Live while you are alive
The Rueful Hippopotamus Research now seems to indicate? That hippos can communicate, Like dolphins or the great blue whale, With clicks. And thereby hangs a tale, For they can hear beneath the water Things on land they didn’t oughta; And from the bank can hear what’s said By colleagues on the river bed. Imagine you’re …
The British philosopher and author Prof AC Grayling comments that “Passion suggests something active to us,” he says. “But if you look at the etymology of the term, it’s passive – it’s something that happens to you – like love or anger or lust – that was visited on you by the gods. Unlike passion, …
Sorry, but I need to vent!!!! I experienced the WORST customer service today at a shop in Malvern, I don’t want to mention the name of the shop because I’m not sure how I’m going to proceed. Last night I bought something from this shop. I paid cash for it. I took it home and …
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has rejected accusations it is operating a “migrant taxi service” by rescuing people at risk of dying in the water as they cross the Channel in small boats. The volunteer lifeboat charity said it was “very proud” of its humanitarian work and vowed that it would continue to respond to …
Yesterday, I posted a comment in praise of the British National Health service. Polls show that British people overwhelmingly oppose the privatisation of the National Health Service, which has been surreptitiously proceeding under the right-wing Tory government. In 2017 a YouGov survey found that 84% were against it, and I suspect that that opinion hasn’t …
