Category: Good Advice
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Always Be A Gentleman
Because someone else will be suspected before you. A calm and elegant demeanour will give you time to get away. Of course there is always the business about morality and virtue and that sort of thing – pursue it if you wish. I’m sure it will do you no end of good. For myself, I…
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Brankiffle Tholanicus
Or not, in case it is forbidden by your people. Navigating the rocks and shoals of social interaction in an increasingly multi-cultural country is getting more difficult. We all want to steer clear of saying the wrong thing, but as the place crowds up with different cultures, any speech is hazardous. Take the case of…
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The Unsayer’s Busted
So you’re all going to have to make sure you don’t need to use it until we can get it fixed. It used to be possible in society to unsay many things. Alliances could be renounced, engagements broken, and contracts abrogated. Schoolboys could take back taunts and distressed young women could apologise.Even commercial interests could…
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Chip On The Shoulder
We’ve all met one…the person who strides through a social gathering looking for a fight. With luck they pass us by to fasten upon someone else. The adults are generally just examples of retarded youths; teenagers who have grown past pimples but not yet into good manners. They often succeed in finding the fight they…
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Is Anyone Ashamed Of Themselves Any More?
It used to be that people in the West could be ashamed of themselves. They would do something they should not, or fail to do something they should…then either get caught at it, or realise the fault themselves…and be ashamed. This was good. It punished the guilty and reformed the wicked – from the inside.…
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Isolationism In The Street
Or in the city. The political policy of minding your own business. And deliberately not minding that of others. Isolationism has a bad rap with most political commentators based upon the results obtained in the last century. The ” If only we had stepped in sooner. ” song can be sung about many things in…
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When You Stand For Office
Don’t sit down on the job. If you nominate for a position in any organisation and are elected to it, honesty says that you should fulfil the duties of that office. You may have succeeded in the contest based upon campaign promises – these are also a bond upon your character. In other words, if…
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A Plea For Formal Speech
And formal writing. Communication that cannot be mistaken. Why? Because slang and cant may spoil any message and damn any messenger. I write frequently in this weblog column and three others. I write articles for little magazines. I write letters to friends via the post or using electronic channels. In most of these works I…
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Prepare Yourself
Calling all the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of whatever age. It is time to Be Prepared. “ For what? “ has always been the question and generally the answer has been “ anything “. An impossibility, even if you are an English para-military pedagogue of the Kipling era. You cannot foresee everything, nor can…
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How Private Are You?
If you are reading this on the internet, not very private at all. I don’t know the details of your life, but I’ll bet a dozen other people do, and a great deal of their information came off a screen. In a lot of cases, you put it there. Well, if you blurted and blabbed…
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