Ruts, by definition, are not nice places to be. People often say “just get out of it” but they don’t realise that for the rutted person it’s like saying “well, just haul yourself out of that deep glacial crevasse. Don’t worry about having no rope or climbing boots with spikes”.
It can be depressing.
Take this example. Jessica works for PVC Banners in Lincoln. It’s a good job with good money, but she feels lonely. She recently broke up with her boyfriend and is now seeking to fill that void with something…she’s not sure what, but all Jessica’s friends can see very well that this could be the beginning of another disaster. Now, Jessica has three options, as follows:
1) Listen to her own gut instinct.
2) Listen to her friends and take their advice.
3) Go and see a counsellor.
Seeing a counsellor might not feel too helpful at the time but what it does allow you to do is talk openly…
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My-my…it’s only the morning, I’m 2 posts into the day, and I’m already on a topic so red-hot-dodgy and explosive that it makes me shudder a bit. That topic, of course, is email etiquette – the scurge of our age. The reason I sometimes lunge for a chocolate bar and almost do my back in!
Here, below, is an example of email etiquette gone absolutely, horribly wrong. Read it at your peril, but for goodness sake learn from it DON’T repeat it!
1) Sally often meets people on teacher training courses – I mean, it’s inevitable really, right? The thing is, Sally doesn’t always meet cool people, so when she meets Adam she is over the Moon. She knows she has made a good new friend and after the course is finished, she tells Adam that he must not get confused: she is not after a relationship. He nods and laughs nervously, as if to say I get it, don’t worry about a thing.
Over the next few weeks the emails come pouring in…
2) A week goes by and Sally gets an email. It is Adam, and the email is quite long and full of information. But Sally is a kind person – she will eventually become one of those kind teacher’s who the kids either destroy mercilessly with their dark humour, or who they side with and love over all the others – so she responds enthusiastically. She thinks that it’ll be at least a week or 2 until she hears from Adam again.
3) But Sally is very, very wrong. The next day she receives another email from Adam – this one contains photos and has a lot of question marks. Sally starts to think she should maybe tell him to back off again, but then laughs her worries away. After all, she told him she wasn’t interested, so he’ll have got the message. This will all calm down.
4) Except it doesn’t. Over the next few weeks the emails come pouring in. And I do mean POURING. Sally can’t keep up. In the end, she has to do something she has never even contemplated before: she has to email Adam and ask him to please stop contacting her because it is all just too much…
5) Adam takes the news very badly. He replies immediately with an email stating this. And this, really, is when Sally knew she made a dreadful mistake…
The point of all this is that you never really know who you are speaking to; so be careful out there! Also, sometimes these situations are unavoidable, but if they do occur, it doesn’t necessarily mean it is your fault.
If there is one conversation that I dread being a part of, it has to be the awful, the terrible, the HORRIBLE: “So…what music are you into?”
Because, it’s not just one simple question, is it? No…it represents a bigger thing. It means this person is automatically vetting you against their own definition of good music. In other words, it’s a form of competition and that’s all there is to it.
Here are a few ways to handle this conversation, depending on what job you do:
1) The human resources software manager: human resources people exist on the fringes of work politics, if you weren’t aware. They both communicate with applicants from the outside, and have to also interact with people on the inside. This means they are usually one of two personality types, owing to all the people they meet: a) broad-minded. They like to listen to all kinds of bands, and are open to zany bands that no other employee would even consider listening to. Or they might be b) a secret hardcore fan of one specific type of music. In either case, they will usually handle the aforementioned conversation by being their usual chatty self and revealing everything they know about a band. Not so awkward for them.
…I know a couple of them who are obsessed with Britney Spears and now-defunct bubblegum pop-band Steps…
2) The off-duty fireman: living life constantly on the edge, the fireman has an obsession with just a few bands. He just doesn’t have time for anymore than that. But, during all those high-speed journeys to rescue cats and put out fires, he has become quite besotted with say, Phil Collins. He will handle the aforementioned conversation by saying “Sorry, I must dash! Fire to put out!” He will usually not be lying but if he is then credit where credit is due: it is a mighty fine excuse!
3) The police-officer: they might look stern and like they know very little about music, but, in fact, I know a couple of them who are obsessed with Britney Spears and now-defunct bubblegum pop-band Steps. They will handle this conversation about music by threatening to arrest you if you hate what they think is good music. Not really, but I wouldn’t put it past them…sometimes these conversations CAN get quite heated, right?
4) The Inland Revenue inspector: from my experience, these people just can’t handle a conversation about anything other than numbers. But, when really pushed, may reveal a secret obsession with some obscure boy band who featured in Eurovision many moons ago…no word of a lie!
I’ve always wondered why they called it the Death penalty. To my mind it’s not so much a penalty as a very final act of absoluteness where there is no coming back from. Ever. To call it a penalty makes it sound like a don’t-do-that-again-mister! kind of a warning, yet this is clearly not the case. Presumably once you are dead there are no more penalties to be had or endured.
