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| Idlers everywhere, take up arms! Whether your weapon of choice be pen or paintbrush, spade or egg-whisk, hold it aloft - and throw your clipboard and name badge into the mud at your allotment. Join us as we chuckle at convention and blow raspberries at authority. |
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As an idler I pledge...
Some of the pledges made so far:
To strive not to work ridiculous hours, especially not for some corporate wankster. To strive to eat nice stuff that doesn't go ping at the end. I will not let stress intrude upon me where possible. Eat more home grown veg. To procreate and make idle babies. To eat slowly. To drink real ales frequently. To sing more. To smile more. To step off the 9-5 merry-go-round before I get queasy. To amuse myself in public as well as in private. To strive to amuse others as well as myself. To know that work is merely for paying the bills. To always remember that friends are a source of strength. To enjoy the simple things. To spend quality time in nature. To spend less with big businesses and corporations. To make lots of nice things instead. To go against the grain. To strive to make a difference, to the world and people around you... however small. To be happy!!! Read the pledges and add your own in the forum
Idle Heroes & Villains: Results In!
The greatest living inspiration to idlers - and our greatest foe - has been appointed, and will be anointed forthwith.
You, the idle public, nominated 50 candidates (22 heroes and 28 foes), and subjected them to a gruelling fortnight of voting in two rounds.
The winner of each category will be contacted by the Idle Foundation and presented with a wonderful prize, if we can think of one.
Idler Heroes: with 40% of the vote, Derrick Jensen
Idle Foes: With 44% of the vote, a joint award for Kirstie Allsop and Phil Spencer
 | Derrick Jensen is writer of the Endgame books, amongst others. A sample: "I remember staring at the computer screen--light green letters on dark--then at the clock, and finally at my outstretched fingers held a foot in front of my face. And then it dawned on me: selling the hours of my life was no different from selling my fingers one by one. We've only so many hours, so many fingers; when they're gone, they're gone for good. "I quit work two weeks later--having sold another eighty of my hours--and knew I could never again work a regular job." |
 | Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer present "Relocation, Relocation" on Channel 4 in the UK, from which platform they exhort the public to grab themselves mortgages and scamper up the property ladder. Phil says: "I’ve just read a feature in a newspaper that deals with new builds in the Midlands, and of course I feel sorry for people who have lost money in this particular story, but the sad fact is that they simply bought the wrong thing – there was a massive over-supply of the same types of property in that area." That's ok then! |
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