![The shocking, rude, inappropriate apostrophe of the President of a foreign country on an official visit to the USA by an entitled, social-media-created, non-journalist, MAGA cap-wearing [speaking of style and dress!], nobody on last Friday reminded me of a negative comment made by someone on a social media about my teaching in Oxford wearing a tee-shirt after seeing this [official] picture [for the newly renovated building of the Department of Statistics], where you may spot several students who have now become brilliant junior researchers in statistics and machine learning. On a completely different scale, of course. While I have never worn a suit outside the French Navy, I have very rarely been confronted with critics of my dressing style, an additional good reason for choosing academia! Slava Ukraini!!!](https://i0.wp.com/www.galleries.johncairns.co.uk/Statistics_2.2.16/content/images/large/Statistics_by_John_Cairns_2.2.16-61.jpg)
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why don’t you wear a suit?!
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel, University life with tags baby Trump, black Friday, CDT, Centre for Doctoral Training, department of statistics, Des Moines, French Navy, Iowa, John Cairns, journalism, MAGA, objectivity, Oxford, OxWaSP, PhD students, Racoon River Brewing Co., Solidarity with Ukraine, Trump administration, University of Oxford, US politics, USA, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, White House on March 4, 2025 by xi'an![The shocking, rude, inappropriate apostrophe of the President of a foreign country on an official visit to the USA by an entitled, social-media-created, non-journalist, MAGA cap-wearing [speaking of style and dress!], nobody on last Friday reminded me of a negative comment made by someone on a social media about my teaching in Oxford wearing a tee-shirt after seeing this [official] picture [for the newly renovated building of the Department of Statistics], where you may spot several students who have now become brilliant junior researchers in statistics and machine learning. On a completely different scale, of course. While I have never worn a suit outside the French Navy, I have very rarely been confronted with critics of my dressing style, an additional good reason for choosing academia! Slava Ukraini!!!](https://i0.wp.com/www.galleries.johncairns.co.uk/Statistics_2.2.16/content/images/large/Statistics_by_John_Cairns_2.2.16-61.jpg)
vendredi noir [Roe v. Wade]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags black Friday, Charlie Hebdo, Christian conservatives, Coco, cover, Je suis Charlie, legalisation of abortion, Libé, my body my choice, political cartoon, Protect Abortion, reproductive rights, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, US flag, US politics, Women’s Rights and Gender Equality on June 26, 2022 by xi'anþe norse farce shoppe
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags black Friday, brands, CIRM, logo, Luminy, Normandy, North, outdoor, pun, summer school, tee-shirt, Teespring, The Norse Farce, Université Aix Marseille, Viking helmet, Viking longship, William the Conqueror, workshop on November 27, 2020 by xi'an
As an on-going multilevel pun (started with my misreading a famous outdoor brand logo as a Viking helmet!), and following popular request (at least from a few participants to our Bayesian school at CIRM two years ago!), I took advantage of one of the numerous make-your-own-tee websites to create a norse farce shop(pe) for afficionadas and afficionados..!
