{"id":15214,"date":"2014-11-10T04:01:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T12:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/?p=15214"},"modified":"2014-11-10T04:01:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T12:01:47","slug":"views-from-across-the-pond-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/views-from-across-the-pond-2\/","title":{"rendered":"VIEWS FROM ACROSS THE POND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">ARE YOU ALL RIGHT?<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Politeness; The most acceptable hypocrisy.<br \/>\nAmbrose Bierce<\/p>\n<p>British men are the politest animals in the universe.\u00a0 The first thing they ask you is \u201cAre you all right?\u201d and, if you are an innocent, you believe they really want to know. They seem so caring, so mild, so\u2026so sweet.\u00a0 But underneath that proper fa\u00e7ade, lurks suppressed anger, aggression and hatred boiling about, absolutely aching to let off steam.\u00a0 Just ask any woman over 14.\u00a0 She knows.\u00a0 She has seen it.\u00a0 She has defended herself against it. And she has won.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, male testosterone and animal aggression are at an all time high universally in this century.\u00a0 In Spain, chastity belts are a way of life. In Greece,\u2026well\u2026we all know what those men do to a woman. In Britain, however all that hormonal activity\u00a0 is repressed and re-channeled.<\/p>\n<p>That is why the crime rate for men in Britain has plummeted.\u00a0 The male Brit is simply too proper for confrontation. In the UK, the very idea of murder is terribly upsetting. It is so messy.\u00a0 The thought of assaulting someone on the street is repugnant to a real gentleman (and we all KNOW how correct an Englishman must appear).\u00a0 It might stain your shirt or even worse\u2026leave a bruise.<\/p>\n<p>Every woman in a heterosexual partnership can testify to the passive\u2013aggressive garbage they must ignore every day (for they too are very PC.)\u00a0 For example, it is a well-known fact that a man will always call you darling before he hits you.\u00a0 Always.\u00a0 It is the way it is done.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that any fellow who is British in bed, will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">always<\/span> apologize and we women know why. We watch pornography, too.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact, although the maternal instinct is very strong, most women would prefer that their partner was not present at the conception of their children.\u00a0 They always hope for a French intervention\u2026or even an Italian one.\u00a0 Those men don\u2019t bother with protocol.\u00a0 They just get in there and get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>No full-blooded Englishman ever actually leaves his wife. That explains those tortuous 40-year alliances that drag on and on plodding through rearing the children, indulging the grand kids and going on cruises to ease the boredom of it all.\u00a0\u00a0 A real Englishman stays with his spouse and ignores for her for so long, that she is forced to leave to preserve her sanity.\u00a0 Clever fellows!\u00a0 That is how THEY become the injured one.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, as every male knows, it is foolhardy to walk out of a partnership until he has found himself a proper house cleaner and a hot young thing for recreation.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that English MEN have a sense of entitlement that women must accept.\u00a0 They get it from their mothers.\u00a0 They know how to push the right buttons to make women and children indulge them and juries excuse their behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The buttons they push these days are on their smart phones and their I-pads.\u00a0 Men in this country are addicted to online bullying and misanthropic tweeting. It doesn\u2019t leave a scar.\u00a0 It is not unusual for a hard working woman, to slave away for 8 hours at the office, gallop to Lidl (she knows where to find the bargains) on the way home, Hoover the house as she charges through it to the kitchen to make a healthy stir fry for the children while her partner is belching quietly and watching television in the parlor, scratching his private parts.\u00a0 As she tosses the pasta into the drainer and chops the garlic, she will inevitably hear a beep from her phone, glance at it and see a picture of a hot pair of baubles with a cryptic note:\u00a0 \u201cWhy aren\u2019t yours like this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Women are not bothered by all this foolishness.\u00a0 After all, we can multi-task.\u00a0 Don\u2019t think you guys are the only ones with secrets.\u00a0 Women always have the final say when it comes to any connection with a man.\u00a0 We know how to say no.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"right\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARE YOU ALL RIGHT? Politeness; The most acceptable hypocrisy. Ambrose Bierce British men are the politest animals in the universe.\u00a0 The first thing they ask you is \u201cAre you all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[837],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-joe-cillo"},"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":true,"span_bottom":"<div class='yasr-small-block-bold'><span class='yasr-visitor-votes-must-sign-in'>You must sign in to vote<\/span><\/div>"},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forallevents.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}