Chuck Berry... is there double standards in this Country???

[Walter]

It does not appear to be very common, but there is a condition called anhedonia - which is related to a dislike of pleasure. It exists in a number of states including sexual anhedonia. One version is called specific musical anhedonia . People with this condition just don't get music - it has little or no meaning for them. I have a friend for whom this is the case. I suspect that Floo is simply someone with this condition.

sexual anhedonia, my ex-wife developed that soon after we were married

[Harrowby Hall]

As for colour blindness - well, colour anomalous vision would be a better description.

The source of red-green anomaly is the X chromosome and it is transmitted to children by their mothers.  Females have two X chromosomes and it is rare that a woman will possess two chromosomes carrying this deficit. Men, possessing only one X chromosome, lack this protection and the incidence of the anomaly is therefore greater than in women.

To the best of my knowledge, anhedonia is not sex linked.

[Sassy]

Sheltered, that is hilarious. Growing up after the war in an island, which had been occupied by the Germans, it was hardly sheltered. Times without number I have nearly lost my life due to getting myself into a very dangerous situations, or having them imposed on me. Like when I was two and my crazy young uncles, who were supposed to be babysitting me, decided to take me with them when they were going to do a very stupid and dangerous diving stunt! They had me sitting on a rock at the top of a steep cliff, from where dived into the sea below. They told me not to move from the rock as I would have undoubtedly have joined them! My mother would have skinned them alive if she had known, saying, "What would people think if she had been killed." One of my mother's major concerns was what people were thinking!

Not old enough for the GERMANS surely. My mother was nearly 5 years old when war broke out.
She was nearly 11 when it ended. If alive she would be  83 this year. You surely are not in your late 70's early 80's??? Or do you mean you were born on an island which had been inhabited by the Germans before you were born?

I hate to tell you this but the war affected more than your Island and did so for many years after.

[Robbie]

Must have affected Chuck Berry then as he was 90.

[Bubbles]

Not old enough for the GERMANS surely. My mother was nearly 5 years old when war broke out.
She was nearly 11 when it ended. If alive she would be  83 this year. You surely are not in your late 70's early 80's??? Or do you mean you were born on an island which had been inhabited by the Germans before you were born?

I hate to tell you this but the war affected more than your Island and did so for many years after.

I have also met some people who lived on Guernsey at the time the Germans were there ( one was a small child at the time.) and I think a lot of the people there were half starved, because it was what he seemed to remember.

I think it being an island and being occupied meant it wasn't so easy to smuggle food in.

Not sure what aspect would have affected Floo, but I guess its impact on the adults around her would have made an impression.

I got the impression that the people on Guernsey had a hard time of it, more so than many on the uk mainland.

[Harrowby Hall]

The Channel Islands - during the German occupation were effectively a prison camp. Islanders could be - and were - executed for matters we would consider trivial (for instance keeping pigeons). The occupying Germans ensured their own comfort first - they commandeered houses, food, equipment. Following the Normandy landings, the British policy was to starve the Germans into submission. It was the islanders (mostly women, children and the elderly) who bore the brunt.

Your comments, Sassy, are crass and uncharitable. You have no conception of what life was like for five years for islanders - the final irony being that they were eventually liberated  the day after WW2 ended, following which the German soldiers continued - under British command - to be used for law enforcement.

[Robbie]

I thought they were well known too but the reaction on here seems to be indicative that they weren't.

I knew about it and think it was fairly well known but only if you looked into Chuck Berry's history which most people don't.It's making small headlines now because he has died and if people seem to gloss over it, it is because sexual excesses of all types & drugs were the norm for musicians of his era, including many of our own. We'll hear more about those when they die! Chuck Berry was no worse and maybe a lot better than others, some charges against him were flimsy (don't care about the financial ones), others plain weird. Think of those we know on whom he had the most musical influence & it's plain they haven't been paragons of virtue.  Nobody caredthat much years ago, they were expected to be bad boys, it's different now thank goodness.