Yesterday wasn’t the first time I’d pulled up at the garage, unscrewed the filler cap and then been stopped in my tracks by the influence of the marketing department on the usability of the petrol pump.
Which type of petrol do I want?
In Britain, of course, you can’t just buy petrol. Who in their right mind…
Trains are quite simple in operation. You wait at a platform, enter the train through a door, sit (if you’re lucky) on the train until it reaches your destination, and then leave the train through a door. What could be simpler? Well – for some people at least – the whole thing, it would seem.
Commuters…
I’ve had enough. Today we have no toilet roll. None.
Well, I say none. Some kind soul has left a few feet of it draped across the floor in one of the cubicles. Meanwhile one of the other pans has been streaked brown, one of the two hand drying rolls has also run out (the other…
Today I found myself in the Guildford branch of Marks and Spencer, who have – unusually – for some years been manufacturing trousers in 35 inch lengths. After spending a few seconds flicking through the rails I decided it would be better to get someone to do the hunting for me, so I found someone…
Oh, good grief. Look what happens when you mix Nigel Havers with erstwhile fanzine of middle-English bigotry, The Daily Mail. You’ve guessed it, Havers is on a roll this week clocking up as many column inches as he can, devoting each one to the usual blinkered crap about cyclists.
Continuing the hypocrisy set by his earlier…
Apparently Nigel Havers has been attracting the ire of some of the cycling community by saying in the Independent, “cyclists who jump red lights and ride on pavements … they’re all bastards,” which, whilst a little over the top in terms of vitriol, is fair enough really.
His manner of defence seems to be a little…
This week the BBC invites you to test your happiness. All you have to do is say whether you agree or disagree with the following statements, proposed as a scientific test by “psychologist Professor Ed Diener from the University of Illinois,” and from that it is possible to determine via the magic of science how…
Apparently, “scientists have discovered why some people just can’t resist food.” Right then – I’ll believe this when I see it. According to some “expert in obesity,”
This research shows that it’s not simply explained by a loss of will power or greed. It’s much more complicated. An involuntary exaggerated neurophysiological response to pictures of desirable…
Last Saturday I placed an online order for a new phone. Judging by the trail of information, O2 did a decent job of their part of the deal, as the phone was handed over to DHL at 3am the following Monday – impressive stuff. Unfortunately, that’s where it all went downhill.
The phone was dispatched for…
It’s getting ridiculous. Pretty much all the Western cross-channel ports are now operated by Brittany Ferries, the sole exception being le Havre – the furthest East of the ports and fairly useless if you fancy visiting Brittany.
The mind-boggling thing, though, is how this ever came to be. Specifically, how do they get away with charging…
So, Stagecoach has launched its new Megatrain budget ticket service. Cheap train fares? Ace – count me in: trains are great (remember, traffic congestion sucks, kids), but at about three or four times the cost of driving (even if it’s just me in the car) I don’t tend to use them now that I have…
If anyone knows how to phone the DVLA and actually get through to a person, I’d love to hear from you. Or indeed if anyone knows which bit of the labyrinthine and non-retraceable menu system is hiding the pre-recorded message for the “we’ve royally bollocked up and you need to tell us to sort it…