Posts Tagged With : rant

This is everybody’s fault but mine

Published May 6, 2010

Today I shall rant about responsibility, or the refusal to accept it.  Today, for example, Maclaren (the buggy maker) agreed to pay compensation to [the parents of] children injured by its buggies’ closing mechanisms.  Hmm. Ok, I can just about get by with that, though I don’t really agree with it, it represents the continuing slide [...]

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Nice things are bad

Published July 27, 2009

More nannying today as we are told that Iced coffees are bad. Some of them apparently contain over five hundred calories. Arrgh! Of course they contain a lot of calories, they’re a rich, sweet, treat. How is this news? The charity behind the figures is telling us that we should avoid the sweet, sugary flavours [...]

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Susan Boyle – An annoying favourite

Published May 26, 2009

So on TV just now in the UK is a talent show called “Britain’s got talent”. On it appear a number of variety acts that have been chosen by the judging panel for the live shows every day this week. Each day we pick two acts by phone vote, and the winning acts will all [...]

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