by fwordsblog | Aug 17, 2011 | Views on the news
I got really cross after reading a batch of press releases out this week. One, issued by a manufacturer of office cleaning products, listed a variety of dirty habits that are “annoying the UK’s mums”. These include not washing hands after going to the toilet, leaving...
by fwordsblog | Aug 11, 2011 | Views on the news
Tweets are coming in from Manchester police listing the sentences given to those who took part in the riots. People are being jailed for swearing at police. Yes, prison. For swearing. Not assault, not criminal damage, not theft. Swearing. For fuck’s sake. This is...
by fwordsblog | Aug 10, 2011 | Views on the news
There are some very angry people out there. I’m not talking about those involved in the disturbances of the past few days – I’ll come to those later. I’m talking about ordinary, common-or-garden, white, middle-class, middle-aged people, the sort you wouldn’t think of...
by fwordsblog | Aug 5, 2011 | Views on the news
It was National Underwear Day today, according to a press release from a well-known British purveyor of pants and bras. My reaction on reading this was “oh yeah, sez who???” I guessed that, like most of these so-called National Days, this was a manufactured, blatant...
by fwordsblog | Jul 8, 2011 | Views on the news
I don’t know if it’s a sign of the economic times but suddenly everyone I know seems to be re-training. Steph has just graduated with an honours degree in art – after chucking in her job as a teaching assistant to go to uni in her 40s. Kim is about to give up a...
by fwordsblog | Jun 23, 2011 | Views on the news
Got a cryptic message on LinkedIn today, from a bloke called Brian. “Hong Kong?” it asked, simply and enigmatically. The flippant thing to do, of course, would have been to reply, as Wikipedia would put it, “One of two special administrative regions of the People’s...
