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Batman (Arkham Origins: Cold, Cold Heart DLC - XE Suit version) 1/3 scale statue by Prime 1 Studio

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Aphorism 26. The Philosophy of Tropical Littorals and Seashores. Satyendra Sunkavally.

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Indian eagle - hawk? - in full flight above the sere, searing, scorching, sterile basal flanks of the massif on the northern sector of Yarada Beach, Visakhapatnam, India, May 26,2019.Air Temperature 40C. Around noon.

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An attempt to reach the top of the lower west side of the cliff on the southern sector of Yarada Beach,Visakhapatnam,  India.May 26, 2019, in order to see what was on the other side. It proved an impossibility, for in the 40C heat the rocks were even hotter,much hotter, making it impossible to hold onto them for support when climbing up.

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Written in response to Chris Smyth’s front-page story ‘Wanted: weirdos to shake up Whitehall’, as featured in ‘The Times’, Friday January 3 2020

Dear Dom,

Weirdos wanted.

At last, a job description that calls to me. At last, I am needed. At last, my time – the time of the Silly-Savvy Salopian has come.

So patiently have I waited.

And now?

Now, Dom, you have sent out my calling. My father was called up by God. And, I? I, Jay Cool, have been called up by none other than yourself.

Well, here I am:

Pray, do tell me. Am I weird enough for Whitehall?

Not convinced? Then do let me address some of the points, or should I say requirements, of the positions you advertise. And then tell me, in flattering terms, post by post, point by point, and praise by praise, and piece by piece, why I am the perfect candidate and appoint me forthwith.

I begin with the ‘Junior Researchers’ category.

You ‘don’t want confident public school bluffers’ au fait with the concept of being ‘immediately binned’, i.e. bullied. This is fab, because I went to a Northern Comprehensive School and, in the absence of other means (this is not yet America, after all), learnt to defend my integrity with a litter grabber.

It did the job.

I’m still here. Still available for hire. And, if you take a step backwards into your own rubbish heap, I might even be generous enough to pluck you back out.  It will be like playing the very best of office games – Plucky Politics – given the right packaging, the concept could even go ‘commercial’ (making me a bicategory candidate)!

Okay, so there is a small issue here, with regards to age. I am not twenty-one. But, besides pointing out to you, that you ought to familiarise yourself with the age discrimination legislation (I can help you out there), then I can go better than that. Not only am I not twenty-one, I am not even double twenty-one; I am twenty-one doubled, plus a big bit. With me you will get two and a bit candidates for the price of one, albeit a very-well paid one (I don’t come cheap).

As for working in an ‘extreme environment’, then I’ve had plenty of practice – something that those youngsters just don’t have on their CV. I have worked for twenty-three years in the most extreme environment in the most extreme of undervalued professions.

So take that!

At one point, traumatised by a pension robbery, I even died, revived, found I’d lost a shed-load of years (about twenty-oneish) and made a come-back! You want Junior? I can give Junior to Senior, and half-way back again!

You called?

I, Jay Cool, have answered!

Dom, I’m here.

Copyright owned by Jay Cool, 4th January, 2020

P.S. My applications for all other categories of Slavedom are pending delivery.

Application Letter ‘Communications’ – Dear Dom Written in response to Chris Smyth's front-page story 'Wanted: weirdos to shake up Whitehall', as featured in 'The Times', Friday January 3 2020…

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New object detected in missing sub mystery

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The World’s Deepest Flying Insect Lives in Complete Darkness with No Food or Sex

Deep below the Velebit mountains of Southern Croatia, 1,431 meters under ground, lies the Lukina Jama cave system, the 14th deepest cave in the world. In the last decade, this cave has received muc…

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4.1. ASTROBIO - Formation of the Solar System

Week two of the University of Edinburgh's "Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life" (ASTROBIO) open online course. Prof Charles Cockell School of Physics and Astronomy University of Edinburgh

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