I hate

A Campbell.. the cunts cunt..

Like a pile awakened by a vindaloo he's fucking back. The new book (ego bog splatter), the casual misogyny and bullying on Newsnight, Burnley FC...

WAC

We had some construction work done recently. The builder (who was ace, for the record) had one of these that was broken and was stuck on Absolute 90s....

Totally banned on my sites, if the labourers want music they can bring headphones (instant sacking if used whilst operating power tools).

I once attended a talk by AC organised by a women's group at my old employer. It was supposed to be on his thoughts on women in the workplace. I guess he was available.

It included him claiming to have been asked by a TV production company to travel in blackface across the Southern US and document what happened.

Unfortunately I didn't get to ask my question, which also wasn't about women in the workplace.

However, it was memorable for Bob Diamond (remember him?) introducing him as 'from Penthouse* letters writer to PM's spin doctor' and then immediately walking out of the room to do something more important, probably to do with LIBOR or Qatar.

This then left AC to start by telling everyone remaining how annoyed he was by this.

This sounds like a strange dream (or Succession episode) now.

csb

*It was actually a different magazine: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk/2003/aug/29/politics.marketingandpr

Chip shops that don't have any chips ready.

"10 minutes mate" is not good enough

Better than old soggy chips.

Sainsbury's own brand 'Reduced Sugar and Salt Brown Sauce' - the consistency of rusty water from an ancient radiator but far less flavoursome

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I hate posts that consist solely of a full stop. They completely trigger my sense of FOMO and what was it that was said.

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^ Even worse!

A bit like:

Someone: -says something you don’t quite make out-
You: pardon? Didn’t quite catch that
Someone: oh never mind

Totally agree- how he seems to have become something of a 'national treasure' I will never understand.

When I was a student, I did a bit of a one man social experiment and made a point of never repeating myself for about 6 months. Drove my housemates wild

Ha! Infuriating. Have you ever done that thing to someone where you’re talking to them and instead of looking at their eyes, you look at their ear? Really annoying.

BD and AC in the same room must be epochal. Sorry for triggering a truly foul madeline moment.

I can't help it.

Ah, my daughter has a lazy eye, too.

Unfortunately I wasn't in NYC for the panel discussion featuring BD alongside Henry Kissinger* which would have topped that - I think I swerved away from doing some events graphics for it.

*still not dead; in fact hits 100 next week.

Worked with a building company in the early 90s, the boss brought a full on stereo Hifi with a turntable and a cardboard box of vinyl.
He really liked Steve Hillage…only slightly better than a radio

I do have a lazy eye, although it usually looks where I want it, it's just that's often not at other people's eyes.

Now it looks like I’m making light of lazy eyes, dammit! :-D

My daughters is quite pronounced when she’s not wearing her glasses - especially when she’s tired. She’s 5 though, and hasn’t inherited my social awkwardness and aversion to eye contact, yet.

Mine had her lazy eye caught in time and it's been sorted, I wanted to "win" the eye tests as a kid so I remembered the letters with my good eye and then recalled said letters with my shit one (it's just rubbish, slightly wonky when tired but not really noticeable) probably goes some way to explaining where she inherited her nearly acing the test for the other kind of eye contact avoidance recently.