WTF? Friday

Seriously if I hadn’t walked by this restaurant on my lunch and if I hadn’t taken the picture myself I wouldn’ have believed it.

The restaurant is called Pure Waffle and on top of what I would consider ‘normal’ toppings ie whipped cream, fruit, sugar they offer savoury options including one topped with chicken and…..

…one with a HOT DOG….a honest to goodness American take-me-out-to-the-ball-game type hot dog laid to rest on a bun shaped waffle.  I don’t even know what to say, eeew doesn’t even cut it.

Global warming solved….next?

So when you think of issues that the government should be worried about, things like the recession, interest rates, global warming, swine flu pop to mind right?  Thankfully all of those issues must be solved in the UK because the government has turned their efforts to…wait for it…. creating a safer beer glass.  Because that, unlike nuclear warfare, is what I lie awake at night worrying about.

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….and the loo award goes to

So we had my bother in law, sister in law and nieces for a visit this weekend.  We enjoy having visitors but if they are coming from Canada they are asked to pay for room and board in the form of boxes of Kraft Dinner and marshmallows.  They obliged and arrived with said necessities.

While they were here, we did quite a few touristy things which I always enjoy as I get to find out some neat bits about the city and got to witness first hand the highway robbery that tourism….as you can see by some of these gift shop goodies and other bits and bobs

1) King Henry’s blog….seriously, if they wrote history like this when I was a kid I would understand it much better

See, all the cool people blog...it's a historical fact

2) King Henry/Anne Boleyn pants (or underwear for the Canadians)…nothing says”I’m a history ‘buff’” like the King’s face on your a**.

3) Fancy a drink at Harrods?  It will cost ya.  £3.50 will give you the chance to drink out of a Harrods branded paper cup – it did come with unlimited refills but even still it would take quite a few trips to the machine to get your £3.50’s worth.  A 2L bottle of Coke goes for £1.25 here so you would need about 3 bottles to equal the cost of one Harrods cup.  If each Harrods cup was 250ml (which it was about) then that would be about 24 trips….and about 15 trips larger than my bladder could hold (I love shopping maths… if it was explained to me in terms of cups of Coke, I would have done much better in school).

4) Loo of the year award?  I am obviously happy to use award winning facilities but seriously, a) who came up with the idea of loo of the year awards b) who the hell wants to have a job judging them?  Spa awards, luxury hotel awards, cup cake tasting awards sure, sign me up but loo awards?  no thanks. (Although I do love that they have a website – Loo Awards)

WTF? Friday

I was wandering through a book store the other day and saw this on the shelf.

Now I am certainly not the authority on this topic but I can’t imagine that someone suffering from depression really wants to be called a dummie?? And when did the Dummie franchise become experts on health issues?

Am off to be a tourist as the circus my nieces et all are in town  Big Bus tour here I come (insert a little WTF? here)

Numbers are like, haaard

So I mentioned the other day in one of my posts that the academic subject that involves numbers and the art of combing them to create other numbers here is referred to as Maths. In a sentence:  I am glad the VAT is included in prices here as I was never good at maths.  One of my wise friends here says it is because it is the short form for Mathematics which does indeed include an ’s’.  God knows why we dropped it and refer to it as Math but now I proudly add an ’s’ when talking to locals to make me sound smarter.

Anyhoo that reminded me of a few other ‘maths’ or at least number related terms I have learned here.

1) Trebled :  The hubby was telling me a story about how he was reading the Financial Times (the paper for people smart at maths) and he noticed a spelling error in the headline as it had said that profits trebled at a particular company  – he figured that they had meant tripled and we had a good chuckle at the error by the smart paper.  At which point a nice (eavesdropper) on the tube actually corrected us (yes, we are getting used to it) and said that trebled is actually a word and that it follows on naturally from the word double…ie doubled, trebled. I still think it sounds like someone is pronouncing tripled wrong.

2) Nought: A colleague was telling me how a particular industry had seen growth of naught point 5 percent.  At which point my American colleague called out, it had NOT percent increase doesnt’ that mean it didn’t have an increase.  Being a seasoned Brit I kept my mouth shut (for once, I know) and let it be explained to him that nought is equivalent to zero here and is often quoted in percentages below 1 .  Consequentially, it is also used in the game of tick tack toe which is actually named noughts and crosses as per today’s cartoon in the paper, see, I am not lying.

WTF? Friday

Crazy world meet crazy toy idea.  Bebe gloton – the world’s first breastfeeding doll….cause nothing says real life like strapping on a training bra and watching its creepy mechanical mouth go to town.  Wondering if it also wakes little girls up throughout the night crying and has giant mushy poos that fills its diaper and goes up it’s back or comes with cabbage leaves to sooth sore boobs…cause I hear that’s when the fun really starts.

On another WTF? topic…I am employed again.  Promise I will blog more have been a bit busy this week trying to remember how to work.

I love a good bargain..

and I am so glad my parents didn’t let me drop math (or maths as they call it here, not kidding, no idea where the ’s’ came from) in school otherwise I might have missed out on great deals like this one;

Buy one for 88p but two for £1.99….the pricing manager in charge of this deserves a raise.

WTF? Friday

So I have heard of subliminal advertising but subliminal insulting is a new one…I would argue that it would be less effective but this campaign (although inadvertent *wink, wink*) has generated quite a bit of press which is usually not a bad thing….

Happy Friday T**t

Do you see it??

Let me spell it out for you...

A simple concept made very un-simple

I think I should get a job at the UK Milk board (if one exists) because I have yet another post about milk…that’s okay it is one of the biggest search terms that brings traffic to my wee little blog so milk, milk, milk (yes, I am an SEO specialist, can’t you tell).

Anyhoo remember my story about the milk bags and how Canada has been selling their milk in bags for years and that we put it in a  simple container, cut off the tip then Bob’s your Uncle (I actually DO have an uncle Bob).

While perusing the aisles at our local Sainsbury’s (a grocery chain like Waitrose but not as swanky and slickly marketed)  I noticed they also started offering milk in bags and was promoting the ‘jug it’ contraption to store and pour the milk from.

From the picture,  you can see that the jug has a top and inside some plasticy bits that presumably stick on the outside and whatnot…I am wondering though why they have made such a simple concept of pouring milk from a bag so complicated….there is a 9 step process on the jugit website.

I am seriously thinking of starting my own milk jug company and steal the tried and tested (and glaringly simple) Canadian concept.  I think I will call it Adrienne’s Jugs…that should make for some good PR don’t you think?

How’s the view?

So I am not sure if I am getting prude-ish in my old age but I really hate these posters that seem to be everywhere advertising a show called Chelsea Lately…frankly I am too lazy to wikipedia it to see what the show is all about I am more disturbed by the older man looking up this young ditzy girl’s dress.

What'cha lookin at?

Don’t worry, the ‘humour’ isn’t lost on me, yes I get that they allude to the fact he is looking up her skirt because it’s comedy with ‘balls’ but even if she does have her very own set of kahonas under there, is it appropriate for the dude to be glaring up at them?  Or more importantly, does this make me want to tune in and watch said programme?  Or MOST importantly…am I getting too old and crotchety and this is really funny and not mildly disturbing like I think it is?

Better go, need to watch the last few minutes of Antiques Roadshow before Murder She Wrote starts…that Jessica Fletcher, she’s too smart for her own good.

(please say you noted the sarcasm in that last sentence, I am not getting old…right?)