Big Brother Seven

Oh dear another year seems to have slipped by. Can it really be BB7? I remember way back when being in Dublin training and having BB1 or was it BB2 streaming on the main screen. It doesn’t seem that long ago.

This year it looks like the producers have just decided to fill the house with gay boys and be done with it. Well Okay gay boys and closet boys about to come out the closet. I mean who does the ‘lifeguard’ think he is kidding?

Adam at work is penning his thoughts – better him than me. I’ll tune in when something starts to happen :o)

The power of NLP

For those of you who have never heard of neuro linguistic programming, Derren Brown brings it to the masses.

Weirdly we’ve been talking about NLP a lot recently at work because of a culture change programme we are rolling out. Not that we are using NLP you understand but we hae touched on aspects of it like the Kinesthetic sense being inmportant in rapport and relationship building. You can see Derren doing a lot of touching and shifting around while he is chatting there.
Anyway made me chuckle. I wish I’d seen this series on TV now.

Charity?

How cheap can some people be? The other weekend I did a bit of a clothes clear out – mainly because I bought so much last time I went to the states with work and had no drawer space left.
So I took a bag to the Cancer Research charity shop and waited patiently for the assistant to be free to see where to leave donations. It was taking some time though. It transpired a lady was trying to return a pair of shoes. Now the lady behind the counter was keeping her calm but I was about to shout. The woman in question had bought some boots and was trying to return them for a full refund. Fine you might say except she had had them an entire year already.
I was gobsmacked. Really. I don’t know how she had the cheek. I wouldn’t do that in a regular shop let alone a charity shop.
There was nothing wrong with the boots either. She just wanted to return them and get her money back.
Some people.

Abercrombie & London

abercrombie billboard london store pre-opening
The billboard on this wall hiding construction of Abercrombie’s London store was designed to attract attention, the retailer said.

ooh ooh! I’m all excited about the new London store – although I have a feeling it will be a little pricey – what with The Gap being about £1 = $1 then A&F will be a tad expensive – might still be worth flying over to the states!

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