Anybody forced to use the London Underground will know that its glory days are long gone. It will on most occasions get you from one place to another, but there is little pleasure to be had from the experience. Its service, frequently marred by inexplicable delays, is also usually excessively crowded.
This makes the latest series [...]
Finally, we have confirmation that the new-style CFL lightbulbs are not as bright as the incandescent bulbs we must replace them with. Despite the fact that we could hardly help notice that they are significantly dimmer, give out a muddier light and take ages to warm up, Environment Minister Dan Norris and umpteen government websites [...]
How can you tell the time if you rely on the radio these days? It’s one of the less earth-shattering examples of Zebu in the book. For while the pips that mark the hour are accurate if you listen on an analogue radio, it isn’t the case if you use a digital radio. Listen online [...]
It’s only right and proper that councils do all they can to ensure that public money isn’t wasted. Wealden District Council in East Sussex, for instance, has three scrutiny committees. A council spokesman says the council is “looking at making savings of £2.7 million over the next three years.”
To that end, they’ve now set up [...]
There’s a glorious piece in today’s Sheffield Star about some of the reasons motorists have given to try to get out of parking tickets in the city, according to Sheffield Council. The most gobsmacking is surely the excuse: “My son was dying in my arms.” How could the council be so heartless as to turn [...]
It’s a clever ploy of Pizza Express to offer a “dieter’s” pizza. The Leggara range contain only 500 calories, 30% fewer than usual. This is because there’s no middle to the pizza, giving you the pizza equivalent of a doughnut or bagel, with a few leaves shoved in the centre instead.
A nifty idea, perhaps, and [...]
Pity the residents of poor Anglesey. Last year Walkers’ crisps wiped them off the map in their Brit Trips campaign. Now it’s happened again, with Weetabix running a £1m cash giveaway, the map for which has obliterated Anglesey and its 70,000 residents.
It was Nia Williams’s children who spotted the gaffe first. “They have just erased [...]
Mary Wakefield in Saturday’s Independent picks up on the section in Complete and Utter Zebu about the uselessness of the unmanned biometric system controlling entry to the country which is being introduced as part of Britain’s “unbeatable ring of security”.
The “live trial” at Manchester Airport saw so many people queried that the queues became impossible. [...]
Letter in The Daily Telegraph
SIR – The card claiming that you were out when a postman tried to deliver a packet (Letters, October 9) instructs you to use the website to arrange “redelivery”, or to telephone. The website asks for the 13-digit code that the postmen are supposed to have written on the card. Surprise, [...]
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