This was disrupting the class so the school had a word with the mother. She said she would deal with it. She didn't say a word to the boy about it but when the boy and his two siblings were sitting down to supper the mother put plates of egg and chips in front of everyone apart from him. She put a bowl of dogfood in front of him. He never again claimed to identify as a dog.
The moral of the tale is beware extremist ideology (on any subject) and the power of groupthink to capture organisations. While it is utterly depressing that adults have been brainwashed on this particular issue, the harm done to children within an education system that has unquestioningly adopted this as "truth" is the really frightening aspect.
I thought it was stressful enough having to choose my O levels. Kids today have to choose which of the 99 or so "genders" they "identify" with.
That's basically the one with Anton Karas on Zither, the book was by Graham Greene and I preferred that to the film although obviously without the Zither (good or bad you decide).
But you can take one for a test ride to see if it suits, or change your mind on a daily basis depending on mood or weather.
I id myself as you idiot as i was told many times in the past and being i can't read/write/spell/add up numbers it must be truth
@Jiffy, I think you would find in any situation in which a calf needed to be delivered, you would be classified as the most competent and qualified in any group of gardening enthusiasts. See, it all depends on context.
Now this is geting confusing, been told years ago i'm a idiot and now good at calfing, i did help with a lady in giving birth at the side of the road, she couldn't get to hostpial in time so i used my calfing abillity's to the human birth
NJ just read your comment on Pizza. Visited our chippy in Largs when we lived there. Guy in front ordered a half portion of deep fried pizza (doughy pizza cut in half then deep fried) it come out oozing in oil then had curry sauce pored over it. Having lived in Edinburgh most of my life I had heard many stories of the so called West Coast diet. It is all true. Then there is the Chinese carry out - Fried rice with curry sauce and a portion of chips.
I've watched "All creatures great and small", and a fair few farming programmes, its quite brutal sometimes.
