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» Advice from Old People
Advice and other imaginative titles
Best advice I've ever heard is the following peach which came from me mam*: "Don't listen to advice"
Oh, and she also correctly pointed out that the key to success at work is just to keep turning up.
She's not all sweetness and light mind you, as when left unsupervised she occasionally buys the Daily Mail. She claims it's just her age. I reckon it's because she's a Nazi.
(* Don't judge me regards "me mam". I'm from Teesside and our vowels come out of the side of the mouth. That's just how it's pronounced)
(Tue 24th Jun 2008, 16:13, More)
Advice and other imaginative titles
Best advice I've ever heard is the following peach which came from me mam*: "Don't listen to advice"
Oh, and she also correctly pointed out that the key to success at work is just to keep turning up.
She's not all sweetness and light mind you, as when left unsupervised she occasionally buys the Daily Mail. She claims it's just her age. I reckon it's because she's a Nazi.
(* Don't judge me regards "me mam". I'm from Teesside and our vowels come out of the side of the mouth. That's just how it's pronounced)
(Tue 24th Jun 2008, 16:13, More)
» This book changed my life
George Orwell Essay
Didn't change my life as such, but made me realise something which has stayed with me ever since.
Can't remember the exact name of the book, but was a collection of Orwell's essays. One describes his time in the Indian Raj and how he had to oversee an execution... After reading it, I now cannot understand how anyone can support capital punishment. There was no description of the actual hanging or the horror of death, simply a brutal description of how a man was alive one minute, then dead (forever) the next. Really brought it home to me how black and white (and wrong wrong wrong) the practice is.
Check out Mister Serious sat in the serious corner eating serious pie
(Thu 15th May 2008, 18:02, More)
George Orwell Essay
Didn't change my life as such, but made me realise something which has stayed with me ever since.
Can't remember the exact name of the book, but was a collection of Orwell's essays. One describes his time in the Indian Raj and how he had to oversee an execution... After reading it, I now cannot understand how anyone can support capital punishment. There was no description of the actual hanging or the horror of death, simply a brutal description of how a man was alive one minute, then dead (forever) the next. Really brought it home to me how black and white (and wrong wrong wrong) the practice is.
Check out Mister Serious sat in the serious corner eating serious pie
(Thu 15th May 2008, 18:02, More)
» Phobias
Tomatoes
Tomatoes. The very though of the hideous things is too much. Can the rest of humanity not taste what I taste? I'm convinced that it's some sort of coordinated joke at my expense by the rest of mankind. Do people REALLY eat the things? They're just so unutterably rancid I can't even think about it without becoming uneasy and (for some reason) indignant that this abomination exists.
You know those documentaries in which some westerner will go to the Amazonian jungle to live with a tribe…? Mr White-Eye always gets suckered into eating something wriggling and unspeakable for the amusement of the locals? I'm that man. Tomatoes are that squirming filth. The rest of the world are the smirking tribesmen.
I've even come up with a laughable "There's-a-chemical-in-them-that-only-some-people-can-taste-which-is-destroyed-by-heat" argument when challenged about the acceptability of tomato sauce, soup etc.
Length? Crikey, I'm new. Calibration is all wrong.
(Tue 15th Apr 2008, 12:52, More)
Tomatoes
Tomatoes. The very though of the hideous things is too much. Can the rest of humanity not taste what I taste? I'm convinced that it's some sort of coordinated joke at my expense by the rest of mankind. Do people REALLY eat the things? They're just so unutterably rancid I can't even think about it without becoming uneasy and (for some reason) indignant that this abomination exists.
You know those documentaries in which some westerner will go to the Amazonian jungle to live with a tribe…? Mr White-Eye always gets suckered into eating something wriggling and unspeakable for the amusement of the locals? I'm that man. Tomatoes are that squirming filth. The rest of the world are the smirking tribesmen.
I've even come up with a laughable "There's-a-chemical-in-them-that-only-some-people-can-taste-which-is-destroyed-by-heat" argument when challenged about the acceptability of tomato sauce, soup etc.
Length? Crikey, I'm new. Calibration is all wrong.
(Tue 15th Apr 2008, 12:52, More)