Posts by giovanni tiso
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Christopher Robin Milne was a real sourpuss, even in photos as a child.
Which doesn't surprise me in the slightest. But really I should be grateful our brood never took to it, in spite of the barrowful of books we inevitably accumulated at birthdays and christmases. They did however fall for the far awfuller Thomas.
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Dude, there will be handbags at dawn if you're going to slag off my Pooh.
I don't need to, they practically slag themselves.
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You've just given me another reason to be irritated by Winnie the Pooh. A reason I hardly needed, to be perfectly honest.
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I don't think that's true at all. Ali Williams for one didn't pick up an oval ball until he was about 17 from memory.
How many others would that apply to? The guys I met who play NPC had all been playing since the crib.
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It's pretty much impossible to become an All Black unless you've zeroed in on rugby and shown uncommon talent since long before adolescence, and more likely have a peculiar single-mindedness (I happen to know just one such guy, although I can't share the details). Unless somehow growing into a gay man cured you of the rugby bug, I just can't see every gay player with the requisite amount of talent that statistically must have existed in the history of the sport in this country having made the choice of simply giving up rugby, or jeopardising their shot at the elite level by coming out. My feeling is that there must have been a number of closeted All Blacks.
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*Unless you could get good figures for the incidence of the genetic and environmental conditions that produce teh gayz.
Not even then, since I think part of the argument here is that rugby discourages participation by gay men. I don't think it'd ever be possible to disambiguate that factor, without getting rid of the homophobia first.
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And funnily enough I kind of don't mind. To everything there is a season, and all that...
Quite. Although my kids are more punk-oriented, therefore into Fatcat and Fishface as opposed to the Wiggles. The Wreck of the Diddley is the current top of the pops.
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well that statue was created by Speights
Without using the urine of young boys I see. Well la-di-da, how conveniently modern.
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As for that Speights 'Southern Man' caricature--my daughter thinks he is a closet gay.
Does anybody think they're not, and I mean all of them? The guy who finds an excuse to break up with the girlfriend because she won't drink the same brand of supermarket beer as he? Come on !
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My most oft re-read are all Italian books. I'm somewhat surprised. Achille Campanile is a particular favourite, and his two-line tragedies a favourite amongst its titles. Here's one:
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF MODERN CONVENIENCES
Characters:
THE HUSBAND
THE WIFETHE HUSBAND (Coming home with a large parcel)
I brought the gas masks.THE WIFE
Great. Tonight we can go to sleep with the gas on.(curtain)
I'm certainly not as much of a rereader as my late father, who turned it into an art. There was the year when he read nothing but One Hundred Years of Solitude. Clavell, Uris and Livy also laid siege for a long time to his bedside table, which featured for as long as I knew him a manual on chess openings and a French book of jokes called Histoires drôles that I suspect he used to teach himself the language.