I’ve brought my three sons up to be grasses; tell-tales, clipes, snitches, there are many names for it, and I’m happy with them all. Needless to say, this is not a popular or common view. Society has contrived to agree with those that demand silence; that you should never tell on someone else. Excepting of...
This is a topic I have tried, and failed, to understand my entire life. As non-smoker, I’m told that I can’t possibly understand, and therefore shouldn’t try to. Perhaps in my quest to truly comprehend, I should take up smoking in order to get perspective from that side of the fence? However, I refuse to...
The festive period, that 6 week duration stretching from Thanksgiving (celebrated in the USA on the 4th Thursday of November) to the first week of the New Year, accounts for some 78% of all family visits made throughout the year. This shows that we are reminded of a need or obligation to make this effort,...
I’m not supposed to say any of this, because it’ll seem like showing off. I assure you though that I’m not, because I don’t really think I have that much to show off about. This week on The Apprentice (yes I know), that annual celebration of braggadocio and bullshit over ability and achievement, one particular...
So Nick Clegg, the Lib-Dem leader, and Deputy Prime Minister, is being given a hard time by the red-top press for his apparent hypocrisy in considering sending his Catholic kids to a Catholic school. “Where’s the hypocrisy in that?” I hear you ask. Well, Nick himself is an atheist. He doesn’t believe in any god,...
Continuing with my theme of writing about inconsequential trivial drivel…. It’s surely only a matter of time before I get arrested for this. Contrary to the established traditions of bloggers, I have only one thing that so agitates me to the point of apoplexy. So much so, it has driven me to anti-social (and possibly...
This isn’t an original thought, but it’s my spin on it. This week I met with a large number of recruitment agency directors at a UK Recruiter networking event. James Caan was speaking, and two other guys. No offence to the 2 other guys, one from Barclays Capital, I think, and the other was a...
Right, Who can I slag off next? It seems that in order to take umbrage with certain groups of people, you need to be entitled to do so, by dint of having walked a mile in their shoes. To do otherwise, would be offensive in the extreme, as you clearly “don’t know what you’re talking...
It’s often stated as supposed fact, but I heard this said again recently. I was told that in the UK, the general public loves to build up an individual to an extreme level, and then relish the pleasure in tearing them down again. Another version of this, is that in the UK we resent and...
Credit Control. No, bear with me, this gets interesting. This is the dullest blog subject ever, surely? Until, that is, you are waiting interminably for some tight-arsed penny pinching client to cough up money that has been promised for months. Then it gets absolutely vital. Worse still, when they outright refuse to pay, and dispute...
