WestJet Airlines Ltd. is a Canadian low-cost carrier providing scheduled and charter air service in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.

WestJet is currently the second-largest Canadian air carrier, behind Air Canada, and in the ultra-competitive airline industry sought a way to distinguish itself from other airlines.

WestJet has more than 10,000 non-unionized employees, and is not part of any airline alliance so it tends to take a more independent view when it comes to marketing and airline image.

Someone came up with the idea of making the in-flight & safety lectures and announcements a bit more entertaining.

Our LifeDaily team has selected some of the more amusing and thought provoking announcements as reported by WestJet passengers.

Enjoy:

On a WestJet flight. There is no assigned seating, you just sit where you want. Passengers were apparently having a hard time choosing, when a flight attendant announced:

People, people we are not picking out furniture here, find a seat and get in it!

Thank you for flying WestJet Express. We hope you enjoyed giving us the business as much as we enjoyed taking you for a ride.

On another WestJet Flight with a very senior flight attendant crew, the pilot said:

Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached cruising altitude and will be turning down the cabin lights. This is for your comfort and to enhance the appearance of your flight attendants.

On landing, the flight attendant said:

Please be sure to take all of your belongings. If you are going to leave anything, please make sure its something we would like to have.

A new twist on a standard announcement:

Welcome aboard WestJet Flight 245 to Calgary. To operate your seat belt, insert the metal tab into the buckle, and pull tight. It works just like every other seat belt; and, if you don’t know how to operate one, you probably shouldn’t be out in public unsupervised.

After a particularly rough landing during thunderstorms in Ontario, a flight attendant announced:

Please take care when opening the overhead compartments because, after a landing like that, sure as hell everything has shifted.

Or this:

In the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, masks will descend from the ceiling, stop screaming, grab the mask, and pull it over your face. If you have a small child traveling with you, secure your mask before assisting with theirs. If you are traveling with more than one small child, pick your favorite.

Your seat cushions can be used for flotation; and in the event of an emergency water landing, please paddle to shore and take them with our compliments.

As you exit the plane, make sure to gather all of your belongings. Anything left behind will be distributed evenly among the flight attendants. Please do not leave children or spouses.

And from the pilot during his welcome message:

WestJet Airlines is pleased to announce that we have some of the best flight attendants in the industry. Unfortunately, none of them are on this flight!

A flight attendant’s comment on a less than perfect landing:

We ask you to please remain seated as Captain Kangaroo bounces us to the terminal.

Part of a flight attendant’s arrival announcement:

We’d like to thank you folks for flying with us today. And, the next time you get the insane urge to go blasting through the skies in a pressurized metal tube, we hope you’ll think of WestJet Airways.

WestJet’s policy seems to working according to their growth figures, but are the in-flight announcements a significant factor?

What do you feel about less-than-serious announcements? Do you think they compromise flight safety?

Do you know of any other original statements from cabin crew to add to this list?

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Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York, England in 1907 and died in Vienna, Austria in 1973 aged 66.

Although born in England, W. H. Auden later became an American citizen, and is regarded by many critics as one of the greatest writers of poetry of the 20th century.

His work is very stylistic and deals with moral and political issues. The main themes of his poetry are love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, and the relationship between unique human beings.

Auden grew up in and near Birmingham, England in a professional middle-class family. His early poems from the late 1920s and early 1930s were written in a style that alternated between telegraphic modern and fluent traditional.

He moved to the United States in 1939 and in 1946 he became an American citizen. The focus of many of his poems from the 1950s and 1960s was on the ways in which words revealed and concealed emotions.

The quotations selected by our LifeDaily team are an indication of the eclectic outlook of W. H. Auden:

1. We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.
2. Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
3. Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
4. In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
5. All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
6. No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
7. God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
8. History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
9. A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.
10. Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
11. My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
12. Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
13. Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
14. When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
15. Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Apart from his poems, Auden was also a prolific writer of prose essays and reviews on literary, political, psychological and religious subjects.

He also enjoyed writing librettos for operas and he worked at various times on documentary films and poetic plays.

Are you familiar with any of his work? If not, do the quotes we have selected encourage you to search them out?

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The world today generally celebrates the New Year as beginning on January 1st. However, there are still a number of cultures that have a different New Year although still recognizing that the January date is universally accepted as the start of the year.

