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niyad

(118,025 posts) Sun Sep 15, 2024, 10:47 PM Sunday

"Is it cold up there on the moral high ground?" These words from Lady Violet

have been on my mind a great deal today, not surprisingly.

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"Is it cold up there on the moral high ground?" These words from Lady Violet (Original Post) niyad Sunday OP

. . . niyad Monday #1

Why? I had to look for the context of the sort-of quote muriel_volestrangler Monday #2

Thank you for that clip. So many great lines. It is quite okay if you do not niyad Monday #3

But a "passing thought" that you believed was "not surprising" today, and that you thought worth kicking muriel_volestrangler Monday #4

niyad

(118,025 posts)

1. . . .

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2024, 01:34 PM

Monday

muriel_volestrangler

(102,078 posts)

2. Why? I had to look for the context of the sort-of quote

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Mon Sep 16, 2024, 02:35 PM

Monday

Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham : [to Isobel] Does it ever get cold on the moral high ground ?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4178770/characters/nm0001749

More specifically, Lady Violet was saying she didn't want to go to an auction of a neighbouring stately home's contents, and Isobel didn't seem to care (and the rest of the family didn't), and Violet drops the rather snobbish line.

&t=2m45s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downton_Abbey_series_6

I genuinely can't see who this thread is aimed at. What has happened today for someone to seem like Lady Violet?

niyad

(118,025 posts)

3. Thank you for that clip. So many great lines. It is quite okay if you do not

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 16, 2024, 03:00 PM

Monday

understand the quote's relevance, it was but a passing thought.

muriel_volestrangler

(102,078 posts)

4. But a "passing thought" that you believed was "not surprising" today, and that you thought worth kicking

Reply to niyad (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 16, 2024, 03:25 PM

Monday

15 hours later. If you refuse to explain its relevance today (or yesterday), will anyone else? eg who is Lady Violet yesterday/today?

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