Recently I changed jobs and one of the adventures I encounter due to this is a daily commute on Londons fine transport system. I’ve changed over to a combination of Train + Tube to my destination. I’ve found that one thing London doesn’t seem to have is what you might call tube etiquette. Every morning we gather on the platforms and like a herd of cattle we prod and poke each other into the cattle trailer (more commonly referred to as a car or carriage). Every nook and cranny is filled to the extent that body odour becomes part of your daily commute. Out pop the papers, books, phones and pads; the reading commences. You slowly begin to tune out and the smell of wet wool, toothpaste breath and infrequent flatulence gets drowned out by our morning stories.
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Ok, I read the horror stories about recent dell deliveries, and quite frankly I ignored them. Heck, I’m writing this post from a Dell PC! But… alas… heed I should have taken…
I started a thread a while back on Talk Photography about choosing whether I’d go with a macbook or a dell. Well, after a little more research, and a little more time, I decided to get a dell for the g/f as a wee birthday present. Said I’d go for a wee 13″. Nice and dinky, and pretty cheap too. Before ordering I took a quick look at the outlet store and spotted one made to my spec and was returned unopened or something similar… cheaper again, that’ll do the jobbie! Ordered it on the 28th of May, to be delivered on the 7th of June. Perfect timing for the present. Read the rest of this entry »
I had a conversation recently with a friend of mine about British Airways and the salary of crew members. (See his most awesome blog here). You see, the public are very misinformed about how much people actually get paid by British Airways. The most recent stats I’ve read state that the average salary of a crew member is £29,000 a year. That’s like, a most wicked salary! I’m going to pack in the day job and become a Trolly Dolly! (or equivalent of what they call the blokes, Trolly Wallys?)
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Ok, actually stands for Communication Workers Union. I’m not going to dwell that long on this matter, it’s been covered enough.
This is the union behind the postal strikes recently.
You’ve heard of this and most likely have been affected by this. They are the trade union behind the employees of Royal Mail
This is the strike that is causing absolute havoc to Royal Mail.
I’m not even going to quote how much business they have already lost Royal Mail. Because of it they will potentially cost some of their own members jobs.
This is the union driving the people looking for a payrise in a recession.
Seriously, are you kidding me CWU? We are in a recession, I don’t care about your whimpers. You expect us to support your little cries while the rest of us take a wage cut? Not in my life time.
This is the union that are not supported by any member of the public that I have spoken too.
Take my advice CWU. Zip it. You’re not doing yourselves any favours.
Don’t you just love those new adverts that use science to justify the purchase of their products? Yeah, me neither. Let’s delve a little deeper into some of them just to see what exactly science really can do to in their instance.
First product that comes to mind is Actimel by Danone. Their claim is that Actimel contains probiotics and more importantly L. casei Imunitass, their own “exclusive” probiotic. Now there’s a word I would never ever have been able to pronounce, never mind remember, only for very clever advertising… Read the rest of this entry »
One of the ongoing topics of current society that both interests and baffles me, and I’m not talking about the size of the male genitalia here, it’s the insistent abuse of celebrity ‘size’ that hits front pages. This has baffled me for quite some time, but recently after reading an extremely ‘interesting’ article I thought it time to voice an opinion. It begs a more modern version of the old age question… Does size really matter?
The particular article I read was from a glossy magazine that I won’t mention in the fear that I might rouse publicity for them. The article was about Natalie Cassidy, a former Eastenders star. She apparently ‘piled on weight’ as she soared to an unearthly size 16. Read the rest of this entry »
