After I posted a two-sentence rant on a friend's FB, I had to stop and think.

Thought one was that all of Rupert's actual friends (ie - not some mental ex-goth failing to make it as a SF writer because interesting computer things and uninteresting life things keep happening, that he last spoke to at least twenty years ago) will consider me a drive ( Read more... )

Romcoms considered harmful shocker. Seriously, just imagine my surprise that the sort of shite-awful behaviour that middle-aged men in a male-dominated industry think is just fine turns out to be poison. Sadly not box-office poison.

(Because that name does assume a minor amount of mechanical nouse ( Read more... )

Adulterated food, baiting the poor and/or sick for entertainment, bomb-chucking by counter-revolutionary forces, mass measles outbreaks, startling disparity in earnings...

... Could we just stop this crazy-type modernist neo-victorian themepark malarkey and go back to never having it so good because there isn't a war on?

I guess it's an object-lesson in the fact that the purchase of consumer durables can only be a disappointing experience ( Read more... )

In receipt of a pamphlet of collected bumph from Bristol Corporation in re. the mayorings today ( Read more... )

... FB turns into the 'speak you're brains' section of the Daily Mail.

I need a Junior Thatcherite bingo card. A cursory glance has already revealed opinions such as

'National service'
'Send in the army'
'They should get on their bikes and look for work'

I look forward (nb: sarcasm) to 'The enemy within', 'a short, sharp shock' and other choice ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what this is, but I imagine it's obvious I don't care for it ( Read more... )

Poll

If you do by accident purchase some terrible industrial alcohol concoction, vaguely flavoured with some chemicals that the manufacturers are convinced smell a bit like Juniper, don't consume it. If you do, you may find yourself lurking under a pedestrian overpass handy for a half-built estate on one of the grimmer edges of Bristol. As you consider ( Read more... )