Wednesday 29 April 2009
Tuesday 28 April 2009
Tattle Day Tuesday - Wot's Rong Wiv Brittan?
"In the past ten years a chasm has opened up between the workaholics and the quaintly named 'work-shy'."
"As one man outside a Jobcentre Plus in Peterborough explained: 'I'd prefer to sign on than do that. I don't want to work in no cornfield for £25,000 a year'."
I agree with most of this article, except the following:
The GOS says: I'd just like to add one little personal note. One Times reader, Katie from Frome, wrote in to say "Why are you suggesting that depressed people are workshy? Depression is a very serious and debilitating illness."
There's the nub of the problem, really, isn't it? We have come to accept that almost any ailment or unhappiness is someone else's fault, and that sufferers must be pitied, helped and treated as victims. Many years ago I was diagnosed with depression myself. I never missed a day's work, though, and with the help of the doctor's pills and some meditation classes I hauled myself through it eventually and never looked back. In my experience depression is as debilitating as you allow it to be.
And was Katie from Frome claiming to be a "Victim"? Someone else's fault? It doesn't read that way. (Incidently, I went to school near Frome, but I don't know Katie!) Is 'flu someone else's fault? Maybe, if they sneeze over you, but how are they to know? Heart disease, someone else's fault? No, probably your own. Cancer... Who knows? Genetics probably plays a part in heart disease and cancer, for example, but are we going to blame our loving parents? I don't think so. I can't answer for the "stupid" people of whom the author speaks. I just wonder if they've ever applied for jobs and been turned down coz they're too "fat". I don't think so... I doubt if they have ever wanted a job...*
The stigma is so far entrenched that I even feel uneasy writing about it here, dear readers. The fear of rejection is, well, horrible...
I think the author of this article was either not seriously depressed or was in a job he really loved... That can make a difference you know?!
Read the whole article here. Not all Brits are spongers!
* coz they've prolly never applied for a job ever at all in their whole lives, lol!
:) xxx
Posted by Black Cat at 4/28/2009 02:17:00 am 4 miaows or woofs
Labels: Depression, Scivers, Spongers, Stigma, Too fat to work, What's wrong with Britain, X-Factor
Wednesday 22 April 2009
Wordless Wednesday?
Crazy Talking Cats
:) xxx
Posted by Black Cat at 4/22/2009 05:44:00 pm 17 miaows or woofs
Labels: Crazy Talking Cats, I think tuxie says "I has a bully", poor little tuxie
Thursday 16 April 2009
What the...?
I think they're great! I asked them to be friends and they agreed; how cool is that?
Date: 01 Jul 2008, 19:28
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:) xxx
Posted by Black Cat at 4/16/2009 02:55:00 am 13 miaows or woofs
Labels: Apparently I'm a Copyright violater, Fleet Foxes, Massive Attack, MySpace
Wednesday 15 April 2009
Wordless Wednesday
WORDLESS!!!...
I have blogblock, but there are really interesting blogs out there, like someone who really loves cats.
:) xxx
Posted by Black Cat at 4/15/2009 03:27:00 am 3 miaows or woofs
Wednesday 8 April 2009
Sunday 5 April 2009
Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes
Song: Mykonos
Don't really understand it, but I love it!
The door slam loud and rows up a cloud of dust on us
Footsteps follow, down through the hollow sound, torn up
And you would go to Mykonos
With a vision of the channel cause
And a son to maybe dissipate
Shadows of the mess you made
How did any holes in the snow tipped pines, I find
Hatching from the seed of your thin mind, all night?
And you would go to Mykonos
With a vision of the channel cause
And a son to maybe dissipate
Shadows of the mess you made
Brother you don't need to turn me away
I was waiting down at the ancient gates
You go
Wherever you go today
You go today
I remember how it took you down
As the winter turned the meadow around
You go
Wherever you go today
You go today
When I walking brother don't you forget
It ain't often you'll ever find a friend
You go
Wherever you go today
You go today
[x8]
There doesn't seem to be a video, so here is another foxy pic:
More Fleet Foxes lyricsMost popular songs by Fleet Foxes
Mykonos
Drops In The River
White Winter Hymnal
Sun Giant
Textbook Love
Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
Innocent Son
Blue Ridge Mountains
She Got Dressed
Oliver James
Easy like Sunday evfurrybuddy!
:) xxx
Posted by Black Cat at 4/05/2009 10:38:00 am 15 miaows or woofs
Labels: Easy like Sunday, Fleet Foxes, Mykonos
Friday 3 April 2009
Boris Builds a Web
Thanks to James Viscosi, Dennis the Vizsla's Daddy, for the idea.
Have a lovely weekend evfurrybuddy!
:) xxx
Posted by Black Cat at 4/03/2009 01:24:00 pm 9 miaows or woofs
Labels: Boris the resident spider, Dennis the Vizsla, James Viscosi's comment on Facebook gave me the idea
Wednesday 1 April 2009
Wordless Wednesday
Black Cat
:) xxx
Posted by Black Cat at 4/01/2009 08:37:00 am 6 miaows or woofs