Posted in Angry, Rambles on Nov 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Is it unreasonable to expect the following flow of conversation when at a checkout?
Me: Hi.
Checkout Assistant: Hello.
[Checkout assistant scans items ...]
Checkout Assistant: That’s £49.96, please.
Me: There you go.
[Insert card, enter PIN, etc]
Checkout Assistant: There’s your receipt, your purchases. Thank you. Bye.
Me: Bye.
Posted in Angry, Happy, Rambles on Nov 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Red car stopped at the lights. AS I slowed down (about 10 feet from it), some cunt in a Corsa pulled alongside me, then in (all in the right-hand lane). I pulled in front of his off-side front wing so that he couldn’t get by. As the light went green, red car moved off, I [...]
Posted in Angry, Rambles on Apr 7th, 2009 No Comments »
One hopes that the gutless uniformed wanker who pushed this guy, from behind as he was walking home from work, is found and charged with at least manslaughter. The two-handed push was in no way reasonable force - Mr. Tomlinson had his hands in his pockets.
The officer who pushed Mr Tomlinson is in the centre [...]
Posted in Angry, Rambles on Jan 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Assistant: Hi. Do you need help with anything?
Me: Yes. I’m after a bit of advice.
Assistant: OK.
Me: I bought a PS3 here in December, and while running it over HDMI to an LCD TV the screen frequently goes black for just one second, then it comes back.
Assistant: Ooh, I haven’t heard of that before.
Me: [...]
Posted in Angry, Rambles on Nov 8th, 2008 No Comments »
This place is fucking awful. If you’re in the area and need food, save yourself the hassle and go to Burger Burger or Prezzo.
OK, so I get that Nando’s is fast food, and I get that you don’t freeze the chicken, but is there any need to take 40 minutes to serve a cold chicken [...]
Posted in Angry on Oct 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Who’s the prick that thought automatically restarting a PC, without user intervention while applications are running, was a good idea? I just got in to work this morning to find that an Windows update required an automatic restart. The PC restarted even though applications were running. Did it restart the applications for me? Did it [...]
Posted in Angry, Rambles on Oct 14th, 2008 No Comments »
A few minutes after I put all my nice, clean laundry away, this happened. That black bag in the lower-right is a rubble sack, already full of plaster. Marvellous.
Fortunately no one was hurt, and there’s no significant damage to any of the furniture. It could have been more serious - that lump of plaster resting [...]
Posted in Angry, Rambles on Sep 5th, 2008 No Comments »
What a bunch of rip-off merchants this organisation is.
Like, I suppose, many people who auto-renew their insurance policies I figured Direct Line would offer a good deal on fully comprehensive, NCD protected cover. I was wrong.
Posted in Angry, Rambles on Jul 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Microsoft and Nikon have teamed up to create the Iconic Britain web site, illegally using images from photographers.
Millions of photos have been harvested from the internet without the owners’ or copyright holders’ permission so that people who have no connection with the photos can vote on them in a competition. While claiming to take [...]
Posted in Angry, Rambles on Jul 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Why am I required to fill in a form, containing lots of lovely marketing information, just to have a look at the gym? From the door I can see the treadmills, bikes and cross trainers, but not the weights area. That’s the bit I’m interested in, yet on Saturday I couldn’t get past [...]