Whoops follow up....

So a few months back I had an accident with a certain game disk....well, It's happened again:

What do I do?

People who think they are right

I hate it when people try to tell you something, thinking they are right, or lie to you thinking you don't know that they are lying. They just make themselves sound like idiots! That's why I love winding people up, or calling their bluffs.

I saw this video the other day and it's EXACTLY what I'm talking about. Of course he's allowed to take photos of the building, there is no law telling him he cant. That dude/woman (I dont quite know...) was being a twat because they thought they could be. Such idiots!

Watch the video below and you will see what I mean:



What are your thoughts on it?

The Turkey Was Well & Truely Stuffed

So I am currently VERY annoyed.

My band, (The UK Pink Floyd Tribute Show) were meant to be flying out to Istanbul in Turkey last Friday for a Christmas mini-tour. We all had our bags packed, our VISAs had been sorted, and some of us had even taken out insurance on our health and instruments, when we get an email saying this:

"Hi guys, we decided to wait until the last minute to book your flights from the UK to Turkey in an attempt to save some money. However when we went to book them this morning there were no avaliable seats left on any flights"

ARGH!

Giving change

Ok, this thing REALLY gets on my nerves.

When I buy something and pay in cash, say a bottle of cider (mmm cider) for £2.04 and I have to use a £10 note, the cashier often gives me the change in this order:

£5 note
loose change

So that the coins are sliding about on top of the paper note! It makes so much more sense to give me the coins in my hand and then let me grab the note with my fingers! Surely they would want it that way too? Are people always this stupid? It's not the end of the world, but it sure is annoying!

Anyone else have this problem?

Nightmare at work

Well today was a nightmare at work! I've never been so busy!

Let me explain what I do.

I work as a demonstrator for a global music company, and I travel the UK with a mobile concession stand filled with digital pianos, digital drum kits, arranger keyboards ect. Well today it was VERY busy, I had lots and lots of interest in the products (especially the drum kits) and I collected lots of peoples details.

Angry Birds

Not something that annoys me for once!

I absolutely LOVE Angry Birds. I was among one of the first few hundred to download the original game, and I currently rank in the top 5% of all Angry Birds, Angry Birds seasons and Angry Birds Rio players of all time, and its because of this that I am posting this image:

Injury Lawyers 4 U ect

I'm fed up with the number of Injury Lawyers with their "no win on fee" nonsense and claims companies spamming my TV with their rubbish adverts all the time. I was watching a program about the history of the piano and every ad break there was at least 4 different adverts that try to get you to sue other people. That's about as unrelated from piano history as you can get!

Oh and the other adverts that annoy me on British TV are the whole "we buy your gold for cash" ones or the "send us your mobile and we will give you so much money (not really, we are only going to give you £3.19 for your iphone harharhar)" ones. They annoy me so much!
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Bring back the days of the Hovis adverts, or the Cadbury Dairy Milk ones!

Tyre Troubles

So I picked up my new car yesterday (a very nice Peugeot 206) and today when I got in from town I realised I'd left my phone in the car, so I went back outside to go and get it only to be greeted with a flat tyre on the front right wheel.

**Not actual tyre...**

I was not impressed

Luckily my aunt and uncle had bought me a 12v pump and tyre pressure kit for christmas and I had yet to use it. So after a little looking I found it and used it to re-inflate the tyre enough to get me the 1.2 miles to the nearest garage. It only cost me £10 to get it fixed and I was in and out in under 15 minutes.

So thankfully I'm back on the road. I just hope nothing else happens any time soon! I cant quite afford it at the moment...

Eating the fuel

It's 2.25am here in the UK and I've just got in from a job I had to do at short notice. I ended up having to drive 114.8 miles this evening to a club and back as part of my work. That's a third of the tank already gone, and I already shoved £45 in today :/ Not good. Oh well, I am exhausted, and I need to be up early to, surprise surprise, do some more driving....