Really it’s the Death Job.
Debates in the UK are certainly possible, thanks to a new ruling stating that any issue receiving mass attention online should be discussed at a high political level
But anyway, putting the technicalities of the name aside, what’s your stance on the Death Penalty? If there’s one subject which can divide people it is this one. Ever since people stopped getting hung, some have been adamant that it should return, while others have found the idea utterly repulslive, even for those who have committed terrible crimes.
Personally, I believe in it – but only when they can categorically prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the person is guilty. The problem is…doing that, even when you have a lot of evidence, still isn’t that easy. After all, a lot of the time you’re fighting differing opinions about time and date and smaller things which really do matter. Amanda Knox, who is currently in prison in Italy for allegedly carrying out a sex crime with her then-boyfriend – the kind of girl, I might add, who looks very out-of-place as a killer, what with her photos showing her wearing Silk Fabrics and looking like any other girl on the street – knows only too well how serious these matters can be, and is currently serving 26 years. While I’m not saying for sure that she is innocent – although many people are suggesting just that as I type this – there is definitely mounting evidence suggesting that many of the facts originally brought up in the court were wrong.
Now, Ms Knox isn’t facing the death penalty – as far as I am aware – but what if she were? How would we be completely sure? It’s a question which has been the inspiration for numerous books and films over the past 100 or so years. Where human life is concerned, it’s never as easy as we would like it to be.
So what is the next step? Debates in the UK are certainly possible, thanks to a new ruling stating that any issue receiving mass attention online should be discussed at a high political level. Where that will lead to I don’t know, but certainly we’ll never all be on the same page as far as handing out death sentences is concerned.
Ever since I was little I have been prone to being gullible. My dad started it. I was just 6 when he told me about the banana benders.
“Now then,” he said, very seriously, and I remember looking at the trees outside and thinking how his leg was enormous like the trunks of them. “The banana benders make sure each and every banana is bent so it looks absolutely perfect and—”
“Banana-ish?”
He smiled. “You got it, banana-ish. You should patent that word.”
“What does that mean?”
“What?”
“Patent?”
He smiled and said he’d tell me another day.
This was how my childhood was spent: believing in trolls which bent bananas and coconuts which wouldn’t fall on your head because they were nice and could wait until you had moved out of the way.
And it was fine…until I was at the age where curiosity propelled me far and wide to seek out answers to everything. At which age my world of magic coconuts and bent bananas dissolved.
That was the least he deserved for harming my brain in such a horrifying way!
No, I haven’t lost my mind, the title of this post is genuine and real.
See, for as long as I have been alive I have been an argumentative person. The kind of individual who can conjure up an argument of epic proportions from literally the smallest thing. I know…I know…it’s a bad character trait to have. But at the same time it’s good for me. It might not be so good for others around me, but it’s good for me, and here is why.
Try it sometime, if you haven’t, and you’ll see what I am saying! It’ll be an immediate release
No, I haven’t lost my mind, the title of this post is genuine and real.
See, for as long as I have been alive I have been an argumentative person. The kind of individual who can conjure up an argument of epic proportions from literally the smallest thing. I know…I know…it’s a bad character trait to have. But at the same time it’s good for me. It might not be so good for others around me, but it’s good for me, and here is why.
I think I am happiest when I am arguing with people. Why? Because it’s such a RELEASE. You know? Not only that, but while I am making this release I feel as though I am working things out which have been stuck going round and round in my head for some time. This means that inevitably after an argument I am a happier person. This also means that I then spend the next few hours – or minutes, as is preferred – waiting for the next one!
There is a flip-side to this, of course. That’s to say that when I go too deep with my arguments I can sometimes get peoples backs up to the point that they don’t want to spend any time with me. Fair enough, I can’t complain about that, as much as I would like to. I suppose, with me being such an expert arguer, it must be quite hard coming up against me as the formidable foe that I so often am.
Try it sometime, if you haven’t, and you’ll see what I am saying! It’ll be an immediate release. And don’t worry, you can choose literally anything to start an argument, from how to spell Richard Branson to where laser hair removal haywards heath is located. Even if you have loads of hair, more hair than a hairy-backed monkey!
Some good suggested argumentative topics are as follows:
1) The death penalty.
2) Racism.
3) F1.
4) Football and generally all sports.
There are millions more than that, of course. Really, if I had any business sense I would set up a business selling scripts which people could follow to get into a great big argument at any moment they wanted. I’m sure I’m missing a trick in there somewhere. But then again, Alan Sugar has probably already thought of it, and if not him then that Richard Branson fella with all his load of airplanes.
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Open the scrapbook and all in a second, all in a rushing moment, the following things happen:
1) You’re back in Ko Samui, 1989, before the tourist boom. The weather is raging hot, and it’s the kind of very-early where people are still lying around from the night before.
2) You’re in a cafe in Paris. You feel very hungry, but you smile.
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