The Damaged

Now that all the major stores and brands are hosting their annual end of season sales, you’ve doubtless stocked up and bought yourself a whole new wardrobe. But before you start raising the fashion quotient of your office by pairing that sheer organza top with that hot little black skirt, stop and think for a moment. Though you may think you look hot and happening, your boss may have an entirely different opinion. If you’re not careful, your sartorial sensibilities Read more…

The Fosters good call videos are a fantasy for any guy who loves beer. They plant the idea in your mind that drinking a Fosters is always a good call, and why not?

The ads are focused on two guys in a tiki hut on a beach. Their telephone rings and they gleefully answer in unison, sounding like they already know who’s calling. In a weird branding maneuver, Foster’s beer has these two supposed advice gurus at the ready to Read more…

I loved going to Bali. The nightlife was awesome!

Now I know that going abroad should involve seeing local colour, getting involved in local customs and generally emersing yourself in the ways of the local people. You know what though - I am british, and actually what I want to do is go and have a good time! I want to relax, unwind from work, and most definately party!

That means getting access to some bars, some warmth and alot Read more…

From the very beginning to the very end my impressions on this gaming achievement have remained constant and approved. No rubbish cut scenes no unnecessary emotional traumatic situations, all it expects from you is to hold on to the controller and gun down the ’Helghast’in their war torn planet.

You play as Sev Chenko, a member of the ISA military force sent to take down the Helghast with a couple of buddies who accompany you through the game. The game Read more…

I hear it all the time, women going around and boasting about how they have just had a tummy tuck or some other type of surgical procedure to make their belly a bit more flat. What is all the fuss anyway. Don’t these women read up on their tummy tuck information before risking their bodies to this type of procedure?

In my opinion, there are so many risks to this type of surgery such as bleeding, scarring, infection and an anesthetic reaction. Besides the risks involved the procedure alone is enough to scare me out of having it, plus, who wants to be laying around for 6 weeks during the recovery time.

However, I see more and more women nowadays getting the tuck because they feel they are fat or have too much excess skin and it’s affecting their self-image. Sure, this procedure is effective in giving your body a flatter appearance, but in my opinion, I’d rather go with less invasive options such as the Tummy tuck jeans.

I heard about these jeans and knew they were perfect for what I was looking for. Many women swear by them. They are actually designed for the middle aged woman too and not for those 20 year old females with their rock hard abs. They have girdle-like fitting which holds in the belly and lifts the bottom. I absolutely love them and they are so comfortable. Absolutely nobody is going to get me on that operating table when I have these jeans instead.

People always say “laughter is the best medicine”, but sometimes, when you feel like doing anything other than laughing, it’s hard to get yourself in to a position to see this.

Recently someone pointed something out to me, and even though it sounded obvious, I had never really given it much thought before.

“It’s like this,” said Big Dave at the pub, “whenever I feel really miserable, I force me self to go out and have a laugh.”

(Let’s get one thing straight, Big Dave isn’t the healthiest man I know, and definately is not in line for locum jobs for doctors; but I have to say that when it comes to forcing himself to do anything – like being happy – he is the man.)

I said, “but how do you force yourself?”

Big Dave looked at me with that absurd expression of his. “Are you deaf?” he said loudly.

I said, “apparently, can you speak a bit more quietly please?”

So Big Dave explained the secrets of healthy living, and I did my best to ignore the fact that these words of wisdom were coming out of an anything-but healthy 22 stone man.

After it, I said, “Is that it?”

He said, “Yep.”

Big Dave went on, explaining in detail how his mother had discovered the gift of laughter years ago, and he had followed suit. The deal was this: whenever he felt sad or annoyed, he made himself go somewhere where he would be forced to laugh. That was his simple cure to depression: get out before the depression could get him.

And I have to say that Big Dave has got a point. Ever since I started going out when I could feel myself start to get miserable, I could nip it in the bud before it could get me too down and I wouldn’t feel much like going out.

It’s happened to me too many times to count. I’ll be sitting there on the bus one minute, off in a dream-world where the UK is hot all year-round and pigeons poop out fresh fifty pound notes, and the next I’ll hear a “Will you please shut-up you little es haych eye tee? If you don’t you’ll get it!”

Then the dream-world vanishes. I look up and see a very angry mother. From the way she’s staring at all us bus-sitter-oners it’s seriously feels like we might all crack and break.

And nobody stands up and speaks, that’s the really messed-up part. The woman will continue to scream at the child and the child will either a) cry or b) scream back. After a while we all become numb to this and it becomes a joke to the passengers. You start to hear “Oh dear, someone’s upset” and “Well, she obviously got out of the wrong side of bed!”

It’s a Comedy show, basically.

Only nothing about this ef you see kay ed up situation is funny. In fact, it’s downright disturbing. And you can literally hear the thoughts move and form and see them materialize right there in front of you. They say things like she should have that child taken away and she’s not fit to be a mother.

They are my thoughts, of course. Don’t be daft, I can’t read anyone else’s.

And it’s a serious problem in society. When do you stand up and say “this is not right!”?