We’re sitting on a blanket laid out on the grass in the park. Although the sun has set, it’s a balmy summer’s evening – warm enough to sit barefoot in shorts and t-shirt. The only chill is between us, the remnants – despite a pleasant evening and scrummy food and drink – of a somewhat […]
Sigh.
Although the advertising campaign is still running as if nothing has happened.
Now, although falling over and twisting your knee when you’re not being pushed by someone is pretty idiotic, the kind of thing I would do in fact, I’m not sure that fat Freddy Shepherd should call him “a tool.” Perhaps he meant it […]
Sometime later on today it’s going to be safe for football fans to turn on the television. Admittedly not, as advertised, at 3 o’clock when there’ll presumably be lots of schoolchildren running around the pitch, releasing doves and sundry worthies talking about the game bringing the world family together and such nonsense. But at five, […]
Or “Utterly Useless Tips For The Pathetically Single #157”
In Germany, at the end of every single TV advertisement for a product that might be sold at a pharmacist, be it medicated shampoo, cough lotion or the latest opiate derivative a warning appears and is read out: “Zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen lesen Sie die Packungsbeilage und […]
When you’ve been in a long-term relationship that’s broken down and you’re starting a new one it’s important that you move on and put the old one behind you. That’s not always true when she lives just around the corner from you – the bitch almost ran me over a few weeks ago, so in […]
For Sale - surplus to requirements
Update: E-bay have removed the “offending” (oh how apt) article, a pdf of the page is here, though.
