Anthony

Getting annoyed at cookies. Look, all I want is minimal tracking. Is there a way to save a cookie just so that it doesn't have to ask me ever effing time? getting bored of putting my postcode into the bbc new site every time I want to look at it. Maybe it's my I Don't Care About Cookies setting. It's too boring to do anything about it other than moan here.

That's because you haven't tried 0% Guinness. Coke I'll drink, but J20 tastes like soap to me. Haven't tried any of the other no alcohol beers, mind.

As you tell it that sounds absolutely ridiculous. Definitely appeal. And get a lawyer. Actually, get a lawyer first.

So tell me why should it be true?

Strong agree. 0% Guinness is a genuinely nice drink. But it's priced the same as the full alcohol version, both in pubs (if you can find it) and in supermarkets. They are taking the piss. Half strength Guinness on the other hand, should be poured straight down the drain.

I call him Sven. Him and his brother Seth were friends of my brother in Chelmsford in the 90s. Many, many beers with those guys. No idea why I started calling him Sven though.

Amused by this review of the new Madonna show/tour thing. Amused by what it doesn't say. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/madonna-ap-london-o2-arena-lourdes-leon-b2429936.html

Any of you tried lactase tablets?

Bloody good call. Unless maybe all participants have to actually piss on some poor people, on camera, before they're allowed to compete. Maybe then they'd realise that thinking it's ok to take part in one of these competitions defines you as a word removed of the highest order.

**** yeah. As soon as I'm out of pods, it's going back on ebay.

Nespresso Vertuo machines. My god it's overengineered crap, just to get people excited about new way of consuming coffee, and thereby generating profits for Nestle. To insert/remove a pod you push a button and a motor lifts the thing up... but the pods get stuck anyway, so you have to push it out with your hand. Utter waste of planetary and human resources, without adding any value whatsoever, just to make money.

Times a **** million. Thank you for letting me know I'm not alone.

It's self selection what's done for decent tasting veg. When the grocer would put your veg in a brown bag, you got what you got. When idiots like us choose the veg, we go for stuff that looks nice, and carrots that look straight. Veg looks really good in the UK nowadays, but by god it tastes of absolutely **** all.

Bottled water, in this country and the developed world at least. Put it in the same bin as tobacco; it only exists to create profits, not to solve a need.

small heath?

With you on the euthanasia thing. Sounds like a horrible end for them both, quite lacking in dignity. Tangentially, there was a study done by an Italian chap (begins with Z - Zanetti?) which looked at the placebo response for pain relief, but used people who had dementia. He found that dementia patients needed significantly more pain relief (like x5) to relieve the pain, compared to patients workout dementia. The conclusion was that a big chunk of pain relief is placebo. I sort of take a little issue with the conclusions, but I wonder how our healthcare takes this into account. I assume, not at all. "That's too much, I'm gong to get sued" kind of thing.

Ugh, smoking. Is it the most utterly pointless waste of human endeavour ever? I reckon it's up there. Offers no benefit whatsoever to humanity or the planet. I would love to see it disappear. But a ban won't work. Keep taxing it. Increase public awareness around how utterly **** shit it is. Useful things they could do: Make all cigarette paper a disgusting brown colour. Going forward ensure that all films/TV/media shown in this country show cigarettes as brown, not white. Easy enough to do digitally. The tobacco companies know that the best marketing is seeing someone with a pristine white tube hanging out of their mouth. Put nicotine containing vapes in the same legal category as cigarettes. Must be over 16 to buy vapes, restrict sale and advertising the same way we restrict advertising for tobacco. Police powers to confiscate the above products from anyone under 16. Police powers to confiscate/seize any non conforming products at any point, including the national borders. Raise the age to 18.

Another (possibly already resolved) point - if everyone pays, does everyone have access to all of it? I'd suggest that once it's done, anyone can eg park anywhere. None of that 'I have the right to park in front of my house bollocks'

That's Covid, that is. It's attracted by vaccines and using 5G phones. Should have stuck with your landline. You'd have been safe.

Have just been on the blower to BT to change my mobile contract. All good and sorted, but I think the chap I talked to was working from home. I think he was really rather stoned. On a scale of 1-10, I'd put him about 46 or 47.

Have just finished the Pratchett biography, written by Rob Wilkins. Just a lovely read. Considering Wilkins was only his personal assistant, he's a bloody good writer. Definite recommend, whether you've read any Pratchett books or not.

"Here is the agenda." "What's that for? We've never needed one before." "Yes you have. You just haven't used one."

PWEI in that London on the 20th of October. Always a million times better live than on the records.

Well, if you continue to associate with the Liverpool underworld these things are going to happen.