Month: December 2007

We’ve now been online for just over 5 years and, with 2008 about to begin, I’ve been looking at the stats. We’re now getting over 27 million hits per month with almost a million unique visitors. Strangely though, our top 20 search hits come from the following… Yup, Gemma Atkinson did get mentioned quite a bit here, although why people… Read more →

A few weeks ago I had to take some time off after getting a serious bout of man-flu.. no, really – it was bad! For those of you who aren’t aware just how bad man-flu is, have a look at this video. Link – glumbert.com Read more →

Now, a word of warning on the links below. They may include a bit of f’ing and jeffing. However, they’re well worth a click. I’ve only just got into the DailyMash website but it rocks – very funny satire and commentary on the events of today. Top stuff. :) Those of you in the UK will already be aware of… Read more →

Shops usually use some pretty weird tricks to entice you in. They may reduce one item quite heavily or have one really big offer to get you in the doors. However, this advertising banner at the local BP petrol station confused me. Why would a multi-coloured foam make me want to use the car wash? Will it clean my car… Read more →

Last night I was on the way home after being forced into doing 6 whole hours of work. ;) The M6, which was fairly empty at 9.30 in the morning, was packed with nutters doing the “brake, accelerate, brake, accelerate, brake, accelerate”-driving style. After a short while the motorway ground to a complete halt due to the amount of people… Read more →

This morning on the radio the DJ was speaking to a lady driving to work. She’s on her way to the House of Fraser and it’s her second day back after the Christmas holidays… “Boxing Day was mental”, she says, “people were queueing before 8am and we didn’t even open until 9.30am” Then, on GMTV could be seen FIGHTING as… Read more →

(Commence rant) What the cock has happened to McDonalds in recent years? See, I used to visit McDonalds quite often when I was a young pup. At college and during my nightclubbing days I’d perhaps nip in for lunch, then we’d stumble into the local Maccies for 3AM beer food after visiting the local club or bar. Now I don’t… Read more →

Gemma Atkinson tends to keep popping up on this site. Believe me, if you stick “gemma atkinson site:coolsmartphone.com” into Google you’ll get a fair amount of results. She’s just come back from her appearance in reality TV show “I’m a Celebrity…” and she’s trying to keep her profile high by… launching a range of bras. Oh joy.. Now, the following… Read more →

As someone who used to dance around like a music like this (oh, who am I kdding, I still do), I have to post this video….. One guy, one drum-kit. He’s banging the hell outta those drums and there’s no electrical equipment in sight. Top stuff :) Oh, and smoking is bad – mmm-kay? But I did like the fact… Read more →

That’s it, you can’t deny it any more. There’s UFO’s and aliens everywhere. Look, the Russians found one… Read more →

Woha!!! Look what’s about to return to our screens! Yes, it’s Knight Rider. The mighty Hoff is sadly not part of it any longer though. A lot of my childhood was probably spent watching the original series, with the infamous talking car (KITT) and Michael Knight talking into his watch. The Wikipedia page is surprisingly detailed – the original series… Read more →

Pfff.. kids and their Scooby Doo’s eh ? You just can’t stop them doing crazy things. (Warning – Contains much “whooping” and “a-hollering”). Link – YouTube.com Read more →

Years back, when I was still wearing nappies (OK, so it was last year and I wear them for fun), I posted a blog about Dr Ashens and his funny video reviews. He reviews cheap Chinese rip-offs of well-known consoles and generally swears a lot too… heck, I’ve even got a suspision that he’s not a real Doctor…. :) Anyhoo…… Read more →

It looks like Ask.com is pulling out all the stops in its’ mission to get more share of the search market. They’ve now launched a privacy tool to wipe your search history from their servers instantly. Although it’s a new idea, I doubt they’ll stop people Googling for stuff instead. Link – BBC News Read more →

The news story about the canoe guy, who faked his own death to try and fix heavy debts and loans, is both strange and sad in equal measures. John Darwin went off in his canoe but never came back. Everyone presumed that he was dead, but – almost a year later – he knocked on the front door of his… Read more →

It’s that time of year when your finances are stretched to the limit. As I walked around the shops on Saturday there were lots of signs saying, “Spread the cost of Christmas” and an endless stream of cashiers were trying to sign me up to a store card. I hate this. No, I don’t want your store card. Shove your… Read more →

Here we go again, the cost of petrol spirals up (now well above 1 a litre here in the UK) and suddenly blockades are planned for this Saturday. It’s not the blockades that cause the problems, it’s the knee-jerk reaction of the general public. It’s almost like your local supermarket on Christmas Eve. Even though the shop is only closed… Read more →

Don’t ask me why, but Kerry Katona gets on my nerves. Her endless plugging of Iceland products and frequent boyfriend-swapping activities bore the hell out of me, yet she manages to get her moosh into every magazine and paper on the shelf. Now, to make things worse, she is to release a perfume. Yes, a perfume. God knows what it’ll… Read more →

Saw this in John Lewis today whilst shopping in the Trafford Centre. Emily (as you can see) was looking at stuff while I was staring around the shop. I’d never heard of this particular designer, who I pronounced, “Cockin Hell”. Well, it is… isn’t it ? Read more →

These fliers have been posted in various bits of the USA to try to stop people saying, “Like” so much. It’s apparently from the Academy of Linguistic Awareness and, after spending an hour in a coach this year in America it’s WELL WORTH READING for pretty much every teenager (it’s, like, soooooooooooo annoying).. Apparently it’s all due to this… Research… Read more →

Shopping at Christmas isn’t much fun for us blokes. However, I did enjoy people-watching today. Selfridges was particularly funny. I saw crowds of blokes standing around the perfume counters trying to grab something for their girlfriend or wife. They all seemed to be doing the same thing – asking the heavily-made-up lady behind the counter what smells best or is… Read more →

I’ve blogged about this many times over these past five years, and yet again it’s happened. Here in the UK we’re not allowed to buy guns to any great degree. You won’t find them in peoples’ houses and there’s only very rare occurances of gun crime. When I went to the US many years ago I took the opportunity to… Read more →