You were educated?

Hong Kong is full of teachers almost over run & they are in the main, yes possibly a generalisation a bolshii lot too with ideas above their station....Anyway I had a saying you could always tell a teacher at the table as they usually, the women, we found would say in a commanding demanding way "PASS THE SALT" or whatever. Boss Cocky would always look up at me when this occurred pleading for me to say nothing with her eyes.
One thing we found quite interesting was that so many, if not most of the children spoke with an American accent? Yet few of the teachers were American, so how was that so? Also the behaviour of the Expat children in the street was often so bad, again especially the girls for some reason. You would not see the locals behaving badly, always well disciplined, polite & respectful of their elders. Interestingly in the main going to the same schools? A lot of the schools are in the true sense 'private' i.e. run as bushinesses & apparently very profitably too.

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Originally Posted by leratty

Happy Daze John in Oz,

Tell me John ----awful on the ear.

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Sadly the English we knew had been baserdised by a combination of American speak and texting. I am convinced some of them now speak as if the words were those they use in texts. Other iritating wording such as more quickly rather than quicker, or as one said more faster than just faster shows how little they know of grammer. But much of this goes back to the poor teacher standards we now have.

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Originally Posted by cappy

# 50 yeah they just sit on computers al day .......oooops

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Than can prove to be painful you know.

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Originally Posted by j.sabourn

See Gay Marriage------, live with it. John Sabourn

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Sadly John they will continue pushing for it until in the end one feral gov will say yes, may be a few years off yet but will happen. They can now have a civil proclomation but no they want the lot. But it was a good laugh to hear some of the commenst mnade by those married Sunday and unmarried yeaterday. Sounds a bit like the Queen, no pun intended, when two males asy, 'my husband and I'..............or two Lesbians, 'my wife and I'.............

John, I have no repulsion against them, in fact just the opposite. Have had certainly had family members that way inclined, but not this yapping on about wanting to get married. If you ever saw that old wartime film called I'll be your sweetheart, one of the blokes pushing the girl on the swing was a cousin of my mothers and we went to see him during the blitz in London. He lived in a mews in central London and even as a kid got the sense that the family thought it was terrible. Don't think people think like that now, but I do have very strict reservations of the same living a very false life as a married couple. Live as a couple with a contract and call it what you like, live and let live, but marriage is between a man and a woman only. Laws and morals do have perimeters which a lot of us don't want to see crossed. Cheers John Sabourn

I agree John #57, morality and the decline of it wasa waht brought the Roman empire undone, but now morals like so many other issues appear to be going down the tube. I wonder how future generations will view this?