Y'know things that are all the rage? Blogs. Everyone has one; or at least had one before Facebook, Twitter and Google+ diluted the realtime pool.
Since I'm nu-old skool — and watching endless streams of people validate their own self-importance bores me — I figured why not make a blog? The main difference here compared with other people's blogs is that instead of being limited to one topic, you get a little slice of everything all mashed up. I'm too good to be tweeting.
N.B. The views expressed herein are not my own: they have been carefully shaped by a barrage of mainstream media propaganda and fill-in-the-blanks guesswork. Also, I'm prone to lying for the sake of entertainment.
Downfall of the ubiquitous hashtag
· 712 words (eats up about 4 mins)The hashtag: the cornerstone of social media. Trends. Analytics. Fun. But I sometimes wonder if certain entities understand what it’s actually for.
Why we have a National Health Disservice
· 2099 words (munches about 10 mins)We’re told the NHS is in crisis and needs funding. Let’s step back a moment and find out if it’s true and who’s to blame. The answer might surprise you.
The letter of sex
· 1508 words (wastes about 7 mins)Gimme an ‘L’. Gimme a ‘G’. Gimme a ‘B’. Gimme a… ‘T’… ‘I’… ‘A’… WTF? I can’t keep up.
The curse of the intermittent fault
· 1480 words (wastes about 7 mins)When your boiler’s broke. And your water’s cold. Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters? A heating engineer? Or someone with a soldering iron and dogged determination?
Media, charity and the art of caring
· 1588 words (sucks up about 8 mins)The problem with doing something for a good cause — say, releasing a charity single — is that any attack on the effort is automatically equated to an attack on the cause. Thanks, mainstream media.
Election 2017: the clear winners are us
[2 comments] · 1082 words (sucks up about 5 mins)Ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaa. That’s me laughing at the cocksure Conservatives who have given the UK another hung parliament. Which is actually fantastic news.
Adam Smith faces investigation for feeding people
· 752 words (vacuums up about 4 mins)Trading Standards have clearly nothing better to do than prop up our throwaway society. Commerce over common sense has to end.
Football violence is built into the game
· 1240 words (eats up about 6 mins)Ask anyone for ten things they associate with football, and pretty high up on everyone’s list is the word ‘hooligan’. Turns out there’s a very good reason for this, and it’s not what you might think.
