Mourning the loss of a title
We had a name, a title that required perseverance to achieve. We contributed a substantial amount of hard-earned tax money to achieve this name. After all, it isn’t everyday that your street would be declared as the worst road in the entire county. We held this title for five months! They tried to knock us [...]
PIN chip technology not foolproof
I don’t understand this obsession with PIN-chip credit and debit cards. When we first opened a current account with our bank, we were given a cash account – that meant you could only access money at the ATM machines. When we started having regular deposits into the account, the cash account was converted into the [...]
Obesity is now a ‘green’ crisis
What went wrong? How did we go from a society where 3% of the population were obese to one that is 40% obese? All this in approximately 30-35 years. Can it all be attributed to a decrease in level of activity and an increase in intake of unhealthy foods? Can we also put the blame on [...]
Daylight Saving Time – what a bunch of baloney
Daylight Saving Time or British Summer Time. The US has just gone through it. We will be going through it soon. After all these years, I still don’t get it. Why do we have to do this? Proponents of DST point out all the benefits of using the extra hour of daylight. What are they [...]
The New Melting Pot
I am increasingly frustrated by people of various backgrounds who demand changes by well-established organizations to meet their own ethnic and religious requirements. Not that I don’t believe in equal rights. It’s just that sometimes we go too far, bending over backwards to accommodate all these groups that we start to lose our own original [...]
Beware the Killer Ants!
Batten down the hatches, they’re on their way! Of course they are. Just as a few years earlier the killer bees, killer rats and swarms of killer locusts were scheduled to reach our shores. All we got was a luckless chilled Tarantula in a Sainsbury’s warehouse that had snuck in to a crate of imported [...]
Assisted suicide should not be an answer
Some days I am grateful for advances in technology that have improved our lives. Other days, I curse them. Not because they impose hindrances in my life particularly, but I see how it changes the world’s viewpoints and expectations and it frustrates me. Sometimes I’m very pessimistic, but for the most part, I think I’m [...]
Let’s control the native population birth rate
A couple of doctors are urging other doctors in the UK to discuss family planning with their patients. Sounds reasonable. But when you get down into the arguments for this family planning, it becomes farcical, illogical and ultimately, unsustainable. The reasons quoted for this “new†idea of birth control is the increased carbon gas emissions [...]
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