Well if its a choice between this sort of person (fleece-wearing,
dodgy slacks, etc, described below), or the "Great-I-Am's", stuffed
square-breasted "suits" who strut around as if they run and own the
world (OK, actually, they do, but whether that's good for the rest of
us, like the 2billion people whose personal wealth fails to
collectively equal the world's 500 richest billionaires)...I would go for
the fleece-and-slacks-brigade any day.
PS did you know that the suit (no, not the "suit" who wears such
boring, uncomfortable, status-ridden garments, but the suit itself) is
responsible for some of global warming. Yes, apparently, in the
USA alone, millions of $ of oil imports and energy is exerted in
office air conditioning systems to keep offices cool in the hot USA
summers (and warm in the winters) so suit-wearers can be
comfortable. Roll on dress down friday, and mon-thurs too) so that,
in cimmon with most peoples across the world in most centuries,
we can actually dress in clothes suitable to the cliomate, not
suitable to the greta steamroller of global megabucks.
On 20 Feb 01, at 4:48, McHype David wrote:
> I think contemporary
> critical geographers are, on the whole, very boring,
> tragic people who wear suede coats, flirt with fleece,
> could do with a wash, wear appalling half-mast slacks,
> have no idea of style etc etc. I have read some of
> their books too which are really boring. I think they
> are Nazis. I hope they die....etc. etc. (BEAT THAT
> TREANOR!)
>
Hillary Shaw, P/G Geography, University of Leeds
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