A former director of the Poetry Society, and literary programmer at London's Southbank Centre
And anyone whose twitter account is: @queenchristina really does need a reality check
Ah! MR Cod'ead speaks. The man who regularly provides links to the Gospel according to The Independent. I thought it was odd he hadn't provided this particular link, so I obliged. Clearly, The Independent, like the Daily Mail et al can be unreliable when the views expressed in it don't accord with one's own. Cod'ead - you ought to get a job in censorship!
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Dally wrote:Ah! MR Cod'ead speaks. The man who regularly provides links to the Gospel according to The Independent. I thought it was odd he hadn't provided this particular link, so I obliged. Clearly, The Independent, like the Daily Mail et al can be unreliable when the views expressed in it don't accord with one's own. Cod'ead - you ought to get a job in censorship!
Now why on earth would I provide links to articles written by someone with whom I don't agree?
One of the reasons I read the Indy is exactly because they have columnists and commentators whose views are at odds with mine. It's called keeping an open mind, something the average Dally Wail reader should try some time.
The older I get, the better I was
Advice is what we seek when we already know the answer - but wish we didn't
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full-frontal lobotomy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ kirkstaller wrote: "All DNA shows is that we have a common creator."
cod'ead wrote: "I have just snotted weissbier all over my keyboard & screen"
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin." - Aneurin Bevan
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Rock God X wrote:What new things do you suggest they try? Casual racism, perhaps?
Best to start with homophobia and work up to racism.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
I work for Debenhams, in a warehouse not a store, and we currently have FIVE of these free-labour lads on our books for eight weeks. I was on benefits for 3 years up until the job centre put me on a work placement at a British Heart Foundation shop in Widnes. During my time there i applied for a job at Debenhams and got it, 6 years later I'm still working full time, earning a wage. It's a positive move if done right. The only thing you can say about my experience though is that the beneficiary of MY forced work was a charity, not a multi-billion pound business....
100% Wire wrote:I work for Debenhams, in a warehouse not a store, and we currently have FIVE of these free-labour lads on our books for eight weeks. I was on benefits for 3 years up until the job centre put me on a work placement at a British Heart Foundation shop in Widnes. During my time there i applied for a job at Debenhams and got it, 6 years later I'm still working full time, earning a wage. It's a positive move if done right. The only thing you can say about my experience though is that the beneficiary of MY forced work was a charity, not a multi-billion pound business....
We had a lad come and work for us for free - he was a friend of my son and had the initiative to ask us to give him work experience. We offered him advice for job interviews and he got a job with a large firm in a department he wanted to work in. Before joining us he had got nowhere.
A Russian lady came and worked for us for free because she was bored sitting at home. She would even turn up unannounced and come and ask to do work. In return we offered gave her leads to work on a self-employed basis for one or two of our clients. She has now taken on other work and is working more of less full-time on a self-employed basis.
It seems to me that people who show initiative and take chances they are offered (like you did) get rewarded.
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