And this is why… My oven died yesterday and I took it to the oven graveyard (well, it probably ends up in India or China somewhere, but the local dump’s just a bit nearer for me). I go to buy a new one at Currys on the way home. Enter Currys for a new oven. Select oven No.1 – “Sorry, …
Tuition fees
So the hike in fees went through. Good. But instead of rising to £9000 they should have gone to £90,000. Nah, let’s make a round £100,000. It actually doesn’t matter what the actual figure is because hardly any of the bleeders pay the fucker back anyway. The majority of so-called students go to ‘learn’ unusable subjects such as Marine Biology …
BB’s Shit List, Pt.5
People who use the phrase “Listen up”. What the fuck does that mean?. People who say “Can I get” when the really mean “Can I have”. No, you can’t. Fuck off. People who call the well-known pub chain ‘Witherspoons’. It’s Wetherspoons. Always has been. Get it right. People who pay a premium for washed vegetables and then still peel them. …
Feeling old?
Now I may be 52 years old, but I can tell you that every morning I wake up feeling like an 18 year-old The trouble is, there’s never one there.
Child benefit
There has been a lot in the news at the moment about the rights and wrongs of withdrawing child benefit from the better-off. What nobody has brought up and what I would like to know is why anyone gets child benefit? Why should I, as a childless taxpayer, contribute towards the upkeep of anyone’s children? If you have kids, take …
Like Ikea?
I’m 52 in a couple of week’s time and, up until last Sunday, I was very proud to say I was an Ikea virgin. Yep, I had managed OK, thank you very much, without going to Ikea all of my life. However, last weekend I was persuaded that there was something there ‘we needed’, so I couldn’t get out of …
Open wide!
I went to the dentist for a check-up today. There’s a clock on the wall of the surgery and I noted the length of time I was sat in the dentist’s chair. It was just 63 seconds. Back at the reception, I was asked for £16.50. Sixteen chuffin’ fifty. That equates to £942.86 an hour! No wonder the dentist had …
Today…
…I am mostly being… Grumpy.
Jodrell Bankers
So, I’m in the process of starting a business with a couple of mates at the moment (yes, I do have mates – well, two of them anyway), and some of the shit we’ve had to take from the Council is just ridiculous. The hoops we’ve jumped through to get the plans passed fall just short of dropping to the …
BB’s Shit List, Pt.4
People who just use a fork to eat with and cut their food up with the edge of it. No – that’s what a knife is for. Use the fucker. Peeling eggs – the original wrap rage? Shoppers who buy margarine because it tastes just like butter. Buy friggin’ butter then! Drivers who buy a SatNav and then ignore them …