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17 Holiday Lessons

Posted in Humanity, Humor, Humour, Travel on Oct 1st, 2008

I originally posted this over a year ago, but decided it was time to give it another whirl …
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These are the important lessons I learned on a recent holiday trip abroad:
1. However much time you allow yourself to get to the airport in good time, it will never be enough to account for the civil [...]

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Simple Mistakes

Posted in Humanity, Internet, Technology, Terrorism on Oct 5th, 2007

I still get a slight shiver when I remember what happened at JFK Airport.
A year after 9-11 I travelled to New York with three friends.  We arrived at JFK tired from the six hour flight, and then stood in queues, for what seemed like ages, while some very severe looking men with guns surveyed the lines [...]

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17 Vacation Lessons

Posted in Humor, Humour on Sep 6th, 2007

These are the important lessons I learned on a recent holiday trip abroad:
1. However much time you allow yourself to get to the airport in good time, it will never be enough to account for the civil servants who chose your departure day and time to dig up the main road into the airport causing [...]

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Goats and the Sky God

Posted in Faith, Religion, Terrorism on Sep 5th, 2007

Ok, it took me a long time to get round to it, and I know that the whole of the rest of the Western World did it ages ago, but I have just finished reading Richard Dawkins’ ‘The God Delusion’.  Whatever your faith or none, I can thoroughly recommend the book.  I chuckled my way [...]

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