Hmm, nothing like a really depressing news story to start the day, even one that has been in the pipeline for some time. From the Guardian:
Illegal downloaders to get warning letter in government clampdown
Ah, splendid, just what we needed. This is, I think it is fair to say, a bit of a disaster. [...]
Thursday, 24 July, 2008
Categories: Hate, Social Rambling . Tags: bandwidth throttling, copyright, isp, riaa, virgin media . Author: Matthew . Comments: 26 Comments
I don’t usually offer fashion advice on this website, but I feel I might just dip my toe in those shark-infested waters for a change because this is just brilliant.
Now, I am guessing not everyone who reads this site is as depressingly shallow as I am so I am going throw this question open to [...]
Friday, 11 July, 2008
Categories: Hate . Tags: decemberists, gavin friday, lindsay lohan . Author: Matthew . Comments: 13 Comments
Apart from serving as an extremely efficient Idiot Badge, and providing endless hilarity in the form of Tom Cruise’s infantile Messiah Complex, I think the bit I find most fascinating about Scientology is just how easy it shows it to be to get people to believe patently ridiculous things.
I assume many of them are quite [...]
Thursday, 10 July, 2008
Categories: Hate, Social Rambling . Tags: scientology . Author: Matthew . Comments: 15 Comments
Fucking ciabatta. I can’t stand this stuff: mealy, floury, flavourless, inedible rubbish. I don’t mean proper ciabatta of course, but it’s been so long since I had one of those that I barely remember what they’re supposed to taste like.
Basically, we in the UK have done to the ciabatta what we long ago did to [...]
Tuesday, 8 July, 2008
Categories: General, Hate . Tags: johnny flynn and the sussex wit, eels . Author: Matthew . Comments: 30 Comments
Someone here just isn’t thinking.
I was just sent a promotional email by someone acting on behalf of Sony BMG, one of the most clueless and technologically retarded megacorps that the world has ever seen. I have never know any marketing department be more stupid than Sony’s, and their tentative little tippy-toes into the world [...]
Tuesday, 24 June, 2008
Categories: Hate, Music 2.0 . Tags: sony . Author: Matthew . Comments: 26 Comments
“Oh, you were finished. Well then, allow me to retort.”
[Yes folks, it's Mrs. Toad. Apparently my ramble about Toploader didn't go down all that well in certain circles. She's not disputing the Toploader hatred of course, that would be divorceable.]
Having been affronted by the accusation that a person in position of a fanny [...]
Sunday, 1 June, 2008
Categories: Hate . Tags: chris rea, mrs toad, weddin present . Author: Matthew . Comments: 25 Comments