: This scene more than others from the show hit me square in the feelz.
: “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
#SocietalCollapse #KidsTheseDays #TheMoreThingsChange #behavior #StopComplaining
: "If you seek to be outraged, then you will find it, even if you have to struggle to do so. It's quite fashionable and core to many a sense of self and community."
graffiti on the remnants of a Roman wall on Malta, from circa the first century AD/CE
: "It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."
: "If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you end your story."
: when faux-Italians think their Italian food/recipe is more Italian than actual Italians' food/recipe because they think "Americans" can't cook "real Italian" food [like American non-Italians]
Folks often don't realize that immigrants make do with what ingredients their new countries have available, for the most part, and that things like recipes change over time.
Identity is weird and sometimes amusing.
54 year-old autistic human. Father of three. Grandfather of one. Movie production Yoda. Screenwriter. Nerdfaceperson.