> ...most of you might cause less harm to yourself and the world by doing
> nothing...
Blaise Pascal (named for the programming language?) shared the same opinion:
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Huda - you make a very good point.
As women, we can be automatically dismissed at first sight by men, to the
extent they don't even bother to ask the question.
Earlier this year, I treated myself to an American Express excursion to
famed Danish restaurant Noma (I'd always wanted to go, bookings w
On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 9:06 AM Huda Masood via Silklist <
silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote:
>
> I’m curious - what causes this desire for the clickbait equivalent of
> introductions? Ennui ? Disillusionment? Shame at what pays the rent? Shame
> at being unemployed? Lack of imagination at how u
> the gist is I treat the questions as "how might we be connected, what common
> things might we share?"
If the Māori are like the Hawai'ians, they will even use a different verb to
describe what their marae (invariable?) "is" to the one they'd use to describe
what their job (variable) "is".
To riff a little on what Alaric said, since moving to New Zealand and
learning a bit about Māori culture, there is a Māori custom of the "pepeha"
which is basically a short bio introducing yourself, Telling people who you
are, linking you to the land, mountain, river, sea, tribe, subtribe,
whakapap
On 09/10/2024 18:08, Rajesh Kasturirangan via Silklist wrote:
I don’t mind the ‘what do you do’ question. I make up an answer that’s both
true and contextually relevant. What bugs me a lot more is ‘where are you
from?’ - often with the connotation of ‘where are you really from.’ To which I
giv
On 10/10/2024 05:48, Veena Venugopal via Silklist wrote:
I did not have a problem with the "what do you do" question as long as i
was doing what i loved, which was being a journalist and writer. These last
5 years, I've worked for Apple and I realised when people asked what I did,
I'd say, "I use
It’s interesting to see the nature of the answers
when you segregate them by gender :)
I’m spending the week mushroom hunting in a forest, with a group whose
average age is 70 and they speak, almost exclusively, German. My German is
not so good.
This morning, I asked one of the group, what they d
