I know nothing about Yul Brynner; you’re wondering why I’ve writ?Thing is I’m sorta telling tales – I do know just a little bit I know he dressed in black a lot and that he shaved his headYeah, okay: Everyone knows that, is what you probably said? I was pretty sure he wasn’t christened with…
Category: Blog
Note to readers: If in doubt, it’s humour
Hiding In Plain Sight
A quick guide to Add-Ons and other techniques that can help Mozilla Firefox help you protect your privacy while online. It isn’t exhaustive. It is a start. Firefox Use a privacy aware browser: https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/mission/ UBlock https://ublockorigin.com/ UBlock – and its active community of privacy aware folk – is now approaching its seventh birthday. Use it…
Jolly
The Good, the Bad … If you are old enough to remember when the fella pictured was new (and so maybe funny); if you remember trains before quiet-coaches were a thing; if you remember when change was a physical-item (not a belief-system) and a mobile was something that hung over a cot … Then maybe…
Animal
There is no right way to be human. No blueprint that describes us. No manual that you can follow. No correct way to do it. No one size that fits all. Male or female. Gay or straight. Disabled. Able bodied. Black, white, fat, thin, short or tall. Any and all shades of all those in…
Location Location Location
The other day I watched, Who Do You Think You Are?, with Michelle Keegan. In it, she said that she felt, “At Home”, only when she was in Manchester (the city she grew up in) – that she felt comfortable when she was there (as opposed to trekking about the globe, making exciting TV shows)….
42
You know Countdown, that quiz show on the telly? I think life’s a bit like the numbers mini-game, on that. Douglas Adams said that the answer to the meaning of life is forty-two. However, I’ve never seen written – or seen an interview with him, where he said – exactly what he meant? (If you…
@shortlist.com
@Shortlist.com – Editorial 10th May 2018 [Joe Mackertich] Prejudice makes no class distinction, nor takes account of your sex. Prejudice knows no age, nor could it give a sh*t about your nationality. Prejudice doesn’t care about your gender; says fk your weight and your height. Prejudice knows no religion; makes no allowance for disability. Prejudice…
Underdog
The hardest ghosts to slay … Pressure is a very strange thing, isn’t it? Turns otherwise sane people into mad-folk; turns super-star athletes into tightly strung wrecks. It’s been said that she believes her worst opponent, her greatest critic, is herself. I don’t think it’s that, though – Not any more. She’s not playing herself,…
Open
“[Serena] doesn’t give much away [in her] interviews, does she?” If you look carefully, over the top of that broken bit of wall, a little way up the hill and to the right of the tree, there’s a figure – A person – An old woman wearing a dark shawl and a grey skirt. Who…
Superman versus Batman
Why might someone reject a SuperHero who can fly, for one with no super powers? Image from batman.wikia.com Forgiveness seems to be a thing most would like to be offered, but not so many want to give. Revenge seems to be a thing many want to take, but few agree should be extracted from them….