Common (dis-)courtesy

Most people get woken up to the sound of birds chirping, the milkman delivering milk, or the postman popping some letters through the postbox. Not me. Today I got woken up to the sound of a man with a big hammer, boshing a great big “For Sale” sign into my front garden.
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Sainsbury’s latest offer

I hate spam. You know that. Unsolicited emails offering all kinds of crappy offers that no-one should ever want to do. However, I shop online with Sainsbury’s so when I get an email from them with their offer of the month, I took a look.

“Spend £80 three times by the 11th March and we’ll give you £50.”

Initially, that sounds like a reasonable offer. You don’t often get £50 free. But then, if you really think about it, you realise that it’s in fact a shit offer. They want me to spend £240 in one month, on food. I’m not sure I spend that in a year. Well, OK, I probably do spend that in a year, but in a month? Puhleeze. Wake up Sainsbury’s and offer sensible offers that people might want. That way you might start to catch up with Tesco.

Janet Jackson’s tits

I can’t believe there has been such a hoohar over this whole MTV Superbowl thing. Her tits are minging!

Just buy the fekkin’ domain

Why do people insist on using free forwarding services or some complete shite hosting provided by their ISP? Take for example the following..

Constantine Bay Surf Store Surf Shop

They even link to it as www.constantinesurf.com but they’re using Freeserve to host it. I won’t print it here, but go to the site and look at the email address at the top of the page! How ugly is that?

For chrissakes, cough up the tenner for the domain (which admittedly they have done), splash about another 50 bar on hosting for a year, get a decent email and contact system sorted and I gurantee sales will increase!

Given up giving up

So I quit smoking in September last year. I did *really* well… in fact so well that I rewarded myself with a week of smoking last week. I now feel like shit. Especially as I’ve tried to hop back on the proverbial wagon, but I may as well be starting again for the amount of good it did me. I did the usual “Yeh, I’ll just have one now and then” thing, and sure enough, I was smoking heavily again. Grrrr.

P.S. Anyone got a spare fag?