Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category

Pizza in Market Harborough

I was walking through Market Harborough the other day and passed “The Pizza Direct Co” on St Mary’s Road, this got me to thinking, especially as I’ve blogged about Pizza Express previously, how many Harborough eating establishments sell pizzas. The list I can make consists of… • Pizza Express • Zizzi’s • Timo’s • Pizzaman/Venito • Domino’s • The Pizza Direct [...]

Dettol no-touch hand wash dispenser

Right, this is one rant I’m simply going to let out there and purge my brain of the stupidity of the idea. Dettol, and I pick on them because they’ve got an advert running prime time at the moment, have released a device for automatic dispensing of hand wash, without the need to touch anything. [...]

trentuno

It appears that a new Gaming Shop is coming to Harborough on St Mary’s Road. ‘Chips’ are currently fitting out the old Trentuno store. Having done some investigation I found this retail chain www.chipsworld.co.uk which has got quite a few stores throughout the UK, however none in Leicestershire which suggests Harborough would be a good [...]

A friend and client of ours had a moment of madness whilst the snow had deeply covered the ground in Market Harborough this February and towed his son 500 yards behind his pick up truck. This may sound to most as utterly stupid and irresponsible and if you’d believe the media frenzy he should be [...]

The new wine warehouse, Majestic, on St Mary’s Road in Market Harborough has begun work. The ground has been broken and concrete pilings have been sunk. But what does this mean for the town of Market Harborough? Well I’m guessing that this was one of the final nails in the coffin of the Threshers franchise, [...]

‘Just’ is such an unneeded word, it is so diminishing and quite condescending and in my opinion should JUST be banished. Sentences like “Can you just build me a website?” takes away the skill and complexity of what is required to do the job, it diminishes the job and as DavidSaff so rightly says “is [...]

Sep
06

Microsoft Ad

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So I watched the new Microsoft ad featuring the über geek Gates and ‘funny man’ Seinfeld! The series of ads purportedly cost $100 million to shoot and air. These 2 statements leave me bewildered at just what Microsoft were thinking. The ad is funny, but for all the wrong reasons, I’m laughing at the pair [...]