Tag Archives: rant

What’s Wrong With Monopoly?

Monopoly (British Edition) in its current branding

Monopoly enjoys cult status and a massive following the world over, yet it’s one of the worst imaginable board games. In a long-promised blog post, Dan explains why he hates the world’s most-popular game. Continue reading

Worst Weekend Of Cinema – Part 1

Avengers Assemble.

Dan goes to the cinema with Ruth and JTA, and they don’t watch a film. However, they do have a good old complain. Continue reading

Hello, Facebook; Goodbye, Facebook

anti_facebook-100

Inspired mostly by his experiences with Facebook over the last few weeks, Dan decides that it’s time to hang up his Wall and quit. Goodbye, Facebook. There’s also instructions in this post about how to keep in touch with him, if you’ve forgotten how to do that outside of repeatedly clicking “Poke” on his page. Continue reading

Facebook Annoyance Of The Day

(rambling, ranty; I saw something on Facebook that pissed me off, and ended up ranting about the whole social media scene – no offence meant, and I’ve deliberately picked no examples from anybody I know or care about) It’s not as bad as setting up… Continue reading

My New Pet Hate

I have a new pet hate. A personal pet hate of mine for a long while has been that often, when I ask somebody for a screenshot to show me what’s going wrong with some software they’re using, they’ll take a screenshot or two, then… Continue reading

What Not To Do When You Lose Your Mobile

Maybe this is just a pet hate that is exclusively mine, but there’s something that really gets on my nerves and it’s happened under one of the two scenarios below at least three times within the last month. It’s as if the very second you… Continue reading