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A Visit To My Local
My local, the Mount Radford is a terrific place to meet friends and socialise in a congenial atmosphere; if that is you are a student. The prices are really reasonable; if you are a student The prices are really expensive; if you are not a student, as somebody has to pay for the student discount The staff will be friendly and engaging; if you are a student The staff will be unresponsive, ignorant and downright rude; if you are not a student I'm gonna stop now before I say something more I'll regret......... Disagree? Write your own review here.
Saint Monday
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Saint MondayΒ is the tradition ofΒ absenteeismΒ on aΒ Monday.[where?]Β Saint TuesdayΒ is the less common extension of this to a Tuesday.[1]Β The tradition of taking Monday off has been common among craft workers since at least the seventeenth century,[2]Β when the workweek ran from Monday to Saturday as had been the custom and expectation for centuries. Brother workmen, cease your labour, Lay your files and hammers by Listen while a brother neighbour Sings aΒ cutlerβsΒ destiny: Fare thee well ye factory darlinβs Fare the well me cruel machine Men are here to wet their whiskers Whiskey, Gin and auld Poteen How upon a good Saint…
If you do the crime, you do the time. . . .
What's wrong with performing your ablutions in a bucket and in front of your cell mate? What's wrong with emptying your own waste each morning? "Slop out, slop out", cried the screw in the corridor as he opened up the foul smelling cell to allow us to empty the offending mulch into the bog at the end of said corridor. Is this Victorian England? No, the prison is indeed Victorian, but the year is 1980 and this was the start to every day. I was doing my time for my crimes, and there it ends; if you can't do the time,…
What’s It All About? (1)
I landed on planet earth to the screams of my poor mother on Wednesday June 6th 1962 at 15:00, or 3pm in old money. βNever againβ, she was heard to say afterwards, and like with most things she said, she meant it. I imagine that my father was in the betting shop at the time, as back in those days the Epsom Derby was run on a Wednesday, and it was a big event. Larkspur won the race under Neville Sellwood and trained by the Irish legend Vincent OβBrien, his first winner of six in the race down the years. Iβm…
Chinese Burns
I am not a communist, but I am an anticapitalist As far as Communism goes, if you call a bunch of Capitalists selling off their country's assets for their own avaricious and political gain a "collapse", consider this: What about Great Depression, the worst systemic banking crisis of the 20th century, or the 2008 International Banking Crisis, whereby we are left paying the price, whilst the people who caused it still live it up in Kensington & Chelsea with their Oligarch mates. The fucking irony is that remaining so called Communist countries are now playing the Capitalist game better than the…
A Tale Of Two Cities
For those who do not dwell on the cruel and barbarous actions of the Stasi, what is now often forgotten is that the GDR also represented an effort to build a completely new and egalitarian society. Gender equality and equal pay for men and women were part of the GDR from the very beginning. The 1949 constitution was direct and very clear: Γ’β¬ΕMen and women are equal.Γ’β¬Β A law introduced in 1950 ensured that women retained their rights after marriage and introduced financial support for mothers who devoted their time to looking after their children. This applied not only to married…
Wise Words I
The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face. Pablo Picasso
Gatwick Blairport
The transport secretary Heidi Alexander tells the annual dinner of trade body, Airlines UK in London." I love flying, I always have". Meanwhile Kier Stammer (sic) bubbles with pride at the UK's progress on carbon emissions .......... oh well, thats politics. Or as the transport secretary and Margaret Thatcher would call it, "growth".
Howards End
62 hours of pure joy; for little more than a large whiskey. 62 hours of not wasting precious funds on booze, to be told; "Vapers Not Welcome". Is it any wonder that a record number of so called "pubs", closed last month? Truth is, there are hardly any real "boozers" left - ever since John Prescott declared "we are all middle class now", and 10 years after that introduced the ban on smoking as the ultimate coup de grace, so that people could take their kids into pubs (is that really wise in any case? We aint French after all). People,…
Whatever happened to the British boozer?
It was late in 2007 as I sat ruminating over the decline in pub trade in my local, The Duke Of York in Crediton, Devon. As it goes, I actually lived over 8 miles away and had to commute, but thatβs a story for another post.Β We knew it was coming of course, Tony Blair and the European Fascist Community had seen to that back in July with the ban on smoking in public places. I was incensed enough to take up the mighty quill and pen this missive to the Sunday Times editor, showing my disgust at this flagrant abuse…
The Public gets what the Public wants
Explore the latest UK Prime Minister odds as a fragile government faces change, with Elon Musk's political ambitions stirring the pot. Are you prepared for the shift?
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Brazil: βHuge leap forwardβ as demarcation of uncontacted Kawahiva groupβs land is completed
