Odtaa - One damn thing after another
So was the closure of the News of the World, 'because of the hacking', or really a long term plan to close it anyway? I don't understand why it was closed so quickly. It would have been easy to sack a few members of staff and keep the paper going, maybe a bit subdued, for a year or so. So using the scandal has the following benefits to Continue Reading
In theory this is a good thing as it does help the individual gain the experience of working and working as part of a team. It should also give an insight into other possibilities and give a warning that if you don't actually do something about your life then this sort of job or poverty on the dole is all you will get out of life. However, if Continue Reading
Describe the best road trip you’ve ever taken Hitch-hiking from Athens to Brussels with only five dollars, a loaf of bread and a carrot to my name. Slept mostly on building sites. Got surrounded by Yugoslav military with machine guns for picking firewood in a military zone. Got drunk three times - toasting Greece and Britain co-operation Continue Reading
Describe your dream vacation. Bonus: describe your last vacation. (extra-bonus, is to compare your dream vacation to your last one). I'm training up for my dream holiday, which will take place in 2012. It will be a long trip around Europe in my camper van Bongo Little. I will cross the Channel from England in April travel slowly through Continue Reading
I lost my belief in religion in Bethlehem. I was there three weeks after the Six Day War and Israel really challenges your views. You walk around a corner and you are suddenly in completely different way of life. I got to meet Jews, Christians, Druze, Bahai, Muslims and many different interpretations of these faiths including a town of black, Continue Reading
I hate the fact that David Cameron, our supposed leader, made an attack on multiculturalism, which was clearly biased against Islam. There are some terrorists who are Moslem, but I have lived my life under the threat of Irish Republican terrorists. When I was working as a telephonist in the old Post Office an IRA bomb killed a telephonist. I, or Continue Reading
In the next couple of years the existing, real 'Big Society' is going to be bulldozed. The grant cuts to local authorities are going hack to death many local excellent projects. For example there will probably be 250 Sure-Start schemes axed. These schemes help turn around mothers in the most deprived areas and help them and their children have Continue Reading
Topic: Who is your greatest hero This started me thinking of the women in my family and so I'd like to nominate four women as heroes: Ninny – my great grandmother had a horrible life living in a two up and two down house, which backed onto the railway shunting area so there was always the taste of smoke from trains. Her husband was nasty. Continue Reading
This is my response to the query what was your best ideal job and what was the worst job you've ever done? Best job Sticking the tassels on the show girls at the Folies Bergere - it's ony $5 per hour - but it's all I could afford. Woody Allan Seriously I would like to set up a computer training centre in an area of high unemployment, but Continue Reading
