Uruguay president rails against the business suit

[bemildred]

One after another, the leaders of Latin America denounced the ills of the world at a regional summit in Cuba on Wednesday.

It fell to famously casual Jose Mujica, the Uruguayan president, to tackle a subtler evil plaguing humankind: the business suit.

"We have to dress like English gentlemen!" exclaimed Mujica, clad in a rumpled white shirt. "That's the suit that industrialization imposed on the world!"

"Even the Japanese had to abandon their kimonos to have prestige in the world," he continued, gesturing forcefully and rapping a pen on the table to punctuate his words. "We all had to dress up like monkeys with ties."

http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Uruguay-president-rails-against-the-business-suit-5186185.php

[lpbk2713]

1. I think the reason for the suits and ties ...

is so you can tell the "businessmen" from the monkeys.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

2. I suppose as a raging librul I should hate the business suit...

but I don't.

http://www.pinterest.com/cybertoad/beautiful-men-in-suits/

But I do see President Mujica's point.

[monmouth3]

5. That site...I could have stayed there until at least noon..LOL..n/t

[WorseBeforeBetter]

9. LOL... glad you enjoyed. :)

[flamingdem]

3. He's great, down to earth and real

Think he just legalized pot too.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

4. lol Right on

[bemildred]

6. Thank you. nt

[Ron Obvious]

7. Good man.

I've reached my middle fifties and have never learnt how to tie a necktie. I keep them knotted from one funeral to the next.

I'm not only proud of that. I'm smug about it.

[bemildred]

8. I wore suits for about ten years. Now, like you, they come out for funerals.

I'm very smug, one of the little victories in life.