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Grand-Dad Harry's Motto! - (Quit Yur Judgin.)

• Still only have 1 follower (and that's actually me) =(
• I have blog posts in my head all day, but really don't know if I want to write about them when I get here.

The thing is... I want to say exactly what I mean, in the genre it deserves. But even in this media I really can't.. - Who knows who might read this, and while I usually make no appologies in life (did once and will always  regret it) I still think that one should keep in mind the old addage. -  "A closed mouth gathers no feet!"

So onto the thoughts of today...

One dreary afternoon in England many, many years ago my Grandfather (Harry Whitehouse) recalled a motto. I can remember how the conversation took this turn because I had mentioned the motto of Trosnant School. Work hard, play hard.

 It really is quite remarkable and if I were a smart person (Let's out that giant gorrilla for a start) - I would have paid attention to him. But, I am always in debt with attention and can't even keep up with the payments.

So here it is...

Grand-Dad Harry's motto: THREE THINGS THAT COME NOT BACK.

1. The sped arrow. -- I'm assuming this applies to bullets et al.
2. The spoken word. -- Ain't it the truth?
3. The mistaken opportunity.

Basically the 3rd motto/rule is the gravest to observe.  It CAN come back to you. We put so much faith in the advice we read. For sure it must be true because we read it somewhere!

Or is it a better lesson learned  if it is learned indeed by our own mistakes? The mistaken opportunity scared me when considering moving to the US. I was afraid of regretting the decision to not come.

When Gran-Dad died I was not there, nor there for the remaining 3 Grand-Parents passings. I can never take that back, or the days they might have missed me. No good-bye greetings, but I can not say "No regrets"


Grand-Dad Harry's Boat (forgive me if this isn't a boat) he also loved to talked about his war-time travels and adventures. http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org/

HMS Tigris

HMS Tigris (N63) was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down at Chatham Dockyard and launched in October 1939.

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Refusing to give up the dream...

I know why I have good reason to to fear disapointment; and sometimes talking about going home gives me that knowing you could be jinxing yourself feeling.

But I am entitled to have a dream. In fact a boss I had many, many moons ago said that if you could dream it you could have it. I've dreamt about this so long that I have woken up and gone back to bed again. It feels like an old familiar saying is mocking me... I went from can't do to can't don't.


 This where you can wave to me.... if I am ever there. http://www.oggle.com/dem_harboureye.php On the hour you can see the Ferry drifting out of Portsmouth Harbour. I plan to take the 7:00am ferry because when I go home I am not going to sleep.... AT ALL!

"Hi Cynthia!" (Is going to read my blog from 7-2 Schoolage/Adolescent)

October and already thinking about Christmas... Why?

Snobbery!

Hmmmmm.

Have to agree on the British deserving some credit for keeping that alive!

Snobbery

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Snobbery is the state of being a snob – “[o]ne who meanly or vulgarly admires and seeks to imitate, or associate with, those of superior rank or wealth; one who wishes to be regarded as a person of social importance”, or “[o]ne who despises those who are considered inferior in rank, attainment, or taste” (OED). The adjective is snobbish; the adverb snobbishly.



Snobbery, therefore, is the state of judging people, or their status or possessions etc, by inappropriate criteria. It is sheer snobbery to assume that a Duchess is better than a collector of rubbish because she is married to a man who is descended from a man who helped to win a battle. It is inverted snobbery to assume that the rubbish collector is better than the Duchess.



Snobbery is very common in British society. We commonly make judgements about people from the way they speak; worse, the judgement is often condemnatory. “The moment an Englishman opens his mouth, another Englishman despises him” said the playwright G.B. Shaw (Pygmalion, 1916). Snobbery is also common on grounds of how one dresses, one’s table manners, one’s learning and many other irrelevant grounds.



In its most usual form, snobbery refers to judgements made on grounds of social class. This is sometimes more clearly defined as social snobbery. However, such groundless value judgements, or prejudices, can take other forms. In academic circles, for example, intellectual snobbery is not uncommon – assuming that one person is better than another because he has read more ‘difficult’ or fundamental texts. This is subtly different from academic snobbery, one form of which is to assume that anyone with a degree from Oxford or Cambridge is, ipso facto, better or cleverer or better educated than anyone from another University. (In the USA, the commonest academic snobbery puts the ‘Ivy League’ universities above all others.)



Try to avoid snobbery. It is offensive and ill-mannered. However, it is probably impossible. I fear that everyone has some more or less irrational prejudice against other people who are seen as being “not one of us”.



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