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For that price, I think I’d expect an engine with it

This week on Top Gear they had an item about a new car recently launched, the Nissan Pixo – at £6,995 being currently the cheapest brand new production car on the UK market.

The item mainly talked about how rubbish as a car it is, going on to become an item about what kind of car you could get on the second hand market for that kind of cash.

Coincidently, this lunchtime I called into the bike shop to get some new tyres for my bike, the current ones needing replacing partly because off-road tyres are a bit silly for somebody who never goes off-road, but mostly because they’re getting a bit ripped to shreds on the sides. Seeing the cheapest tyres that were any good came to £20 I did that sharp intake of breath thing, deciding that i didn’t feel like ponying up £40 at once instead getting just one tyre, to replace the other one next month.

Standing by the till waiting to be served, I saw this bike in the rack for sale:

I did manage to stop myself from saying out loud that for that price, I’d expect it to come with an engine attached.

Give the gift of choice

I was recently walking through the Pallasades shopping centre when i noticed this poster, advertising the Pallasades Gift Card: The perfect present every time, indeed; whose face couldn’t possibly fail to light up at receiving such a kind & thoughtful gift, when the gift of choice includes wares from these fine emporiums: One is – [...]

Help – email is broken for me!

“It just seems that Email as a medium is broken. For me to actually read and respond to every email that I receive would actually mean that I would be spending all of my time on email and none of my time on doing the things that the emails are about. That’s silly. But if [...]

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