Death Of A Fridge

Posted on August 18, 2010

I killed my fridge last night with a carving knife!! Some may claim that I am guilty of brutal murder, though I am going to vehemently claim manslaughter. I admit that I did stab the freezer compartment of the fridge several times in a frenzied attack, but I maintain that at no time did intend to kill it, and was acting from a position of diminished responsibility, thinking that I was acting in the best interests of the deceased.Butchered: ...

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The World Of Marketing

Posted on August 16, 2010

I have had a career that has touched on aspects of marketing, and it was something I studied as part of a business course at college, but it is only really since I have been living alone that supermarket marketing has become more apparent to me, and the ridiculous names or slogans that appear on products, for instance, Sainsbury's "Butchers Choice" Sausages. What is that about, does that mean a Butcher chose them, so they must be really good, as ...

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What’s In A Name

Posted on August 13, 2010

I was playing around on the computer the other day looking at Googles predictive search engine (it was raining) where it give you the most popular searches as you type in letters. For example if you type "A" Amazon pings up.Just as I was getting bored of this sad and pointless exercise (it was raining harder outside now) I decided to type in "What" and third or Fourth on the list was "What does my name mean?" Now this would be more interesting, ...

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Football Fans Are All A Bit Weird Really………..

Posted on August 10, 2010

I went to my first football match of the season on Saturday which resulted in a rather deflating defeat. It was also my first game back as a season ticket holder having ducked out last season, and a quirky reminder of what odd looking people go along to watch their local team. You have to assume that judging by their physique, they have never played football, and that the supporting of a team gives a sense of belonging, and a hobby similar to ...

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Swanage

Posted on August 6, 2010

I am safely back from my trip from Swanage, and I am sorry to disappoint you all with the news that I have no major disasters to report despite various attempts to lose my wallet and keys. The weather as I predicted was neither here or there, there was little rain and warmish days that were just about good enough to give us some beach days.British Bulldog Kids v Parents competitionAs a whole the trip was great fun, and was generally based around ...

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