Articles tagged with: rant

• The crackers world we live in now — my weekend rant
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 11 May 2019 at 12:45 with tags: society, rant.
  1075 words, 4 minute read time.
  An advert draws the ire of the Advertising Standards Authority because someone jumps off a cliff and sprouts wings.
• We can't comment on individual cases
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 16 March 2019 at 08:45 with tags: society, companies, rant.
  495 words, 2 minute read time.
  Why do organisations use the phrase 'we can't comment on individual cases'? Is it really always for confidentiality?
• The scourge of flat-pack
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 02 March 2019 at 09:05 with tags: products, rant.
  462 words, 2 minute read time.
  I dislike flat-pack items, but what I really take issue with is when flat-pack items are, in my opinion, misleadingly advertised.
• What do people do at cashpoints?
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 27 November 2018 at 08:45 with tags: society, rant.
  316 words, 2 minute read time.
  Why do people spend so long at cashpoints, standing in front of me, making me get wet in the rain?
• Please telly, have mercy on me
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 24 August 2018 at 07:50 with tags: entertainment, tv, rant.
  353 words, 2 minute read time.
  Love Island, Strictly, X-Factor, Big Brother, Keeping Up with the Kardashians and similar. Why are we constantly plagued by this nonsense on television?
• What happened to John Lewis?
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 26 July 2018 at 18:15 with tags: companies, rant.
  617 words, 3 minute read time.
  John Lewis used to be a shop that truly put the customer first, an icon of respectability in the shopping world. No so now if my recent experience with them is anything to go by.
• Infernal Windows 10 updates
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 04 June 2018 at 11:33 with tags: tech, windows, rant.
  659 words, 3 minute read time.
  Windows 10 updates are complete mess. There's no control over when they'll run and, when they do run, they often fail, leaving you with the 'solution' being that you must reinstall the OS.
• Tardiness and why it drives me mad
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 17 March 2018 at 05:15 with tags: nonsense, rant.
  772 words, 3 minute read time.
  My rant about how I hate tardiness, either when it's me who's late or when someone else is late for an appointment with me.
• Rescuing the exclamation mark
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on 06 March 2018 at 18:17 with tags: writing, rant.
  754 words, 3 minute read time.
  Let's rescue the exclamation mark from all the abuse and overuse it suffers today. 99% of all exclamation marks on the internet are unnecessary.