Over Christmas I watched a number of musical programmes and enjoyed most of them. One I was not impressed with however was Celtic Thunder Christmas. I’d watched a couple of their programmes before and liked them, but this one didn’t live up to either my expectations or the title. You’d expect something called Celtic Thunder …
Category: This occurred to me
The More Things Change –
On a current affairs programme recently an ex-soldier who’d suffered severe injuries in the line of duty was complaining that he hadn’t been given reasonable compensation and that he felt abandoned by the Government. He was about to lose his home to debts through no fault of his own and was unable to understand why …
A TRIO OF DEATHS.
So far as celebrities and stars go it’s been a lethal month. Peter O’Toole the actor died at 81 in London December 14th. I well remember, in the 1960s, going to see the movie, Laurence of Arabia, that made his name as an actor, The film was brilliant, I’m not at all sure how historically …
Naive Supermarkets
It occurred to me that some businesses do howl when they kick someone else and stub their own toe. There was a news item about the amount of stock that self-service checkouts in supermarkets are losing. But that goes back to their own decision to lose a number of checkout operators. What you had originally …
Responsibility?
The other night I was watching one of a series of documentaries on TV. The series is entitled The World’s Scariest… this particular one as, Near Misses. And some of the events depicted were very near misses. Not of injuries because a number of those involved were badly injured, but of death. And once the …
Social Media Can be Useful
Of recent weeks there’s been a howling fuss about a group of silly little boys who went onto their website to describe activities that were – at the least – immoral if not illegal. (And IMHO they were also illegal) but the interesting thing to me was that they generated huge notice because they could …
Recent Hiatus.
I know computers are Wonderful. That progress is Wonderful, and that I should approve computers and progress. There are times however, when I’m not sure not sure if computers and progress are Wonderful, and not sure if I do approve them. Such a time arrived on Monday two weeks or so back. I connected up …
School Bullied.
Recently I was reading articles on the Columbine school shooting and it seemed to me that the authors made two errors. One was to assume that this was the first school shooting of its type. The other was that they seemed to believe that such things happened only in North America. On the first, I …
Was He Picked On?
I see on TV this morning that Michael le Vell of Coronation Street fame was acquitted of rape and assault charges after the jury deliberated a bare four (or five, reports claim both) Â hours. And when you add in going out to the jury room, sorting out who’s sitting where, hearing from the court …
Psychometrically Speaking.
It can be interesting to see where an inquiring mind takes you. Since there’s currently a row going on about certain tests being used for Government employment/redundencies I amused myself by doing a couple of the psychometric personality tests now being argued in court. Seeing as how I was doing the tests for fun, I …