It was usually too hot, too stuffy or just too smelly, and my father would not let us use the air conditioner.

This is when we can just be who we are, and now we have this stuffy brother with his shirt and tie on, while we are still in our PJs.

Fortuyn s outrageousness was deliberately provocative and always entertaining. His rants against the elites were often confused, but he was funny, which made the old elite politicians look like stuffy old bores which many of them were.