On a semi related note:

if coffee chains continue to replace static behind-counter above-eyeline menus (that can be browsed pretty much at leisure while in a queue) with "dynamic" TV screens that rotate between three or four pages 20 seconds apart, one of those pages being a fecking advert, like ...

I've downgraded my TSB account to just being a landing point for my wages, and we still use it for our joint. A couple of smaller, minor direct debits that I can't be arsed to change still come out of there, but my day to day banking and savings are now with Zopa. Could not turn down those interest ...

As a semi-frequent flier needing airport hotels I am a Premier Inn convert having been a Travelodge loyalist - the latter messed us about a little bit despite being initially accommodating (no pun intended) during COVID, and on top of that they closed a lot of their locations.

Pros: I cannot fault ...

Slightly offtopic and should probably go on a TV Forum of some kind if there was one around but...

...one of those old advert compilations has gone up on YouTube -- apparently BBC2 / Lambie Nairn let Pizza Hut use not one, not two but three of their ident concepts to flog, to quote Spike from ...

This has probably been mentioned, but on the outside of the Tesco Express in Swindon "town centre" there is an old rounded-edge rectangle sign with Text in the old Tesco font saying "this store is licensed to trade in game"

Would take a picture but no way my phone is coming out of my pocket there.

Got a gut feeling after visiting Saino's earlier that it's not long for this world in its present form.

A lifetime of training in Woolies and Wilko could not prepare me for the Aladdin's cave that is 4-Gott in Göteborg.

Over there, lösgödis is a religion.

Slightly offtopic and should probably go on a TV Forum of some kind if there was one around but...

...one of those old advert compilations has gone up on YouTube -- apparently BBC2 / Lambie Nairn let Pizza Hut use not one, not two but three of their ident concepts to flog, to quote Spike from Buffy ...

Last time I checked the brain is biological too.

You are more defined by what is between your ears than what is - or isn't - between your legs.

Just upgraded my Xperia 10 mk1 to Xperia 10 mk4. Nice narrow form factor for my tiny hands, all the bells and whistles I need, nice long battery life and 3.5mm jack. Decided not to go mk5 because of a couple of downgrades on the Mk4 model.

Happy enough - it does what I want. Only niggle was seeming ...

Long before "we're just normal men", there was Agro and Ann Marie