Wherever I have looked in the last week or so there has been cheating going on, whether it is in politics, sport or in social benefits, it is everywhere you look. Just as common are the holier than thou individuals who lambaste cheats when they are doing the same or far worse in fact. The amount of people I hear tearing in to "benefit scroungers" whilst they are themselves, doing cash in the hand weekend jobs or paying builders in twenty pound ...
I don't know how many of you have the latest iPhone yet, but those of you who do will have been introduced to Siri, a voice activation device that is supposed to make life so much better for us folk who desperately want to know what the weather is going to be like in Paris this weekend. When I first talked to Siri, I thought he was a solid bloke, he just seemed like the sought of guy who would always give me a firm handshake and offer sound, if ...
I have been getting merrily drunk on Friday evenings for the best part of 25 years, this is something I am neither proud or ashamed of if I am honest, it is the common action of the proletarian male at the end of a working week. During this time the venues for this behaviour have moderated from trawling night clubs in search of the last girl standing, to a stage where I am having semi coherent debates in country pubs about centre ground politics ...
Talking is the most sociable of things and virtually everyone adapts this form of communication to suit their own style of getting their message across. It is quite remarkable that in a world featuring 100 million different living creatures including, at the last count, 4260 mammals, we are the only living species that communicates by talking, unless of course you include a dog on That's Life whose owner claims it can say "sau-sa-ges." Gorillas ...
I must start this post by issuing an apology to anyone who was offended by my recent references to Deirdre Barlow and vigorous masturbation in the search for fitness. I openly admit that these references could be seen as bad taste and puerile in nature. I have, in the past few days, tried to understand why I posted such vulgar content and what spurred me to do it. I have come up with a combination of reasons as seen below.
Relief at sore ...