What are you doing right now?

[Minty]

(28-06-2013 08:28 AM)Caspin Wrote:  "Camp", Ollie? Are you camping? Have a nice time!

I'm sure you're right, Minty, to be cautious about helping strangers by writing up articles for them. Hopefully you weren't obliged to turn down a favourable cash incentive! Extra typing up of articles would not really help your poor head to rid itself of its ache anyhow.

I slept for nearly nine hours last night but am still exhausted. Thank goodness it's Friday as I doubt I could go on much longer. I can't wait to go home and lie down on the sofa with cucumber circles over my eyes. In the meantime, better crack on with some work I suppose.

No chance of any favourable cash incentive - you don't even get £5 for getting your letter in the papers anymore! You're meant to be so happy about getting your name in print you'll give them several hours work for free for others to make money out of. They may find other mugs happy to do that, not me.

There's a guy that's done a local newspaper column in our area for over a decade, & doesn't receive a penny for it, he's happy that he's got somewhere to spout off his made up rubbish about everything in the local area having some connection to freemasons, druids, or druids in the freemasons or where else he makes up. What a complete tool!

Someone I knew at Uni did a column for one of the nationals, & it was only when she asked them when she was getting paid she discovered she wasn't: she was one of those holistic medicine people & their argument was that they were giving her a free advert. As she pointed out, she was also giving away free diagnostics! End of column, & they got some other mug to do freebies for them.

The latest trend is having newspaper bloggers, cretins clapping their hands with glee at getting to pretend to be a journalist, for NO PAY! How stupid are these muttonheads? They could start a blog of their own, have adverts on it & make some money out of it - but no, they'd sooner help people like Rupert Murdoch get richer.

Ah NO! It's the nearest Saturday to 1st July, so the Orange Order are out giving everyone a headache locally. You'd think they'd have grown up by now!