:)

24/8/09 14:06
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VOLUNTEERING:

Work experience previously extended to remembering how everyone in the office took their tea but charity Vinspired is helping change that image by helping 16 to 25-year-olds find the perfect placement to inspire them, improve communities and increase their career prospects.

'In these financially challenging times, it has never been more important for young job-seekers to stand out and be noticed by employers, and it is equally important for businesses to ensure they recognise the desire for self-improvement,' says Dragons' Den star James Caan, just one of the scheme's high-profile backers. [link]

Vinspired.com - Why did nobody tell me about this?? I'm so excited, there are opportunities for everything and these things aren't even inconveniently far away! It's a little late in the summer, but it's something anyway! Woohoo!
 

www.vinspired.com

 

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And no it's not because of the Janto.

3/8/09 14:57

Daniel Radcliffe...

24/7/09 20:33
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 just sounds so naiive: he will "almost certainly" vote for the Liberal Democrats at the next election.


A few weeks ago, a Guardian interview revealed that he was wondering about transvestitism, and was quoted as saying, "But the me that sits in a darkened room for eight hours a day watching the cricket with a big bowl of pasta in my socks and underwear is not nearly so appealing to women."

Has he never heard of subtlety?
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*scratches head*

9/7/09 16:21
upsticks: (Back Alley English)
It might be possible that since I haven't had any academic stimulation for a while I'm being thick. But please, how does this 'headline' make any sort of sense?

Death clues hunt in Jackson's brain


Is it poor english or bad brain day for Laura?

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*yoinks*

27/5/09 15:23

Impossible.

21/4/09 18:19
upsticks: (You try quitting McDean.)
I've been overcome with the strangest feeling that I simply cannot stop listening to this song. It's just not possible. Help.
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Happy birthday LJ. For April, I mean.

21/2/09 02:58
upsticks: (Fairy Lights)
Well, turns out LJ's gonna be 10 years old soon. How crazy is that? To celebrate the occasion, the lj staff are going to publish a book all about LJ. And not the boring bits. The bits all about LJ-ers - comms, users, jokes, memes, reports, everything. Those posts that make you think, laugh and cry. Those comments that start off friendships, relationships, marriages. It's kind of beautiful in a way, seeing what LJ means to all these people.


I'm gutted I didn't know about it before some of the deadlines were up, but it's still worth looking at anyway. The comm: [livejournal.com profile] lj_turns10 

And these are some of my favourites already.

- Story of a lifetime, on one day.
- The "Stop Fucking Him" post.
- Best of.... Metaquotes
- a very melancholy entry - [livejournal.com profile] lie2me 's last journal entry.
- about [livejournal.com profile] adayinmylife 's "celebrity couple" - Brush your teeth and fall in love.

What are your favourite posts/comms/entries?

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The woes of an LJ-er.

24/1/09 01:17
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Why is it that little boxes of 100x100 pixels make me so happy?

Pictures of things that I've seen or laughed at or squeed over? Things I can't touch or taste or arguably have. Not even ones I've made. Just ones I've "Right Click Save As"'ed

Why does not having space for more of them make me so annoyed?

Why am I so bothered about it all?

*sigh*

I want an Obama icon - He totes deserves one already.

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It's alright for some...

21/1/09 21:38

Matt Smith FACTS

18/1/09 17:04

That's adorable

6/1/09 17:32

He's *having* Hoops.

21/11/08 15:47
upsticks: (1973 - Dinner Time)
I love Spaghetti Hoops. Pasta's quite nice too.

But this guy has taken the lasagne.


TQC question

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Where were YOU when Obama won?

5/11/08 04:14

Politics: Something I'm not interested in.

5/11/08 01:04
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I've never ever ever been into politics before. I've watched Tony Blair's speeches, and I've had opinions about Prime Ministers, but I've never been this interested.

I don't think I could stand it if the wrong guy won. I just hope America has sense.


This is the kind of excitement I feel when I get excited about the World Cup. Huh.



In other, less important but more stupid news, Jade Goody has told her kids there are tadpoles in her tummy.



CBBC's Newsround has a pretty good edge on it:

Who is Barack Obama?
Who is John McCain?
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What is the world coming to?!?

13/9/08 20:20
upsticks: (Desperate times)
I've just heard an advert on the radio, that used Feeder's "Feeling A Moment". Whenever that song is used in anything, I get shivers (as long as it's used well. See this DW fanvid for what I mean.)


But alas.

It's used for an advert for a new television show. Presented by Noel Edmonds.



NOEL EDMONDS.




Someone, somewhere, do something. The world needs saving. Please.

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Well what *else* could it be??

20/7/08 11:24

MADNESS.

19/5/08 20:53
upsticks: (1973 - Dinner Time)
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS MADNESS?
ASHES TO ASHES IS NO WAY AS GOOD AS LIFE ON MARS, EVEN AT ITS BEST.
GUARDIAN REVIEWER, WHAT THE HELL WHERE YOU THINKING?
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Life On Mars, US-stylee.

14/5/08 12:45
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This is the new trailer for Life On Mars US-stylee.


I really don't know what to think about it.

Of course I'm going to be biased, because I hate how everything has to be "Americanized" despite the fact that we rarely get a "Britishised" drama from America. There was a complaint recently that there's too much American TV on British television (OK, maybe that was just regarding Children's TV, but still, the point stands).

I hated how they changed The Office, because I think it would have worked without any changes. Although that said, I suspect the 'feel' of the programme would probably have been less "funny, cute" and more "quaint, British" if it hadn't been changed, which certainly would have removed the main idea of the show.

( It's about to be writ again... )

And now something to cheer you all up:

UKELELE!

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Back Alley English

11/5/08 13:28
upsticks: (Back Alley English)

( 4 pictures of walls beneath the cut. )


Just been looking at this website, and it's amazing what you learn. You wouldda thought all graffitti was kinda mindless right? Just a cool way of spelling your name, or a promo for the DJ or something.

But it's not. Have a look at Pictures of Walls. It's a pretty and beautifully simple site, with lots to look at. Enjoy.
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England in the 21st Century

9/5/08 15:40
upsticks: (Back Alley English)
England, famous across the world as the country of Shakespeare, royalty, fair play and manners, is a nation of "overweight, sex-and-celebrity-obsessed TV addicts", according to a new tourist guide.

I'm not sure what to make of this article on England in the 21st Century.


I mean, England isn't the dry stone walls and rolling hills and apple-country it seems to suggest that it is. It isn't the magical fairytale country, where people speak slowly and clearly, and all with the same accent - the perfect RP.

We don't wear bonnets, and complain about decency.

I'm not sure we even feel so strongly about Royalty anymore. I for one, feel particularly indifferent to it (right now, at least).


But saying we are a nation of "overweight sex-and-celebrity-obsessed TV addicts"?

You forgot the Chavs.



Tell me, flist, anyone - from England or not - do you think England is overweight/sex-obsessed/celebrity-obsessed/tv-obsessed?
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