Posts by giovanni tiso

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  • Hard News: So far from trivial,

    My point was that I don't think any degree of talent gives you a pass on just being a decent human being. I know that's not where you were going, giovanni, but damn it people are.

    Can I just point out that when I wrote about being in awe with Veitch's talent, that was being snarky, and also about Eliot having a Jewish friend, you know, it was a joke... it bombed, clearly, but it was a joke. Still, you know, I don't want to knock Veitch's profession here.
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    I'll do it here. Because seriously, how much "exceptional talent" would it take? Isn't it just a matter of being presentable, flashing the right smile, not getting the score wrong too often? I'm talking about his gig as a sports news segment presenter, which is after all the main source of his public visibility.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: So far from trivial,

    I can't help but notice that we've managed to mention Veitch in the same breath as T.S. Eliot and to quibble about the steepness and hardness of the stairs at his place (Veitch's, not Eliot's - although I guess the thread is still young). Conversation sure does take you to strange places.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: So far from trivial,

    And T.S. Eliot was, in my not so humble opinion, the greatest - certainly the most influential - poet and critic of the 20th century. Doesn't mitigate his repulsive anti-Semitism one whit

    He was pals with Groucho, though, right? So that's at least one Jewish friend.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: So far from trivial,

    It's his exceptional talent for which they seek to hang, draw and quarter him.

    In fairness, though, the few times I caught him on the telly or radio I couldn't but utter in awe, man, this guy has exceptional talent.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: So far from trivial,

    I'm rather glad that society is a little less tolerant of the "bitch asked for everything she got" defence than it used to be

    A sentiment that you measured how? I took a look at the Have your say pages of the Herald the other day and it seriously made me consider applying for a change species. (Too bad the amphibians wont' have me.)

    I'm glad we've been able to muster some ol' fashioned outrage on these pages, but let's face it, it's a fairly like-minded group. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: So far from trivial,

    shall we settle on what an official source says?

    Should we also point out that if this thing hadn't been scooped by a newspaper, the whole incident would not have come to the public's attention and the guy would have, you know, got away with it? In the fulness of time we might (or might not) know exactly what happened, but in the meantime we owe what we know to unnamed sources, do we not? And a lot of it is uncontested, is it not? It may well turn out that he did in fact leave her there for hours, at this point I don't think any of us would be surprised.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: So far from trivial,

    Scuse me while I go vomit.

    Ah, ye olde crime of passion. Enough to escape a murder rap, in many countries, including France and Italy as late as what, the nineteenseventies? Something like that.

    That link you offered earlier on Roman sexuality was a gem, by the way. "A good woman doesn't move"... Plutarch, you dog.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: So far from trivial,

    these media types sure do keep strange eating hours.

    If you got up at 3 or 4 in the morning, you probably would too.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: So far from trivial,

    Well, revolutionary though it might be we could just accept that we all have these bits that work in both wonderful and functional ways and get over it and not denigrate or elevate each other on the basis of what we look like instead of how we behave and what we are.

    She wasn't giving a lecture on the works of Nadine Gordimer at the Sorbonne, she was reading the news naked on the telly. Pausing to consider the context would surely be helpful before directing one's squire to fetch the high horse.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: So far from trivial,

    I still find the latter word so offensive that I can't bring myself to type it.

    Out of (perhaps limited) interest, being that thing that you cannot type in Italian simply means you're a good looking woman. It's even been made masculine (figo, as opposed to figa) to mean a good-looking man. And you can use either in pretty much in any sort of company (okay, perhaps not the Pope).

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

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