Posts by giovanni tiso
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I went through student politics with a person who claimed to be working class because his mother was a teacher. We sniggered but he was adamant.
He was also right. Go figure.
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Does it make the food taste better? My father-in-law was recently taken aback when I told that I have never owned a suit (other than a crushed velvet horror in the 1970s). Just wondering if anyone else has remained suitless.
Me. Although in my early twenties we were going to go to a funeral and Mum said wear your suit and I said what suit and she said the suit your grandfather made you and proceeded to lecture me on my inability to keep track of things until it occurred to me that my grandfather died when I was ten so the chances of this supposed suit still fitting me would have been slim.
(If you read this aloud you're probably going to need a glass of water now. I'll wait.)
We did however find the trousers of the suit years later, and Joseph has worn them for a cultural day at Berhampore School. They're absolutely gorgeous.
Then when I graduated (aged 29) Mum bought me a suit and brought it over to NZ for the ceremony, but it's at least two sizes too small, which is just as well since she appears to have bought it at Al Capone's Haberdashery and Bullet Shop. I can see how it would probably intimidate potential employers into giving me the job if I wore it at an interview, but otherwise I don't care to look any more like a walking stereotype than I already do.
So yeah, still suitless.
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Also, my Nanna didn't really believe in buying clothes from shops. You did for yourself.
My nonna was only ever allowed to own one non-black dress - it was green. Green! - but soon enough there was a wedding or a funeral and her mother in law made her dye it black.
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My grandfather's family looked down on my grandmother's family because they were Maori. My grandmother's family looked down on my grandfather's family because they were Irish.
Brilliant. It's like a Moebius strip of class contempt.
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bullying in Canada is met with sharp censure and the bully is made to feel pretty crappy and unpopular
Mmmh... you mean like Todd Bertuzzi?
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Larger quota of retards?
I really don't like the term "retard". At any rate I believe the technical phrase is "Kiwis who don't want to be told how to live their lives".
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Oh Gio, I have never wanted to tend to your 'special needs' more than when I just read that paragraph.
Okay, I'm going to find moderately hard to get rid of that mental picture as I spend the morning at a meeting on 'special needs'. Thanks a bunch!
We're drifting away from reality here: policies that regulated lightbulbs and shower pressure were what upset voters and they weren't guaranteeing anyone's human rights.
I take it therefore that you voted National because of the pernicious, oppressive regulations on shower pressure and efficient lightbulbs enacted by Labour? If so, I'd like to put a moratorium on you complaining about anything or making fun of anybody for the next, let's say one hundred years.
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It was a joke I believe Lucy. (Small talk - mammoth.)
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But you don't want to scare nice middle-class white males into voting National, do you? You're hurting Danyl's cause by being so angry.
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Or in more simple terms, your last post was bloody brilliant.
Oh, well, thank you kind sir. I blame the subject though. And Stephen. (When in doubt, always blame Stephen.)