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I'm the same with supermarkets.

Beware that if you respond to an invitation to leave a review, that company can match the otherwise-anonymous post to your customer profile and damage any relationship you may have built up with them as I just found to my cost. :mad: By the way, it wasn't a 'negative' review, just the honest...

It's part of an initiative to end fighting between fans of rival clubs.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-margaret-thatcher-labour-tory-b2458086.html Sir Keir Starmer’s top team prevented a shadow minister from criticising Margaret Thatcher, The Independent can reveal. As the Labour leader faces a backlash for his praise of the former...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/12/02/starmer-praises-thatcher-woos-conservative-voters/

Americans have a name for it, they call it "quiet quitting".

Genuine PG Tips. The stuff sold now is just Liptons rebranded as "PG Tips" and tastes disgusting. They claim it's to speed-up brewing but the real reason is cheaper ingredients.

There was actually some truth in that. Bulbs were deliberately manufactured to burn out twice as fast as was strictly necessary. Also there was an agreement between all the manufacturers to limit the total number of light bulbs sold to keep prices artificially high.

If you think that's bad just try paying cash into a bank or building society account these days!

Walking all the way to Allesley Road post office only to find it is now permanently closed. :mad:

Just a heads-up, Five Nights at Freddy's apparently has nothing to do with the Coventry school of the same name!

Citizen laid mine before I had a chance to paint the skirting boards. They also didn't bother to nail down or level the floorboards.:mad:

Yep. I mix a small amount of Bournville with Cadbury's as one is too sweet and the other too bitter.

It's getting hard to find to Bitter, let alone Mild, except for massively overpriced 'Premium Bitter'.

Mail order firms demanding I leave them a review on a third-party website. Yes, I ordered a product and it was delivered. What do they expect, a f'ckin medal? :mad:

A motorcycle does much less damage to other vehicles.

It recommends short wave radio videos for me, along with Lego. It's only a matter of time before it shows me a short wave radio made out of Lego. Facebook keeps suggesting posters I've never heard of, who live half way round the world and aren't on any friend's list as 'people you may know'.

It passes the time and helps me sleep.

This was the first Halloween ever I wasn't able to find a bag of mini Mars Bars. It's just as well as I usually end up scoffing them all myself. Also haven't seen any so-called 'Value Lager' (or Bitter) in Morrisons for as long as I can remember. It may taste disgusting but it allows me to...

Both Lloyds and Nationwide insisted on me visiting them in person, neither would accept evidence online.