Showing posts with label Safety Not Guaranteed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Safety Not Guaranteed. Show all posts

Monday, 24 April 2023

Free Range Kids


Lenore Skenazy : Free Range Kids

Everyone has an opinion 
when it comes 
to Questions of Parenting
Our Sunday newspapers 
seem to report on little else.
 
New York journalist, 
Lenore Skenazy 
tells how she was labelled 
America’s Worst Mom’ 
after she let her nine-year old son 
ride the subway home 
and how she fought back 
in the midst of a media maelstrom, 
by starting the movement for 
‘Free-range Kids’.

Monday, 29 July 2019

Safety Not Guaranteed



Advice is a form of Nostalgia – 
Dispensing it is a way of fishing The Past from The Disposal, 
Wiping it off, Painting-over The Ugly Parts 
and Recycling it for more than it's worth



Listen, I'm sorry about the noise level here. 
But we need to maintain cover. 
I'm certain I'm being recorded, I'm certain I'm being followed. 

Government agents maybe. Probably. 

But The Joke's on them. The technology I've invented can't be understood by the average mind. 

Just hold it in your holster for a second, okay? 
 I'm still making up my mind about you as a potential partner. 

I have to be absolutely certain that I can trust you before I include you in Certain Information. 

Well, I just don't wanna be jerked around. 
You know, jerking around is for jerks. 



Jeff :
What are you doing in The Lobby?

Arnau : 
Are they still in there?



Jeff : Yeah, that's The Point. She's still in there.
You go.

Arnau :
What do you mean I go?
 

Jeff :
I didn't want to hang out with these three.
I did it for you!
 
Arnau :
I don't think so. It's fine. You go.


Jeff :
Are you gay?


Arnau :
What? No...


Jeff :
Is that what this is?

Arnau :
No.



Jeff : I'm asking you seriously, I'm not judging you.
You don't know this about me, but I don't care about that stuff.
 
Arnau :
No, Jeff, I'm not gay, no.






Jeff : This is set up perfectly.
Do you not think she's hot?

Arnau :
You're acting like it's so easy.


Jeff :
Because it is so easy.

Arnau :
No, Jeff. 
It's easy for you, not for me.


Jeff :
Why not?
 

Arnau :
Because I'm not you, Jeff.
Do you just wanna see me get embarrassed?
 

Jeff :
No!
Arnau, come here, man. Come here.
Fucking come here.
I'm not pranking you, man.

You're not gonna get this opportunity very much longer.

You're Not Always Gonna Be 21, Young Man.
 
I promise you fucking that.
 
Arnau :
I don't know. I don't know what to...
How do I start?





Jeff : First of all, take these pedophile glasses off and don't wear these, they make you look like a weirdo, man.
I'm gonna put these on you. 

Holy shit!
Look at that killer.
 

That Dude right there crushes chicks.

I would take a photo of you and show you how good you looked right now, 'cause you look fantastic.

You look like a damn pilot.

Arnau :
Okay.

Like a cool pilot who drives jets.
Pop this shit.
 
Act like you've been There before.
You're not gonna be your age forever.


One day, you're gonna be The Old Dirtbag.
All by Yourself.


This is The Moment You Live for.

Arnau :
Okay.


Jeff :
Okay?
 
Arnau :
Okay.




Jeff : Hey, Halloween, you smoke?