L.A.Fing out loud!

Monday, 20 March 2017

since that epic fail that has entertained the internet for a few days, last week, the children, James and marion, have become international stars!

And the whole scene has been parodied several times:

How a woman would have handled the situation...

How Darth Vader would have handled the situation...

How Theresa May, the British Prime Minister is handling the Brexit ...

So, meet the whole family behind the buzz:

...Chuck Berry, the "Father of Rock'n'roll" who passed away yesterday, aged 90.

- Come on sweetie, learn your lesson.

- But grandma, I don't like the Second World War!

-Is that so? And why that?

- Because Germans are mean people who killed everybody!

- Don't say that honey, germans are not monsters, just people like you and me.

- I disagree grandma, that's not true !

- You don't believe me ? Well, I have a little story just for you...

I hope that you will change your mind after listening to me.

You know that your grandmother is old, I was born in 1932, 7 years before the war.

The anecdote takes place in 1940, a few months only after the invasion of the Germans in France.

One morning, my dad and I cycled to the farm nearby to fetch chicks.

On the way back I held the box with the chicks in one hand and hung on to my father with the other one.

I sensed that my dad began to be nervous and deduct that we were followed by Germans.

I don't know how, but, the chicks went out of the box, one by one.

One of German who was following us in his side-car came down and began to run behind the chicks to collect them.

He ran after us and gave me my chicks back.

I was frightened to death, absolutely paralyzed.

He simply smiled at me and told me to pay attentions to my small chicks.

Then we returned home, still shocked by this story.

You see what I mean honey?

Germans are not killers, they just followed orders like french or english soldiers.

They were men, husbands, fathers.

Even if there were mean soldiers, that does'n mean that German were all bad people.

Everybody has a soul, sweetie. Do you understand?

-Yes, grandma, I understand. Could you make me tell my lesson, please?

Clue: they are real children, named James and Marion...

...when the Queen of England dies:

The funeral procession of the late King George VI in 1952. Photograph: Popperfoto

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge

A very interesting article about the role of the Monarchy and the symbol they represent.