Lots of love or is it?
I was listening to the radio today when an article that was mentioned made me chuckle. I would say it made me lol but you'll understand why I've not used this term later. There was a woman who didn't quite understand the language of text. A few examples being, brb, rofl and the commonly used lol. Now this woman had heard about the tragic loss of a friend and decided to send a sympathy card
. What she wasn't aware of though was that she was about to offend the receiver. She ended her message with lol thinking it meant "lots of love". Now for anyone who doesn't know the true text meaning of lol, it means "laugh out loud", Awkward!
You Have Been Evicted Please Leave Our Screens
I'm relishing the thought knowing that soon yet another trash television program is about to go off air. Yes, I'm talking about Big Brother
. They announced last year that it was all going to end and I for one cracked open the champagne, inflated the balloons and prepared to celebrate. Now I haven't always felt this way, but as the years have gone on I've seen it become more and more cringeworthy with the oddest set of people brought together in a small cage. The early bb's were to me anyway more enjoyable with great characters such as nasty Nick, Jon Tickle, Jade Goody
and who can forget the tourette suffering Pete Bennett. They were what seemed to me to be groups of normal people, yet over the years the choice of contestants appeared to get worse. Now of course, they have made ultimate bb with past contestants battling to be the ultimate winner. The winner in my eyes is the public as we won't have to put up with this rubbish for much longer although ive got this horrid feeling that it will be picked up by another channel in the future.
Labels:
Big Brother,
Jade Goody,
Jon Tickle,
Nasty Nick,
Pete Bennett
The Seven Weeks Summer Holiday
So as the summer holidays
drew to a close there was something that I just wanted to get off my chest. As my partner is a teacher, we are always restricted to when we can take breaks and have holidays as we have to fit in with the school term times. Now this is fine, and with 13 weeks a year holiday that she gets there shouldn't really be any complaints. Yet now I'm going to. After having the best part of 6 weeks off it amazes me that parents choose the week that they are due back to go on holiday. It's almost like 6 weeks wasn't enough and they want 7, but I know why they do it and find it very unfair. They do it because the cost of holidays is more expensive during the holidays, yet we have to pay the prices. I myself think that taking children out of school after they have already had plenty of time off is ignorant to say the least. Yes holidays are more expensive this time of year, they always have been but it's no different with garden furniture prices. They're always higher during summer than winter but you still buy it. I guess in some way I'm being bitter. The old "if I have to pay the price why shouldn't they" syndrome. It just hacks me off and I think parents` should be fined more severely for taking kids out of school. Imagine the uproar if when you took your child to school you found out that half the teachers had adopted the parents` ideas and gone on holiday after having 6 weeks off with pay. They would moan and groan that their kids deserved better and how they get good money. Surely teachers
should be given the same amount of respect?
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summer holidays,
Teachers


