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Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Monday, June 04, 2007
The Sorry Effects of Assimilation
Jess and I opened a Sky subscription. Sky is the cable provider for most of the UK. It has opened us up to all kinds of British programming. Before we got channels, if our door was closed, we could shut out the British world. The three of us could sit and pretend we were in our Chevy by the levy. But now, due to having cable, and an ultra comfortable new sofa, we are slowly assimilating into the British world. We see it and hear it whenever the "tele" goes on.
Now this isn't totally a bad thing. The fact is we are going to live here for the next 2 years or so, and assimilating a little bit makes it easier to cope and relate. You get used to nothing but pubs and Tesco being open after 5. You stop saying "soccer" in your head when the locals are raving over Manchester United "football". And every Friday I take out the "rubbish bins" instead of the "garbage cans". It's not bad stuff.
Except for one. Being that there are about 60 million Brits living on an island the size of Michigan, and the fact that they get like only 5 hours of sunlight from December to February, they as a people have become kinda "wonky". A fair percentage are downright goofy looking. They listen to dance music in their Citroen's at 10 in the morning. When they get excited about something it seems like they are happily choking on a digestive. Do not be fooled, as our friend Elizabeth was, by thinking that they are all Hugh Grants, Colin Firths, or Beckham's. They've all moved to the States. All the Tony Blairs stayed here.
Anyways, why this is a bad thing because I was watching "An MG is Born" on Discovery Turbo. It's the equivalent of a garage mechanic show in the states. Three British guys in their garage working on an MG, trying to get it running again. I sat through 3 hours of this, strangely loving every minute. Then it hit me! I had not even noticed that the blokes on this show were some of the most goofy looking people I had ever seen! How have I missed this? How many other "goofies" had I seem that day but not noticed?
Have I become goofy as well?
Now this isn't totally a bad thing. The fact is we are going to live here for the next 2 years or so, and assimilating a little bit makes it easier to cope and relate. You get used to nothing but pubs and Tesco being open after 5. You stop saying "soccer" in your head when the locals are raving over Manchester United "football". And every Friday I take out the "rubbish bins" instead of the "garbage cans". It's not bad stuff.
Except for one. Being that there are about 60 million Brits living on an island the size of Michigan, and the fact that they get like only 5 hours of sunlight from December to February, they as a people have become kinda "wonky". A fair percentage are downright goofy looking. They listen to dance music in their Citroen's at 10 in the morning. When they get excited about something it seems like they are happily choking on a digestive. Do not be fooled, as our friend Elizabeth was, by thinking that they are all Hugh Grants, Colin Firths, or Beckham's. They've all moved to the States. All the Tony Blairs stayed here.
Anyways, why this is a bad thing because I was watching "An MG is Born" on Discovery Turbo. It's the equivalent of a garage mechanic show in the states. Three British guys in their garage working on an MG, trying to get it running again. I sat through 3 hours of this, strangely loving every minute. Then it hit me! I had not even noticed that the blokes on this show were some of the most goofy looking people I had ever seen! How have I missed this? How many other "goofies" had I seem that day but not noticed?
Have I become goofy as well?
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