As nerdy and silly and potentially embarrassing as this may be I teared up. How sweet that a dad put so much thought and energy into something and for so long. His son will look back on this with the fondest of memories. What a great way to remember dad.
The reason it doesn't look difficult is because he makes it look easy. Just because it is simple doesn't mean it is a piece of cake. That kind of control of a canoe is really damn hard. I can see why many would think it boring and relegate it to the same group of passtimes as curling but to write it off as something anyone could do would be wrong. If you look closely he was even able to keep the water right on the edge without entering his canoe. That's masterful.
There was an episode of "Benson" where he performed the Heimlich maneuver. Some 5 year old, having watched that episode, did it to her choking friend or sibling saving their lives. The stars of "Benson" honored her. If I remember the story correctly.
This study is obsolete. Dialects of English cover the globe. To even limit something to the US and the UK is provincial. The fact is that there is no Dialect Society for English so every version is as legitimate. So who cares what the US and UK may be doing. Include India, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Belize, the Philippines. Just a few countries where English is an official language.
What I don't get is the logic that British English pronunciation is "innovative". Wasn't the whole premise based on the fear that "traditional pronunciation" was being lost. Are those the same thing. So which one is it. Traditional British pronunciation lives on or is it changing.
Rescue dogs and this story are actually apples and oranges. This is not a man whose going to populate the world with clones of his dog. This is a man who loves his pets so much he wants to replicate them. And a-hole, Charles, would be someone who replicates his dogs then sets them loose on the streets. Or someone who won't let his child get a rescue. I only get rescues myself but let's not stand on high moral ground and pass judgment on this guy for NOT getting a rescue instead. If you really need a "holier than thou" fix then bitch about him not using the 310,000 dollars to feed the poor or fund an orphanage or pay for a helpless person's life-saving operation.
Just because it is common to see doesn't mean it is comfortable for the camel. It's common to see pigs crammed in the back of a truck in the U.S. but a lot of people claim that's cruel. Fact is, over all, humans treat animals with close to no respect. Just because that's so doesn't make it okay.
I can see why many would think it boring and relegate it to the same group of passtimes as curling but to write it off as something anyone could do would be wrong.
If you look closely he was even able to keep the water right on the edge without entering his canoe. That's masterful.
Fact is, over all, humans treat animals with close to no respect. Just because that's so doesn't make it okay.