Why are women in checkout queues so slow.
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Women, shopping, checkouts and purses.
Posted in Life, Manners, tagged card, checkout, payment, supermarket, women on December 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ross and Brand
Posted in Life, Manners, tagged BBC BBC, Brand, Manners, Ross, Sachs on October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If anything sums up the generational gap, it’s the reaction to the disgraceful episode of the abuse suffered by Andrew Sachs at the hands of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand in their BBC radio programme. Vox pop interviews yesterday clearly demonstrate that in general the younger generation think there has been a complete over-reaction. They [...]
Patronising instructions. An open letter to Rooney Anand, CEO Abbot Ales.
Posted in Life, Manners, Political correctness, tagged Abbot Ale, beer, Life, Manners, patronising on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Good evening,
Tonight, whilst enjoying my usual Friday night beer and curry at home with my wife, and in an idle moment, I happened to read the label on my usual bottle of Abbot Ale. Not something that I usually do since I’m usually paying more attention to savouring its contents.
However, read the label I did, [...]
A coarsening of society.
Posted in Life, Manners, tagged coarse, obscenity, swearing on February 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On the train from Manchester to Liverpool the other morning, I was sitting opposite two young girls, probably in their mid twenties. They were wearing similar clothing, and in particular the same sort of headgear.
Nothing surprising in that you might think, except that embroidered across the front of the hats were the words, “It’s none [...]
