Bond Villains and the Eighties Men
After a recent skiing trip in Wengen, Switzerland I observed the following;
1) Middle Aged and older Northern Europeans (Swiss, German, Dutch, Belgian) look and sound remarkably like the villain's from James Bond films. So much so that I was concerned that there might be some conference going on to hatch some future evil plans. Unfortunately I did not have access to a 007 DvD collection to give me some ideas how to put a stop to their dastardly mega-lo-maniac plans. Even more unfortunate was that there was a distinct lack of Bond Girl equivalents around the place.
2) The offspring of these Bond Villains look remarkably like rich-kid Americans from 1980s films, like the rich kid Miles from The Goonies whose dad is going to buy Goon island and gets terrorised by the subterranean Goonies whilst he is sat on the throne at the country club, the 'preppy' guy from Animal House whose bird spanks his monkey with rubber gloves on, or even Johnny from the Karate Kid.
3) Not everyone uses 'please', 'thank you', 'sorry' and 'excuse me' as much as the British. Indeed it seems that in some countries when you bump into someone the custom is to then look them up and down, perhaps this is one of the reasons behind Euro-scepticism in contemporary British society.
4) If you are due on your bus at 12.15 and arrive at 12.12 in Britain you are early! In Switzerland the silly cheese-munching, money laundering, yodelling, mountain dwelling moustached bus driver points at his watch and curses you in German..........Bell End.
1) Middle Aged and older Northern Europeans (Swiss, German, Dutch, Belgian) look and sound remarkably like the villain's from James Bond films. So much so that I was concerned that there might be some conference going on to hatch some future evil plans. Unfortunately I did not have access to a 007 DvD collection to give me some ideas how to put a stop to their dastardly mega-lo-maniac plans. Even more unfortunate was that there was a distinct lack of Bond Girl equivalents around the place.
2) The offspring of these Bond Villains look remarkably like rich-kid Americans from 1980s films, like the rich kid Miles from The Goonies whose dad is going to buy Goon island and gets terrorised by the subterranean Goonies whilst he is sat on the throne at the country club, the 'preppy' guy from Animal House whose bird spanks his monkey with rubber gloves on, or even Johnny from the Karate Kid.
3) Not everyone uses 'please', 'thank you', 'sorry' and 'excuse me' as much as the British. Indeed it seems that in some countries when you bump into someone the custom is to then look them up and down, perhaps this is one of the reasons behind Euro-scepticism in contemporary British society.
4) If you are due on your bus at 12.15 and arrive at 12.12 in Britain you are early! In Switzerland the silly cheese-munching, money laundering, yodelling, mountain dwelling moustached bus driver points at his watch and curses you in German..........Bell End.
posted by Matt at 4:22 PM
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