Category Archives: Odds & Ends
Marvel’s Spider-Man on the PC isn’t perfect, but being the king of swing is an absolute blast
Instead of worrying about the cowardly ghoulish Tory cipher likely to be the next PM and how she’ll mug us off even more because pondlife such as this have the right to vote, the rising cost of energy (some help … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3, From Software, Ghost of Tsushima, Last Of Us, Manhattan, Marvel, New York, Nier Automata, Peter Parker, Pondlife, PS5, Robin Hood, Sekiro, Sony, Spider-Man, Spiderman 2, Swinging around town, Uncharted, Will Self
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My wee Black Friday hypocrisy
So I received Black Friday emails titled ‘check out our great Black Friday discounts’ in early November this year. What’s more grating, the slow creep of Black Friday becoming a month long event, or the Christmas fanatics who start counting … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-consumerism, Black Friday, Bonkers Italian man, Christmas tat in early autumn, Covid, Diversity, Egalitarianism, Electric pepper grinder - USB rechargeable botches!, Email circulars can get tae fuck, Hypocrite, Idealism, Inclusion, Junk mail, Mellowed, Narcissism, Obese cat versus the cat flap, Protect the NHS - shop online, Small print semantics, Socialism, Stay at home - avoid crush injuries, The Art Of Easing, Trotskyist conviction, Veganism, Yearly Sony OLED ballers
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So, in almost eight years of blogging, what’s the most embarrassing thing I’ve written?
The older I get the more I hurry when doing mundane tasks. Often I attempt to do three things at once and in a fragmented mess fail to conclude any of them, that or I carry a general anxiety that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Salmond, Blogging, Cancel culture wankers, Ched Evans, Dog Turd, Doing a Peter Sutcliffe in GTA V, Glasgow windaes, GlenGarry GlenRoss, Jürgen Klopp, Kevin Spacey, Madelaine McCann syndrome, Michael Jackson, Off The Wall, SNP inertia, The Usual Suspects, Thriller, WLWASIOH
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The only thing duller than a dull job is the process of looking for one.
Pre Covid-19 you could picture it, possibly you lived it; bank after bank of desks in a bank, the low hum of the air-con recycling air contaminated by various body odours, an indeterminately hushed conversation in the near distance, ‘I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged Chartered accountants doing Data Entry, Cilla Black friend zoners, Gis a job - I can do that, Him from Phoenix Nights, I lack a lack of self-awareness, Jobseeker, Keep the Heid, Microsoft Teams, My hideous face on Zoom makes you think you're on shrooms, Pimped by CV, Pre Covid-19, Self harming while doing an online typing test is a bad idea, Shitty knock-off Mark Rothko’s, Sleaford Mods, Snuff porn with Jimmy Saville’s corpse, Software developer foetuses, Take Me Out, The scrapheap of Excel spreadsheets, Universal Credit 'is meant to be shite - or people might use it', Yosser Hughes, Zoom
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Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard 
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