Month: January 2013

There’s bad parking, then there’s this

I follow the @yplac account on Twitter. I won’t say exactly what it stands for, but it’s all about people who can’t park properly. This one goes way and beyond just not being able to park in the lines correctly though. Epic. I don’t know whether to congratulate the driver or not though. I mean, that’s a pretty tight “space”… Read more →

Everything you see on TV is fake

Hard-working fishermen. Hard-working fishermen singing. They’re coming home after a long, hard day. They’re eating Youngs Breaded Cod. It’s a brilliant British advert… Here they come, singing as they stroll back with their fish. These hard-working men caught this fish. They braved the waves and the weather, to bring us fish… Here’s the kids, waiting patiently for their Dads to… Read more →

Snow + bin collections = Problems

Bins. It’s a subject that could start World War III in this country. Our local council provide three bins. A black one for stuff that can’t be recycled, a blue one for card / glass / plastic and a brown one for food and grass. Anyhoo, they come for the blue and black bins one week, then the black the… Read more →

ITV News, what exactly WAS that ?

I was a bit bemused by ITV News last night. They chose to run a report about a foul smell that had drifted across the channel from a french gas plant. However, the actual report went a bit like this. It’s worth sticking around until the end.. Oh, and if that gets taken offline there’s a toned down version here. Read more →

UK Snow – “Sorry, I can’t get to work”. The truth..

Today we’ve had a sprinkling of snow. It’s nothing compared to what other countries cope with, but somehow we’ve all gone crazy and companies have either closed down for the day or had their workforce depleted because they’re “snowed in”. I managed to get to work, and got there quicker than normal thanks to the fact that no-one else bothered.… Read more →

Poor old Blockbuster

To be honest the writing was on the wall a long time ago, but the pace of change – from visiting a rental shop to then having DVD’s delivered and now streaming on-demand – has killed this company as they failed to innovate. I drove past one the other day and was frankly surprised that they were still going. This… Read more →

Gaydar Radio is dead

OK, don’t judge me, but I’ve been listening to Gaydar Radio for quite some time now. I’m not gay, but we stumbled across it many years ago and go sucked in by the music. They have an excellent selection of the very latest dance tunes and you’ll usually hear mixes on the station way ahead of any other network. However,… Read more →

Jesus on E’s

Transport yourself back to 1992 when the Amiga was king. Watching “demos” – which were basically designed to show off what the computer could do – was one of my passtimes. You BOUGHT the FLOPPY DISKS (retro) from a PD library (PD = Public Domain), then WAITED for them to arrive in the POST. Then you loaded up the disks…… Read more →