http://existenz.se/out.php?id=19405
In other words, if you call the National Bullying Helpline for help, because you believe you're being bullied at work, and you follow their advice, they might tell your employer that you are the bully, call your grievance vexatious, and leave you in a worse position than when you started, with no comeback at all.
Evicted for bad taste in musichttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/8537669.stm
Its the naughty Mozart corner for you
Whats the problem? The same tactic is employed effectively by hundreds of shops and shopping centres (and radio stations come to that) across the country which play bland/crap/wank chart and RnB shit and its exceptionally effective at keeping me out.As for the Clockwork Orange link, if I remember correctly (and its been years since I read the book) the choice of music was influenced by the fact that Alex liked classical music in the first place. So its a poor analogy as they were using something the criminal liked as punishment for his crimes and not trying to use "culture" as a weapon as the article suggests.Crap write-up too, it states "endure two hours of classical music", and states a reduction of 60%. Yet the article it cites/links to states one hour of classical music followed by a maths DVD and a half-hour write-up of what they've learnt and that this has reduced trouble by 50% (the misquoted 60% is probably because straight afterwards it states that "upto 60 pupils").I think the twat who wrote that article should be made to sit and listen to Mozart for a couple of hours whilst writing out lines stating "I must read properly things I am going to write about".There seems scant evidence that its pruposefully being employed as a tactic to deter yoof's. There is some evidence from studies that classical music can be relaxing, and it could just be the choice of music that happens to have been selected for bus-shelters and other places. The fact that the speakers are vandal proof does nothing to support the notion that this is to protect against the agression directed at them by classicaly-enraged yoof's, they'd have to be anyway, as anything and everything is fair game to be vandalised.I don't agree with the Mosquito alarms though, as they do definitely target a specific demography and are completely indiscriminate.
