"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." "Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up." We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful. Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance A punctured bicycle
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Will nature make a man of me yet? All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life. Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens. We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on. It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause | It’s hard to be humble when you come from Stoke Newington – as many of the residents prove. Not affluent: mean, mode or median? Obviously not all (or even many) of them grew up there, but house prices now and the deceit of short-term rentals around the parish of St Mary’s each time a scion hits Year-6 will embed the burgeoning ‘new priest-class’ there. Also, Hackney improvements today coincide with opening of 3 academies – ie. schools not run by the local authority, an authority that hosted the first school in Britain closed under special measures. With the loss of [ continue reading another reason to be SMUG-16 ] “The world’s population is burning through the planet’s resources at such a reckless rate – about 28 per cent more last year – it will eventually cause environmental havoc, said the Worldwatch Institute, a US think-tank. In its annual State of the World 2010 report, it warned any gains from government action on climate change could be wiped out by the cult of consumption and greed unless changes in our lifestyle were made.” (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> Human civilisation ‘will collapse’ unless greed culture is stopped, report warns – Telegraph: .) Or cycle, walk, swim on your own because you actually enjoy it? “Tradition dictates that this is a difficult time of year. It’s the point where we have to swap the sofa for a sweaty gym. We’ll also be deluged by diet and fitness advice. Sadly, tradition also dictates that you’ll ignore this. In Europe, there has been a serious decline in physical activity over the past 50 years. Adults aged 20-60 years expend 500kcal less energy per day than they did 50 years ago. As Dr Jules Pretty, professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex, [ continue reading What’s the green alternative to joining a gym? ] Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, Choose a f**king big television Choose washing-machines, cars, compact-disc players, and electrical tin-openers. Choose good-health, low-cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter-home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure-wear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire-purchase in a range of f**king fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game-shows stuffing f**king junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home [ continue reading choice ] Less feared by whom? It would be hard for anyone to have ‘feared’ it less than I do. The swine flu pandemic is “considerably less lethal” than feared, chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson says. BBC News – Swine flu less lethal than feared. 1. Bought everyone in the pub a drink. 2. Swam with dolphins. 3. Climbed a mountain. 4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive. 5. Been inside the Great Pyramid. 6. Held a tarantula. 7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone. 8. Said ‘I love you’ and meant it. 9. Hugged a tree. 10. Done a striptease. [ continue reading in 2009 did you… (tick the list) ….. ] stage 1: believes in Santa stage 2: does not believe in Santa stage 3: is Santa stage 4: plans to ring up to see if Santa came “Playing more than one sport should protect you from injury claim scientists” (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> Telegraph News | UK News Children playing multiple sports suffer fewer injuries: .) “Cast iron has been around for hundreds of years. Before fancy teflon cookware was even a notion, cast iron was the standard for good cooks everywhere. Dependable, that%u2019s what cast iron is. It will last for centuries if properly cared for, and it has a natural non-stick surface that%u2019s eco-friendly. You can bake a pan of cornbread, scramble some eggs, make your favorite vegetarian black bean chili or sear a perfect steak. Cast iron cookware is the definition of all-purpose.” (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> Top 5 Reasons Why Cast Iron Is The Greenest Choice For Non-Stick Cooking [ continue reading Top 5 Reasons Why Cast Iron Is The Greenest Choice For Non-Stick Cooking ] Who Moved My Cheese View more presentations from pamwattie. Exercising together appears to increase the level of the feel-good endorphin hormones naturally released during physical exertion, a study suggests. A team from Oxford University carried out tests on 12 rowers after a vigorous workout in a virtual boat. Those who trained alone withstood less pain – a key measure of endorphins – than those who exercised together. [LINK] So turns out that the whole ‘staycation’ thing was just another ‘phew what a scorcher’ myth, yukky word too “Heathrow enjoyed its third-busiest month ever during July as rain-soaked ‘staycationers’ headed abroad to escape the dismal UK downpours.” (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> the Mail online | Home Heathrow sees record passenger numbers as families ditch the ‘staycation’ and go in search of the sun: .) Well Amanda is going to have her ‘above the parapet’ head shot off now by all those people with self-diagnosed ‘slow metabolisms’. “Confession time. I am a fattist. I find obese people unappealing in almost every regard. They are physically unattractive, they lead unhealthy lives, they take up too much space on public transport, and (most of all) they are a strain not only on their clothing but on NHS resources. The secret of their size? Their outsized appetites are matched by a lack of self-control and even less self-respect. “ (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> My visit to [ continue reading My visit to Fat Central on a mission to find out who’s really to blame for our obesity crisis ] This will be followed by smaller plates, miniature cutlery, smaller family bottles of fizzy drinks and maybe even smaller shopping trollies – and people will just buy more of the confectionary. “Chocolate bars could be cut in size to help fight the obesity epidemic. The Food Standards Agency wants the average bar to be reduced by up to a fifth to reduce daily calorie intake.” They could always make “Portion Pacers” compulsory. