7 Reasons

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  • Guest Post: 7 Reasons For Schools To Get Involved In Our Anti-Bullying Project

    Guest Post: 7 Reasons For Schools To Get Involved In Our Anti-Bullying Project

    A few weeks ago you may remember that I auctioned off a 7 Reasons package for Comic Relief. Part of the package included the opportunity to write a guest post for us. That is why today Dr Andy Hickson sits on the 7 Reasons sofa.

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    7 Reasons is of course a humour site and as such doesn’t feature serious posts very often. Today though, we look at a very serious topic. Andy is the Director of Actionwork, a Theatre and Film in Education company that seeks to promote empowerment and reduce bullying and violence in schools. I am sure this is something we can all relate to. If we weren’t bullied then we almost know someone who was. I was bullied for many years. To this day I am not entirely sure why, but what I do know is that the only deterrents available were telling the teachers – something that didn’t work – and punching the twat – something that did. Hardly suitable options for such a prevalent issue. As a result I think we should encourage organisations, such as Actionwork, who try and prevent bullying by other means.

    Andy’s 7 Reasons takes a slightly different form to regular posts in that his seven reasons are featured in a letter. One of the projects that Andy is currently working on is the Anti-Bullying Village. To find out more about the project and read his seven reasons please take a look at the Actionwork Anti-Bullying Village Schools Letter. And do check out the Actionwork website.

    Finally, we’d just like to say thank you to Andy for bidding on our auction (and anyone else who challenged him). It seems fitting that an irreverent idea results in the promotion of something so worthwhile. Not to mention a bit of money for Comic Relief.

  • 7 Reasons to go to The Cinema

    7 Reasons to go to The Cinema

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    1.  You are a basketball scout. Where better to find abnormally tall people to play in your team?  They’re always at the cinema, usually in the seat immediately in front of you.

    2.  Gauge your normality. When, during the scalping scenes in Inglourious Basterds, the rest of the audience are gasping, groaning, covering their eyes and looking away while you’re grinning and thinking, “Cool!” you learn that there is probably something wrong with you.   And by “you”, I really mean me.

    3.  Bladder testing. Have you ever worried that you have a weak bladder?   Go to the cinema.  You’ll soon realise that it’s stronger than you think when you have to stand up to let the same man through three times during a ninety minute film.   Obviously, if you’re the man went to the loo three times, you have serious bladder problems, please stay away from the cinema.

    4.  Be cool. In my experience, there’s nowhere better to discover the latest, most fashionable, ringtones than when watching a film at your local cinema.  Going to the cinema helps you to stay down with the kids.  Innit.

    5.   Sound. Cinemas have the most amazing surround sound systems, with speakers mounted everywhere and subwoofers the size of Highland cows.   The sheer mind-boggling array of whooshing noises in the cinema is worth the admittance price alone.   And that’s just low-budget independent art films.   Hollywood blockbusters have ninety times as much whooshing and the full panoply of rumbling too.   All the way from deep rumbling that makes your stomach hurt through to slightly less deep rumbling that makes your teeth hurt.  Brilliant.

    6.  Popcorn. Popcorn costs a small fortune, has the texture of polystyrene chips and the flavour of a cardboard box.  It is served in a bucket.  How superior do you feel when watching your fellow cinema-goers consume it?   It’s a shame you can’t bottle that feeling.

    7.  Peace and quiet. Sometimes it’s hard telling people to stop talking, that you’d just like some peace and quiet.   Saying “I don’t care what happened in the office, please stop bothering me with the minute by minute account of your day” makes you appear mean and there are often recriminations.   If you take that person to the cinema, someone else will raise their finger to their lips and say “Shh!” so that you don’t have to.   It’s always woman in her fifties that does this.  No one knows why.