Being Insensitive and Flippant

[tealin]

You know ...

The rioters in France would win more hearts if they erected barricades and sang rousing anthems.

Comments

[diffigrl.livejournal.com]

And spoke in English accents?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that probably wouldn't help much in France...

[diffigrl.livejournal.com]

Seems to help on Broadway.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Yes, but that's for an English-speaking audience. Speaking French with an English accent would make them even less popular with their countrymen (if that were possible).

[diffigrl.livejournal.com]

Okay, I was just trying to make a joke about how, although the story is set in France, the actors have English accents. But, I'm just going to back out slowly...

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Okay, yes, I get it now ... just ... applied to the metaphor ... taking things literally again. [awkward shufling]

But . . .

[(Anonymous)]

It just might make them less miserable.