Top 10 most annoying office habits
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Top 10 most annoying office habits
NEWS.com.au – May 29, 2008
Alternatively ask your boss to find some funds to hire a permanent on-site SWAT team armed with fumigation guns. Or just ask your colleague to bring something that doesn’t stink (or in the case of the chips require you to leave and buy some yourself). Ringtone hell If your office friend intermittently decided to play bits of his favourite music collection from a speaker on his desk you’d probably ask them to leave their taste for death-metal or American R&B at home. So why then is it OK to have Usher’s latest offering or a 50 Cent classic (is he called that because that’s how much most people would pay for one of his records?) playing six times a day – or 22 if it’s Friday. Space invaders You distinctly remember hearing the boss bring your new work mate over to his or her work area and say "This is your desk". The boss did not follow that up with the words "but feel free to use your colleague’s desk for overspill if there’s not enough room for your inane gossip magazines and pictures of your 17 children". Eau de underarm Deodorants were invented in the ’50s – which is a year not the age you have to be before you start using them… Alternatively ask your boss to find some funds to hire a permanent on-site SWAT team armed with fumigation guns. Or just ask your colleague to bring something that doesn’t stink (or in the case of the chips require you to leave and buy some yourself). Ringtone hell If your office friend intermittently decided to play bits of his favourite music collection from a speaker on his desk you’d probably ask them to leave their taste for death-metal or American R&B at home. So why then is it OK to have Usher’s latest offering or a 50 Cent classic (is he called that because that’s how much most people would pay for one of his records?) playing six times a day – or 22 if it’s Friday. Space invaders You distinctly remember hearing the boss bring your new work mate over to his or her work area and say "This is your desk". The boss did not follow that up with the words "but feel free to use your colleague’s desk for overspill if there’s not enough room for your inane gossip magazines and pictures of your 17 children". Eau de underarm Deodorants were invented in the ’50s – which is a year not the age you have to be before you start using them.
The rock of aged: Boomer stars are getting old — who will replace…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – May 29, 2008
“The industry just isn’t creating new superstars” says former concert promoter Rich Engler. “Unfortunately all these legends these classic attractions they’re still carrying the weight. Music was a different world back then and obviously they created a tremendous foundation which the new bands aren’t doing these days. There are many reasons why: One being radio and two there’s so many things to do now with the Internet high definition. It’s a faster world now. If there’s a three and four they would be the skyrocketing price of tickets the past several years — weeding out younger concert-goers — and the near-demise of the record industry. Obviously the major labels have been ravaged by illegal downloading and now by stars like the Eagles and Madonna going their own way… What’s likely to keep the Post-Gazette Pavilion in the black this summer besides the two Dave Matthews Band shows and the veteran acts are the country and metal tours. The country music industry an efficient star-making machine has been able to break younger acts Rascal Flatts Taylor Swift Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood by marketing them heavily on radio TV and awards shows. Metal has four days at the Post-Gazette Pavilion — on the younger side with Projekt Revolution and Rockstar Mayhem which is displacing Ozzfest and on the older side with Judas Priest and Motley Crue. When there are 80 bands playing in one day you’d think some of them could spin off into a second or even third successful tour. But after 15 years it hasn’t happened. “It’s been tried and it hasn’t worked” Anti-Flag’s Pat Thetic said earlier this year.
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Rock cult or nice kids that do their homework?
BBC News – May 29, 2008
And I suppose emo style is meant to be about standing out looking different – even if all the other emo kids are dressed the same as you. Matthew Hirons a 22-year-old web developer from Stourport-on-Severn is even more phlegmatic. He suggests that the critics take the music far more seriously than the fans. “People say emo is all about depression and suicide” he says. “But I’m a happy person. I’ve got a girlfriend and a good job. I just like the music and the fashion… A move towards a more mainstream poppy sound by several emo leading lights took it overground but the scene’s histrionic subject matter irritated many. Fans were even subjected to violence. Footage of emo kids being beaten up by gangs of punks and heavy metal fans in Mexico attracted nearly a million hits on YouTube. Yet for all the ire it provokes media and popular culture lecturer Dr Dan Laughey author of the study Music and Youth Culture believes emo is essentially harmless. “Emo fans are mostly middle-class often going through puberty” he says. “For the majority of fans emo music acts like a release valve driving away all the negative energy and emotion inside them. And for all that the scene is preoccupied with alienation and misery its champions claim it offers a comradeship of sorts.