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> the Mail online | Health Chocolate bars could be made smaller to help fight obesity: .) [ continue reading Chocolate bars could be made smaller to help fight obesity ] If you place a thing in the centre of your life that lacks the power to nourish, it will eventually poison everything that you are and destroy you. As simple a thing as an idea your perspective on yourself or the world. No one can be the source of your content – it lies within, in the centre. Maxi Jazz of Faithless, “Liontamer” “All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.” – “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” “The head teacher, a member of the Government’s national panel of expert advisers, warned of a looming ‘educational apartheid’ if state schools generally abandoned traditional subjects while independent schools, grammars, academies and trust schools ignored the drive to introduce cross-curricular themes.” (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> Axe traditional school subjects and standards will fall, warns top head – Telegraph: .) (Via Axe traditional school subjects and standards will fall, warns top head – Telegraph: .) Isn’t science wonderful! “Simply getting a good night’s sleep could reduce levels of hyperactivity and bad behaviour among children, a Finnish study reports. It has been suggested that some children who lack sleep do not appear tired, but instead behave badly.” (Via BBC NEWS | Health | Child behaviour ‘linked to sleep’: .) “The physiological stress on kids that accompanies poverty can adversely affect brain development and hinder working memory in adulthood. “ (Via Wired News Poverty Goes Straight to the Brain: .) … and next week more about that nasty rumour that the world is not flat … “The growing expectation placed on schools and parents to boost pupils’ self-esteem is breeding a generation of narcissists, an expert has warned [LINK]. Dr Carol Craig said children were being over-praised and were developing an ‘all about me’ mentality. She said teachers increasingly faced complaints from parents if their child failed a spelling test or did not get a good part in the school pantomime. Schools needed to reclaim their role as educators, not psychologists, she said.”………… She told head teachers the self-esteem agenda, [ continue reading Warning over narcissistic pupils – nation of selfish big-heads being raised says expert ] Other people noted humour as investigative journalism … “As briefly noted here earlier, the most talked-about journalism of the day wasn’t produced by the New York Times, CNN, Newsweek or NPR. It was Jon Stewart’s epic, eight-minute takedown on last night’s “Daily Show” of CNBC’s clueless, in-the-tank reporting of inflatable bubbles and blowhard CEOs as the U.S. and world economies slowly slid into a meltdown. You can quibble about Stewart’s motives in starting the piece — after he was spurned for an interview by CNBC’s faux populist ranter Rick Santelli — but you can’t argue with the results. (Via [ continue reading What battered newsrooms can learn from Stewart’s CNBC takedown ] This is scary – people are being told that pentapeptides smeared on their skin do not necessarily reverse the effects of ageing and that the manufacturer did not provide sufficient evidence that it did! “An Olay advert claiming it’s skin cream reduced the appearance of line and wrinkles has been criticised as misleading by the advertising watchdog. A total of 46 viewers, including a doctor, complained to the Advertising Standards Authority saying the advert, which recommended the cream be used instead of cosmetic injections, was offensive and demeaning to women. The ASA said: ‘Many viewers objected that the ad was [ continue reading Olay wrinkle cream advert banned ] “The ‘public circus’ surrounding the Big Brother star ‘is perilously close to becoming a form of entertainment’, says James Landale, chief political correspondent for the BBC News Channel, who is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer of the lymph system” (Via Jade Goody: ‘Circus’ surrounding her death is like ‘eating a picnic at a public hanging’ – Telegraph: .) “Using hands-free mobile phones is worse than drink-driving, experts warn” (Via the Mail online | Home Using hands-free mobile phones is worse than drink-driving, experts warn: .) “Interest in taking languages at GCSE could be boosted due to the current work being carried out in the primary sector, it has been suggested.A growing number of primary schools have begun teaching their pupils a range of languages since it was announced that it will be compulsory for all young children to learn a language by 2010.And according to director of communication at the National Centre for Languages (Cilt) Teresa Tinsley, this could serve to increase take-up of these …” (Via National Union of Teachers Language GCSE take-up ‘could be boosted’ by primary teaching: .) [ continue reading Language GCSE take-up ‘could be boosted’ by primary teaching ] “Schools in poor areas can transform results by imposing traditional discipline and keeping ‘ street culture’ out of classrooms, Ofsted inspectors have found. Formal assemblies, smart uniforms, high expectations of students and a hard line against drugs, alcohol and gang culture can boost results and behaviour among pupils from deprived backgrounds. But thousands of children are being let down by schools with ‘ limited ambitions’ which fail to create an orderly environment for learning because they believe poverty is an excuse for under-achievement.” (Via How inner-city schools are transformed by discipline including smart uniforms and a hard line [ continue reading How inner-city schools are transformed by discipline including smart uniforms and a hard line on ‘street culture’ ] What about the fact that boys dress as gangsters and girls become convinced that it is acceptable to walk around dressed like prostitutes – but I would fight for their right to do it. “Listening to music with degrading sexual lyrics could prompt teenagers to start having sex earlier, a US study suggests.” (Via BBC News Music linked to teen sex habits: .) | Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?" Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes. There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile. Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit "Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future." "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved. heavy words thrown lightly And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” |
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