The Perfect Curve

Spooks

simon gray - 2016-01-28, 18:33:52

I’ve come home to a news story that apparently the Russians spied on Mao Tse-Tung’s poo. It’s a glorious life, the life of a spy.

iPhone sales figures

simon gray - 2016-01-27, 09:08:10

END OF THE IPHONE AND IMMINENT COLLAPSE OF APPLE KLAXON!!11!!

Spiralised vegetables

simon gray - 2016-01-25, 20:38:30

I give them another four months before people have forgotten they ever existed. 

Train toilets

simon gray - 2016-01-23, 08:46:56

I do wish the toilet paper dispensers on trains - all trains - weren't so crap.

Obscure kitchen utensils

simon gray - 2016-01-19, 18:01:38

In John Lewis, with a friend who was looking for a salad spinner. Neither of the two assistants working in the kitchen department knew what a salad spinner is. 

Celebrity scientists

simon gray - 2016-01-16, 09:37:21

Here's a thing which occurs to me - do celebrity television astronomers (such as eg Maggie Aderin-Pocock) get a bit narked seeing celebrity television particle physicists such as Brian Cox fronting space programmes?

Drinking in the dark

simon gray - 2016-01-15, 07:10:31

When you get to the end of your coffee and realise you forgot to put the milk in it. 

Radio Four comedy

simon gray - 2016-01-14, 19:01:51

With so much recent dross for the #radio4 #630comedy, John Finnemore continues to be a genuine comedy genius. 

Railway escalator standers

simon gray - 2016-01-14, 09:30:52

Person who stops walking near the top of the train escalator - you're the worst kind of left-side escalator stander. 

The price of things

simon gray - 2016-01-14, 07:48:51

See also: 'the unit cost of a CD is 70p, so why should I have to pay £10 for one' - TripAdvisor review.