reg seward

I seem to be getting to be rather a disgruntled nag, about society, and it's crap design flaws. I just don't mean crap designs, but the whole ethos of society today. I had a gripe a while back about cistern diaphragms, the non-availability of spares, only available in a pack of ten different styles, just one, that might fit, of any use to the buyer, so throw the rest away....
Today, I found yet another advance in technology, and it's natural wastage on the sales front . ...

The other day, the wifely woman, shot into the local supermarket during her dinnerbreak, a quick nip in to buy the essentials you understand. After her findings, she joined a rapidly forming queue, at all the checkout points. After waiting in line for several valuable minutes she had to leave, in order to get her lunch down before the afternoon work session, she left the stuff with an assistant of her aquaintance. Whilst hurrying back to her place of employment, she strode past two banks, both of ...

Hands up those, who have purchased something, in all seriousness, to do a certain job, and it doesn't work. I have, any number of times, only to be disappointed then, or a bit later. Who has lashed out loads of cash for a DVD player, only to find the sound doesn't work right, a DVD doesn't work, but, another one will. What video player kept mangling tapes, lines across the screen maybe, or the spinning reels packed up, the heads are knackered is a favourite shop excuse for selling yet another machine. ...

I was just perusing the online newspapers yet again, good grief, they are now advocating what colours to wear to election parties, what styles to wear, what calibre bullet you should be using on yourself, if you indulge in this rubbish. So, American hoopla over the elections has hit Britain now. Not content with whistling and screaming like a bunch of demented idiots on television, we now have the style freaks telling us what to wear.
I guess, a million different coloured ballons will ...

I see all sorts of things in this world, that usually have a sales angle alongside, lets face it, everybody is on some scam, or other, all the time. Gullible people rise up like the phoenix, and grab a handful, or more, of whatever the latest trends are.
Usually, it is folk with more money than sense who, sadly, unknowingly, promote these items of dubious taste, and create the latest, fashionable, iconic morsels, that fade away almost overnight. Today, on perusing the pages of a well ...