the Winter Olympics™ is one of the few major sporting events I will pay attention to - just so many ways of people sliding. Given my job is putting stuff (mainly sport) on the telly, long may it continue.

Oh, that's a bit disappointing - it means there's now no veggie Happy Meal.

Also, it’s an advert for PIZZA. Do you even once see a PIZZA in these adverts?! No. So what is the point of them other than to ruin my life?


If they showed their pizza, they'd probably run afoul of what's now described by Ofcom as 'less healthy food and drink' and its associated advertising ...

I think at the very least they could do with different versions for long-distance/local trains. NS do this quite well, I think.

TGI Fridays are to close 16 sites:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7yl53e11do

I don't think I realised that they've got four branches in Glasgow - all have survived the chop for now. The city centre branch dates back to 1993, and I feel like I've probably not been to any of the branches ...

JS dropped all their fake brands in favour of Stamford Street. Perhaps it's some of those you're thinking of? Or perhaps the earlier "brand at Tesco" brands which existed for a while alongside Everyday Value which were dropped a few years before?


I think you're probably right there. I maybe ...

Have they slimmed down the number of fake brands since they were first introduced? It feels like 'Grower's Harvest' is on a fairly wide range of groceries.

fair play to them though - while I did like the simplicity of the Tesco Value brand, the fake brands do feel slightly less basic, even though ...

rob wrote: Thu 01 Jan, 2026 06.07

iSon wrote: Tue 30 Dec, 2025 22.07 It'll take more than that to sort out the hippy shakes.

So THAT's why the clock on BBC News has moved 20 pixels...

minuscule as that fault is, there's a chance that it being mentioned on the forum means it'll get fixed. It's happened before...

I've seen better temporary signs, if I'm honest...

the former John Menzies in Glasgow's Argyle Street:

Fair enough. I'm not as anti-apple as my initial comment sounded. I do think the M series macs are really good computers, but i don't want to be in one ecosystem or another, and i can't justify the price.


Though the M4 Mac Mini at £599 is an essentially unbeatable bang for your buck, from ...

as someone who likes cooking but not meal planning, researching recipes or shopping, I quite like them now and again just to mix things up a bit, and to save having to get a bunch of ingredients you wouldn't otherwise be using. I don't think we've ever paid full price for one, mind.

What I probably ...