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PoindexterOglethorpe

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23. There's a brief scene in the series Downtown Abbey

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Jan 22, 2017, 05:12 PM

Jan 2017

where Lady Violet, played by Maggie Smith, expresses complete befuddlement at the concept of a weekend. The servants all work seven days a week and are on call twenty-four hours, and the gentry are not tied to regular working hours; most of their time is spent on what we'd call leisure activities.

I'm sure Suburban woman likewise has no concept of regular working hours.

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"Bitch, It's Saturday" [View all] kpete Jan 2017 OP

Hilarious. underpants Jan 2017 #1

So i guess the woman who said that dosn't have a job are she wouldn't have been there? SharonAnn Jan 2017 #24

Yeah. The lady in the vehicle sounds like Tucker Carlson in 2009 underpants Jan 2017 #25

Ha ha! LisaM Jan 2017 #2

posting from my airplane seat on my return trip from DC, (exhausted yet exhilarated...and hungry) kpete Jan 2017 #6

honey, when you get home i would be happy to buy you a chicken dinner. mopinko Jan 2017 #7

Wish I could. LisaM Jan 2017 #11

I make chicken pot pies bdamomma Jan 2017 #26

Somewhere inside of their psyche they know they are supporting Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 #3

Eliot saidsimplesimon Jan 2017 #15

I'm more afraid of Ayn Ryan, googly-eyes, BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2017 #18

hateful and confused is no way to go through life ... lunasun Jan 2017 #4

Actually she can go through life every bit the Idiocrat she wants to be lunatica Jan 2017 #10

Yeah, which is why you shouldn't address women as "bitch" whathehell Jan 2017 #35

They all seem to think, mindem Jan 2017 #5

Some jerk around here stopped his car and yelled, "Trump won. Get over it" LeftInTX Jan 2017 #8

Exactly. retrowire Jan 2017 #17

Oh they did a lot worse than whine. BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2017 #19

Oh yeah my wife just told me about effigies retrowire Jan 2017 #20

Yes...there was horrible horrible stuff all over teabaggie land BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2017 #21

Then why was she and her husband there? kacekwl Jan 2017 #9

+1000 nt iluvtennis Jan 2017 #22

Favorite sign--I grab back nt HelenWheels Jan 2017 #12

Mocking NastyRiffraff Jan 2017 #13

Great........ MyOwnPeace Jan 2017 #14

I hate to say this but... retrowire Jan 2017 #16

There's a brief scene in the series Downtown Abbey PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2017 #23

Here: ret5hd Jan 2017 #27

Thanks for finding that. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2017 #28

Misogyny! IronLionZion Jan 2017 #29

Racism! whathehell Jan 2017 #34

They should have followed it up with: avebury Jan 2017 #30

Are women supposed to get jobs or go back to the kitchen? IronLionZion Jan 2017 #31

Lol.. I would have said the same too. Zing Zing Zingbah Jan 2017 #32

Addressing women, even conservatives, as "Bitch" is ugly misgyny whathehell Jan 2017 #33