Dear Mr Taavii Rõivas,
Prime Minister of Estonia,
Support for the protection of legislation banning alcohol sales in petrol stations coming to effect in 2016
I am writing to you on behalf of the European Alcohol Policy Alliance (Eurocare), which is an alliance of 60 public health organisations (mainly non-governmental organisations) from 25 European countries dedicated to the prevention and reduction of alcohol related harm.
Firstly we would like to thank you and your colleagues for the support you have given to the European Alcohol Policy Alliance. Especially we would like to thank for the very interesting presentation given by Health Attache Tairi Täht in the European Parliament this Tuesday during the Alcohol Awareness Week.
Eurocare would like to congratulate Estonia...
Lifestyle
Dear Alcohol,
Thanks a lot. Last night I dreamt I was a telemarketer again. Selling virtual sex acts to middle-class people of every race and sex. Over the phone. Thanks a lot.
And apparently in the dream, I’d been fired from this job before. Recently. However, call volume was irregularly high and vice versa. So they took me back. Tentatively.
On the computer screen was a huge panel of buttons, each one an audio sex-act recording of a hot woman doing it. For example, top left was the sound of her kissing and moaning. The next one played the sound of licking various body parts. And each progressed from there until eventually you cycled through hand jobs, blow jobs, all out doing it, then finally the really weird ones involving animals and urination. My occupation was to click the...
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Dear Daddy,
I miss you. I love you. So, please forgive me for the following message.
When I was little, I thought our lives were perfect. Yes, sometimes there were tough times, but we were a family and we made it through.
I remember grandma dying and mom sitting in the gallery and bursting into tears.
I remember getting stuck in hurricanes and just having to wait them out, and loving the rain and family time we had. We would watch movies all together and just veg around.
I remember when the engines would break down and you would spend hours in the pearly white engine room working on them, and I would sit and play with my barbies that mom so reluctantly let people give me for my birthday.
Even those memories... the "tough" memories were wonderful to me, and I could just...
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Dear abled people who like to glare at people who use disabled parking spaces,
Hi there. It’s great that you’re so conscious that disabled parking spots are for disabled people! I’m pleased you’re so keen to keep disabled spots for disabled people – after all, that’s the law and the right thing. People who aren’t disabled certainly shouldn’t be using those spots.
However, you know what my problem with what you do is? My problem is when you take your anger out on people who are using those spots legitimately. I don’t know if you glare and shake your head and tut because you don’t notice the disability signs/stickers on the front of the car – or if you think they’re faking their disabilities – or if you think those crummy disabled people simply don’t deserve to hog the best parking...
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Dear Mr Martell,
I am writing as chair of the Electric Vehicle Drivers Association – United Kingdom, after having consulted with the rest of the Management Committee. We wish to pass on our views on your recently announced Polar Network tariffs.
The Electric Vehicle market in the UK is in a very delicate position at the moment with a small number of groups slowly making a tiny impression on the inertia of the internal-combustion-driven car-buying public. If Electric Vehicles are to make a significant contribution to improving air quality in the UK or to cutting the countries CO2 emissions, now is the time to increase the attractiveness of these products.
We understand that EV charging cannot remain free indefinitely, and we support the principle of charge-point owners charging...
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Seamus,
I have been a Tigers supporter since 1992, when I was 11 and discovered the game of basketball. I couldn’t count the number of games I’ve been to, the amount of money I’ve spent on merchandise and memberships, or the vocal chords I’ve damaged shouting my support in the years since. The Tigers have been a massive part of my life for almost as long as I can remember.
The club I adopted and fell in love with was built on a foundation of loyalty and stability. I grew up with Gaze, Copeland, Bradtke, Gordon and Giddey. These are guys who were there year in, year out and bled red, black and yellow. They became like family, and gave the “family club” its soul. It was that sense of solidity and loyalty that endeared the club to me. The fact that so many players from that era have...
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Dear Guy Who Was Behind Me On I-95 Yesterday,
Yes I saw you waving your arms in my rear-view while dangerously close to my bumper and I don’t care.
I don’t know why you’re angry at me because I was doing 5 miles over the speed limit and you couldn’t get by me. If anyone should be angry it should be me, because you were so close to my car that I couldn’t even see your tires.
Listen buddy, I know time is short and we’re all in a hurry, but you and your big truck aren’t the only people on I-95. In fact there are people on I-95 who aren’t even in cars. They’re called construction workers. You might have seen them on your right in that closed lane that prevented you from going 75 miles per hour past me.
You might have noticed the speed limit signs, but probably not based on your poor...
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Dear Hema Malini,
What happened last week was the stuff of nightmares. To be involved in a major collision on an Indian highway is scary and dangerous for everyone involved, no matter how big or small their car. But what you are going through right now is a cakewalk compared to the anguish of Chinni's parents. And at a time like this to be releasing insensitive tweets blaming a grieving father is not just callous but downright inexcusable.
We can debate for years whose fault it was. Was your Mercedes driving too fast? Did the Alto ease into the highway with proper caution? At this moment, these questions seem immaterial. Because regardless of which driver is to blame, I can say with certainty that it was definitely not Chinni's fault. Her life was senselessly lost, forever...
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Dear Supporters
We thought we should write and bring you up to speed with some of the things that have been happening at the ground since our arrival as property managers. Much of the first few months of our stewardship of the site has been spent resolving longstanding financial issues with the authority of Dulwich Hamlet Football Club Limited, and then, in turn, installing processes which will stop these same (or similar) issues from rearing their heads again. Going through these in any detail would take the rest of the day, but some of them which you may be interested in are below:
Debts: Payment of the outstanding invoices, and dealing with the historical debts. We’ve had some sizeable invoices to contend with (both utilities and otherwise), and these continued to rear their...
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Dear Honda,
Two days ago I walked out of a dealership crying. Frustration and exhaustion got the best of me. I felt like a fool. I am one person among millions and well aware of that but just once I want to be the one screaming loud enough to heard.
When my first car, a perpetual hanger queen, unexpectedly died, I was desperate to replace it with something more reliable. I ended up with a Honda Element. At 5 feet and 11 inches with more waist than leg, I can sit in the driver’s seat of a fraction of the vehicles on the market. As a dog lover with more than one medium-sized pet, I can fit my dog crates into the trunk of even less of the vehicles on the market. You must know where I’m going with this.
This is the part that makes me angry, Honda. I’m uncomfortable being at the mercy of a...
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