These countries include Israel, China, and India where the New Year is also celebrated at the times determined by their calendars.

The New Year date of January 1st is based on the Gregorian calendar which followed the old Roman calendar that determined the order of the months and was established in 700 BC.

During the Middle Ages in western Europe, while the Julian calendar was still in use, New Year’s Day was variously moved, depending upon locale, to one of several other days, among them: 1 March, 25 March, Easter, 1 September and 25 December.

In many countries New Year’s day is a public holiday, whilst New Year’s Eve has become associated with partying, excessive drinking, and firework displays.

The quotations below have been selected by our LifeDaily team to give a generally more sober perspective – except for the first and last quotes:

1. F. Scott Fitzgerald:
   

   First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

2. Phil McGraw:
   

   A year from now, you’re gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

3. Mark Twain:
   

   Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

4. Melody Beattie:
   

   The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

5. Oprah Winfrey:
   

   Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

6. James Agate:
   

   New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

7. Rainer Maria Rilke:
   

   And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

8. Hal Borland:
   

   Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

9. Cavett Robert:
   

   Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

10. Ralph Waldo Emerson:
    

    Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

11. Alfred Lord Tennyson:
    

    Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’

12. Tom Peters:
    

    Celebrate what you want to see more of.

13. Henry Moore:
    

    I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years’.

14. Nia Vardalos:
    

    My New Year’s Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

15. James Lafferty:
    

    My New Year’s resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.

It is also traditional for people to make resolutions for the New Year. Unfortunately, the majority of them are rarely kept beyond the first week.

Do you make New Year resolutions? Do you keep them for the year? How do you celebrate on New Years’ Eve?

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“Moving on” is a simple expression but with very complex meanings.

It is usually associated with bereavement or the breakup of a relationship. The problem for many people, especially those who are not religious or have no spiritual faith, is how to face up to loss.

It is difficult when experiencing a loss of any kind to believe that your life is not finished, and it is hard to see any future.

But as you will understand from browsing through these quotes selected by our LifeDaily team, others have had to face up to the reality of loss – and move on.

Perhaps reading what others have endured can give you strength to cope with your own grief or loss:

1. Dave Pelzer:
   

   To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

2. Robert Frost:
   

   In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

3. Khalil Gibran:
   

   If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

4. Helen Rowland:
   

   A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

5. Dave Mustaine:
   

   Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.

6. Demi Lovato:
   

   Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that it doesn’t get a day off.

7. John Major:
   

   Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

8. George Allen, Sr.:
   

   Forget the past – the future will give you plenty to worry about.

9. Omar Khayyam:
   

   The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

10. Lord Byron:
    

    The heart will break, but broken live on.

11. Marcel Proust:
    

    We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

12. Justin Halpern:
    

    I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.

Moving on isn’t easy, but it is, or should be, inevitable.

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Old age is what happens when we reach or surpass the life expectancy of human beings, and achieve the end of the human life cycle. For some, it is a blessing; for others, a curse depending on one’s state of health.

Modern western society has found difficulty in coming to terms with the concept of old age since it is youth which seems to be its central focus.

It has coined euphemisms and terms to describe the condition. Some countries still use the term “old people,” but in the U.S. and Great Britain, for example, they are referred to as “senior citizens.” Other terms such as “older adults,” “the elderly,” or even “the elders,” are sometimes used. Followers of political correctness probably refer to them as “age challenged.”

The biological fact is that old people often have limited regenerative abilities and are more prone to disease, syndromes, and sickness than younger adults. The organic process of aging is called senescence while the study of diseases that afflict the elderly is geriatrics.

However, the chronological age denoted as “old age” varies culturally and historically, so old age is more a social definition than a biological one.

On a social level, the elderly frequently face other issues such as retirement, loneliness, and ageism.

The quotes about what it means to grow old have been selected by our LifeDaily team to reflect both the serious, and not so serious approach to old age:

George Burns:

You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.

Mark Twain:

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Andrew Carnegie:

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Pope John XXIII:

Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec:

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kurt Vonnegut:

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Mark Twain:

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Victor Hugo:

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Helen Hayes:

Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.

