Archive for April, 2008

How to write a letter to The Herald

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Being an argumentative pedant with too much time on my hands, I frequently write letters to my favourite corner of the Fourth Estate, the Glasgow Herald. Here is a quick guide on how you too can achieve the same thing.
1. Begin letter agreeing with previous correspondents argument
2. Next, point out an insignificant flaw basing this [...]

FAIL!

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

My pal Kerry made this today and I wanted to share - may have already been done but what the hell, it made me chuckle. So here it is:

Have to admit to feeling some guilt over posting this: whilst Prescott does indeed fail at bulimia, when it comes to Southpaw jabs the man is all [...]

Glasgow Bus FAIL

Friday, April 11th, 2008

I was reading about two buses crashing head on on Church St (just off Byres Rd) in Glasgow’s trendy west end, and couldn’t help responding:

God knows how the drivers managed to fail quite so spectacularly. It’s not a one way street, and despite cars parking on one side visibility is pretty good. Good enough to [...]

Wii Birthday

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Was my birthday yesterday and got some awesome presents, including a t shirt covered in robots and dinosaurs, a monkey mousemat, a book about tea and biscuits and also the new Wii edition of Mario Kart. Oh, and a nice chunk of change too. So, basically all the cornerstones of everything important to me. Having [...]