Remember September 1st to 6th
Today, the children go back to school in the Russian influenced areas of Europe. However, such a joyous day:
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Just look at this headline:
Professional makeover
Lindsay Lohan: I want respect
Hollywood’s bad girl is determined to rehabilitate her career.
Now, where do we start on women and respect? Oh I couldn’t be bothered any more.
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You’ve probably seen this but here it is again, courtesy of Mad Piper:
Nelson: “Order the signal, Hardy.”
Hardy: “Aye, aye sir.”
Nelson: “Hold on, that’s not what I dictated to Flags. What’s the meaning of this?”
Hardy: “Sorry sir?”
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The Iranians are the last ones to talk about morality and yet:
… if the cap fits. In the words of others:
“I fail to see how this could hurt Sarkozy since everyone in Europe already knows Carla is a slut and the press has printed lots of her nude photos.”
Taken to task for using [...]
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The sun has broken out on this Bank Holiday Monday [I'm working today] and I do not wish to rain on anyone’s parade but here is the state of play:
Economics
Firstly via Jesse:
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Please answer me this – why can’t we get anything right?
My excuse is that I’m aging but all those bright young things out there, pushing envelopes and thinking outside the box, rolling this and that out – surely they are at the peak of their mental powers and should be able to get it right.
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There’s an article in the Mail – yes, I know, it’s my equivalent of slumming it – and it’s about a houseguest who came to stay … and stay … and stay …
There’s a certain amount of artistic licence allowed journos on blog-type pieces and if this journo did act as she said she did, [...]
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There are three generally accepted positions towards the metaphysical – believer [calm and rabid], non-believer [calm and rabid] and agnostic:
a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena
There is a fourth position, I’d suggest, which is:
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Liz has this post about her car doing strange things when she gets in it and that casts my recent experiences in sharp relief. Now it might just be flights of fancy but you be the judge:
1. In the last few weeks, people I’ve visited or have been with have developed colds;
2. On Monday, the [...]
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What to do about the Roma? Does anything need to be done? France thinks so. English villagers are turning out in force to block the vans. Unwanted, do the Roma have the right to descend on villages or roam about this way? Should they all go back to Romania? Is it a case of having [...]
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I don’t know if you’ve been following my saga with the railways but I received a response from one company and I’ll now name it – Arriva and they were good. All right, you might say – this is just a standard response and form letter but at least it is a response:
Thank you for [...]
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No, not the angst of being dismissed but the angst of having to dismiss someone.
I was having a natter this morning, before work, with a chap who runs a business; he was telling me various things and I was telling some of mine. His first.
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