Theodore Roosevelt:

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Golda Meir:

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

Dr. Seuss:

Adults are obsolete children.

Ogden Nash:

Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.

Maurice Chevalier:

You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

John Adams:

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

The old adage that “you are as young as you feel” is a truism, but you can only know that when you are a “senior citizen.”

How do you feel about old age? Do you think that families should bear a greater share of the burden of caring for old people?

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Given that millions of tons of food is processed and prepared every day its is hardly surprising that strange objects turn up in the finished product from time to time.

Unfortunately, in a world in which the media are hungry for sensational news (pun intended) each discovery receives maximum publicity.

However hard they try, and no matter what quality controls are in place, food manufacturers and suppliers simply can’t catch everything all the time. When something like this happens the supplier usually does all in its power to try to make things right. Apart from a refund or exchange, it is not uncommon for financial compensation to be offered.

Unfortunately, knowing this, some people have been tempted to make false claims in the hope of gaining a substantial settlement. Whether the claim is valid or not, the damage to the food supplier is almost automatic because of the publicity.

However, be warned that if you falsely claim you’ve found some foreign object in your food, you may be liable to a claim from the supplier. In the U.S., many states have laws allowing suppliers, manufacturers, and restaurants, etc., to recover damages if they’ve been harmed by such a false claim. This could cost you thousands of dollars or more.

It must be emphasized that, despite the examples below, foreign objects in food are extremely rare:

1. A dead mouse

A 4 cm-long dead mouse was found in a loaf of bread. The bread’s manufacturer, Premier Foods, immediately apologized and was fined $25,000. The mouse’s tail was never found.

2. Dead pickled rat

A nine-inch long, dead rat was found suspended in a pickle jar. The retailer, Asda, compensated the customer with $150 and a Christmas ‘trolley dash.’

3. Wire brush

A customer discovered a five-inch wire brush in a McDonald’s burger in Kidderminster, U.K.
The company apologized and offered a refund and a statement claiming they were “very sorry.” A spokesperson confirmed that McDonald’s “take the safety and quality of its food very seriously indeed.”

4. Dirty dishcloth

A loaf of bread bought at a Tesco supermarket in Chepstow. U.K., was found to contain a dirty dishcloth that had been accidentally baked into the bread. Tesco released a statement saying they were “very sorry for this extremely rare find” and confirmed that they had rung the customer to apologize.

5. Black widow spider

An unlikely stowaway was found in a bunch of grapes – a black widow spider, one of the most venomous in the world. Tesco commented: “we are committed to reducing pesticide use. Before grapes leave the US each box is checked but we apologise for any distress this may have caused.”

6. Maggots

This discovery was made in Australia when a customer claimed to have found at least 20 maggots crawling inside his Big Mac, bought at a McDonald’s in Victoria. McDonald’s However, the fast-food giant insisted that they weren’t to blame, saying that insect contamination was “not possible.”

7. A one-inch nail

This was found in a Tesco Value macaroni meal. Unfortunately for the customer, the discovery was too late as she had already swallowed it. This was confirmed by an X-Ray. Tesco issued a recall of the product and said that they were carrying out an “urgent and thorough investigation.”

8. Cigarette fried rice

A customer reheated a bowl in the microwave she was overcome by a strong smell of smoke. She initially thought the fumes were caused by the microwave which she had bought a few days earlier. However, when she went to feed the rice to her daughter she found the discarded cigarette smoldering in the middle.

9. Razor blade kiev

A customer bought the twin-pack of fresh garlic and parsley chicken kievs from her local supermarket. But when she cut into the snack up her knife hit a sharp piece of metal – an inch-long razor blade was inside. She received an apology.

10. Gold teeth

A customer claimed to have found a gold tooth in his Mars bar. He said, “I managed to cough it up and at first thought it was a bit of metal or something. With closer inspection I realized it was a gold tooth with a bit of the tooth still attached.”

These examples of disgusting objects found in food are disturbing, but it’s important to maintain a sense of proportion.

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There are still many people in the world who celebrate Christmas for its religious significance commemorating the birth of the Son of God.

But there are an even greater number for whom the religious dimension has no meaning. For them, Christmas is a time for buying presents, having parties, and generally having a good time.

