Category: Comedy
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Secret Santa Stress
Originally posted on my old blog on November 22nd 2016. The Christmas songs are already on the radio, Debbie in accounts has some fairy lights around her phone and the cleaner has tinsel on her mop bucket. Oh no, you know what that means! Deep breaths. It’s okay. It is far too early to be…
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Do you measure up?
Originally posted on my old blog on November 14th 2016. Why, as a species, are we so obsessed with measuring things? And yes, I know that this instantly raises the threat of a penis length joke, but we are better than that, aren’t we? No? Oh well, I am sure that an innuendo will come…
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Bang for your buck. Or Euro, or …
Originally posted on my old blog on November 4th 2016. As I write the notes for this piece there is an advert on the radio telling me about cheap fireworks. Now, I can’t speak for any of you, but when I am buying potentially fatal explosives “cheap” is not a word that I want to apply. “Safe”, “Reliable” and “Not…
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Ideas, what, why, when and how?
Originally posted on my old blog on October 29th, 2016. (This was written some time ago, in fact, it was one of the first things that I wrote when I decided to just start writing again for the hell of it. This blog is the product of that plan, and there is definitely more to…
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Trite Entertainment
Originally posted on my old blog on October 17th, 2016. Okay, let’s get this out of the way – I hate what is usually termed “light entertainment” or “family entertainment” I have a passionate love for things like Morecambe & Wise, The Two Ronnies and so on. No, the sort of thing I do not…
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100% of your RDA of something or other.
Originally posted on my old blog on October 8th, 2016. Why do companies think that anthropomorphising food for adverts is a good thing? I only ask, as I saw a van today that promised that it was transporting the freshest and most delectable fruit and vegetables inside. I didn’t stop the driver to ascertain the…
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Town Planning?
Originally posted on my old blog on October 3rd, 2016. I live in a town called Heckmondwike, you have probably never heard of it. It is like a hipster town “ I live in Heckmondwike, and you probably haven’t heard of it yet.” There are people that have lived here their entire lives who haven’t…
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State of play.
Originally posted on my old blog on September 24th, 2016. This afternoon I decided that I wanted to play a game that I had not played for a while. I put the disc in, UPDATE NEEDED. To any modern gamer, this is to be expected really, but it is always galling when you do not…
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Anger doesn’t have to be taxing.
Originally posted on my old blog September 22nd 2016. Why are people so angry these days? If it isn’t someone shouting abuse in the street at people walking past, or toothless living stereotypes on daytime TV shows trying to decide who slept with who, without giving any of the salacious details. If not that, then…
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Debt collection company woes
This was originally posted on my old blog on September 18th, 2013. I have been getting calls on my mobile on and off for the last couple of years. I have had this number for over 3 years, now either someone had it before me, or the debt collection company have their facts wrong. (I…
