David Peetz, Griffith University If you were to choose one buzzword that, despite its vagueness, has dominated industrial relations debate over three decades, it would be “flexibility”. It has emerged again in rhetoric surrounding Toyota’s closure. We love the sound. It’s undeniably good, seen beside its evil twin “rigidity”. If only we knew what it meant. Or at least, knew what others using it mean. Words convey emotions that legitimise the user’s perspective. One person’s flexibility is another person’s uncertainty. Just as one person’s stability is another person’s rigidity. So flexibility might be “good” or “bad”. First, we need to…
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Amanda du Preez, University of Pretoria An early 2019 meme called #10yearchallenge, that involved someone sharing an image from 2008 or 2009 next to one from 2018 or 2019, gained tremendous popular traction and within days spread like a virus across social media. It’s unclear where it started, but was probably prompted by Facebook’s feature that brings back old memories (including pictures) on users’ walls. Initially it was called #HowHardDidAgingHitYou as it was supposed to show just that. It evolved to #GlowingUp to show how well many aged, before it became known as the #10yearchallenge. Soon it was also all…
Reading 1 Eph 4:32–5:8 Brothers and sisters: Be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God has forgiven you in Christ. Be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma. Immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is fitting among holy ones, no obscenity or silly or suggestive talk, which is out of place, but instead, thanksgiving. Be sure of this, that no immoral or impure or greedy person, that…
Holy Humour Engineer in hell An engineer dies and reports to the Pearly Gates. Saint Peter checks his dossier and not seeing his name there, accidentally sends him to Hell. It doesn’t take long before the engineer becomes rather dissatisfied with the level of comfort in Hell. He soon begins to design and build improvements. Shortly thereafter, Hell has air conditioning, flush toilets and escalators. Needless to say, the engineer is a pretty popular guy. One day, God calls Satan and says: “So, how are things in Hell?” Satan replies: “Hey, things are going great. We’ve got air conditioning, flush toilets,…
Love is the crush in the rush of prudent Passions and emotions, it’s the adoring in the odour of Porous membrane where emotions electrify the water goddess and Mermaids for floating. I love you with my running bowels Digesting my bolus of memories into Addiction of romance and may flower of Amity showers. Believe me, through every world I break down into words of bewitchment I do love you more than symbiotic morning dews that wedded in the dawn of morning glories. My words to you swim aflame like the giant titanic that wrecked sheer dominance on the umbrella…
… Continued from Chapter Eighteen. “I don’t understand. You did not tell him that there’s no pregnancy?” “Err I completely forgot to tell him with the excitement and all.” “But I thought you said you guys were not that serious, so how come he is coming all the way?” “Well, we were not officially dating or anything but we saw each very often.” “Hmm. He must really like you.” “He was saying a lot of nice things before this whole pregnancy episode; how it was a huge mistake on his part to have let me go.” “Err, I don’t know…
It’s another weekend where you don’t have to do anything but chill. And, just in case you’re not planning on spending your entire day relaxing, instead, you have a date with friends, love interest, or just yourself, we have just the right style inspiration for you – metallics. Metallics are definitely a blast from our fun past. They remind us of an up-to-date version of the 90’s disco look. And, what’s not to love about the ’90s? The music, the colours and the dirty sexy fashion especially – it was an era of the best of everything. This weekend, tap…
Our new column, Traditional and Contemporary, focuses on the Ankara fabric spliced with contemporary designs. African fashion has taken a spike in creative designing over the years and we are ultra-excited to be documenting its progress one stylish picture at a time. Every Fashion Friday, we’ll be surfing through social media streets to find design inspirations for our Pride Woman (which is you, by the way). See week one, week two, week three, week four, week five, week six, week seven, week eight, week nine, week ten, week eleven, week twelve, week thirteen, week fourteen, week fifteen, week sixteen, week seventeen, week eighteen, week nineteen, week twenty, week twenty one and week twenty two. View this post on Instagram A post…
“Mummy says you should have gotten a move on.” Photo Credit: Pexels Sheena Lewis, Queen’s University Belfast We tend to think of women’s declining fertility as being the reason older couples can struggle to conceive. But, in fact, the growing number of men putting off fatherhood until later in life may find there are big consequences for them and their kids – or lack of them. One scientist, Dr Kevin Smith of Abertay University in Dundee, has even gone so far as to call for the NHS to start freezing the sperm of all 18-year-old men in the UK. He…
Laugh Quote You can’t get out of life alive. Wise Guys Answer To Stupid Question Question: How can a man go eight days without sleeping? Wise Guy: No problem, he sleeps at night. Corny Chat Up Line You know I’d like to invite you over, but I’m afraid you’re so hot that you’ll skyrocket my air-conditioning bill. Business Joke Busy day My boss phoned me today. He said, “Is everything okay at the office?” I said, “Yes, it’s all under control. It’s been a very busy day, I haven’t stopped.” “Can you do me a favour?” he…