Don’t be a wazzock
By letting an asshole get to you, explains Oliver Burkeman in today’s Guardian, here. This may be the best discussion yet of the ideas in my book (albeit without the political philosophy bits)!
What is a “wazzock”? John Cassidy, another Brit, explains in The New Yorker in light of Romney’s visit to England:
According to some accounts, a wazzock, in the original usage, was a bull’s penis. When I was young, it was used to describe a hapless idiot who blunders around doing and saying things he or she shouldn’t. Wazzocks don’t necessarily have bad intentions, but they tend to bring trouble to themselves and others. Romney, for all his business success and Harvard degrees, sometimes seems to fit the description. Clearly, he didn’t mean to insult his British hosts when he sat down with Brian Williams on Wednesday. But didn’t he think about how his words would be taken?
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/07/mitt-the-twit-in-london.html#ixzz2EJiVKL69