The tradition of Christmas jokes can probably be traced back to around 1845 when Christmas crackers were invented in the U.K. by a man named Thomas Smith.

Initially, they consisted simply of sweets wrapped in fancy paper. Later he added a way for the package to make a cracking noise as it was pulled apart – and thus was born the ” cracker.”

It was particularly popular for Christmas parties and he developed the idea further by including small gifts and printed mottoes and riddles.

These formed the beginning of the Christmas jokes which we know today.

As an introduction to the small selection of Christmas jokes selected by our LifeDaily team we offer this gem:

There are 4 stages of life:
1. You believe in Santa Claus
2. You don’t believe in Santa Claus
3. You dress up as Santa Claus
4. You look like Santa Claus

And here are the rest of them:

Q: What do you call Santa’s helpers?
A: Subordinate clauses.

Q. What do you call a kid who doesn’t believe in Santa?
A. A rebel without a Claus.

Q: What do you get if you eat Christmas decorations?
A: Tinselitis!

Q: What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus?
A: Claustrophobic.

Q: What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?
A: Frostbite.

Q: Why was Santa’s little helper depressed?
A: Because he had low elf esteem.

Q: What’s the difference between snowmen and snowladies?
A: Snowballs.

Q. What do you call an incomplete Christmas sentence?
A. A Santa clause.

Q. What do you call an elf wearing ear muffs?
A. Anything you want. He can’t hear you.

Q: What goes “oh oh oh”?
A: Santa walking backwards

This selection of Christmas jokes was chosen as being suitable for all the family.

A considerable number of modern jokes are too sexually graphic to be printed here!

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Truth is defined as being that which is in accord with fact or reality.

The commonly understood opposite of truth is falsehood, which can be assessed according to a number of criteria – logical, factual, or ethical.

The concept of truth is explored in several contexts, including philosophy and religion. Many activities depend upon the concept including science, law, and, even, everyday life. Scholars, philosophers, and theologians debate incessantly the subject of truth and there are differing claims on what constitutes truth.

A major source of contention is how to define and identify truth.

The essential issue is whether truth is subjective or objective, relative or absolute. In a well known paraphrased dialogue with Socrates, Protagoras said: “What is true for you is true for you, and what is true for me is true for me.”

Friedrich Nietzsche had a different view when he claimed “All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth”.

Here are some other interpretations:

Arthur Conan Doyle:

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Buddha:

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Marcus Aurelius:

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Swami Vivekananda:

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Mark Twain:

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Winston Churchill:

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Stephen King:

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

George Orwell:

In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Albert Einstein:

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Winston Churchill:

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Oscar Wilde:

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Aesop:

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Arthur Schopenhauer:

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

James A. Garfield:

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Arthur Conan Doyle:

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

So, is truth relative or absolute? It probably all depends on the circumstances.

To quote well known columnist H.L. Mencken, “It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”

And that cynical observation says it all. Or does it? What do you think?

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W.C. Fields – real name, William Claude Dukenfield – was born in Darby, Pennsylvania, in 1880, and died in Pasadena, California, in 1946 aged 66.

Fields started his show business career in vaudeville as a juggler, but is better known for his work as a comedian, actor, and writer. He was the main featured comedian with the Ziegfeld Follies for many years and starred in the Broadway musical Poppy in 1923. His subsequent roles were often those of a scoundrel or henpecked husband.

His comic persona was that of a hard-drinker, which was not so far from his real life as he became a heavy drinker when he grew older. Indeed, he died at the relatively young age of 66 from an alcohol-related stomach hemorrhage.

He delivered his lines in a unique rasping drawl and often used a very grandiloquent vocabulary. The publicity departments of the two major film studios for which Fields did most of his work (Paramount and Universal) maintained his on-screen image as if it were Fields himself.

W.C. Fields’ obsession with alcohol and alleged dislike of water are clearly exemplified in these quotes:

1. I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
2. Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had nothing but food and water.
3. I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
4. Sleep – the most beautiful experience in life – except drink.
5. Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
6. You can’t trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
7. It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
8. I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
9. Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
10. Now don’t say you can’t swear off drinking; it’s easy. I’ve done it a thousand times.
11. I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
12. Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.

For many decades, W. C. Fields and his particular brand of humor were a feature of the American stage and movies, but he is virtually unknown to today’s generation.

