Death is just the beginning

When I wrote a post about the diet drug “alli” a while back, the actual news part was not the drug itself.  The drug had been available on prescription for a long time, known as Xenical.  The big news was that it had been declared “safe” by the USFDA to allow a version of the [...]

T-shirt competition finalists

I can’t believe nobody hassled me to finalise my t-shirt competition.  I finally remembered to do it.  Without your help!  Lucky I’m here to pick up the slack.  Before I give the finalists, I’m going to reiterate the two most important rules of the competition:

You’re not allowed to get pissed off at me if I [...]

More stupid recruitment questions

I swear I’m going to kill one of these recruiting agencies soon.  Most of them are fine.  Helpful, even.  But some of them need some sense slapped into them.  Slapping them may not actually make them any more sensible but I’d sure as hell feel better afterwards.
My pet hate this week is when they ask [...]

I’d make a great babysitter

A prominent YouTuber who goes by the name of Renetto put up a joke video suggesting he was running a competition to find a babysitter for his kids.  Here we discover a bit of an insight into my psyche.  This video was how I chose to respond:

As an aside, my girlfriend [...]

Equal Opportunities

Anyone who’s read this blog for a while would know I’m a supporter of equal opportunities.  But why is that when I hear things like “Equal Opportunity Committee” I expect to see fat, ugly, bitter people?
I’m just saying is all.

Too much information

I think someone slipped me some alli diet pills.
I’ll spare you the details.  As it appears half of the western world read my post about these pills there’s very little chance a reader of this doesn’t know what I was suggesting.  The short version of the story is I was in a meeting when my [...]

Mall cops are funny

 I went out to a nearby mall to grab some lunch and I had to laugh at the security guy I saw there.  He was young (probably under 25) and, quite frankly, stupid looking.  He’d bought every bit of kit he could think of.  He had a walkie-talkie, a big torch, a truncheon and he’d [...]

I was right – Web 2.0 IS a government plot!

Sometimes my powers of deduction amaze even me.  A couple of weeks ago I had a bit of a go at the way people blithely put and absurd amount of identifying information online for all the world to see.  To exaggerate things in my standard style of humour, I suggested that this was all a government [...]

The meeting from hell

I read a survey recently that asked business people what they disliked most about work.  80% of them cited time wasting meetings as the bane of their existence.  It seems a hatred of meetings is universal.  And at the same time most of us are stuck with them.  The thing is, if they’re properly organised, [...]

Cow-orkers don’t have non-stick faces

Have you ever noticed how people who offer unsolicited advice have trouble backing down?  Telling someone you don’t want their input usually won’t shut them up.  Bizarrely, these type of people tend to go on for longer the more you make it clear you want them to shut the fuck up.  The Cult of Angry [...]