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When you are dating someone, or even in a serious relationship, a well placed compliment will show how much you enjoy being with that special someone. Most women love being complimented, particularly by someone she might be romantically interested in. Because giving compliments is a good way to show your date that you are paying attention to them you have to know when to use them. Don't get carried away with the compliments because you do not want to overdo it. You want them to know you are paying attention but you don't want to come off as needy or desperate. Nothing sends up the desperation flag quicker than a whole slew of cheesy compliments. You want your compliment to put your date in the right frame of mind. You want them to be accepting of you and who you are. How you compliment should be an... Read more
Time for a reality check, not just on the monarchy, but on the STATE itself, which has posed as our NATION for long enough!... Read more
Sacré bleu! French to force children to learn English from the age of THREE, if President Sarkozy gets his way An item in the Mail suggests that French children will be forced to learn English form the age of three. This is no doubt a sensible move because fewer people seem to be learning to speak French, in itself, a language which is notoriously difficult to understand. So can we now look forward to French salesmen extolling the "virtues" of French cars.....in our own language? Will they also learn standards like 'honesty and integrity'? Will they tell potential buyers of French cars, "of course you will need to scrap this after five years and it will probably only start on three days out of five"?... Read more
By Annabel Kantaria Ask an expat why they chose to move abroad and, for most, somewhere in the answer, there’ll be something either about quality of life or about making more money. This weekend, however, I came across a very different type of expat: The type that chooses to live in cramped quarters at sea with no pay. Far from wanting to make money, these “floating expats” leave their home countries and families for a minimum period of two years in order to learn more about themselves, to develop their skills and passions, to take on leadership responsibilities and to learn about other cultures. They are the staff of Logos Hope – a tatty-looking, 38-year-old ex-car ferry, which is currently moored alongside the QE2 and adjacent to the enormous Costa Deliziosa cruise ship in Dubai’s Port Rashid. With a staff of... Read more
The Middle East is falling apart before our very eyes. Where to begin? Jordan is a bit of a surprise as I thought King Abdullah was in complete control. Not quite, as protesters want the PM ousted and, by tradition, the PM is appointed by the King. Thanks partly to WikiLeaks, we are now aware that the US has fostered and supported Egyptian activists seeking regime change in the form of a parliamentary democracy. One unnamed activist was identified by the US embassy in Cairo and sent to New York as a participant in an 'activist summit' under State Department sponsorship. This leads me to wonder what our State Department is up to, how many 'activists' it is cultivating, from where, and what type of training do they receive. Is the US exporting revolution? We get precious little information from our government. O seems to be playing both sides and claim... Read more
"I've never felt so desperate in my life, there are people out the front of the airport with machine guns killing people" - said Cassie, 22,...... Read more
"Democracy is like a tram. You ride it until you arrive at your destination and then you step off." Turkish Islamist Prime Minister, Recip Erdogan... Read more
An awful lot of misery could have been avoided if there had not been a general acceptance of the theory that “rules were made to be broken”. Richard Simpson had some inkling of the truth of that statement as he lay, sleepless, in his bed in Junior Dorm. All he really wanted to do was to go to sleep and wake up, when the bell went, at 6.30. He had no desire to crawl out of the common room window at 2 o’clock in the morning and run across the cricket pitch to the school swimming pool. He certainly had no desire to strip off his pyjamas and jump into the pool. It wasn’t even that the punishment for doing such foolish things would be horribly disagreeable. It just seemed to him that the night was quite a... Read more
CRIME IS A CRIME AS WELL AS RACISM……. MIXING black and white don’t make you look like you aren’t racist, the preference for an ethnic is part of the discrimination pretty much you aren’t a “saint”!!!!! sex slavery is a crime specially if the person choose for some ethnic to be mix and reproduce, the psychosis of the criminal lead him to believe is emotions involve between the victim and him(or love) rape a women is a crime , unfortunately the fanatics’ of some TV show or other type of media promote this type of “GAME” that actually qualify as a crime for entertainment, the more freedom they have or I will said Laws that protect them from not been persecute from this type of crime the more disrespect or lost of moral and values because is not such a “hell” in Christian terms , or Jail for THIS criminals…... Read more
