LBT Rumour of Christine in NOLA

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

I just don't understand why people still are all over that expression. She did cut off every link she had with the musicindustry in the US, quit the band, sold her house, moved to England, and lived a more reclusive life. That's all he's ever said and meant with "she burned all her bridges". She did.

I know that's all he's ever said he meant by it. But I take it as him being sly.

It's like saying, "she cut off her nose to spite her face" and then explaining, "well, I just meant she powdered her nose." When you know the popular connotations that words have, then don't use them, if you don't mean to imply those connotations.

Burning your bridges implies that you took irreversible actions and severed your relationships to the point where you can't repair them. If anyone burned their bridges, in that sense, it was Eddy. Not Christine just because she moved to England. If I leave my job and "burn my bridges," I probably told the boss off and yelled that I never liked him anyway and I'm glad never to have to step foot in that rancid office again.

I am unconcerned with what Lindsey says about Christine because I know he loves her and I know he would be outvoted even if he didn't love her. She can do what she wants in that band. But I have always thought he was being devilish about that -- and when she was promoting Meantime, I think she was doing things to him as well.

Michele