I'm Ethan, your real life English fluency coach, and this week we have a lesson with an iconic scene from one of the best movies of all time.

It's Fight Club, and it's one of Brad Pitts most famous movies.

It's about a group of men who fight each other and break the law in rebellion against consumerist culture.

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Every single week, Let's jump in around I look around, I see a lot of new faces shut up.

Which means a lot of you been breaking the 1st 2 rules of Fight Fight Club, the strongest and smartest men who ever lived See all this potential Nice one.

God damn it.

An entire generation pumping gas waiting tables, slaves with white columns.

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit.

We don't need middle Children of history, man.

No purpose or place.

We have no great war, no great depression.

Our great War is a spiritual war.

How great depression.

It's our lives.

Rays don't television to believe that one day we don't be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars.

I won't slowly learning that fact very, very pissed off.

Look around to look in different directions and a different objects, for example, inside of a building or in a shop town, et cetera.

But here he is saying to look around at the world example, we looked around the gift shop to see if there was anything she might like.

Shut up, shut up!

Used to tell someone to stop talking.

Note that this is said with an angry tone and shouldn't be used if you want to communicate this in a respectful manner.

If this is the case, you may say, could you please be quiet?

It means a lot of breaking.

It means a lot of breaking the first rule of the 1st 2 rules of Fight Club, referring to an extremely famous scene when Brad Pitt's character announces the rules of fight club here.

The 1st 2 rules the first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club.

The second rule of Fight club is you do not talk about fight club nice one.

Squander toe waste or throw away something valuable, especially money or time.

And in this scene, potential in an irresponsible and foolish manner.

It can also be used as to squander an opportunity.

Your chance.

Example.

He squared all his salary.

Gambling, God damn it!

An entire generation pumping gas waiting tables, God damn it!

Used express anger or frustration.

Example.

God damn it, I missed the alarm again.

Pump gas pump is to fill something with liquid or gas using a pump, and a common complication is pumped gas, which is to put gasoline into the tank of a car.

Wait tables to serve food or drinks as a waiter or waitress at a restaurant.

Example.

When I was a college, I had to wait tables to pay for my studies.

Slaves.

White, white collar A collar is the part of a shirt around your neck.

A white collar profession is a job in an office or in an executive environment.

Pumping gas or waiting tables wouldn't really be considered white collar work.

This word is commonly used as white collar worker or a white collar job.

On the other hand, blue collar relates to manual labor advertising has just chasing cars and clothes advertising activity of producing advertisements publicly promoting a product or service in order to convince people to buy a chase to pursue something.

It could be something physical, for example, a dog chasing a cat or could be used in a figurative sense, for example, chasing a dream so we can buy shit.

We don't need no buy shit.

We don't need shit.

Used a synonym of things or stuff used to refer to something when you do not need to name exactly what it iss example, The kitchen is a mess.

Someone used to come and clean up all this shit.

Note this years of shit is not as bad as other use of the word.

But keep in mind that it is considered rude in most situations.

So you need to know very well when it's okay to use it generally among friends or in a situation when you know vulgar language is permitted.

We recommend extreme caution and native guidance just a fast interruption.

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Middle Children of history man Middle Children of history, Middle Children, for example, the second born child in a family with three kids because they aren't the baby of the family and aren't the oldest, are not for feeling excluded in the movie, he's saying that this generation of men have nothing to define them, so they feel a similar lack of meaning.

You have no great war, no great depression, great War.

Also called the First World War, or World War.

The Great War involved many countries in a conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918 Great Depression, an economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.

S.

And other countries, beginning in 1929 and continuing through most of the 19 thirties, then, when he says, are great depression is our lives.

He's referring to how our lives are depressing, which is to feel sad and dejected.

Don't believe that one day we don't be millionaires and movie gods, and rock starts to be raised a certain way.

This refers to the way and with what values we have been brought up by her parents until we were grown ups.

Example.

I was raised in a small town by my grandmother.

Another common col occasion is born and raised.

For example.

I'm from Colorado, born and raised very, very pissed off, pissed off, angry or mad example.

I got really pissed when I found out that someone ate my food.

No, in British English, pissed can also mean drunk.

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