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Tag Archives: sport
Are sporty people jealous?
Regular readers of this blog may have picked up on hints that I’m not a very sporty person. I don’t even really like watching sport. Sometimes when the sports news comes on, I switch channels and watch adverts until it’s … Continue reading
Another reason to be sporty
As if we needed another one. Do you work in HR or recruitment? Have you noticed an odd pattern recently? Some slightly odd CVs - sometimes they’ll have an odd name, other times include a photo of someone extraordinarily attractive. You … Continue reading
Paying for psychic pigs
It hath been decreed that the biggest football tournaments must be accompanied by a psychic animal – be it octopus, fish or pig. Someone really ought to start to blog about football and behavioural economics, because this popular sport of … Continue reading →