Posts Tagged: behaviour

  • A group of young men mogging each other with Mr WOTW watching on.

    Mogging and maxxing in the manosphere

    I grew up in rural NSW; my father was a vet; and later I studied science and graduated as a zoologist. These meant in my childhood I watched bulls, rams, roosters and other male farm animals posing, presenting and fighting to get the attention of female farm animals. If you live in the city you […]

  • Contumacious behaviour

    U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has just accused the Trump administration of “deliberately and gleefully” violating his order and showing “contumacious behaviour”. Boasberg had issued a ruling on the US government’s lack of compliance with his orders to cease deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act. He is requiring the administration […]

  • It is Christmas party season and I love to go out and socialise although I always have a fear of making a faux pas or a gaffe

    Gaffe about gaff

    Gaffe or gaff is a loan word from French. It was first borrowed to describe a boathook (a gaff) and then later to describe saying the wrong thing (a gaffe).

  • Becoming a quinquagenarian, being fifty-something, a person aged between 50 and 59 years, is not an achievement that is happily celebrated

    Quinquagenarian

    Becoming a quinquagenarian, aged between 50 and 59 years, is not an achievement that is happily celebrated. Being fifty is generally not a milestone welcomed.