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Some Tips Heard/Learned/Observed Over the Weekend
Heard, about child-discipline: “If you’re ever threatening an action should your child choose to do something naughty, don’t ever make a threat that you aren’t prepared to follow through on.” “Like, don’t threaten to throw them out of a third-floor window?” “Well you’ve got to at least be prepared to dangle them out of it…
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A Response From Phones4U
I emailed a complaint to Phones4U, giving the URL of my previous blog entry. Well they’ve pretty quickly replied in a comment there: We like scout masters and in fact have a lot of respect for them and others who support the youth audience. The campaign is a humorous commentary about people’s obsession with popularity.…
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Phones4U: Losers With No Friends
I think that scouting is a really good pastime for children. It breeds character, confidence, and helps build them into the citizens of tomorrow, which in a world where a good chunk of them are walking around with knives stabbing people is in my opinion a pretty important thing. And I consider the adults who…
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We Are Not Mr & Mrs Typical
Most people in the UK do not read books. Shocking, I know, but it’s what many people have told me. I might read books, my wife might read books, both of our families might read books, and pretty much all of our friends might read books, but nonetheless, apparently, most people don’t read books. It’s…
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Andrew Brons
Andrew Brons, 61, started his nazi career in the National Socialist Movement, an organisation that was deliberately founded on Hitler’s birthday by the British nazi Colin Jordan. NSM members were responsible for an arson campaign against Jewish property and synagogues in the 1960s, of which Brons stated: “On this subject I have a dual view,…
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It’ll Be Bed-ins For Peace Next, I’m Telling You…
I think some people are starting to worry that Amanda Palmer is becoming Neil Gaiman’s Yoko: Ah me, it seems love has clouded your judgement, you’re a writer damn-it & a great writer with an original voice-this makes you look just silly!Pity! Okay Neil, what exactky is the point of this photo? I always thought…
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Some Advice From An Author
Just read an interesting interview with Marshall Karp on M. J. Rose’s blog, Buzz, Balls & Hype. Two bits in particular caught my attention, not for what they say – because neither is a new thought to me – but because of the rather entertaining way in which he expressed it. You’re not going to…
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UK2, Spammers, And The Mysterious Disappearance Of My Website
Friday lunchtime, everything was fine in the world, or at least in my on-line portion of it. My new website was up, functioning, and looking – dare I say it – pretty good. Granted, I was getting a torrent of grotesquely horrible spam comments on the blog portion of the site, but the WordPress spam…
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