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The trouble with you young fellows is you want to go changing everything. What's the result?

The general's lecture · The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

The trouble with you young fellows is you want to go changing everything. What's the result?

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You spent all your leave in a nursing home full of foreigners.

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1The trouble with you young fellows is you want to go changing everything . What's the result?
En la escenaThe general opens his scolding with a verdict: young men keep trying to change everything.
Ejemplo cotidianoThe trouble with your idea is timing.
2You spent all your leave in a nursing home full of foreigners.
3You cost the Treasury a lot of money .
4You make the Foreign Office very cross .
5Yes, very cross.
6And what do you get for it? Your beauty's spoiled.
7You weren't any fashion plate before.
8I'd be surprised if any woman would look twice at you.
9- So would I. - When you were here in January, I told you very
10clearly it was not your concern, it was an Embassy job.
11Well, sir, I thought I'd take a chance.
12A chance? A chance?!
13You can't afford to take a chance with your career, my boy.
14You are in the Army as a career, aren't you ? Not for five minutes?
15You were putting up a pretty good show. You go barging in on this nonsense,
16and you come very near to getting yourself kicked out.
17- You don't want to get kicked out, do you? - No, sir.
18Well, let me tell you one thing.
19Don't bother your head with things you don't understand and you won't go far wrong .
20Never go off at half-cock. Keep cool.
21Keep your mouth shut and avoid politicians like the plague.
22That's the way to get on in the Army.

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He stacks up the costs, then drills the lesson into a few blunt rules for survival.

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