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Cornered By Salesmen
Jesus, I had a right old escape today as I was hounded to near submission by a couple of really aggressive salesmen at a car dealership. To try to cut a long story short, my car is an ageing Mercerdes, it has been a fine car to me, but it is now seven years old with 140k on the clock, and every service or repair just gets more expensive. It has crossed my mind to downsize to something like a Golf, I don't need a big car anymore as dealings with ...
Oh No,Sainsbury’s Is Shut For A Week!
For those of you who don't know, I live in what I suppose you could describe as a middle class modern estate on the southern edge of Basingstoke in Hampshire. It is neither unpleasant or particularly wonderful, it has access to lots of amenities, and is surrounded by lovely countryside, and both London and The South Coast are accessible with relative ease via the M3 or Public transport (said the frustrated estate agent). What has surprised me is ...
Death Of A Fridge
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: ...
The World Of Marketing
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 ...
What’s In A Name
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, ...