Today I am obviously invisible. I haven't been far because it's tiresomely obvious that whatever space I occupy at any given moment will cause maximal affront to someone else because they'd decided that they were going to be there and who does this long-haired oik in the trousers think he is ( Read more... )

Dear Commerzbankers. See this? World's smallest violin.

Words/phrases that no longer mean, er, anything: 'sharing', 'extremely seriously', 'public interest', 'reach out to'.

Oh, FFS (i) : Some bollix w/hooped jumper and hybrid. Yes, you should expect a Futurist car-horn fanfare when you try to turn right against the lights without looking to see what the cars coming from your left are doing. You cock. Especially since you were coming from the Queen's Square end and there are two pleasant, narrow and largely car-free ( 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 sure you're feeling jolly pleased with yourselves for discovering this exciting new thing where you can play Jolly Tricks on someone who's left a logged-in session open on one or other 'social networking' site. (nb: sarcasmHowever, calling it 'frape' or 'facebook rape' is, as I'm sure has been pointed out, a bit shit ( Read more... )

Ring Orange. Wait. "We are experiencing a high call volume, etc" (ORLY? I wonder why?)

JHR: "A porting-code, please."

Orangeman:[4] "Oh, ok. Any particular reason?" (To be fair, this would be the first non-tiresome person in an airtime provider's retention dept with whom I've spoken in ten years.JHR: "The staff in your Bath shop are rubbish and ( Read more... )

(And other McLuskey recordings ( Read more... )

(This will be incoherent and likely contain swearing. I am still mostly running on snot and bile ( Read more... )

Splendid stuff.

The links in the comments are going to keep me busy for days.

Edit: For instance, this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/ Sheer bloody gold.

I do not want to ever turn into one of those people for whom matters financial are a stimulating topic of after-dinner conversation ( Read more... )