--- layout: post title: "Which is where I’m from, technically." date: 2018-09-27 --- > north of that is Hertfordshire!Which is where I’m from, *technically*. Doesn’t mean I’m happy about it! > Seriously … ‘Wood Green’ tells you all you need to know about the place: wood is fucking *brown*, you inbred troglodytes!You know, I thought the same thing, just less colourfully. Clearly I was slacking. > they’re intelligent and capable of separating out their own dis/like of you from their analysis of your thinkingYep…very very few people are at that. > Be radical by all means … but be wary of infamy/notoriety — it’s a double-edged sword … wield it carefully.Double-edged swords are my speciality, which is unto itself a double-edged sword. Your warning is remembered but not necessarily followed. > They consider themselves intellectuals and can’t figure out why everyone else kicks them in the playground after tutorials. > They consider themselves intellectuals > themselves intellectuals > intellectualsBAH. The label is bad enough, and worse when it’s self-applied.