Rubbish Christmas is back! I would say it was by popular demand, but it isn’t. For all the noobs out there who who haven’t partaken – this is Rubbish Christmas. And we are off to a flying start with not one but two suggestions as to how you can delight your nearest and not-so-dearest this […]
Rubbish Christmas
Something New
Recently, I posted “Oh look, someone has noticed”, remarking on how the Government has suddenly noticed that we have a problem over food security and fuel security. Today we have something new: But Mr Woolas, who became immigration minister in the reshuffle earlier this month, said: “This government isn’t going to allow the population to […]
Rubbish Christmas Awards – Grand Prize Presentation
An ecstatic Rubbish Christmas Grand Champion Jan receives her treasured prize the Limited Edition Special Pack tomato shaped tomato sauce bottle. I’ve got two more prizes to hand out to runners-up Lin and Alison, I bet they can’t wait to get their hands on those Poundland tokens. Will I be seeing both of you? Or […]
Rubbish Christmas – The Competition
First Prize: A tomato ketchup container shaped like a tomato. Two Runners-Up Prizes: Special Poundland® tokens, entitling the recipient to purchase any item on sale in the store. Please submit your entries using the comments box below. The winners will be the givers or recipients of the presents judged most rubbish by me. My decision […]
Rubbish Christmas Presents Volume 9
A follow on, having been prompted to visit the alumni section of Aston University’s web site, I stumbled across the gifte shoppe. This is full of tragic stuff – I mean, why would want the university scarf while you are a student, let alone want to buy one after you have left? But Aston’s alumni […]
Just Rubbish Rubbish
Business Bib I suppose I will stop laughing eventually…. Edit 2024: Turns out, looking back, with Covid and the surge in remote working, no, not laughing any more.
Rubbish Christmas Presents Volume 8
(With thanks to The Register for the tip off) “NEW & EXCLUSIVE to Medionshop in the UK! This beautiful notebook comes in a subtle pink and is studded with over 300 Swarovski pink and clear crystals. Not only is it good looking but it is fully loaded with an Intel Centrino® Duo 1.73GHz processor, 1024MB […]
Rubbish Christmas Presents Volume 7
(Rubbish Clothes) A long time ago, Mr Levi started making work wear called jeans. He put a little label on the outside (and a rivet in the crotch). It was good work wear and very successful. Some time in the 1950s people decide that it was comfortable to wear (without the rivet in the crotch, […]
Rubbish Christmas Presents Volume 5
(rubbish presents for rubbish people) “Unleash the sex kitten inside…simply extend the Peekaboo pole inside the tube, slip on the sexy tunes and away you go! “Soon you’ll be flaunting it to the world and earning a fortune in Peekaboo Dance Dollars”. Tesco condemned for selling pole dancing toy – too bloody right. Tesco are […]
Rubbish Christmas Presents Volume 4
(Things that look like other things) Some of you are probably thinking, “but I would love a guitar for Christmas”. Well wish on, because this is not guitar, it is a really nasty, nasty telephone. Another phone. Anyone fancy sitting in the office holding a toy car to their head? No? If you want a […]