HALLOWEEN’S DARKER SIDE, ONE YEAR ON
“…it’s the only time of year when they [parents] get to exhibit their creative flair for costume design whilst encouraging their children to go out, join a gang and terrorize the neighbourhood…” So the leaves have started to fall, there’s a definite chill in the air and that unmistakable scent of burning wood is a […]
RACISM’S DOUBLE STANDARD – REVIEWED
“We’re all too terrified to do or even say the wrong thing; TV shows are banned, products are removed or renamed for fear of causing offence.” The bulk of this post was written a while ago when a Different Angle was still a magazine. However, now with the extradition of hate preacher ‘Dr Hook’ otherwise […]
LOVE? MAYBE. BUT HOW YOUNG IS TOO YOUNG?
“Stereotypically, ‘the man old enough to be her father/grandfather’ scenario tends take place between twenty something year old lady and uh hum much older gentleman. He usually has a few pennies in the bank, she, well, generally has assets of a different kind.” So, 15 year old Megan was found alive and unharmed with her […]
NEW JOB, NEW WIFE, NEW LIFE….MIDLIFE CRISIS?
“…You’ll just wake up one day and think how the F*** did I end up here and looking like this?! And then you’ll try to work out who or what exactly put you in a coma 20 years ago and left you to wake up somewhere in your forties feeling that you’d accomplished sod all, […]
HAVE YOU SURRENDERED YOUR PRIVACY?
Last week it was cheeky Harry, this week it’s booby Kate, is there no end to the Royal flesh fest or the circus that surrounds their attempts to ban the publication of ‘exposures’ immortalising their exposure? And, most importantly, do we care? Viewing figures would suggest that we do. Yet, for generations, the public have […]
LAZY SLOBS, TANTRUMS & GAMBLERS, ARE YOU AN ENABLER?
The Oxford dictionary’s definition of enable is to give (someone) the authority or means to do something, also, ‘to give strength’, ‘to make firm and strong’. Notice how all of these are positive interpretations yet, the word also has a very negative, if not corrosive, interpretation. As humans we love. We really don’t have any […]
BEING BRITISH; inspiring or are we all just a bunch of ‘whinging poms’?
Apparently, we’re a nation of moaners, curtain twitchers and amateur meteorologists. Which one are you? Do you recognise any of these traits in you? No? Sure you do. How about ‘great at queuing’, ‘loves getting drunk’ and ‘DIY on a Bank holiday’? The Australians have dubbed us “whinging poms”; I’m assuming there was motive behind […]
London Olympics 2012; pride or pain?
It’s just 5 days to the opening ceremony of the Olympics games, are you excited? If you’re not, then you are not in a minority, apparently. Last week, I wrote about the cynical traits of us Brits in my post about pride. This week, the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said “As we count down and […]
The proudest night of my life. When was yours?
Okay, so maybe I was a bit ambitious to say I’d be back with you the day after the evolution event two weeks ago. Since then, there’s been a deluge of new deals, company name change tasks, sickness, a brush with trading standards, Christian Grey tat, oh and rain. So, have you missed me? […]
Tis’ the Sunday of the week before the rebranding. Me? Terrifed?
Good morning, Sunday browsers. How are you all today? I hope you’re having a lovely relaxing Sunday, languishing in your bed. Now, I know no Sunday is complete without a post from a Different Angle about the rights and the wrongs of the world but, as you know, this author is busy preparing for a momentous event […]
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