Friday, January 31, 2025

Infamy, Infamy....

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 " They've all got it in for me!" (So said  Kenneth Williams as Emperor Julius Caesar in the 1964 film  Carry on Cleo ).   And...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

I'm Always Complaining

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  I am though.  Today it was with Amazon who moments after I bought something then held a flash sale and the blatantly displayed a big savin...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

The Art Of Doom Scrolling

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  Here I am sitting in my office scrolling through pointless vacuous Facebook posts and rolling my eyes at the bizarre comments and general ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Incentives And Behaviour

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  I recall one of the discussions we had years back was about the law of unintended consequences and how people behave when incentivised to ...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Can't Get Away From All This Doom And Gloom

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  It's a case of new day new f**k up by someone or other in the government.  Today it's more grabs on dead people's estates from...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

Ronald Reagan Summed It Up

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  When he said  "I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm fro...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

Looking Back Is It Healthy?

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  Eleven years ago I moved out of the martial home and into a house share with my friend.  We were both leaving our wives and needed an inte...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Lipstick On A Pig

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  This came to mind thinking about what is going on today in the UK.  There's an abhorrent crime but wee are told that it isn't terr...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Zero Empathy

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That's me apparently although I'd suggest that's not quite zero but pretty close.  It's not that I don't have feelings b...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Look With Envy To The West

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I find it curious that we in the UK are fed US news in a way that makes us fear the New President and are certain, from our backward third w...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Opticians Why So Expensive?

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  Well apart from the delay to my appointment meaning I had to extend my car parking it all went rather well.  Getting old and failing eye s...
Monday, January 20, 2025

We Were Beautiful Weren't we?

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  An old friend posted a photo of us when we were at school about 50 years ago.  We were the first sixth form to be mixed from the boys and ...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Incompetence Levels On The Rise

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  You see it everywhere but strikingly in public services and government too.  SO bad are they at their job that they regularly screw up and...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

Who Are These People?

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  The news seems to have a lot of people of notoriety (mislabelled celebrities) in some sort of scrape, separation, spat etc.  I don't r...

Finally Someone Actually Does What They Said They Were Going To Do

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 Say what you do, do what you say were my work mantras and so I was pretty annoyed that for most of this week someone who said they'd be...
Friday, January 17, 2025

Never Interrupt Your Enemy Whilst They Are Making A Mistake

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  Often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte and I think I remember it from The Art of War by Sun Tzu, a very good book to have a read of especi...

No One Does What They Say They Will Anymore!

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  Why is it that you get connected, arrange something and then people disappear (even though you can see they read your messages)?   Scrap M...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

Lacking Courage

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  Our cowardly politicians are the modern version of Roman Nero in my humble opinion.  They do not tackle the problems we have far less unde...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Why Bother?

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  I think you should bother but these days, why?  You can generally spot a scam a mile off and Facebook is full of them.  Recently there is ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Sixteen Years Ago

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  I just saw a not on Facebook that it was 16 years ago when I lost my hearing and when this tinnitus started.  I was so ill - I roused myse...