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Article 1

Choose Hobbies That Are ‘Unisex’

You are presumably going to choose possibly about 2 interests to make your major hobbies, and I think it makes real sense to choose ones that appeal to both sexes.

Therefore if you are a man, don't make chess your hobby (for some reason hardly any women are interested in that), but I would recommend something like photography or sailing.

Both men and women enjoy these greatly and that person you meet will probably be really pleased if they find one (or both) of them are ones that they can become interested in too.

Of course, if you can afford your own boat (and I'm not talking about a 30 foot yacht – just a sailing dinghy even, perhaps), and join a sailing club on the coast, a lot of people would jump at the chance of going with you – for this reason I'd recommend getting a boat that can be sailed by 2 or 3 people, not one that is very much a one person effort. And for this same reason, I'd recommend “proper” sailing, rather than windsurfing.

Article 2

ATOS Is Just A Joke

(A sick joke)

For years and years, the government has introduced schemes to make it more possible for people with mental health problems, for instance, to re-enter the work field.

Years ago, the standard thing was for people to be taken on for a trial period for up to a year, but they would not be paid – they would get just £10 a week more than their normal benefit.

I believe the agencies involved in making this happen would be paid quite a hefty sum – something like £200 a week for every ‘client’ they got fixed up.

Much more recently, I discovered that things have moved on quite a bit since then. I overheard a conversation in a coffee shop, where a person who I believe was mentally ill or had some disability was being interviewed for a job. It was quite a menial job, but from what I overheard the employer, if they took him on, was going to pay him the full rate for the job.

From his answers, it was clear to me that he wasn’t actually going to be very good at this job – he would be pretty ineffective, in fact. Yet the employer still seemed interested in taking him on.

So what must be happening now, I’m pretty sure, is that employers are being encouraged to take these people on, and paying them the normal, full rate for the job, even when they are quite clearly not really fit for the job.

That’s presumably how the government is finding work for these people who have been through the ATOS tests, and have been declared fit for work.

Since it is obviously costing the government a lot of money to provide this pretence of a job, it would be far better to give the mentally ill person some of this money, and perhaps encourage him or her to find their ‘work’ out of what till that time was a bit of a hobby.

As I said, I believe people with a mental health problem ought to receive some of the money that at present goes on providing these ‘pretend’ jobs – and a significant amount, like an extra £200 a week at least, on top of what they normally get, because they really need it.

That is wishful thinking, I know.

Article 3

Why Are Men Punished 100 Times More Severely Than Women For Equivalent ‘Sexual Harassment’

There is a report today, in one of the national papers, that a 28 year old woman was spared jail and received only a very small fine for groping a man’s crotch and genitals.

Apparently she had been ‘chatting him up’, had then moved onto leaning against him and touching his face and arm, and then suddenly groped his crotch and genitals. The man, who was with friends, was frozen in shock.

She was arrested and it ended up in court. But there, instead of being dealt with severely, she was told to pay £150 compensation and £172 towards costs.

The judge summed up the case: He told her – “The offence on that evening was not predatory – it was basically, as we see it, a drunken joke that goes wrong.”

Really? The judges don’t say that sort of thing when men do something equivalent, do they?

If a man did something equivalent to that to a woman he would receive a hundred times the punishment – he probably would be put in jail for a few years.

Why the discrepancy?

Article 4

What’s This Then – Dumbing Down For Property Moguls?

I was walking down the High Street of my hometown this morning, and I passed a shop that was empty. And on the window was a big estate agent’s poster which said in large letters – LARGE SHOP – RENT ME.

What’s all this then? When I was involved in commercial property, the thing that mattered was how many square feet it was.

You didn’t say “Large shop” or “Small shop”, you said “Shop – 2,500 square feet” or whatever. And anyone who was interested in buying or renting a shop knew how many square feet they needed.

Even the price was often given as a cost per square foot – so you could compare like with like.

Article 5

On Education (2)

One aspect of authoritarianism, in our schools – we get used to it at a young age!

I spent 13 years at school, and during that time, apart from the first two years, in virtually all the lessons, the teacher was talking for most of the time.

Except that the teacher might ask quite a few questions – and if you knew the answer you were expected to raise your hand, and if you were chosen by the teacher you could briefly give your answer to the question.

Talk about giving all the power to the Executive!

I don’t know if the situation has changed much in the time since I was at school, or not. But I was planning to go to teachers training college much more recently, and spent several days in a comprehensive school as a ‘trial’ situation – to see if I might like being a teacher – and I have to say that at that time, nothing much had changed.

In the first two years I was at school, I remember the teacher spent a great deal of time listening to the children read.

Article 6

‘Our Instincts’

They say that you’re not well educated unless you’ve done a bit of studying about Freud. Well, Freud at first thought we had basically just one instinctual drive, sex, and later in his life added aggression to this.

Adler, on the other hand, thought it was power that was the one basic drive. From my own ideas, I like to think in terms of not one, not two, but six drives.

The 6 instincts or ‘drives’ I have decided on are:

Power
Sex
Aggression
Performance, part a – the need to ‘give performances’
Performance, part b – the need to go to performances given by others
Company – we need to be ‘in company’ some of the time
Self-understanding – we need to attempt to understand ourselves

A Tour Of The Country

My main job is actually a writer of erotic fiction, concentrating on the ‘no-pants’ craze of the 2010s. So each time, each 3 months, I will round off this set of articles with a ‘no-pants’ craze article, of which I have written several.

One year several years ago, well, it was 2017 actually, I went on a bit of a tour of the country, lasting almost the whole year altogether, spending weeks in a hotel at one place before moving on to the next.

