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Experimenting with echoes
Recently I have been conducting a highly scientific experiment on the power of suggestion. I have been repeating a phrase over and over, not repetitively but just when I can find a way to squeeze it in, to two children that a good friend of mine is related to. Let’s call them Fuzz and Rona Continue reading
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Banter training
“Banter training” my pal tells me, that’s what’s going on in his workplace now. Holy fudge what an notion. Let’s destroy it.. Right, firstly we can easily dismiss the idea that ‘banter’ is something that can be defined. That a person can draw a line in the sand that says “this is banter up to Continue reading
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Argument is not easy
I thought I’d do a short one for a change, just something to think on… “Talk to her coworkers, find out what they know”, this line is delivered by the police captain, and she’s talking to her seasoned detectives. Now we are talking about a TV drama here, and the thing that happens in a Continue reading
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Words they seem so right
Heavyweight champion of the world – Reverend and the Makers. I too had hopes and dreams, but here I am. Mortgage buying a 3 bed semi in the burbs, got a job in a supermarket, I have 2 kids and a plump wife, and maybe I’m kind of plump myself. This isn’t me but it’s Continue reading
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From above, from below
The leaders chosen from below are almost always better than the leaders chosen from above, and there’s got to be a good reason… From above… Sycophancy, the powerful will notice who laughs the most, and the loudest, at their usually unfunny jokes and quips. They notice who stays behind after the bell goes to go Continue reading
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Newspeak
It strikes me, that there is a particular problem with the way that we speak to each other, and I wish to examine it. I think I know why this phenomenon happens, but is it useful? My friend is fat, really fat, colossally fat, I simply cannot state how fat the fucker is in strong Continue reading
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Speaking so as NOT to be understood
If we reckon that the goal of good communication is to be understood by those we are communicating with, then what could possibly be the goal of bad communication? In this piece I will refer to the person giving information as the communicator, and the person getting as the receiver, if that makes it seem Continue reading
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Control the Narrative
What the powerful have always wanted is to control the narrative of their lives, to create an image of themselves in other peoples eyes, this has been very important to them for a long time. We can see this motivation played out in history when thinking of the Roman Emperors (Domitian became a hero to Continue reading
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Contemptable Verbiage
Contemptable Verbiage is a term my older brother Peter used to use, I have no idea where he got it.. I am pretty sure it’s now just a circus, the news I mean, the mainstream, every-day, vanilla, standard news. The problem with it is its lack of purpose and relevance, who it’s speaking to, who Continue reading
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Stop watching the TV
(Written in early 2022) I’m going to stop watching Television. I mean ffs it’s ridiculous.. Wayne Rooney has revealed that he’s a human male that does human male stuff that other human males frequently do – so he needs a new amazon show to make some money out of that fact. Revealing all, he’ll likely Continue reading
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