Amy Winehouse

After the death of singer Amy Winehouse on the 23rd of July, I posted this:

I think its very sad that it takes a "death" for people to "become a fan" in a sense. im sure there were many people who didnt like her, but now decided to run out and buy CDs (or download tracks). I think the best example of this happening was when Michael Jackson Died, and his sales increased dramatically, even more than when lennon or elvis died. Its a shame that we live in a society that cant appreciate good music until something drastic happens and the media push it in our faces.

Now it turns out her album Back To Black is the highest selling album of the decade. The album has shot up to number 1 on iTunes charts in every country. Billboard has reported that the album sold 37,000 copies within 36 hours of her death.

With sales like this, musicians nowadays are worth more dead than alive!

Don't EVER refer to Mega Bloks as LEGO

One thing that really makes my blood boil is when you go into a shop and you see boxes of Mega Bloks among the boxes of LEGO. You wouldn't put a Nokia brick in with the iPhones would you!

Mega Bloks are not LEGO, nor are they anywhere near the standard of LEGO.

When I was younger and I would find a box of loose LEGO at a car boot sale, I would sort through it and take out all the "fake" bricks and give it back to the person selling it!

I think this has to be one of my biggest annoyances. I haven't played with LEGO for years, since I was a child but it still gets on my nerves!


Also it's LEGO. Not LEGOS. It is not plural, it is a collective term like "hair". You don's say, "Ooh I like the colour of your hairs" do you!

ARGH!

Virgin Millionaire's House Burnt Down

During a storm last night, around 4am local time a bolt of lighting hit the roof of Richard Branson's home on Necker Island. Around 20 people have escaped unharmed but the building has been completely destroyed. His blog reads:

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Thank you for all your kind messages after the fire on Necker. We’re thankful that everyone is ok.

  

We had a tropical storm with winds up to 90mph. A big lightning storm came around 4am and hit the house. My son Sam and nephew Jack rushed to the house and helped get everyone out and many thanks to Kate Winslet for helping to carry my 90 year mum out of the main house to safety - she was wondering when a Director was going to shout CUT!

  For more information, visit The BBC or Richard's Blog

Giant Kit-Kat

Now, I enjoy a Kit-Kat now and again as much as the next man, but this is ridiculous!

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Airport Drop-off Fees

So I've just got in from dropping my partner off at the airport (She just text me, she's arrived) and I decided I had to post about the daylight robbery that is Airport Drop-off Fees.

To drop her off it cost me £7.50!

£7.50!

What a rip off!

She'll be walking there next time!

Adsense

Not overly relevant to this blog, but I thought I'd post about it anyway.

I got my first cheque from Google Adsense today in the post (It sure took its time to arrive!). Its amazing that my blog has done so well over the last few months and I'd like to say thanks to all who visit and read about the little things in life that annoy me.

I'm off to the bank to pay it in now and then I'm gonna buy me something nice.

Apple > US Government

I heard today that Apple have more cash than the US Government. Apple have $75.88 billion in cash (yes cash!) while the United States only have $73.77 billion.

The Financial Post reports this news, and you can check the United States Treasury and Apple’s last earnings call to compare. Apple actually has more money than that compared to the US, considering the US “operating balance” only refers to the amount of money the country can spend before it hits the debt ceiling.

Apple can proudly say that it’s richer than one of the world’s largest and most powerful countries. Now THAT'S something to be proud of!

Soon To Pass

I've had my laptop for nearly 3 years now. I think it's about to die. It was top of the range when I got it (It cost me nearly £1000, and seeing as I was only 16 and unemployed at the time, that was a lot of money to spend on a laptop).

However, over the last few months the battery life has been getting worse. Currently, if I were to unplug it right now I would have just under 7 minutes to finish writing this post and to publish it before it died. And if I turn off WIFI until I'm ready to post? 9 minutes.

The weird thing is that when I bought the laptop, I paid a little more to get a 9 Cell Battery instead of a 6 Cell one. I wonder what the battery life would be like now if I hadn't.

So, I think when I get some monies, I will buy myself a new laptop. The question is, PC or MAC?