Just wishing all of my faithul blog readers a Happy New Year!
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Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a lady, but don’t really want to pay out for a boob job? Well now there is a solution in the world of the internet. You can now have all the benefits of being a lady without the expensive surgery.
Did you know 83% of all the women* on the interent were born as men. Yes billions of people who were disatitfied with their gender have made the switch for little less than the cost of a PC and a internet connection. These people carry on useful productive lives in forums, chat rooms, dating sites and online games. They don’t have the costly cosmetic surgery usually required and they have no scars or odd manly features; hands that are just too hairy to be a woman’s. They look just like they were born that way.
It’s not just gender changes that are available either, now on the world wide
Live to work, or work to live, that’s really what I’m talking about here. This blog is called the Idle Tymes – yet that is exactly what I don’t have a lot of at the moment – Idle times! In the last few years as I have become more and more embroiled and committed to work, and I’ve found myself with less and less leisure time. I’ve always been a believer in not living for the Friday evening. If you just live for the weekends, you find that your weekends go too quickly and you are left for five days waiting for the time to pass. This isn’t life! This isn’t the way to live.
I find myself more and more doing things online, and that isn’t just because I find it more convenient, it is because I don’t have time to go to the shops. I’m not talking about things that are cheaper and just as good through the internet, such as buying your car or horse insurance, I’m not talking about using internet banking to save a trip into the branch. I’m talking about not having time to go to the supermarket in order to buy food, so instead shopping at Tesco online and having things delivered. I’m talking about needing a new shirt, so just getting one online from the marks and spensers website, again to arrive through the post without me ever having tried it on. It’s even got to the stage where at work, we needed some large format printing done for a presentation we are giving next week, and we are just emailing across the completed image files to the company, who are delivering it directly to the venue the morning of the presentation because we don’t have time to look at print samples first.
It is a cliché that we are all part of a ‘time starved generation’ at the moment. I’ve always just ignored it, but I’m starting to think it’s true. Perhaps we need to reassess how we live and what we do with our time, because once it is gone, it doesn’t come back.
This issue that Gordon Brown’s got a bee in his bonnet about regarding strengthening our national identity is definitely something that needs to be addressed, but having our children swear allegiance to the Queen every morning? I think not!
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not anti-royal – although I await with baited breath to see if the royals have the sense to put William on the throne whilst his gran is still alive to guide him – but I thought the idea was to have civic pride, to show a sense of belonging to one nation. That being the case, shouldn’t the children be learning how to serve, protect and bring honour to their birth land? This makes sense to me. The average UK home is lacking in a sense of unity, in civic pride; you need look no further than the recent statement that certain members of our Armed Forces werent recommended to wear their uniform in public for evidence of this!
In the United States school children pledge their allegiance not to their country’s president, but rather their flag – and America has to be one of the most patriotic, flag waving countries in the world. The American people may not always bring honour their flag, and occasionally heap a pile of disgrace onto what it stands for, but overall it’s a symbol of a country that most Americans love and respect. They bow to it, sign with it, even run national treaure hunts around it! A national flag is a very simple symbol of a country and it’s something that any school could incorporate into their daily activities whilst teaching their students about what it means to be British and how as a nation we need to act in order to preserve the democratic rights we have. There’s huge potential here for a subject that could take very little time but if taken in age appropriate stages could create informed school leavers who have basic understanding of the UK and how its judicial and political systems work. School leavers who know how their country works, and how they can make a difference to it.
Pledge allegiance by all means, but just make sure it’s a pledge of loyalty and duty to the country, and not a monarch who doesn’t rule the country!
Finally we have had progress with the website.Well I've totally finished the vet insurance pages