Moral dilemmas; Sometimes I feel like one of those agony aunts or uncles they used to have in the tabloid papers; the ones where people would write in and ask for advice on whether or not they should sleep with the milkman because they think their partner’s cheating with the barmaid. I recently had someone […]
Love the one you’re with! A well-known comedian does a bit as part of his stand-up act where he talks about him and his wife ‘spending quality time together on their phones, at separate ends of the sofa’, and jokes that it’s not his wife’s fault that she’s, ‘not as interesting as a phone. No
Learn to live on lentils. On seeing the philosopher, Diogenes, eating bread and lentils, fellow philosopher, Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king said, “If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.” Diogenes replied, “Learn to live on lentils and you will not have
People don’t leave bad jobs; they leave devil bosses! I know it’s a well-worn phrase, but one that has a huge element of truth to it. A survey carried out at the tail-end of last year revealed that a staggering 75% of workers who left their place of employment did so because of an issue
I’ve got this mate called Jim whose mantra is, ‘I’ve just gotta get through the next couple of weeks and I’ll be ok,’ – and I’ve heard it so often that I’ve told him it’ll be on his bloody gravestone (he won’t mind me telling you this, I rip the piss out of him for
