For my safety and security? How?

by wee_pad | Sep 3, 2014 | Slider, Things that make me cross

I came across this in my local supermarket. It’s not a sign you see everywhere in the store. For instance there’s no such sign on the crisps shelves. But on the alcohol shelves it is apparently essential to have CCTV to protect me. From what? Are the...

Really?

by wee_pad | Aug 27, 2014 | Slider, Things that make me cross

I don’t like guns. The only place for them, in my opinion, is in a video game. People these days are too quick to resort to violence. When I was a lad (old fart comment coming right up) a fight would result in a black eye or something similar. Honour could be...

Street cleaning?

by wee_pad | Jul 12, 2011 | Things that make me cross

Today I drove up a side road behind one of those trucks that’s supposed to clean the gutters in the street. He might as well not have bothered.  Because of the parked cars along the street, the driver couldn’t get near the gutter.  So the street remains...

Belkin "customer service"

by wee_pad | Aug 28, 2009 | I'm ranting, Technology, Things that make me cross

I need to vent my spleen, and today’s target is Belkin. Their definition of customer service is clearly “deny everything, treat all customers as though they are completely stupid, and finally take the piss out of them”. I have a wireless router, that...

Even the BBC is illiterate now

by wee_pad | Aug 4, 2009 | I'm ranting, Things that make me cross

I just watched a video clip on the BBC website where Terry Pratchett gives his (quote) opinion’s (unquote) about assisted suicide. What the hell is that apostrophe doing in there? He gives his opinion’s what about assisted suicide? There’s no...