New rule: hands off chins
Frank’s post on Shearer’s resignation used one of my least-favourite images of the man (actually worse than those damned dead fish), and has inspired today’s New Rule: get your sodding hand off your sodding chins, gentlemen.
It doesn’t make you look thoughtful or deep or serious or whatever the fuck your publicist has conned you into thinking. It makes you look like you’re desperately trying to look thoughtful/deep/serious/whatever the fuck.
Proof:
You all look like total hankies. Slightly-confused, total, hankies.
And Duncan, that goes for fingers too. You’re making Espiner look positively grown-up in comparison.
Homework: 200 words on why the hell people keep doing this to themselves in orchestrated photo shoots meant to make them look good.
Ideologically Impure 
i blame Doctor Evil.
*aaaargh!*
Point taken, already!! 😀
I blame Auguste Rodin, myself.
Rodin pulled it off. I think the problem is everyone else thinks they’re worthy of being a Rodin.
It signals “What am thinking. What lie can I get away with, hmm, failing that what misleading obfuscation or off topic digression can I get away with?”