Category: Piffle
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How To Get A Million Followers
It seems like a reasonable ambition, doesn’t it? To have one million followers on your preferred choice of social media. But if only one percent of those followers clicked Like, or Retweet, or replied to you every time you posted, your phone would bong 10,000 times. Imagine that? Let’s just watch this instead. https://youtu.be/_CRE-XdVvNA
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Moments Of Self Delight
Get your mind out of the gutter. Last night, just as I went to bed (seriously, grow up), I did something that always pleases me (sheesh). When I turn the light off, I get a little thrill every time, just watching the LEDs fade slowly away in the darkness. I have no idea why this…
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Norway Shares The Wealth
In the 1990s, Norway realised that its windfall from the discovery and exploitation of North Sea Oil would eventually come to an end. Where the UK had used this new revenue to fund massive Thatcherite tax cuts, Norway realised that it had to protect this money for future generations. With audacious foresight, the country began…
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Learn From My Mistake
I turned on the microphone again, improvised, and this is what came out. http://traffic.libsyn.com/sundayssupplement/whale.mp3 (Download) I seem to have channelled Kevin Turvey. Badly. Anyway, Merry New Year. I hope your 2018 is better than your 2017.
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How To Solve All The Problems In The World
It’s been a bad year, for so many people, for so many reasons. It might be cathartic to list all the bags that have been filled with shite, and use creative swear words to vent some pent up impotent rage, but that would make this blog about eight days long, and we’d still only scratch…