Are you old enough to remember Fields at the height of his popularity? Do you think he was funny?

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Religion is defined as an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence.

People who are religious base their lifestyle on their beliefs about morality, ethics, and religious laws.

The practice of a religion usually includes one or more of the following: Rituals, sermons, sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trance, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial services, meditation,prayer, music, art, dance, public service, and mythology.

It is estimated that there are some 4,200 religions in the world. In 2012 a survey found that 59% of the world’s population considered itself religious, while 36% classified themselves as not religious, including 13% atheists.

Attitudes towards humor and religion vary from those who think nothing is sacrosanct when it comes to making fun of things, including religion, to those who oppose – sometimes violently – anything they regard as insulting or disrespectful to their beliefs.

Some argue that any religion unable to accept criticism, humorous or otherwise, is based on a very weak foundation.

Browse our selection of jokes about religion and judge for yourself:

1. Anonymous:

Monastery: Consecration camp.

2. Jon Stewart:

The Jews celebrate Passover by eating unpalatable food to remind them what will happen to their people if they ever leave New York City.

3. Dave Allen:

I’m an Atheist… thank God.

4. Anonymous:

Nun: A creature of habit.

5. Ambrose Bierce:

Christian: One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbors.

6. David Beckham:

I definitely want Brooklyn [his son] to be Christened, but I don’t know into what religion yet.

7. W.C. Fields:

I’m looking for loopholes.

8. Dave Barry:

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it’s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

9. Francis Caracciolo:

In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.

10. George Carlin:

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

11. Elbert Hubbard:

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

12. Cathy Ladman:

Religion is basically guilt with different holidays.

13. H.L. Mencken:

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

14. George Carlin:

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

15. Mark Twain:

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

16. Jane Russell:

Christians can have big tits, too.

17. Richard Jeni:

Going to war over religion, is basically just killing people in an argument over who has the better imaginary friend.

18. Dara Ó Briain:

Catholicism is the most adhesive religion in the world; if you joined the Taliban, you’d merely be regarded as a bad Catholic.

19. Elayne Boosler:

There’s only one difference between Catholics and Jews; Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it.

20. Anonymous:

The only thing wrong with being an atheist is that there’s nobody to talk to during an orgasm.

This selection of religious jokes made by our LifeDaily team is irreverent but not vicious. You can find far worse online.

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Most people, when referring to the subject of equality, actually mean “social equality.”

This is a state of affairs in which all people within a specific society have the same status in certain respects. At the very least, social equality includes equal rights under the law, such as security, voting rights, freedom of speech and assembly, property rights, and equal access to social goods and services

Some believe that it should also include concepts of health equity, economic equality and other social securities. It also includes equal opportunities and obligations, and so involves the whole of society.

In some societies the obsession with equality is a function of the current climate of “political correctness,” which is in conflict with George Orwell’s wry observation that “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” in his allegorical story Animal Farm.

Ben Stein defines equality by saying “We are not supposed to be all equal. Let’s just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.”

The oft quoted phrase “all men are born equal” might have more meaning if it said instead “all people are born equal.” But are either of those statements true in reality?

History, and what actually happens in the “real world,” would appear to dispute that.

Here are another 10 quotes about what some others think about equality:

Alexis de Tocqueville:

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Abraham Lincoln:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

J. K. Rowling:

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Aristotle:

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Sonia Sotomayor:

Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.

Frances Wright:

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

George Mason:

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

David Allan Coe:

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

Arthur Ashe:

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Shirley Chisholm:

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It’s a girl.

David Horowitz has suggested that socialism, a system advocating social equality, played a significant part in 20th Century murder and torture under dictators in the USSR, Maoist China and Cambodia.

What do you feel about the concept of equality? Will it always remain an unattainable ideal?

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Money is defined as any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts. It can be regarded as:

• A medium of exchange
• A unit of account a store of value
• A standard of deferred payment.

Any item that fulfills these functions can be considered money.

Nearly all contemporary money systems are based on what is known as “fiat money.”

Fiat money whether checks, banknotes or coins has no intrinsic value in itself. The value is derived from being declared by a government to be legal tender; it must be accepted as a form of payment within the boundaries of each country, for “all debts, public and private.”

