Of course, those who want the ad free experience for less might want to consider moving to Albania, where YouTube doesn’t serve any adverts at all…

My local Sainsbury’s is in the middle of a refit which, weirdly, is not something I can ever remember witnessing before. I’ve seen Tesco close a few stores for the purpose of a refurb (one of which accidentally took about six months), but presumably most stores are refurbished whilst remaining open ...

Whilst I almost always carry a small card wallet with me when out of the house, I think it’s perfectly reasonable for people to just rely on Apple Pay etc these days. It’s convenient, accepted basically everywhere, and doesn’t have the payment limits that contactless has (although these have been ...

For the longest time my local high street Barclays has, for some reason, had very visible 24 hour staffing. As far as I’m aware, it’s not a branch that has been prone to a spate of daring bank heists, nor is it a branch in a ‘dangerous’ area, and yet a security guard has been sat in the lobby day or ...

I was going to suggest that the billboard outside Blackhorse Road station seems to be perpetually advertising Lloyd’s Bank (as it always is when I walk past), but Streetview appears to have not captured the outside of the station with a Lloyd’s ad on it once in twelve years! The Apple Maps version ...

It’s a shame that some of the most prolific posters on the Forum also happen to be some of the most miserable, isn’t it? There’s rarely a day that goes by that something happens and one of a crowd of three or four doesn’t bemoan how awful it is or make some overdramatic comment.

I don’t generally ...

Over the weekend I walked past an Iceland that still had the old gradient logo/grey frontage. I don’t think this is an especially uncommon sight, but from a quick check online the logo changed back in 2015, meaning that the shop frontage is around nine years out of date. It got me wondering: what’s ...

For the first time since getting an iPhone more than a decade ago, a software update has borked my device and I am now stuck with a very expensive paperweight.

Considering that needing a computer to activate devices or do software updates was removed as a requirement years ago, I was amazed to ...

I think there’s certainly an argument for rationalising the number of ticket offices across the network, but not shuttering them altogether. There are almost certainly a host of smaller stations which do not justify having a ticket office anymore; for example on the London Overground and Elizabeth ...

A load of the Tescos near me have got new self service tills recently and for some reason, they seem to be the worst for scanning barcodes (a quite essential task) that I’ve used since the very first self-checkouts came on the scene! It often takes me multiple attempts to scan a barcode now and it ...

Not sure about anyone else, but based on the last few posts in this thread, it feels like there might be some fairly obvious reasons certain members have had their accounts restricted…