If you don't understand a joke, it's not funny. Alternatively, if you do and don't want to, it's also not funny but for a different reason. If we see something as offensive or insulting, it's because we don't want to be associated with it: For us, it has a personal meaning, which we'd rather not be reminded of thank you very much and so go into an automatic, paranoid defense reaction, in order to block it out of our conscious awareness. If we see it as a joke, it's because we interpret it as meaningless, harmless, non-embarrassing – that is we...

If you like clever science fiction stories, mixed in with horror and an added twist of humour in some cases, then you maybe amused at this little concoction (light reading during the lunch hour or on the journey to and from work)

Welcome to life but not necessarily as you may know it. These series of stories involve the problems (or even benefits?) of not being a part of what is considered the normal world for most people. Enjoy it or not as you see fit

Observations from Another World is composed of short sayings and longer, more involved statements about the human condition, seen from the perspective of an outsider, trying to make sense the strange planet he finds himself dumped on (almost any human being in other words but mostly me)

The author of this book is a classroom assistant in Scotland. He conceived of this book series after struggling to learn a foreign language and wondering what stumbling blocks someone new to English would have, in increasing his or her own knowledge of the language. He also sought out and discovered ways to actively build up vocabulary and introduce grammar to the learner through usage i.e. samples, rather than trying to teach the rules and letting them acquire the vocabulary, which he considers back to front as a process. The ideas behind this series are not totally original but their...