Chatterbox Friday

Ah yes, where no one is watching and no one has a life, good plan.

It's an American company, I have a horrible feeling they might expect me to...work...and be good at my job...

Long story short, a new angel gets its wings at Clifton.

Fear not, Crank. You won't have to secretly flush your child's expired Magikarp down the toilet and tell them that Magikarp has been released back into the wild to live with its friends.

Pokemon wouldn't be where it is today by killing children's pets.

Although, as Felice says, some of them can evolve which can sometimes be like puppies or kittens growing up and no longer be so cute, but they also become more powerful.

I knew a Saudi PhD student (now a Prof) whose 8 year old daughter was really into Pokemon at the height of the first Pokemon craze. When her father finished his PhD, the family moved back to Saudi Arabia at the same time as Saudi clerics banned Pokemon from the kingdom.

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/20/saudi-arabia-pokemon-go-ban

One reason that was given for the ban was that Pokemon promotes evolution.

I don't know whether the girl managed to hang on to her Pikachu nevertheless, but I suppose it paled in comparison to the challenge of growing up as a young girl in Saudi. Her parents sent her to an expensive English language school, hoping that it would be close enough to the experience in her former primary school in Balsall Heath. She soon ran into trouble when she asked her teacher who was talking at length about the Prophet to "cut the crap" (that's Balsall Heath vernacular for you) and, when told that it was time for prayer, asked "whether we can just pretend we already did".

My sister taught out in Saudi for a while, where I kind of assumed the mouthy bitch would end up being shot as a dissident, or at least thrown out of the country for telling the locals to just fuck off.

She didn't, and now she's knocked up in Korea (Southern version). She never did like an easy life.

Cruel but true.