I'm pro-life, but not anti-abortion ( Read more... )

x-posted to my McDonalds_Talk and co_workers_suck.

I'm not sure whether this really comes under coworkers, but I'd say it's definitely more coworkers than bad_service, which was my other choice.

So, I work at McArches. For a little bit of background, I'm a lobby hostess, which is common in UK stores, but not, so I hear, in US ones.  Basically, my ( Read more... )

So, someone made a post in childfree - basically, an old lady got on a bus, while the OP was standing, due to lack of seats. The OP sees one lady - and goes into a unnecessary description of how she's dressed - with her four or five year-old daughter, and an older child sitting next to his mother, with his bag on the seat beside him. So, the OP ( Read more... )

Grraaaaarrrgh, this post.

Okay, this guy walks into CF and lurks for a bit.  He makes comments about how the entire group is close-minded, and says things like "at last, someone intelligent!" when anyone agrees with him.  Then, he posts about his unhappiness with life - that, in short, he has no one he feels really close to, and that his ex- ( Read more... )

I love LJ because the average age is higher than on a lot of other websites, and people are, for the most part, literate ( Read more... )

http://www.newsweek.com/id/194886?tid=relatedclRead more... )

There was a program on about the Edinburgh festival, and part of it focused on racism in humour - what's okay and what isn't.

Four comedians discussed the issue.  One of them made the point that there's a difference between a joke which makes the racist the butt of it - "I'm not racist - my best friend's a nigga!" - and one which is actually racist ( Read more... )

So, apparently, I'm evil and can't possibly be at all welsh - because I pointed out that the UK is politically defined as one country, and not four.

What fun.

I just did a few laps around the Edgbaston Reservoir on my new bike.:D ( Read more... )

Earlier today, someone asked me over msn to include a certain smilie in my screenname because of Rhys Jones, a young boy who was killed recently.

wud u put a (so) infront of ur msn name in memory of that 11 year old rhys jones who got shot in liverpool plz
Nope.
Sorry.
y
I have my reasons.
more important den a childs life?

(Okay, that ( Read more... )