Category Archives: Odds & Ends
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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Finished!
Finally. The dungeon’s complete. And like any good dungeon owned by sadomasochist I’m using part of it as a gymnasium. ‘The House Of Pain’ , but really it should be ‘The House Of Pain and Buckets Of Sweat’. When you … Continue reading
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Tagged Bite marks in my leather sofa, Brexit's gonna tank the housing market, En-suite is well sweet, Finished!, Furloughed no more, Gizza-job. I can do that., House of Pain, Ignore the Mark Rothko knockoffs, Keep pluggin away I say, Knightswood, lavvy, Luxury living, Modern planning standards, On the Covid-19 scrapheap, Sarah Beeny, Stairway to dungeon heaven, The House Of Pain and Buckets Of Sweat, The neds in the highflats have seen me in the buff, velux windaes, windaes are fan-dabby-dozy, Yosser Hughes
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Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard 
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