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« Thread Started on Jul 1, 2007, 6:49pm » | |
This last week,MSNBC reporter Mika Brzezinski refused to read a story about Paris Hilton - hooray for her! I had not realized she was the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski.
The youtube clip shows her refusing the story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn9SWEJQnm0
Although the male reporters responses are a little embarresing....
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« Reply #1 on Jul 2, 2007, 1:56am » | |
Quote:This last week,MSNBC reporter Mika Brzezinski refused to read a story about Paris Hilton - hooray for her! I had not realized she was the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Although the male reporters responses are a little embarresing....
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Whot? Pariz Hilthon is a doughter of Zbingiew Bzhesinsky? I dind`t knowed dis. Noo wunder ze male riporterz are a litlle emabarasszed!
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« Reply #2 on Jul 2, 2007, 5:51am » | |
Whoops! The reporter, Mika Brzezinski, is Zbingiew Bzhesinsky's daughter not Hilton. I apologize for the sloppy post and the poor grammer.
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« Reply #3 on Jul 2, 2007, 8:46am » | |
Quote:Whoops! The reporter, Mika Brzezinski, is Zbingiew Bzhesinsky's daughter not Hilton. I apologize for the sloppy post and the poor grammer.
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Aaah! I zee! I compriende you nauh! Ich thinked thad Mika Bzesynsky is a boi !
Forgeev mi mei puer Englandish but I speekin Polnisch in mei litlle villig
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« Reply #4 on Jul 2, 2007, 9:30am » | |
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Aaah! I zee! I compriende you nauh! Ich thinked thad Mika Bzesynsky is a boi !
Forgeev mi mei puer Englandish but I speekin Polnisch in mei litlle villig |
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Apparently your English is better than mine!
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« Reply #5 on Jul 2, 2007, 5:46pm » | |
Do you remember this story that Polish news was asking American correspondent whether Paris Hilton story won against pres. Bush in Poland? She surely did.
Yes, I knew that Mika's in Brzezinski's daughter. She used to work in CBS but I thought that she is in CNN now.
On the other hand I was hopingh that we will see Scooter Libby story. They would show him going to the prison but no way, he will not go to the prison thanks to pres. Bush
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« Reply #6 on Jul 3, 2007, 5:40am » | |
Quote:On the other hand I was hoping that we will see Scooter Libby story. They would show him going to the prison but no way, he will not go to the prison thanks to pres. Bush
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When I saw this on the news yesterday I was stunned or maybe more angry. To think our President is so arrogant and thinks he is above the law to do this infurriates me. This guy is todate one of the worse Presidents I have witnessed in my lifteime. I think they should kick him ou t of office. He does not deserve to be pres. And Libby walking out of court with that stupid smug grin made mw want to reach in and smack him.
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« Reply #7 on Jul 4, 2007, 3:14pm » | |
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Nein, nein, dein Englisch is rieeli belissimo. Mein Englisch ist badde.
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« Reply #9 on Jul 5, 2007, 12:21pm » | |
Forgive me if I am posting this in the wrong spot. I do not see a place for starting a new thread.
I would like to bring up a topic of discussion which has plagued me for several years now. In this modern world, does anyone other than me, notice a startling absence of children in "family gatherings" such as weddings and funerals? When I was small, children were an integral part of weddings as well as funerals. Funerals were a "part of life". There was no such reasoning as "a funeral will scar and traumatize" a child. We were not traumatized because we learned that it was a natural and normal occurrence. Today, children are noticeably absent from funerals. As far as weddings were concerned.......a wedding was not a wedding without children. Today, children are purposely NOT INVITED to weddings, and/or, parents resort to babysitters and attend weddings alone. I was raised to believe that these affairs were a "family package" and not an excuse for parents to leave their kids behind.
I was raised in the country where my grandparents lived next door to me. Every Sunday my grandfather's entire family would pack picnic baskets and pack up their children and spend a "day in the country" with us. The whole back yard was full of families and picnic tables and playpens and blankets spread all over the grass. The older men would sit under trees at tables and play pinochle and drink beer and the ladies would set tables and "put out" picnic lunches. All of the family would "load-up" and take home fresh vegetables from my grandmother's huge garden as well as baskets of grapes from our extensive arbor. We would all go down to the river and swim and fish and have watermelon. I remember my one uncle having this handy dandy utensil which shaved blocks of ice (big blocks of ice) to make snow cones over which we would pour chocolate syrup and scoops of vanilla ice cream. On a big fire pit we would make an industrial size pot of blue-crab soup (exclusive to the Del Marva peninsula--Atlantic coast) and roast a whole pig. They were wonderful days and times. It was a much slower and simpler life-style. My grandfather would break branches off of the trees and use them to repel the bugs (flies and mosquitoes). The children would spend hours searching for four-leaf clovers in the grass and blowing the fuzz off of puff flowers. We made dandelion wine and would toast orange peels on the make-shift grill. We would bury potatoes in the fire and them eat them with NO toppings. They were the best potatoes I ever had.
