I am the eldest child and while my mum doesn't play favourites, my grandad did and I was his.
My younger brother is more successful for several reasons, primarily because he doesn't have the same lazy intelligence that I do, so he's had to work at stuff his whole life and consequently has a far better work ethic. As for whether he's better-looking, it depends on who you ask. Most people say no, but then he does have a smoking hot wife, so...

Alt: Because they spend all day indoors drinking heavily on booze bought with Westminster's money, of course.
( Kroney, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 10:53, 4 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Your younger brother has a smoking hot wife and you are an unloveable french basement tenant in Slough?
moments tristes Kroney
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 10:55, Reply)

la monde; elle est une maitresse cruelle

( Kroney, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 10:56, Reply)

she really is a bitch

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 10:58, Reply)

I hate to go all French Mistress on your arse, Kroney
but if it's LE monde, you can't say ELLE.

Then again, 'he is a cruel mistress' sounds a bit odd. Why don't you frenchies just speak English like the rest of us?
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 27 Sep 2012, 10:59, Reply)

Eh? Learn to read, woman.

( Kroney, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:01, Reply)

Now it's definitely wrong.
Can't you speak your own language, man?
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:07, Reply)

What are you on about
"la" is the feminine.

No, having googled it, apparently "world" uses the masculine. How strange.
( Kroney, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:08, Reply)

Yes
but 'monde' is a masculine word. You had that part right the first time. It's le monde, not la monde.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:09, Reply)

I guess they don't feminise objects in the way that English does.
I guess it would have to be "the world is a cruel master" but that doesn't sound French enough, damn it!
( Kroney, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:12, Reply)

It's a stupid language.
It's really hard to explain to kids why foreign languages have genders for nouns anyway. Especially in German, where the have three.

*sigh*
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:14, Reply)

Thank God for the lazy English, who phased it out of their language
because they just couldn't be arsed with it
( Kroney, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:18, Reply)

Except in Bristol.
"I've lost me bag. Can you see he?"
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:20, Reply)

no, just lazy kroney :(

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 10:56, Reply)

My mum says she loves me.
But she's always looking at him when she does so :(
( Kroney, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 10:58, Reply)

Work ethic is a strange thing.
my brother didn't have it at all until he was in his final year of school and then he pulled out this whole other gear and leaped ahead. I was so proud of him (although secretly glad he didn't beat my ATAR score).
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 27 Sep 2012, 10:58, Reply)

I am very proud of my brother and all he's accomplished.
Somebody had to be the white sheep and I'm no good at it.
( Kroney, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:05, Reply)

Were you the first grandchild then?
My dad really struggles to disguise the fact that my son (his first) is clearly his favourite.
My maternal grandad was apparently the same with my sister.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 10:58, Reply)

Yep!
First grandchild and the one that was most clearly his. The other grandchildren all take after the women that married into the family and my brother takes after our grandmother. I'm my grandfather reborn.
( Kroney, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:02, Reply)

Wouldn't he have had to be dead first, to be reborn?

(berk, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:05, Reply)

If you were going to take everything
ABSOLUTELY LITERALLY, then yes.
( Kroney, Thu 27 Sep 2012, 11:06, Reply)