Fiat money, according to the law of the land, acquires the value of any of the goods and services that it may be traded for within the nation that issues it.

For most people, money is a serious subject. Others, however, have commented about money in cynical and/or humorous ways.

Our LifeDaily team has selected some of the best:

1. Oscar Wilde:

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

2. Mark Twain:

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

3. Albert Einstein:

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

4. Coco Chanel:

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

5. Milton Friedman:

There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

6. Richard Armour:

That money talks, I’ll not deny, I heard it once: It said ‘Goodbye’.

7. Ronald Reagan:

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

8. Aristotle Onassis:

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

9. Woody Allen:

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

10. Groucho Marx:

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

11. Bob Hope:

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

12. Christopher Marlowe:

Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

13. Spike Milligan:

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.

14. Earl Wilson:

Isn’t it a shame that future generations can’t be here to see all the wonderful things we’re doing with their money?

15. Adlai E. Stevenson:

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Christianity is probably responsible for projecting the concept that money is at the root of all evil.

Mark Twain expresses the opposite view, as you can see above.

How do you feel about money? Can you ever have enough? How much is too much?

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According to its dictionary definition, the word “advice” has a number of different meanings:

• The word can have a specific meaning related to legal advice. Which is the giving of a formal and binding opinion regarding the substance or procedure of the law.
• In constitutional law, advice is a binding instruction issued to a constitutional office-holder.
• In the world of computer programming, advice is a technical term when a join point is reached when a piece of code is executed.
• Advice has another technical meaning in complexity theory. It is a string with extra information used by a Turing machine or other computing device.

But, for most of us, the word is taken to refer to an opinion or recommendation offered as a guide to an action or conduct.

Our LifeDaily team has chosen pieces of advice from various sources for you to take note of. Some of it is serious, much of it is cynical.

Browse through our selection and decide which advice would be good for you:

1. I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
2. If at first you don’t succeed, you’ll get a lot of free advice from folks who didn’t succeed either.
3. Never give advice. A wise man won’t need it. A fool won’t heed it.
4. Take my advice, I don’t use it anyway.
5. When you give advice, remember that Socrates was a Greek philosopher who went around giving good advice. They poisoned him.
   
6. Nothing is more frequently ignored than good advice accompanied by bad example.
7. Don’’t be troubled if the temptation to give advice is irresistible; the ability to ignore it is universal.
8. Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
   
9. Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
10. You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway
11. Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
12. The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
13. If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
    
14. It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
15. I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am.

As you see, the advice offered is serious and not so serious.

Which of the pieces of advice are relevant to you? In general, do you take advice or give it?

Do people act upon the advice you give? Do you act on theirs?

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The law is the system of rules of conduct established by the government of a society to maintain the stability of political and social authority, and deliver justice.

Lawyers are the people who attempt to implement those ideals by applying a practical application of abstract legal theories and knowledge to solve specific individualized problems, or to advance the interests of those who hire them to perform legal services.

The role of the lawyer varies significantly in different countries, so the meaning of the term “lawyer” varies from place to place. Each country has traditionally had its own peculiar method of dividing up legal work among all its different types of legal professionals.

For example, in the U.K the application of the law is divided between the two distinctly different groups of solicitors and barristers. Only barristers are permitted to appear in court to present cases orally. In countries with fused professions, such as the U.S., a lawyer is usually permitted to carry out all, or nearly all, the aspects of the law.

Most societies have developed a “love hate” relationship with the legal profession; whilst acknowledging the necessity for lawyers, they are resented for a variety of reasons.

The comments below illustrate some of those:

Mary Roberts Rinehart:

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

Norman Ralph Augustine:

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

Clarence Darrow:

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Steven Wright:

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Janet Reno:

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.:

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Will Rogers:

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Charles Lamb:

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Charles Lamb:

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

Aaron Allston:

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Jeremy Bentham:

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Samuel Butler:

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

It is difficult to over emphasize the resentment of lawyers that has evolved in most societies and a whole genre of humor has developed based on so called “lawyer jokes.”

A typical example being: ” What do you call 1000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?” Answer: ” A good start!”

You probably know many others in a similar vein. How do you feel about these jokes? Or the legal profession in general? Have you ever had need of a lawyer?

