Hi,
Just read Matt Slater’s great post on the issue of going into administration for Portsmouth Football Club. Some of you may not be football fans – that’s not important. Step beyond the content and look at the human (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Individual behaviour’
Portsmouth FC in admin, RBS in loss: the same or different?
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Kate Adie: into danger
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Hi, how are you? Here’s the second in a brief triptych of posts based on listening to talks at the Oxford Literary Festival [now over until next year].
Kate Adie gave a sharp and witty talk around her new book which explores (more…)
What’s the difference between punishment and leisure?
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008Hi,
Just a short post on an article I read in the Guardian about a new exercise device – ‘The Krank Cycle’:
The latest brainchild of Johnny Goldberg who introduced Spinning…
It’s like a bike for the upper body. By turning the handles you work your arms, shoulders and upper back. The concept has been around for (more…)
Any difficulty must be exactly what you need!
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Hi…
Following on from yesterday’s post I came across this great quote from Emmet Fox [an early 20th century spiritual leader] in a Vic Johnson article on learning the lesson:
It is the law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to (more…)
The dreaded drink, and language.
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Firstly, just in terms of language – and I’d love to hear from anyone who is multi-lingual or from a non-UK culture to help on this – in the UK the phrase: ‘do you want to go for a drink?’, is generally interpreted as an alcoholic drink. If you invite someone to go for a coffee, you’d say: ’Would you like to go for a coffee?’
Consider the following headlines:
“Drinkers facing ‘a tsunami of harm’” – Daily Mail, Jul 23 ‘08
“Police demand action after pubs ditch drinking code” – The Guardian, Jul 28 ‘08
Curiously drinking is a basic action to intake fluids into the body. It is not specific to fluid type. Yet if you look at (more…)
UK Government To Crack Down On Alcohol Crime
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Yes, an addendum, albeit from a Mar’08 article referred to on Scoop World [not the BBC for once!]:
Whilst crimes involving violence may have reduced over the evening and night time period, the evidence also points to increases in offences, including violent crimes, reported between 3am and 6am.
The ministerial statement from which this comes gives even more figures to add to those accessible from yesterday’s post.
Why the addendum? (more…)
Britain has a drink problem
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008Wow! Another little twist of patterns and counter-intuitive thought [or not in the case of the latter].
Another BBC snippet sparked my attention today, as did a similar newspaper article yesterday though I was busy writing on other topics.
Britain and alcohol (more…)
Long-lasting relationships, liberals and anarchy
Monday, July 21st, 2008I mentioned social mechanisms for sustaining a longer-term relationship in the prior post. There are, of course, more mechanisms, particularly those internal to the relationship: (more…)
Relationships as trade and tradable
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Having chatted about relationships and strong/weak ties…one of the points to which I alluded was about motivations for social contact, another societal patterns.
On the topic of motivations for social contact, fundamentally it is about (more…)