Author Archives: odeboyz

Eat your heart out Sartre: Los Angeles is existentialism made concrete

Posted on October 11, 2018 by odeboyz

Los Angeles is where you confront the objective fact that you mean nothing… You don’t matter… In Los Angeles you can be standing next to another human being but you may as well be standing next to a geological formation. … Continue reading →

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A plumbing lesson at Sir Philip Magnus School in 1960

Posted on October 10, 2018 by odeboyz

I attended this school from the age of eleven until sixteen (1955–1960). It was a very good school with its students split into two streams: a) for academics and b) for building trades). I was in the ‘b’ stream. My … Continue reading →

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Some banks who wrecked the world economy

Posted on October 8, 2018 by odeboyz

Britain: 2009 In Britain, the most egregious case was RBS, a now majority state-owned bank that announced in February 2009 that it intended to honour £1 billion in bonus contracts.1 2012 The Barclays chief executive, who was paid £18 million last … Continue reading →

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Skywalking in Canada

Posted on October 8, 2018 by odeboyz

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When I first started school

Posted on October 7, 2018 by odeboyz

A long time ago When I started school All the other kids were big Or was it that I was small. There, we had to learn All the rules “of don’t” I was ever told, Oh no Not now “you … Continue reading →

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The widow and the gay ranch hand

Posted on October 4, 2018 by odeboyz

A successful rancher died leaving everything to his devoted wife. She was determined to keep the ranch and so she placed an ad for a ranch hand. Two cowboys applied for the job. One was gay and the other a drunk. … Continue reading →

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Two idiots talk about hurricanes

Posted on October 4, 2018 by odeboyz

First Idiot: Donald Trump, President of the United States Ray H.   Second Idiot: a gay hating Texan fundamentalist “Just last week the state of Texas failed to pass a bill patterned after the North Carolina bathroom bill that would … Continue reading →

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Margaret Thatcher on Ronald Reagan

Posted on October 1, 2018 by odeboyz

Shortly after he was inaugurated, Thatcher and Carrington [Foreign Secretary] were talking over a drink one evening in Downing Street when the conversation turned to the new president, at which Thatcher tapped the side of her skull and said: “Peter … Continue reading →

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Classical Music

Posted on October 1, 2018 by odeboyz

Dexter: It’s horrible in my house. Dad plays classical music all day long. Russell: What’s classical music? Dexter: Oh stuff like the Beatles and Rolling Stones. Horrible old stuff. You’d hate it. Chris

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Exiled to Soho

Posted on October 1, 2018 by odeboyz

Soho’s walls wrap themselves round me like a spiders web clutching a fly to its bosom and as I hang over the streets I’m choked by the cancer filled air preparing me for my doom. There’s no sky in Soho … Continue reading →

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