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you get under my skin…
14 July 2006

i do find it irritating!
i thought i was well used to cunt-stick advertising executives shamelessly ripping off every classic scene in every classic movie ever made and i thought i’d steeled myself against  the never-ending cheapening of classic rock’n’roll songs by their unwelcome association with some tawdry consumer product or other [cf. "groovy bank"], but [...]

what’s my bloody problem?
04 July 2005

am i the only one becoming teeth-grindingly irritated by the constant [and meaningless] overuse of the word “solution” in regard to all things corporate and industrial nowadays?
this ‘disease’ is doubtless common throughout the business world,  but i especially notice its sweaty-palmed prevalence in the area i work; computers and the internet.
software companies no longer sell [...]

i hate clipart people!
03 June 2005

this morning i had to go online to pay another  wodge of my hard-earned cash to powergen to cover my electricity bill.  on the online payments page i was greeted with this inanely grinning tart.  what the fuck is going on here? why  do these huge companies; energy suppliers, banks, local government -  insist on [...]