Proposal to Ban Drunkenness at UN Budget Debates
One would think it goes without saying that the people determining the budget of the world’s leading international diplomatic organization should be sober when doing so, but apparently, it does not. Diplomats who have participated in the UN’s budget debate sessions say that it is not uncommon to see delegates who are visibly drunk. It is apparently such a significant problem that a US ambassador to the UN has proposed making the negotiating rooms inebriation-free zones.
and we thought this was bad (in 1955)
I’m afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL or DAMN in it.
Just Fletcher 
Mar 07, 2013 @ 21:35:48
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Mar 08, 2013 @ 19:55:32
AD this little guy’s eyes are so cute!
Mar 08, 2013 @ 21:52:38
Hehehe
Mar 08, 2013 @ 05:19:23
Oh my goodness… That has left me somewhat speechless…!
As for Clark Gable and the bad language of 1955…. wouldn’t it be wonderful to have that problem… !!!
Mar 08, 2013 @ 06:58:46
How things have changed in our lifetime..
Mar 08, 2013 @ 09:16:00
“Wash tha’ shix billion or shixty billion we are giving (hic) to thish Muga-ga-be bloke (hic)? Oh, what the heck, jush make it shixty!”
Mar 08, 2013 @ 13:47:16
With snoring in the background
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Mar 08, 2013 @ 13:07:29
One reason I usually avoid such directors as Spike Lee and Quinton Tarrantino.
After an hour of “Yo, effinin Mo Fo” etc etc…Yawn…and even if these directors are considered Hollywood Heroes, quite frankly, my dear Louise,I don’t give a damn.’
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Want to watch a few good movies?
Try, As Good as it gets, Something’s Got to Give, and Hugo
Mar 08, 2013 @ 13:50:05
Try the ‘Intouchables’ a French movie, thoroughly delightful. skip anna karenina the movie rather read the book
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Mar 08, 2013 @ 14:04:14
I am about to embark on a Brian Aldiss reading stint.
Will the movies you list make me smile or laugh? Not into serious stuff these days.
Saw Hope Springs last night. Merryl Streep and Tommy Les Jones. Smashing film, and superb performances by both of them.
Mar 08, 2013 @ 14:11:51
Intouchables will make you smile, or rather laugh aloud while you wipe away a tear. Google it! I willl watch it again any time!
I hated Hope Springs & if it was’nt for the superb acting I would have walked out – OK from the TV room
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Who is Brian Aldiss?
Mar 09, 2013 @ 09:51:45
Hated Hope Springs? Oh well. We are all different.
Brian Aldiss is a superb writer.
His Helliconia Trilogy is a classic.
I shall Google Intouchables today.
Mar 09, 2013 @ 09:56:13
Oh, BTW. I notice you have my Gravatar pic on your display thingy. Nice one!
However, when I click it it goes to the first Gravatar page I put up when I returned from the Wilderness…ha ha.
Those blogs listed are not operational and I do not remember how to change my Gravatar profile.
Mar 10, 2013 @ 08:00:57
This is from when you previously blogged before the break . I have also forgotten how to change the avatar but yours is really very nice so you can leave it
Mar 08, 2013 @ 16:00:05
Obviously the UN representatives don’t give a damn either!
Mar 09, 2013 @ 06:12:43
Exactly!
I don’t even want to know where they come from…
Mar 08, 2013 @ 19:53:54
Sho, what’sh your problem with inebriation?
lots of bad decisions were made by completely sober people 🙂
Mar 09, 2013 @ 06:13:05
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So very very true!
Mar 09, 2013 @ 06:54:38
Determining the budget, bull Shit! they do what they want and we are their slaughter on.
Mar 09, 2013 @ 08:58:35
In the end the tax payers are footing the bill
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Mar 15, 2013 @ 09:26:32
Judging by the numbers of sleepers in our own parliament and drunken plane rides I don’t think we’re much better.
Mar 15, 2013 @ 11:34:57
Of course, I think we have the leaders of the pack.
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