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Election Confusion
One of the most startling things that I have heard during the election campaign is how many people don't really know who they will vote for in May. The problem the opposition (Labour) will have to face is that floating voters tend to get scared when push comes to shove and ultimately, they opt for whomever Rupert Murdoch, The Mail, The Express or The TelegraphÂ...
Gut Feeling and Judging Character at Sports Clubs
One of the things I have found whilst running the indoor cricket centre this winter, is that I am really quick to judge people as they approach me when I am working behind the bar. On Sunday, I have had three classic cases in point, firstly when a woman came in and haughtily asked if she could have two coffees and as I was preparing them said..."Could you make it ...
Richard III – Proof That Britain is a Land of Subservient Air Heads
For a forty something bloke who likes nothing better than to vent his spleen with the written word, this week has been an utter classic of our time. Not content with championing a man dismissed by the BBC for a sustained verbal and physical assault on a junior employee, we then had people on the Radio discussing counselling for children who found the departure of ...
What is a Nominative Determinism?
My friend Darren posted something on Facebook yesterday that was asking whether the fact that David Beckham was born at Whipps Cross Hospital was an example of a nominative determinism. For those of you on the planet Zark, David Beckham, in between silly haircuts and marrying a pouting, poor excuse for a pop singer, was once a footballer who was renowned for his ...
Meeting with a Bulgarian Car Cleaner!
I went to Sainsbury’s yesterday to buy a few bits and pieces for the weekend and of course, to satisfy my occasional forty-something lust for feeling incandescent with rage at paying £14:00 for eight Gillette razor refills. When I got to the car park, I was approached by an Eastern European chap who was, despite the unseasonably cold and biting easterly wind, ...