Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/30/pope-urges-barbers-and-hair-st.html
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How do you say “gossip” in Italian, anyway?
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Hand signals, mostly.
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who I only know from music.
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Gossip.
Loan words… loan words everywhere.
Or pettegolezzi.
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I’m sure they’ll stop gossiping as soon as you stop protecting those who sexually assault children.
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Seems low on the list of priorities but considering he was talking to a group of barbers it kinda makes sense. And if by gossip he means spreading negative stories about private people (maybe their own customers) to other customers, yeah that sounds like a decent thing to avoid. It only makes me wonder why it came up. Is there a particular problem with this in Rome? Does the pope have direct experience with this?
Edit: if this is hinting at something darker - like he’s suggesting people not talk about, oh let’s say, clerical abuse, or that sort of whistleblowing that isn’t easily taken to authorities, we may have a different conversation going here. I just mean like avoiding the sort of gossip like painting ugly pictures of people who don’t deserve it seems like decent advice.
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Shots fired…
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“… and stop asking if your customers would like “something for the weekend”!”
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I know this is a puff-piece for the pope, and as popes go he’s not the dick we’ve come to expect, but I come from a land where Catholic Church services are held to pray for convicted child rapists, while their victims are vilified by the right-wing press.
So I may be a little trigger-happy…
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As long as you’re not literally shooting them, you go right ahead.
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Well, that and surgery are the REAL reason people go to the barber.
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I am confused. Does he want them to treat people with Christian style or treat clients with gentleness and courtesy? It is one or the other.
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Dear Mister Pope, your organization has bigger things to worry about than barber shop gossip.
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Clearly he was speaking ex cathedra here.
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Pope urges barbers and hair stylists not to gossip
Then how will I get any life challenge pointers, from my plumber?
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He probably just doesn’t want them talking about him.
My barber told me this one:
The Pope, Richard Nixon, and a scuba diver walk into a bar. . . the bartender looks up and says “What is this, some kind of joke?”
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“Avoid falling into the temptation of gossip that is easily associated with your work,” the pope said, pausing to glare at his own barber and adding, “Roberto.”
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As long as he is Italian, yes.
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“Don’t do my job, sassy bitches!”
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