Who else would put an "e" in potato?
Aside from that, the notion of there being P/Toe in my soup is a little unsettling.
Here's the blast from the past: https://youtu.be/6tmoSGmvR1o
Friday 9th February, 2018
Friday 26th January, 2018
How do you like your… stake?
It's going from bad to worse at the Beeb:
Well done!
Sunday 21st January, 2018
I’m Siri I Haven’t a Clue
At Tuesday's pub quiz at the Red Lion I was asked if I "do social media". My response was "No, unless you count blogging as "doing social media"". Maybe the following explains why I'm not a part of the herd:
Wednesday 17th January, 2018
People in glass houses…
The school has a hi-tech ID-card-entry security system which feeds info into a little box called a computer. In theory, at all times said computer should know exactly who is on the premises and where they should be, logging all arrivals and departures.
Sadly, said computer isn't very clever and often has to be corrected by manual input.
And when the absentee isn't the pupil but is actually the member of staff responsible for making those manual corrections, the system goes to shit, sending out all sorts of inaccurate automated texts to unsuspecting parents, and waking the synthetic voice which rings our land-line to further the spread of fake news...
Press "1" for Bollocks, press "2" for Bullshit, press "3" to talk to a hapless keyboard-jockey.
In loco parentis, eh?
Thursday 11th January, 2018
Auntie has a dicky ticker
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous grammar
Or to take arms against a sea of illiterates...
Here's evidence that The Beeb uses your licence fee to pay infant-school kids to input data - this sample of their output is from today's BBC News:
That was at 14:42. They must have been kept back after school to do it again - by 16:36 they'd posted a different yet still flawed version:
Tuesday 19th December, 2017
No “L”, No “L”…
Merry Christmas, folks. Here's an inappropriate festive card:
I'm told that the £2 sticker conceals an "R", but having looked at the picture on the card I think it may well be an "L".
