Going back to catastrophist headlines: I saw one a few days ago: “Risk of death increases when you’re mourning your loved ones”.
Okay. You’ve just lost your significant other, your sibling, your parents, close friend, etc. Do you really need to be told that you might die of grief? Enough already.
Let me assure you that some of my best friends are Americans who have very advanced knowledge of geography. It is they, far more than me, who mock their compatriots about this.
I think there is a residual element of Manifest Destiny in all this. Quite a few of your fellow countrymen think, at...
Burkina Faso, formerly Upper Volta.
I deliberately chose a place that was obscure (from a European or North American standpoint) and hot.
Americans have an interesting relationship with geography. I can remember a UCLA graduate on my postgrad course back in the day asking: ‘Is India near...
Agreed. It is essentially a “self-help”, consumerist approach to health and “wellness”, with Big Pharma pulling the strings and promoting toxic products - rather like the poisonous ‘elixirs of life’ taken in some ancient civilisations.
I must qualify the above statement by making clear that I...
The latest media thing, after being told we’re going to ‘enjoy’ the heatwave, is to have endless warning to stay out of the sun at all costs or - to use the immortal words of Private Fraser in ‘Dad’s Army’ - ‘we’re all doooomed’ … As usual in modern Britain, there’s no middle way.
That brings...
I very much agree. We are talking Seventh Circle of Hell. Fortunately I am working from home for the next week and don't have to venture into central London from the SW suburbs. I am not designed for this type of weather, being fair skinned with dark red hair, etc. My ancestors came from North...
In the latest instance it is a company I have worked with for some years. I have had a grovelling apology from the boss, but he seems not to understand fully that this type of email is unacceptable. It’s reassuring in a way to know that it isn’t just the U.K.
Another example of bad manners in the new low class Britain: emails from staff at often well-established companies that begin ‘Good Morning’ or ‘Good Afternoon’ without troubling to write the name of the person being addressed. I have experienced this recently with several companies I have...
I have just checked and WLAC is now billed as the station ‘Where Nashville Comes to Talk’. For some reason it doesn’t broadcast to Britain online. If it did, I could now be listening to the Sean Hannity Show. … I am not sorry to be deprived of this privilege.
Listening to worldwide radio is...
WLAC was internationally renowned for decades as The R&B Station. I speak as a bit of a radio obsessive since my schoolboy days in the 1970s. I think it’s now ‘talk radio’?
I do not accept it and, as I said yesterday, I send documents back if ‘they’ is used where it should say ‘he or she’. As I am paying for these documents- which are usually contracts with clients - I can have them worded in any way I want as long as it is professional.
This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register.
By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.