You have probably encountered words like ‘irregardless’ or ‘pacifically’ before. These ‘words’ sit alongside strange grammatical errors like ‘to of’ instead of ‘to have’, or the transposing of the words ‘affect’ and ‘effect’. How does this happen? I can sort of understand how two similar words can be mixed up, but a made-up word like […]
What’s your favorite thing about yourself? I have no idea how to answer this! I am not given to vanity, and to be honest, I can be my own worst critic. I am certainly not often inclined to grant myself praise. Now, if you asked me to write a list of things I loathe about […]
The title of this post is quite literally stolen from this post, and it is now time to dissect the value, if you will, of coffee pods. There are many different forms of coffee machine out there. When I worked for a major sofa retailer, we had a coffee machine that was less pod, more… […]
How do you want to retire? What a question! I want to retire with a comfortable nest egg in the bank, and maybe a small measure of fame (and additional fortune) from my book(s). I can’t begin to quantify how likely that goal is to achieve, but it’s certainly how I want to retire!
What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily? Hmm. Hmmmmmmm. It could be the TV. It does pretty much get used every day. It’s at least 10 years old, if not slightly older, but still works absolutely fine. Its exact usage varies; it is largely used for gaming, though there are quite […]
Emotions. We all have them. We all experience them. Love, anger, happiness, despair, jealousy, joy… they are part of the human experience. Those emotions will manifest themselves in various forms. Tears? They can be provoked for a variety of reasons. Sadness? Of course. I cried at the funerals of two of my aunts, and of […]
The above is a tweet of mine from a few days ago. For reasons that remain a mystery to me, Twitter’s promoted posts (aka sponsored adverts) kept producing ads for the same products, namely bras. I don’t wear bras, and all the stuff around support and lift is of zero interest to me, yet a […]
Describe one of your favorite moments. One of my all-time favourite experiences is one that happened twice! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back, in 2004, on my birthday no less, my future wife and I (at this point, still within our first year of dating) had a weekend in London. This featured a somewhat chaotic experience with hotels mixing […]
We approach July, and the halfway point of 2023, with some interesting political news… Johnson can get Stuffed Back on the 15th, the Privileges Committee’s report into whether or not Boris Johnson deliberately misled the House of Commons over Partygate finally hit the public domain. Given Johnson had resigned as an MP the week before […]
What notable things happened today? So… are we talking stuff that has happened on the 27th of June 2023, or stuff that has historically happened on this date? If we’re looking at historical significance, then like most days in history, the 27th of June is filled with various events (many of them macabre). In 1556, […]
Breached the 70K mark on my wip! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
This is just sheer absolute, exquisite beauty.
I have eaten too much pizza.
I don't think it's up to you to decide what's best for women, nor whether or not men can find them attractive...
You may be wondering where this post will go. Well, let’s place the scene in the restaurant above. What might I deem inappropriate behaviour in this setting? A restaurant has waiting staff, who (depending on the quality of the establishment) may or may not be paid a particularly decent wage, yet will work very hard. […]
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