Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Today in my class I had my students complete the end of conditional sentences so they were true for them (like, ‘I won’t stop studying English until…’ or ‘I’ll always live here unless…’ etc.) And for the sentence: ‘I’ll have more free time when…’ I caught one of my students finish it with: ‘…when I die.’ Yes. So fucking good.…
Yesterday I asked my ESL class this: ‘What’s your dream?’ And one of my Saudi Arabian students spoke up. He had every right to come up with something like: to be famous, rich, successful, whatever (and the question was ‘dreams’, not ‘goals’, so you’d expect him to say something even loftier or harder to attain than just a goal.) So…
There’s this beautiful series of 20 books called ‘Great Ideas’ published by Penguin. These are the two I have: And one of the others in the series is The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. Now, when you think of ‘Machiavellian’ you think of: cunning; exploitative; manipulative; brazen; heartless; wanton; deceptive, or evil. So basically, all in one word: Cunty. Machievelli’s known as…
Seems like a good day for this, since these guys play up here on the Sunshine Coast tonight. They’re kind of doing their own thing and aren’t like any other artists. I’ve written about them before here and here and for the story for how they formed, listen to this right here. Bliss n Eso on How to live the good life 1.Pale…
Illy’s a rapper (is he though?) but you’ll never hear an Illy song about bangin’ bitches, pimpin’ rides or makin’ it rain. He also doesn’t crap on about fame, fortune, status, success (in the bullshit, most superficial sense of the world) or swag. And why not? Because that shit matters absolutely 0.00000000*. Illy’s about humility, appreciation and gratitude, as well as getting…
I have a friend who used to volunteer at an old folks home. And sometimes she’d ask the residents: ‘What’s something you wished you had’ve done more of in your life?’ The top two answers were:
There’s so much first-rate philosophy fanned out across both Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey, but theirs comes down to this: The first part… just. Works. Be excellent to each other (and then after that… party on). Instead of judging and saying people do stupid shit, or criticising them for not doing things the way you think’s right, fuck…
Even possibly the greatest thinker in history, Socrates, never thought he was right. And neither did he care about convincing others he was, or about winning the argument. His was a life of constant questioning, curiosity and examination. Whether it was right or wrong, ‘Whatevs’, as Socrates probably never said. In Christopher Rowe’s translation of Plato’s Phaedo in The Last Days…
If you think to yourself ‘I’m invincible’, what’s to say it’s not true? Whatever you think about yourself, it’s true. But I’m not saying in terms of the physical you. Because if someone walks up to you and shoots you with a handgun, point blank, right in the face, or walks up behind you and smashes you in the back of…
The present simple grammar form is actually crucial here. You and I are constantly changing so what you did yesterday or even an hour ago (and most importantly, why) can be different now. Same thing goes for the future. You don’t know why you’re going to do what you do in the future. Now that’s not to say you need…