Because even the best things in life can be shit
24
Sep
Harry Potter gets right on my nerves. I have no problem with something which captures the imagination, and also feel that anything that gets children to read more books is almost always a Good Thing. However, when things become faddy, overmarketed, over-hyped and generally overdone, they become shit. Harry Potter is one of those things. [...]
24
Sep
Remember when you were just a boy, and shaving had mystique? You couldn’t wait until your first shave, which would mark your progression into adulthood. Wow. That feeling wore off fast. I hate shaving. One problem with shaving is that, if I forget to do it, it only gets worse. The next time it will [...]
24
Sep
Buying a printer for your PC is usually fairly inexpensive, they are often packaged into the deal with the computer. However, when you go to buy ink for the things, that is when you realise why companies are practically giving printers away: ink cartridges are hideously expensive. For one printer I had, the colour cartridges [...]
23
Sep
This is one thing which irritates me more than any other – advertisements during TV coverage of sport. It is really annoying how the commercial channels which show sport – any sport – decide to maximise their advertising revenue by showing adverts while the game is in progress. The main trouble is not just that [...]
23
Sep
We’ve all experienced them at one time or another, pavement crawlers are people who walk so slowly that we have to overtake them in the street, on foot. There are many problems associated with pavement crawlers, not least the problem of actually overtaking people. It is quite bad for me, being a man, if the [...]
22
Sep
Let’s get things straight from the outset: I don’t mind children, and I quite like planes. Plane flights are a Good Thing, they allow us to travel great distances in a relatively short period of time. Children are also fine by me, as long as they are under control. I don’t even mind if you [...]
21
Sep
Some things in life rub us up the wrong way. Some things really grate at us, for no apparent reason. Then there is Jamie Oliver. Jamie Oliver’s constant attempts to be a ‘cheeky chappie’ would be irritating, but forgivable, were it not for the fact that I feel seasick, because his cameraman is waving his [...]
20
Sep
The glamour and panache of working for an airline has slowly been eroded away over the years to become the stale smell of compressed air and lost dreams that the job now stands for today. Few people can reach the level of thinly masked contempt that the average face-painted, dead-eyed air hostess seems to convey [...]
20
Sep
Picture the scene – 1. You’ve had a meal out in a restaurant with a large number of various groups of friends. 2. Everyone is slightly the worse for wear. 3. Someone asks for the bill. 4. The clucking and crowing begins followed by some rising screeching and ultimate claw scratching. After a brief round [...]
20
Sep
After my complaints of yesterday (see Telly Vision), this morning’s offerings from the great and mighty BBC Breakfast, a “news” programme were the following: 1. Picture of “reporter” still living it up in Playa de Luz, Portugal, outside police station yet again telling us there was nothing to tell us. 2. Interview with McCanns’ new [...]