Breaking up on Facebook: the ultimate act of cowardice. The person doing the dumping is obviously a complete and total loser.
Breaking up on Facebook: the ultimate act of cowardice. The person doing the dumping is obviously a complete and total loser.
You know what Internet-based job boards have done? They’ve spawned the attitude that it isn’t necessary to write a decent cover letter (or any cover letter at all) as part of a job application. No one should apply for jobs using their current work email address, either — that’s seriously bad form.
It’s been a long time (six years!) since the last deadly virus outbreak* (H5N1 was serious but nowhere as scary as SARS).
You could read the Herald (or the Daily Mail) and decide that WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE LIKE THE PIGS WE ARE OMG OMG OMG OMG** (!!!!!!!) or you could read the WHO advisories and realise that while we should be concerned at this new strain of swine influenza, there’s no need to panic just yet, because we simply don’t know enough right now*** (‘All 20 cases have had mild Influenza-Like Illness with only one requiring brief hospitalization. No deaths have been reported.’).
As always, wash your hands thoroughly and frequently and cover your mouth and nose when you sneeze. And use a tissue, for Gawd’s sake.
* Long-time readers will remember when, at the height of the SARS outbreak, I suffered anaphylactic shock and staggered breathless into the emergency room and they tried to get me to fill out a form as my airway closed. And then I had to get a shot in my arse. And then I slept for two days because my body was so wiped out from the reaction. That was fun! Let’s do that again.
** The One True God™’s punishment for not turning away from the infidel’s false religion?
*** Apparently this virus can spread with human-to-human contact. But the mortality rate doesn’t seem quite as serious as SARS.
Two policemen were attacked by a mob when they asked a teenager to pick up her litter (she did, then dropped it again, ‘sparking a confrontation leading to the attack’). In London.