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Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Michael Gove's EU Tweet Prompts Hilarious Insults From Twitter Users
As the Tory leadership contest races on, all the candidates are fighting to make their voices heard and clearly outline what they stand for as their party looks to fill the seat left vacant by David Cameron.
Michael Gove is one of the Conservative MPs vying for the position, but he's had a few slip-ups along the way.
Most recently, the 'Vote Leave' figurehead posted a tweet to clarify his intentions regarding the UK's post-Brexit relationship with the EU.
We need to renegotiate a new relationship with the EU, based on free trade and friendly cooperation. #Gove2016
- Michael Gove MP (@Gove2016) July 5, 2016
With the anti-EU campaigners being marred by claims they never had plans in place for what we would actually do if we decided to leave, a lot of people saw this as back-tracking.
Obviously, people were quick to point out that "free trade and friendly cooperation" are provided by the EU...
@Gove2016 I agree Michael. Let's do it....I hear there's an organisation who can help sort this out, two letters...ah what is it now...?
- James Wren (@jameswren1975) July 5, 2016
@Gove2016 So, some sort of union with Europe? Wonder where we could find one of those?
- Dookie Howser, M.D. (@Dookie3000) July 5, 2016
If only there was some kind of Union across Europe, based on free trade and friendly cooperation eh @Gove2016
- Adam Mark Davis (@AdamMarkDavis) July 5, 2016
@Gove2016 Oh I get it! We should join the EU! You realise members get all those things in one convenient package, right?
- Vince Boosey (@Darth_Marenghi) July 5, 2016
@Gove2016 This statement should win a prize for Biggest Back-Track ever.
- Mary-Mary (@Maryaclare) July 5, 2016
Not a parody account.
- Jason (@NickMotown) July 5, 2016
I repeat: Not a parody account.
https://t.co/vTy7hUnaau
Some people weren't so kind, and started firing off some very colourful and inspired insults
@Gove2016 we had one, and you helped destroy it; you are one confused bag of mince.
- Dave Haslam (@Mr_Dave_Haslam) July 5, 2016
You can't REnegotiate something NEW you boil-in-the-bag rent-a-clown.@Gove2016
- sôscochmwydion (@PULPKetchup) July 5, 2016
THAT IS WHAT WE ALREADY HAD YOU ARSE-CHEEKED BOLLOCK-WAGON https://t.co/Qdvmx09q8y
- Murray James (@murrayjame5) July 5, 2016
@Gove2016 Then what is the point of leaving, you incompetent ventriloquist-dummy-faced spunktrumpet?
- MJ (@MJ_Boh_) July 5, 2016
@Gove2016 That's what we HAD, you reprehensible spam faced tool bag!
- Against ★ Xenophobia (@InvaderXan) July 5, 2016
@Gove2016 I'm sure they'll love that after all the lovely things your gang said about them you back stabbing cockwomble
- Cris Anscombe (@Brummiecris) July 5, 2016
Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME? We had one of those you haunted pork mannequin. https://t.co/8Fhh5OUxpv
- AlexWattsEsq (@AlexWattsEsq) July 5, 2016
@Gove2016 You gigantic plumb; we had that. You fucked it up. You. Personally. With your mates. For what? Cant you do something else in life?
- Matt Wilcox (@MattWilcox) July 5, 2016
Gove currently faces competition from Home Secretary Theresa May, Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom, Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb, and former Defence Secretary Liam Fox for the right to lead his party and, by default, the country.
A result is expected on 9 September.
Monday, 9 May 2016
the strategy of mastery
These are words I took verbatim from my favorite scene in my favorite documentary, Jiro Dreams of Sushi.
The film documents the life of Jiro Ono, Japan's greatest sushi chef- the first sushi chef ever to be awarded three Michelin Stars.
The movie was a huge hit, and I have two thoughts on why this was so:
ONE: It's a film about Mastery. You may not be a billionaire, you may not be a hot-shot celebrity rock star or famous politician, but you can still be a bad-ass by being a master of something.
Just find something useful, dedicate yourself to it every day, achieve mastery at it, and you'll be just as happy and satisfied as anyone else.
It's a far more edifying path to success (not to mention, likely) than hanging around, waiting to get discovered, waiting to get “picked” by the establishment.
BITE-SIZE PIECES: Jiro doesn't have a chain of restaurants and his own TV show, like other famous chefs. He's just got a small, underground 10-seater in a Tokyo subway station. Not much bigger than a food truck.
So he's earned his success, not with some big, grandiose plan (“It's the Uber of Chipotle”), but just one piece of sushi, one bite-size piece at a time.
This Mastery + Bite Size Pieces strategy had a huge impact on me. I spent so many years, wondering what my “big plan” was. But after seeing this film, I realized I don't need a big plan, I just needed to roll up my sleeve and get to work. It was very liberating.
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