Category: Writing
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The Six Million Follower Man
There seems to be a new trend on Twitter with posts commencing, ‘…now I don’t normally agree with [Person X], but…’ or, ‘It hurts to say it, but I agree with [Person X]. I have even withstood the visual assault of, ‘Four words I never thought I’d hear myself say: I. Agree. With. [Person X]‘.…
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Furlough Blows
Cometh the hour, cometh the charlatan. And in business, coronafraud is not just confined to online ads by individual twicers for non-existent supplies. It’s becoming part of corporate policy. As most will know, the UK Government has stepped up to the plate and will pay 80% of an employee’s salary, up to £2,500 per month,…
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McLovin It
In Paraguay, former Brazilian football megastar Ronaldinho has been arrested for entering the country on fake documents. Yes, this is one of a handful of the most recognisable people on the planet, and the said document was in his own real name. It’s stratospherically wacko. In fact, this was no border incident per se, and…
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Slang Ban, Thank You Ma’am!
As if a truckload of horsehit about a 50p piece being bereft of an Oxford comma wasn’t enough, a linguistics expert from some august institution has broached the subject of whether schools should ban the use of street slang such as peng and bruv. Apparently, teachers are correcting students’ use of street argot in classes…
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Burning Books…
Controversial? I don’t mind it at all. Go to amazon.co.uk and start burning…. Flypaper for Freaks and Freaking Hired! The more, the better… unsplash-logoMohamed Nohassi
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Hitler’s Marketing Woes
Berlin, 1945. And Hitler is optimistic about Amazon book sales. He’s sacked the SS Marketing team, who kept dicking with the prices, and he’s got a new group of marketers on board. At a team meal with them, he explains his vision and his plans to trounce the Russian books on Kobo. But others are…
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Inglourious Prices
Berlin, 1945. Hitler is stressing again about book prices. Himmler and the SS Marketing Team are dicking with the commercials, and Amazon sales are down… Meanwhile, Stalin is running a stellar campaign and rinsing it on Kobo… What can the Führer do to reverse the trend…? Read what all the fuss is about – Flypaper…
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Let’s Eat, Grandma…
While we appear to be teetering on the edge of World War III (or at least that’s what you might be led to believe from certain online sources), I have been grappling with a far greater foe. English grammar. Now, I’ve always been somewhat a stickler for grammatical rules. And I’ve previously written in an…
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Let’s Snip It in the Bud…
The author JK Rowling has been lambasted for tweeting a message of support for somebody who has lost an employment tribunal, in which they failed to secure legal protection for their support of the position that ‘sex is real’ and therefore cannot be changed. The Twatosphere has gone into meltdown. People cannot contain themselves. But…
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