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No: Socks in sandals. You’re not wearing a real shoe! Lose the cloth. Half-way-pants (“Capri”?) for men. Decide! Either wear shorts or go the whole hog. Trekking-sandals. No! You’re not “trekking”, you’re meandering, moseying at most. In a big city and mostly on concrete. Screaming kids on the subway. Not crying or whining – screaming. [...]
I am very lucky! I was picked as the winner of the Random-Screening-Lottery at the airport. I got to go to a little room with a little lady and they checked all my electronic devices for me. How nice of them. I was able to find out that no traces of explosive material have been [...]
Jerry Seinfeld has said it before. I’m not talking about peanuts on the plane or the concept of pre-boarding (essentially: boarding before boarding). I mean another one of those NYC-stereotypes: Come on! What’s with the taxi drivers and the b.o.?! You’re in a service business! Your income basically depends on other people sitting rather close [...]
I support feminism, I do. In the sense that I am against unequal pay, holiday privileges, job opportunities and so forth. I don’t support bossy, obviously frustrated so-called feminist radicals who demand retribution for “2000 years of suffering” as a teacher of mine once put it. She graded boys less favourably because she felt “they [...]
There seems no end to people ranting about facebook, twitter and myspace and how those services have corrupted the young, fooled the slightly less young and completely baffled the even less young, sliding dangerously into the realm of the old. We have forgotten how to communicate, PMs, IMs and Poking have taken over the role [...]
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