This year “Blue Monday” - a date in January regarded as the most depressing day of the year - falls on 19 January. I’m sure that I heard John Humphrys on the Today programme this morning say 40% of workers would call in sick today. That can’t be right, surely? He wasn’t on very good […]
The ad agency probably went with “knowing” or else one of the sick masochists actually believes this.
Okay, okay, they might have a point with the words “…will be crammed full…” I suppose.
There really is nothing like driving along the M74 somewhere vaguely near Lockerbie at 2 am and having the fuel distributor computer decide it’s going to shut off the engine. Especially if there’s a car 18 inches behind you doing 100 (or so) mph (not that I’d ever drive 30 mph above the speed limit […]
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Now, I know it has something to do with the rotation of the earth, but that many times? Really? Is it one of those aging-related things? Or working every day? No, no, it can’t be that - there has to be a rational explanation….. Alien abduction, I would imagine.
Song playing as this was published: We […]
At least according to the Microsoft calendar at the bottom of the screen.
Now, it’s not just that it’s Microsoft that makes me slightly suspicious of that date, but rather that a few weeks ago I was looking through essays that I’d written at middle school that my mother had kept in her attic of […]
It’s very easy to go overboard on the Christmas spend, especially when you’ve last present buying until the last minute. Blood rushes to your head, you make impulse purchases on your credit card and regret them in January. However, following extensive recent research, I can now present Mr. Fact’s 10 Point Action Plan To Avoid […]
According to the fact sheet given to me at the hospital outpatients department: whilst an endoscopy “is not painful, there may be some mild discomfort.”
Now, it might well be that I’m just a big girl (actually, that’s not true – if I was a big girl, insertion might have proved easier), but I would describe […]
It doesn’t matter if you have a photograph, never start a tale of the unusual (unless it’s about a girl) with those words. No one will ever believe you. They won’t believe you about the girl, either.
Also, if you talk to the police about alien abductions they’ll just tell you not to use unlicensed mini-cabs […]
Normally when one looks at a bottle of wine, the label will say “75cl, 1er Cru, 2003, Mis en bouteille au château”, or, in the Fact Household “3 liter Tetrapak, finest Bulgarian Tablewine”. Not so the bottle I’ve just been given as a thank you present:
Now, I’m sure that all wine comes into contact with […]
As you’re all no doubt aware, today is ‘International Talk Like A Pirate Day‘. Now, here at InActualFact we’ll not be standing for any of this pervasive nonsense (even Flickr has a skull and crossbones on its logo, for God’s sake).
In fact, as I’m about as far from the sea as it’s possible to […]
