Who plays the role of grouchy cantankerous old guy the best ??

@4meAndyou He was in that movie Gran Torino where he sat on his porch and grouched around. He eventually made good friends with his neighbors who were Hmong Laotians and defended their son from gang members and helped them with other things.

@cherokeepatti I love that movie to bits and pieces. I think I have watched it five times!

@4meAndyou I watched in on cable tv. I like the character development and how crusty Clintwood softens his attitude up so much during the movie that he goes over and helps that family after he got to them, they were like family to him.

@cherokeepatti

He reminded me of Hank Hill from King of the Hill

@cherokeepatti What I loved most was that he became a father to the boy, Thao, whom he calls "Toad". He grows to love Thao more than he loves his own son, all while being his crusty, cantankerous self.

He becomes a father to the girl, also, and when she is raped by her own cousins, he gives his life to ensure that the gang will never, ever bother them or ruin their lives again.

The obvious symbolism, at the end, when his body assumes the posture of Christ on the Cross, still makes my face flush and tears come to my eyes.

@Thrust

When I saw Gran Torino there was a couple in front of us giggling like schoolgirls at all the Korean slurs. At the end the lights came on and I saw it was a pair of my co-workers.

They were Korean 😁

@Thrust The Hmung people in that movie were originally from China. They became nomadic wanderers, and settled all over that region, but never in Korea.

@4meAndyou

My friend here is a Chinaman, and looks a little down on Koreans. One time I was parked in Koreatown (right south of Times Square) and had my dog in back. He said “aren’t you worried she will be Thanksgiving?”

@4meAndyou

This same guy was in Chinatown and an off the boater came up to him with a box of cats trying to sell them. He got offended and chased him down the street

I told him he should have bought them and went to a no kill shelter. He agreed and felt bad ☹

@Thrust Japan is the same way. Not cats...but seafood that you would look at and shudder...🤣🤣🤣 In Mexico, there is a traditional stew made out of rats. In Cambodia, rats are eaten as part of the normal diet...also in Ghana.

@4meAndyou

Chinese yuppies love them their virus carrying bats. Quite the delicacy

@4meAndyou

At least in Africa and S America they eat humanoids who usually don't carry viruses

@4meAndyou

Is it Japan where they consume whale schlong? 🤔

@4meAndyou I had a coworker who was born into a Hmong family but became a Christian when she was sponsored by a church along with all of her family and came over here. She would go back every few years and fill her suitcases with clothes and other things to give to the poor over there. She was from Laos.