Andrew wrote: Wed 04 Dec, 2024 23.01 It depends on whether or not you class PC World as having closed or not

I think for this you have to apply the Norton Test.

If you can buy a computer from Curry's without someone trying to scare you into buying a copy of Norton Antivirus, then the spirit of their existence is gone.

I stumbled across this screenshot of mine (upload date: 2012) as the voucher offers on some credit card, and it looks like a who's who of failed or failing stores.

What are the chances the number of closed options is >50% before the end of next year? Frasers, HMV and Homebase have to be the ones ...

Betteridge's law of headlines never fails.

I still find X useful for certian niche interests, but it has become a version of #DontReadTheComments because if you do they'll just be a combination of hate speech, people with blue ticks outputting AI slop, and porn. (Sometimes all at the same time!). Of the three, I find the LLM slop to be the ...

all new Phil wrote: Tue 17 Sep, 2024 13.41Kay.

Kay Alexander has a new job? Not sure being a building site supervisor is playing to her strengths.

I’ve figured out the tories’ election strategy:

1. Become as disliked as possible
2. ???
3. Profit

Martin Phillp wrote: Wed 15 May, 2024 03.39Disenfranchised voters who see Labour and the Conservatives as both sides of the same coin

They may not be exactly two sides of the same coin, but they are certainly two sides of the same hairstyle.

I discovered to my delight recently that there is a subreddit devoted to these:

https://www.reddit.com/r/compoface

This thread was done 15 years ago so I guess it’s due a recycle :)

The rather wonderful Brent Park Tesco — then stuck in a time warp since 1985 — was heavily modernised a year later and is now called Tesco Wembley, to the irritation of locals.

I can never find anything on Netflix I want to watch, so it's gone in the bin. The signal to noise ratio is ridiculous. It might even have good stuff, but it's such a faff to find that I'll just teef the odd show as and when someone recommends it to me.

Disney+ is worth it and this thread has ...

The new logo looks like someone in mock designs recreated the old one from memory with bad padding and Calibri instead of Gill Sans, so I don’t know why people are in a rush for it to change.