Articles tagged with: Rant

• Rescuing the exclamation mark
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Tue 6th Mar 2018 at 18:17 in category: Opinion, with tags: Writing, Rant.
  722 words, 3 minutes 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.
• Tardiness and why it drives me mad
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Sat 17th Mar 2018 at 05:15 in category: Opinion, with tags: Nonsense, Rant.
  772 words, 4 minutes 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.
• Infernal Windows 10 updates
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Mon 4th Jun 2018 at 11:33 in category: Opinion, with tags: Tech, Windows, Rant.
  652 words, 3 minutes 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.
• What happened to John Lewis?
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Thu 26th Jul 2018 at 18:15 in category: Review, with tags: Companies, Rant.
  603 words, 3 minutes 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.
• Please telly, have mercy on me
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Fri 24th Aug 2018 at 07:50 in category: Opinion, with tags: Entertainment, TV, Rant.
  353 words, less than 2 minutes 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 do people do at cashpoints?
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Tue 27th Nov 2018 at 08:45 in category: Opinion, with tags: Society, Rant.
  316 words, less than 2 minutes read time.
  Why do people spend so long at cashpoints, standing in front of me, making me get wet in the rain?
• The scourge of flat-pack
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Sat 2nd Mar 2019 at 09:05 in category: Opinion, with tags: Products, Rant.
  462 words, less than 2 minutes 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.
• We can't comment on individual cases
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Sat 16th Mar 2019 at 08:45 in category: Opinion, with tags: Society, Companies, Rant.
  488 words, less than 2 minutes read time.
  Why do organisations use the phrase 'we can't comment on individual cases'? Is it really always for confidentiality?
• The crackers world we live in now — my weekend rant
  Posted by Gordon Ansell on Sat 11th May 2019 at 12:45 in category: Opinion, with tags: Society, Rant.
  1034 words, 5 minutes read time.
  An advert draws the ire of the Advertising Standards Authority because someone jumps off a cliff and sprouts wings.