Yeah, I got that which is why I commented that it was clever for recognising the 'I can get away with what I know is inappropriate because I'm so important' mentality/behaviour pattern.
Thank you chaps, for the detailed descriptions. I could view the video and I'm guessing that's the storm just getting started.
We tend to get the tail end of your storms and from time to time it's best to stay indoors. We can get flooding here, but I've always lived high enough to avoid it.
For me, storms are enjoyable, rather than a threat. I really don't like the idea of people experiencing fear, harm and destruction.
It's pretty unusual to have a wake, or funeral service with an open coffin here. Individuals may choose to visit their loved ones in a funeral home in the days before the funeral, though.
The advantage of it is that people can grieve how they choose. Personally, I don't like seeing friends and family without their life in them.
There may be other cultural practises here that aren't British, are culturally mixed, or a bit new age, but the bog-standard is closed coffin.
Aparantly, Diana's coffin was 6'2" in length because of the lead lining (she was 5'10"} and the eight pall bearers had to be around 6'4" to stop it from looking disproportionately long. As the pall bearers were from the Welsh Guards, it must have taken some doing to find eight tall Welsh men.
Having seen images of the queen's coffin, she must be wearing 6" heels and a crown in there to get it long enough for eight pall bearers.
There is inherently no right way to protest, given protest challenges norms.
Freedom of speech and freedom to protest should be an inalienable right, but there is always a balancing act where our opinions and rights impinge upon the opinions and rights of other people.
Whilst I appreciate that there are a myriad of issues triggered by the queen's death and that anger is an appropriate response in some cases, I'm also good with waiting until she's cold before we tally the pros and cons of having a monarchy.
Yeah, I'm not sure trashing the planet with industrialisation neutralises all the the colonial and other trashing we did, Riz.
We should apologise for our historical and present wrong-doing, as should every country.
Just think of the difference between a child who is taught to apologise and an unfortunate child who lacks the guidance of empathy, humility and consequence: it can be the difference between a brain surgeon and a serial killer.
So, petrol in the US is getting on for half the price compared with other Western Countries like Australia, Canada and the UK, but the US is getting a lousy deal because of Biden?
It's not that our systems are failing people and the planet in general, or anything like that?
Maybe it's not such a bad thing if we are pressured to look for cheaper, more sustainable ways of living.
Nope, just grateful for the relief of cooler, rainy days.
If there are more over the next few weeks, I'll be grateful for them, too.
I'm grateful for temperate conditions where temperate ought to be, both in the now and for the future of the planet. If the sunshine comes to us, rather than us going to the sunshine, it portends our end.
I liked all the changes in perspective, the static images mixed in with the moving, or static images from a moving perspective.
I liked your choice of background music, especially when mixed with the video noises. I'm hearing impaired, but the noises I could hear were delightful, focussed and mindful.
And it made me laugh when you put the deoderant back and nudge the toiletry next to it back in it's rightful place. There was so much balance in everything, nicely introduced by the scales, I've just realised.
I watched them in the 70's on Saturday morning's. It was part of a package designed to keep kids quiet, so parents weren't woken up at stupid o'clock on their day off.
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Yeah, I got that which is why I commented that it was clever for recognising the 'I can get away with what I know is inappropriate because I'm so important' mentality/behaviour pattern.