I must have stayed in over 15 places, for instance Torquay and Bristol in the South West, Bournemouth and Reading in the South, Nottingham in the Midlands, and even York in the North.

And I was pleased to discover that the ‘no-pants’ craze was happening just about everywhere, especially in the nightclubs.

For some reason the only place it didn’t seem to be happening was Bristol – the girls seemed to still be wearing knickers there.

I even spent a few weeks in Scotland, mainly near Fife. And I was very pleased to see that the girls there were into the ‘no-pants’ craze.

Of course, some of the men were wearing kilts, and as we all know about them – the men wearing kilts have been into the ‘no-pants’ craze for centuries, I believe.

So it was both the men, and now the women – without any underwear.

One experience I remember, which was a bit comical, was in Paignton. I was in a pub which opened late on Fridays and Saturdays, and it was quite busy.

I had noticed there 6 or 7 young women at least who were knickerless – they were just the ones I noticed, there were probably more.

And I had seen one of these girls ‘showing everything’ several times. She was a very attractive, tall girl, with very dark hair, and she was wearing a denim skirt.

Towards the end of the evening I saw her dancing with some bloke. And I was watching these two dance, and then he grabbed her, and he obviously was going to lift her in the air.

And I saw her remonstrating to him with her arms, and then she urgently said something to him – and then he put her down.

And it was clear to me that she must have said to him – “Don’t do that – I’ve got no panties on.”

And I must admit I found that very comical.

ABOUT THE NEXT 3 ARTICLES

My main ‘job’ is as a writer of erotic fiction, actually, concentrating on the ‘no-pants’ craze of the 2010s. And I want to bring you some information about that – with 3 ‘journalistic’ articles.

Here they are:

Article 7

A TOUR OF THE COUNTRY

One year several years ago (well, it was 2017 actually) I went on a bit of a tour of the country (lasting almost the whole year altogether), spending weeks in a Hotel at one place, before moving on to the next, etc. I must have stayed in over 15 places, for instance Torquay and Bristol in the South West, Bournemouth and Reading in the South, Nottingham in the Midlands, and even York in the North. And I was pleased to discover that the ‘no-pants’ craze was happening just about everywhere, especially in the nightclubs. For some reason the only place it didn’t seem to be happening was Bristol – the girls seemed to still be wearing knickers there.

I even spent a few weeks in Scotland, mainly in Fife. And I was very pleased to see that the girls there were into the ‘no-pants’ craze. Of course, some of the men were wearing kilts, and as we all know about them – the men wearing kilts have been into the ‘no-pants’ craze for centuries (I believe). So it was both the men, and now the women – without any underwear.

One experience I remember, which was a bit comical, was in Paignton. I was in a pub which opened late on Fridays and Saturdays, and it was quite busy. I had noticed there 6 or 7 young women at least who were knickerless – they were just the ones I noticed, there were probably more. And I had seen one of these girls ‘showing everything’ several times. She was a very attractive, tall girl, with very dark hair, and she was wearing a denim skirt. And towards the end of the evening I saw her dancing with some bloke (it wasn’t a nightclub, it was a pub – but there was some dancing).

And I was watching these two dance, and then he grabbed her, and he obviously was going to lift her in the air (probably turning her upside down or something like that). And I saw her remonstrating to him with her arms, and then she urgently said something to him – and then he put her down. And it was clear to me that she must have said to him – “Don’t do that – I’ve got no panties on.”

And I must admit I found that very comical.

Article 8

SEX ON THE TRAINS – ANOTHER ‘NO-PANTS’ STORY

Quite frequently I go to London, by train (buying a ticket that includes the Underground).

Very often, if I am on an Underground train between, say, 6.30pm and 9pm on a Friday or Saturday, I find myself sitting opposite a young woman who is showing her pussy (she is following the current fashion of wearing no panties).

(Probably on the way to a ‘young peoples’ pub’ or even a party maybe, and wearing such a short dress that she leaves nothing to the imagination, even if she tries to keep her legs together.)

I must admit that I enjoy these experiences immensely, and often stay on the train for longer than I had originally intended. (When you buy a ticket to London, including the Underground, you can use the Underground as much as you like, there are no restrictions, so this is possible.)

The most amazing experience I had relating to this was on a ‘normal’ train – not an Underground train. It was on a journey from Reading to Ealing Broadway (about a three quarters of an hour journey). Throughout the whole of it, there was a young woman sitting opposite her mother, and she had quite a short skirt, had no panties on, and was sitting with her legs wide apart. All the time she was talking to her mother, animatedly, about some bland subject (I cannot now remember what the subject was). I was sitting behind the mother, and to the left, and had an excellent view.

I was wondering what her mother thought about it all.

Article 9

THESE ARE THE DAYS

(This article was written in about 2016 – in fact most of the non-fiction articles about the ‘no-pants’ craze were written in the last decade.)

In the towns that I visit (I visit most of the towns in my county – and a bit beyond), on a sunny day in the summer, there are such a lot of ‘sights to behold’, whilst this ‘no-pants’ craze carries on.

For instance, sitting outside a café or coffee shop for the morning or afternoon, when the town centre is busy (like on a Saturday) you can almost guarantee to see at least a dozen bare bums of attractive young women (and sometimes the other side too), who are following the fashion of going pantieless, and perhaps wearing light, summer frocks. Just like when I used to go sailing, it is best if there is a bit of a breeze.

(I have rarely missed a Saturday in the summer months doing this, for the past 8 years – since roughly when the ‘no-pants’ craze started, except when it’s pouring with rain.)