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The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria’s reign from 20 June 1837 until her death, on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain.

It was also a period which saw the “Industrial Revolution” as society slowly embraced the concept of machines doing the work of people.

During Victoria’s reign. inventors created items which still endure to this day in one form or another.

The LifeDaily team has selected 20 of the most influential inventions that still impact our lives.

Browse through this list and see if you agree:

1. 1838/1839 – Photography – Louis Daguerre (France) and William Henry Fox-Talbot (UK)
2. 1839 – The bicycle – Kirkpatrick Macmillan (Scotland)
3. 1839 – Steamboats – Isambard Kingdom Brunel (UK)
   
4. 1845 – Rubber tires – Robert Thomson (UK)
5. 1845 – Tarmac – John McAdam (Scotland)
6. 1846 – Sewing Machine – Elias Howe (US). In 1850 Isaac Singer invented one for home use
   
7. 1849 – Concrete – Monier (France)
8. 1852 — Flushing toilet – (UK)
9. 1855 – Safety Match – John Lunstrom (Sweden)
10. 1863 — The world’s first underground railway (the Tube) is opened in London.
11. 1873 – Typewriter – Christopher Sholes (US)
    
12. 1876 – The telephone – Alexander Grahame Bell (Scotland/US)
13. 1877 – Gramophone – Thomas Edison (US)
14. 1879 – Electric light bulb – Swan and Edison (UK)
    
15. 1885 – First petrol motorcar – Karl Benz (Germany)
16. 1888 – Kodak Box Camera – George Eastman (US)
17. 1891 – The first hydro-electric power station (US)
18. 1894 – Moving pictures (cinematograph) – Lumiere brothers (France)
20. 1895 – X-rays – W K Roentgen (Germany)
21. 1895 – Radio – Guglielmo Marconi (Italy)

How many of these inventions did you know were produced in Victorian Times?

How many of them do you still use? Which do you think were the most significant?

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The process of film-making is an unusual combination of art and industry.

The use of the word “film” today is somewhat of a misnomer since most contemporary films are now fully digital through the entire process of production, distribution, and exhibition from start to finish. Perhaps the American use of the term ” movie” is more appropriate now than the British and European term “film.”

Films may be considered cultural artifacts created by specific cultures to both reflect and influence them. Whilst they may be an art form and a source of popular entertainment, they also provide a powerful medium for educating – or indoctrinating – people.

However, the contemporary definition of cinema is the art of simulating experiences to communicate ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty or atmosphere.

The responsibility for the creative element of that communication is fundamentally in the hands of the director.

Consequently, what directors think about the business they are in is very revealing. Our LifeDaily team has selected a few examples of what directors have said about their work and their industry.

Browse these quotes to get an insight:

1. Alfred Hitchcock:
   

   The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

2. Orson Welles:
   

   If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

3. Jean-Luc Godard:
   

   A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

4. Samuel Goldwyn:
   

   A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

5. Alfred Hitchcock:
   

   A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theater admission and the babysitter were worth it.

6. Samuel Goldwyn:
   

   Give me a couple of years, and I’ll make that actress an overnight success.

7. Frank Capra:
   

   I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

8. Woody Allen:
   

   If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

9. Joseph L. Mankiewicz:
   

   The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn’t.

10. Woody Allen:
    

    If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

11. Billy Wilder:
    

    Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

12. William Wyler:
    

    I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

13. Cecil B. DeMille:
    

    Every time I make a picture the critics’ estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

14. Samuel Goldwyn:
    

    Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

15. Roland Emmerich:
    

    Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

There is no doubt that films have been one of the most influential elements of modern culture for over 100 years.

But what about the next 100 years? With the growth of the internet and social media sites do you think films will have the same influence and effect?

Do you actually go to the cinema, or do you view films online?

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Cynicism is that attitude of mind characterized by a general distrust of others’ motives.

Cynics believe that humans are selfish by nature, ruled by emotion, and heavily influenced by the same primitive instincts that helped humans survive since the dawn of civilization. Those instincts include ambition, desire, greed, gratification, materialism, and opinions that a cynic perceives as vain, unobtainable, or ultimately meaningless.

