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Reade |
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May 16, 2012 02:49:06pm |
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GratefulDead
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Re: Heads Up 7 Up Now 56 Up |
21 Up was my first and have been following along ever since.
It's so poweful I can't beleive it hasn't spawned similar efforts in other countires, like here maybe-USofA.
Where I get lost in this series a little bit is in not understanding all things UK -like mental health care there, etc. If there were a US version I wouldn't have as much reading between the lines to do.
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micah6vs8 |
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May 16, 2012 07:31:17pm |
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Re: Heads Up 7 Up Now 56 Up |
Hey, I don't know if you saw,
http://tinyurl.com/cdj3ck7. It's amazing what we miss.
I lived for a few years in Britain and it definitely helps in the 'Understanding of All Things British' department. I remember very early on during my stay my education regarding accents and how it not only designates where you are from, but class/caste as well (and Britain as of twenty years ago very much was concerned with both). I saw it as plain as day after b/c I was going to university at St. Andrews were three types of folks went. The majority by far were kids from Wales, N. Ireland and Scotland that had busted their butts trying for those A levels so they could go to St.A, followed by the 'yahs' which were mostly kids from the English aristocracy that were too dumb to hack either Cambridge or Oxford, and finally about 10% were us Americans: mostly looking for any kind of moral impairment, decadence or skirt (Welsh or Scottish in my case). The English tended not to play well with others, while the other groups tended to be very accommodating. My education in things British just became weirder and weirder after that.
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