There was no TV....no computer games. We spent time OUTSIDE in the fresh air. We drank Kool-Aid and "ran-off" the sugar buzz. We played dodge ball in the street and caught lightening bugs in jars.
Do kids do this stuff anylonger? Maybe I have just lived in the city too long!
Judy
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« Reply #10 on Jul 5, 2007, 2:10pm » | |
First to answer about posting a new topic.....>select a topic (this one is called Off topics) then you will see a list of threads (this one is called No more Paris) to the right you should see start new thread in the blue bar > click on that and and name your thread this will be in the Subject box > in the message box you would post what you wish to talk about.
In regards to weddings. There are probably several reasons you may see less and less children. Each is a matter of taste, preference, cost. Yes..today the bride does not wish for distrations. Many of todays kids are not raised as we were to behave and be respectful. (Have you been to a restaurant lately, supermarket) The cost of a wedding in today's world is expensive. You pay per plate, must find a place big enough to accomodate your guests. I think only close relatives are invited today. The average cost for a wedding is 30,000 dollars for about 200. Funerals I can't really speak about because I only go to wakes and only if I absolutely must. Luckly I have only had to go to few in my lifetime. I don't think kids would really wish to go to any if asked but if it is a relative I'm sure they would be there.
Lifestyles today have changed. Sometimes people in the same house do not know what each other does or even speaks. Today's kids have TV, Computer games and all other modern conveniences to keep them occupied. We did not have anything even close back then. I think we got a TV when I was 12. And only 1 channel and boring (except Saturday mornings) So what did we do we had to invent our own forms of entertainment and that included being out more. In the summer at night we sat on our porches..there are no porches today. We talked to our neighbors more.
Yes it would be great if families were more involved with their children and did things together but those days are gone to some extent. There are families that get together for holidays for picnics or barbeques still. Yes life was fun back when it was simpler and probably more safer also.
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« Reply #11 on Jul 5, 2007, 4:03pm » | |
"In regards to weddings. There are probably several reasons you may see less and less children. Each is a matter of taste, preference, cost. Yes..today the bride does not wish for distrations. Many of todays kids are not raised as we were to behave and be respectful."
Really???????? I hadn't noticed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have stood in the driveway and watched the little girl next door slap her mother. The mother did NOTHING !!!!!! I would have had my arm broken off and would have been punished for a year. Then she would have told my father and I would have been lucky to live another day ! But not so today. Today kids are put in "time-out"...a term which I find is totally ridiculous.
Life has become very complicated and families no longer have time for eachother to enjoy simple pleasures. I think we are all acutely aware of this. Progress and technology have stripped us of enjoying eachother.
I will "check-out" the new thread info. Thanks.
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« Reply #13 on Jul 15, 2007, 1:29am » | |
Hmmm.
Judy. As rdy says, find the most appropriate "category" - Poland or not is the main choice, then find the most appropriate "board", for this discussion "off topic, current affairs, general discussion" is probably the right place. Then look at existing "threads" and if you don't find one that suits, just start a new one. Best to make sure the title explains what is inside as clearly as possible.
I generally have a lot of sympathy with what you say. I think kids should be at weddings and funerals and I think they should be brought up properly such that they are able to be taken without being a nuisance. I also think they should play in the fields and stuff as well as play with computer games and modern-day toys. I'm sure kids living in the country probably still do a lot of those things, the less wealthy ones anyway, and they should count themselves very lucky.
I don't, however, think that being brought up properly needs to involve
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although I understand where you're coming from.
I think the pendulum of child discipline has swung way to far in the "soft" direction from a past position of being a little too "hard".
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« Reply #14 on Jul 15, 2007, 1:37am » | |
Quote:Forgive me if I am posting this in the wrong spot. I do not see a place for starting a new thread.
I would like to bring up a topic of discussion which has plagued me for several years now. In this modern world, does anyone other than me, notice a startling absence of children in "family gatherings" such as weddings and funerals? |
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Judy,
very interesting post. I just saw a couple of weeks ago a post in Abby column about the fact that children are sometimes not invited to the weddings. I also think that this is not right.
Referring to going to picnic with the extended family. This is becoming a rarity in the US, the grandparents usually live far from the parents and grandchildren. This also is becoming more and more a norm in other countries.
Also the long-distance relationships - when husband and wife work in separate towns or even countries is more and more frequent.
The life is changing, we are surrounding by friends, strangers or isolated to the certain degree since we live further and further away.
One good thing - the communication is much easier nowadays than 20, 50 years ago.
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