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Articles on this site in the 'Rant' taxonomy, ordered by date (descending).

General humbuggery

Gordon Ansell 1st December 2020, 10:40 Misc, Nonsense, Rant, Briefly, Opinion

I have a go at the idiots who start celebrating Christmas way to early and ruin it for the sane people.
Google to start charging for reCAPTCHA

Gordon Ansell 12th April 2020, 08:40 Tech, Google, Rant, News 477 words.

Google will charge for its reCAPTCHA service, but I still don't see why I have to prove I'm human.
Council planning departments need to put more thought into things

Gordon Ansell 8th January 2020, 07:25 Society, Rant, Opinion 917 words.

A rant at council planning departments and the lack of thought they show when approving planning applications.
This 5G nonsense

Gordon Ansell 10th July 2019, 16:15 Tech, Rant, Opinion 375 words.

I'm hearing lots about 5G these days, which is intensely frustrating as I get 0G most of the time.
The crackers world we live in now — my weekend rant

Gordon Ansell 11th May 2019, 12:45 Society, Rant, Opinion 985 words.

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

Gordon Ansell 16th March 2019, 08:45 Society, Companies, Rant, Opinion 452 words.

Why do organisations use the phrase 'we can't comment on individual cases'? Is it really always for confidentiality?
The scourge of flat-pack

Gordon Ansell 2nd March 2019, 09:05 Misc, Products, Rant, Opinion 445 words.

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?

Gordon Ansell 27th November 2018, 08:45 Society, Rant, Opinion 297 words.

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

Gordon Ansell 24th August 2018, 07:50 Entertainment, TV, Rant, Opinion 337 words.

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?

Gordon Ansell 26th July 2018, 18:15 Misc, Companies, Rant, Review 586 words.

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

Gordon Ansell 4th June 2018, 11:33 Tech, Windows, Rant, Opinion 628 words.

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

Gordon Ansell 17th March 2018, 05:15 Misc, Nonsense, Rant, Opinion 747 words.

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

Gordon Ansell 6th March 2018, 18:17 Misc, Writing, Rant, Opinion 684 words.

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.