So what is timesnewroman? It's not the font, rather my take on the age we live in. The USA is the new Rome and the times we live in are timesnewroman.
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timesnewroman is listening to: Tiken Jah Fakoly, Arctic Monkeys, Biffy Clyro, Kings of Leon, Bloc Party, Led Zeppelin, Jimi, Franz Ferdinand, Youssou N'Dour, The Strokes, REM, The Kings of Leon, Curtis Mayfield, Jefferson Airplane, The Trashcan Sinatras, Jeff Buckley, Phil Ochs, Stan Kenton, The Smiths, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Mogwai, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, The Zombies and Orange Juice amongst many others.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Transgendered Jimty a bit puzzled. Somebody has made a comment about a feedback form that he'd been involved in in someway. In the interest of equality it had been suggested that perhaps it might be an idea to include a box for transgendered as well as male and female. As a rule we don't have hang-ups around issues of equality. However this started a bit of a debate around if someone was actually transgendered, they'd probably already have an idea of whether they wanted to be considered male or female and that being the case would already have a box to tick. To be fair we couldn't quite get our heads round the politics here, but we did think that such a box would be more about someone defining themselves as different rather than male or female. Are we being inconsiderate, ignorant of the underlying issues, or just plain pedantic? Throw your thruppenceworth in please.Further discussion which had apprentice, jimty and others in jeering mode when I suggested that the answer to todays Guardian Cryptic Crossword Clue for 17 Down was OFTENER Oh how they laughed and said it wasn't a word. I'll be proved correct tomorrow though I'm sure. The displaced one behind me reckoned that his mum was offonher holidays tomorrow and therefore it was a real word.
France, merde or what??
posted by timesnewroman at 6:45 PM
