From Viggo to Venison (musings on man-flesh)

[davewitley]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:

> David Re-invents Himself as Straggling Smouldering Semi-
Scandinavian Sex God"...

Re-invents?  What do you mean, reinvents?

> ... that warmth and playfulness and steadfastness and creativity 
and sense of wonder that gets pounded out of a lot of people once 
they enter the workforce.  The idea being not to find someone who has 
these things because he's very young, but to find someone who's had 
enough life experience to be mature and interesting who has managed 
to hang onto them.  Just add strong, philosophical soul and a splash 
of articulate wit, sprinkle with good hair and enjoy!
> 
> (Note: I suspect the above youthful outlook factor is one of the 
reasons why I enjoy HPfGU so much...)

Yes, me too.  Come to think of it, you get all that here without any 
of that tedious life commitment stuff (or sex).

> I think the Chinese community in Australia (and Asian cultures in 
general, if I may risk saying so) could give 'em [the British] a run 
for their money!  The difference being that in Asia there is no 
stigma attached to concern about one's public image.  

Do they try to deceive *themselves*, too?  I think that many English 
people do adjust their image for show - but what makes it destructive 
is when that show is also for one's own benefit - not 'look at my 
Rolex, I must be rich' but 'I have a four-bedroom detached house in 
the country now, so I must be cultured'.  Said for the warm feeling 
inside, not social goals.

> I also heard a similarly curious comment from a friend of mine who 
recently spent two years in England.  She said the English always 
started conversations by asking people what they did for a living, so 
as to estimate their "rank" (she theorised), whereas the lefty French 
dismiss such talk as dull and irrelevant to what sort of person they 
are getting acquainted with.
> 
Don't know about the French, but it's true we do want to pigeonhole 
people by what they do: not 'Penny practises law' but 'Penny is a 
lawyer', and so forth.  Snobbery comes into it, but it's also 
identity.  Which is why unemployment is such a big blow - you're not 
just out of work, your existence is not really justified and you have 
no place.

Why venison?

David