tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003118750661133842.post3639959526115063584..comments2023-12-21T21:03:45.616+11:00Comments on my ordinary life: Sugar, schweppes, whatever....Victorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14778094395442538035noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003118750661133842.post-80726720595400355432021-11-12T19:03:10.754+11:002021-11-12T19:03:10.754+11:00Good luck & keep writing such awesome content....Good luck & keep writing such awesome content.<br /><br /><a href="www.oilin.in" rel="nofollow">Virgin Linseed Oil BP</a><br /><a href="www.oilin.in/about-us" rel="nofollow">Pure Linseed Oil </a><br />Drift Financial Serviceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11875146539252208254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003118750661133842.post-24745316581183875832011-12-22T16:50:48.284+11:002011-12-22T16:50:48.284+11:00Interesting points, Marcellous. I was unaware of t...Interesting points, Marcellous. I was unaware of the 'ducks on the pond' tactic too.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14778094395442538035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5003118750661133842.post-68754704956375676332011-12-21T19:38:22.341+11:002011-12-21T19:38:22.341+11:00It must be a generational thing because I don'...It must be a generational thing because I don't remember being shocked by that when I saw the film in the same month but at a tenderer age. (I do remember other things being illuminating, and I think I got a bit of a crush on Michael York, but that's another story.)<br /><br />The thing about language and this obviously included language on screen was the strictness of the gender divide. That is something which even by 1972, women's lib had broken down. I only recently learnt (from my father, reminiscing about the 1930s) of the shearers' phrase <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ducks_on_the_pond" rel="nofollow">ducks on the pond</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com