Modern cynicism manifests itself as frustration, disillusionment, and distrust in organizations, authorities, and other aspects of society. Nowhere are those feelings greater than in the world of politics.

The problem is that cynicism regarding government or politics can logically lead to political withdrawal and effective political helplessness.

In 2003, Hillary Clinton commented: “The worst thing that can happen in a democracy—as well as in an individual’s life—is to become cynical about the future and lose hope. That is the end. And we cannot let that happen.”

For true cynics it is already too late, since trust and belief in politicians is probably at an all time low. Some of the observations of the people below are a good indication of how that came about:

Newt Gingrich:

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Plato:

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Niccolo Machiavelli:

Politics have no relation to morals.

Milton Friedman:

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.

Mark Twain:

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Winston Churchill:

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Lord Acton:

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Emma Goldman:

If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.

Aesop:

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

H. L. Mencken:

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Will Rogers:

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Will Rogers:

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Dick Gregory:

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it’s a sport.

Gore Vidal:

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.

Henry A. Kissinger:

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

One active aspect of cynicism is the desire to expose hypocrisy and to point out the gulf between society’s ideals and its practices.

As the author, George Bernard Shaw succinctly pointed out: “The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who don’t have it”.

Are you cynical about politics and politicians? Do you still vote? Why?

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Skin is one of those parts of the body that we take for granted just because it’s there.

It is our skin which protects us against pathogens and excessive water loss as well as providing insulation, regulating body temperature, and allowing synthesis of vitamin D.

It is obvious that, in humans, skin pigmentation varies widely, and skin types can range from dry to oily. Skin also provides a rich and diverse medium for bacteria and around 1000 species have been discovered for which the skin is their natural habitat.

In western societies glowing skin is regarded not only as a sign of good health but also plays a part in the attraction between the sexes. Consequently, a huge industry has developed which provides thousands of products devoted to skincare, and, probably because they are marketed in large part on a vanity platform, they are not cheap.

However, there are other skin treatments which are simple and inexpensive since most of the ingredients are already in your home.

Here is a selection of some natural home remedies that will help your skin to glow:

1. Lemon Juice

Lemon helps to reduce dark patches on the skin and gets rid of the blemishes. Apply lemon on the darkened areas for10 minutes and then wash off with cold water.

2. Milk and Honey

You can also use a milk and honey pack. Mix these in equal quantities and apply. After applying keep for at least 20 minutes, then massage the paste in a circular motion. Wash off with cold water. For really oily skin use low fat milk.

3. Honey and Lemon or Cucumber

Lemon and honey combined can lighten your skin. Mix lemon and honey in equal quantities, apply and leave for 20 minutes. Then wash it off. For really dry skin, a combination of honey with cucumber juice may work better. Apply it for 15 minutes and then wash it.

4. Oatmeal

Mix oatmeal with a little turmeric and few drops of lemon. Make into a thick paste and apply to skin. Leave until it dries then remove the the mask by washing with lukewarm water.

5. Bananas

Mash ripe bananas and rub into skin. Keep for some time and then rinse. You can also add milk to the mashed bananas.

6. Tomato

Tomato is a skin lightening agent which absorbs the oil of your face and treats open pores. Make a tomato pulp and apply. Leave until dry then rinse it off with water.

7. Eggs

Beat an egg till it’s fluffy and frothy, apply on the face and keep until completely dry. Rinse off with cold water. To reduce the smell of the egg add lemon juice or 2 drops of lavender oil or tea tree oil.

8. Potato

Potato works as a natural bleaching agent so is good for skin lightening. Squeeze the juice of a potato in a bowl and apply. Wash off with cold water.

9. Mixed Fruit

Combine the pulp of an avocado, papaya and cucumber. Then add 2 teaspoons of cream and mix to form a paste; apply all over the face. Leave for 20 minutes and rinse with warm water.

10. Milk, Almond Oil and Lemon

A combination of milk, oil and lemon is great your skin. Mix 1 spoon of milk powder, 1 spoon of lemon juice and 1 spoon of almond oil. Apply tor skin and leave for 15 minutes before washing off.

You may need to experiment to find which of these remedies is best to make your skin glow, but the results are well worth the effort.

Have you ever used any of the ideas listed above? Can you suggest other treatments that you have tried?

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