How to irritate people in the UK

It is a wonderful pastime in the UK, queuing. We are great at it, but this surely is a step too far. It is frustrating at the moment to be stuck behind someone who can't remember their PIN number, or someone who is trying all their accounts to find one that isn't overdrawn and so will cough up the cash. But to be able to play games, print photos and so forth would push the normal Brit reserve over the edge.



40 years on - the cashpoint gets a makeover - Yahoo! News UK

Blog Death threat, the meme to follow

Ok, what has happened is totally out of order, I mean when have people been threatened for saying what they think? Is free speech dead? Oh yea, it always has been if you don't say what is socially acceptable.



What is worrying about this post on the BBC site (and before you complain I read Kathy's blog and think she is a wonderful blogger and death threats are totally out of order) is the comment that bloggers are doing their own investigation. Can you imagine it, within days we'll have a meme doing the blogosphere rounds



1 Tell me 5 things about you know one knows

2 What drugs have you taken

3 How many times have you had sex in the last week

4 Have you recently sent a death threat to a fellow blogger



After you have done this tag the local law enforcement agency



BBC NEWS | Technology | Blog death threats spark debate

Coronation Street fans treated like the rest of us

It's hard to believe but Coronation Street fans have been treated like the rest of humanity. They have been abused by a drunk. It is almost as shocking as the abuse poured out by Shatner on Star Trek nerds many moons ago. When will this fan abuse end.



BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Coronation Street actor suspended



PS What do you expect being fan of a pathetic soap opera.

I can't dry out the damp

The damp that I reported in my previous post is still there. I am now unable to dry it out as our microwave has decided to die.

On two different occasions it has now made a funny noise and has contained lightning whiclst powered up. I believe this to be outside of normal operational parameters and also quite dangerous. It did work okay for a day between these localised storms but when it happened for the second time there was clearly a problem.

I did look inside the oven to make sure there wasn't a metal spoon hidden at the back, or some nanotech spy fly, but couldn't see anything. My eyesight is quite good, with my glasses, and so I would have seen some nanotechnology lurking - it would have needed to be reasonably large in order to react with the microwaves.

If there was some spy fly hanging around, and if it had survived its flight through the microwaves, I could have reprogrammed it to look for leak causing the damp. I fear I may need to talk to a tradesman.

We have a dampness

Leaking water causes damp patches. This is an eternal truth that can't be disproved. If water is coming out of somewhere then it causes damp, or more likely a puddle. We have a damp patch on our wall. But there is no water leak anywhere. It is not rising damp either, for the patch isn't on the ground.

Why is life so confusing?

Why am I posting at Cold Tea Again again - was it simply to get that sentence published?