Hi Eva,
It's funny you should mention right next door, since those neighbors are originally from Germany, Jeurgen and Eliane, very nice neighbors who bought the house in a sheriff sale. He's made a fortune in real estate development and she's a spectacular artist/painter. Their house is for sale, so I have my fingers crossed for good neighbors, since the 2 previous owners were problematic...one is in jail and one is dead, a reckless driver. The next door neighbors are big sun worshippers and he gardens in a speedo sometimes...I hope you don't find this offensive since I've only been to Europe once and it wasn't summer...when the men go swimming, do they mainly wear bikinis/speedos? I know when my husband lived in Italy for 2 summers he bought a speedo because everyone made fun of him in cut off jean shorts on the beach back in the late 70's. He mentioned about Italian TV being far more promiscuous than American TV even back then.
Libby-about some parents, you wonder...the people that moved into that same house across the street wear the biggest horse blinders...big social life and are clueless what their kids do, their 2 teen boys have huge beer parties, smoke pot in the bedroom w/incense...2 summers ago the family went to Spain and the 17 yr. old gave out the code to get in the garage and house so his friends could use their house to party. A couple kids got really fired up, took out the mom's car, broke the garage door and crashed into the stop sign at the end of the street... About 10 months later the same kid organized a massive food fight in the cafeteria as part of senior pranks in high school...graduation was almost cancelled because of him, he was not allowed to attend...he went off to college in Boston...those parents I will never figure out...The rest of the neighborhood is good...
Phil...I'm kinda' surprised Toyota did that ad, I never saw it before...
eva wrote:That´s funny Angela ... got your own soap opera right next door .
I watched the video on youtube, and it´s pretty much the kind of stuff that is on TV here too.
When I talked to an American exchange student a year ago, he was actually pretty shocked about German TV - we agreed that over here it´s more the violence that is a taboo, and that the kind of stuff in the commerical is more a taboo in the US. Don´t know if it´s true though ...
Eva
P.S.: "Close the door, we´re not heating the outside" is one classic sentence - my boyfriend keeps on telling me to turn the light off when I´m not in the room, maybe he´s getting old too !
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