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poliphilo Very early on in my career at boarding school a master told me I really didn't have to say "Sir" at the end of every sentence- which was decent of him...
I may have been overdoing the "Sir" thing because of an earlier incident in which my father had told me off for not be-sirring his boss- a man I knew my father despised because I'd overheard him chunnering about it to my mother.
Oh, alright, I'll be a hypocrite then, but he's not my boss. No fucker is.
The whole "Sir" thing got under my skin and itched. Note that when I came to choose a career I chose one in which I didn't have to call anyone "Sir".
We had a man drop by the Meeting House yesterday whose whole manner suggested he had spent too much of his life having to say "Sir" to people. He didn't actually use the word, but he deferred and was unduly grateful. He is a homeless man, living in a hotel. If he sticks around for a couple of months the Council says it will find him a flat.
No-one should ever have to call another human being "Sir". Situations in which the "Sir" thing is expected are situations in which something has gone wrong. Like there's a war happening, or one group of people is oppressing another group of people, or some twat thinks he deserves respect for being richer or older than the person he's talking to...
"When Adam delved and Eve span/ Who was then the gentleman?" - as I believe the peasants sang or chanted as they marched on London....
I may have been overdoing the "Sir" thing because of an earlier incident in which my father had told me off for not be-sirring his boss- a man I knew my father despised because I'd overheard him chunnering about it to my mother.
Oh, alright, I'll be a hypocrite then, but he's not my boss. No fucker is.
The whole "Sir" thing got under my skin and itched. Note that when I came to choose a career I chose one in which I didn't have to call anyone "Sir".
We had a man drop by the Meeting House yesterday whose whole manner suggested he had spent too much of his life having to say "Sir" to people. He didn't actually use the word, but he deferred and was unduly grateful. He is a homeless man, living in a hotel. If he sticks around for a couple of months the Council says it will find him a flat.
No-one should ever have to call another human being "Sir". Situations in which the "Sir" thing is expected are situations in which something has gone wrong. Like there's a war happening, or one group of people is oppressing another group of people, or some twat thinks he deserves respect for being richer or older than the person he's talking to...
"When Adam delved and Eve span/ Who was then the gentleman?" - as I believe the peasants sang or chanted as they marched on London....
