May 2008

Half full?

May 13, 2008

People often ask me what sort of person I am, whether I am a ‘glass half full’, or ‘glass half empty’ sort of person. I inevitably respond by making it clear I am the sort of person who would never serve anyone half a glass of anything, and I expect to be treated the same. [...]

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Hypocrisy

May 12, 2008

I recently took advantage of a sale at HMV and purchased some DVDs for my collection. These included the box sets for BBC’s Planet Earth and Blue Planet series, as I like watching a bit of nature on my big television with Dolby surround sound. It makes me feel like I am one with the [...]

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Encouragement

May 6, 2008

I have often considered it strange that discussing someone’s potentially violent death is often seen as a form encouragement. “Oh go on, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow!” This phrase has always struck me as slightly threatening, especially from my mate Dave, what with him being a bus driver. But why does the [...]

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Your tax money at work

May 2, 2008

I don’t do politics. This is a deliberate move to prevent people from realising how ill-informed I actually am about world and state affairs. That said, a few months ago a couple of friends of mine sent me a link to one of those e-petitions on the Internet. Although they had a slightly vested interest [...]

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Vegetarians should die out soon, right?

May 1, 2008

I do not understand how vegetarianism is so popular. It makes no sense whatsoever. It is entirely against our evolutionary imperative as human beings (my apologies to all the non human beings reading this in the future). It is not that I dislike vegetarians personally. Not at all. In fact, I have met some quite [...]

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