More abuse of English
I’m always struck by the poor use of the English language by those that have used it all their lives. I’m also always…
Author: Craig
Some of the weirdest album covers ever … #2
Following on from my last post on the same subject, here are some more completely loony album covers. As with the last one,…
Pauline Hanson’s full wishlist of Royal Commissions
Since the side-splitting Australian federal election and the return of Pauline Hanson as leader of the Australian One Nutter Party, we’ve heard about only…
New lows in spoken English
Two long-standing bad habits in spoken English are really starting to get on my nerves, as they continue to gain prominence and –…
Speeking Inglish
I get that English is not an easy language to learn. That’s fine. But to my mind, that just says that if English…
Now that’s a cool job! First episode released!
Here’s the first episode of a brand new web series worth checking out!
Scraping the gene pool
Below is a random selection of some of those bubbling away down in the bottom of the gene pool. These are not examples…
Sydney’s contributions to public displays of bad English
Just a few photos I’ve taken of appalling examples of bad English as I cruise around the streets of suburban Sydney. Some very public displays…
If you’re going to fail, do it publicly!
This post is about poor spelling, one of my personal bugbears. I’ve seen so many examples of bad spelling – especially in social…
More stupid newspaper headlines #4
How is it that people paid to write can get it so wrong? Remember, these people are supposed to be professionals. This is…
Star Trek: Ranking all the movies
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) Score: 6.5 IMDB Rating: 6.4 With the unexpected success of Star Wars (1977), the work underway to…
Some of the weirdest album covers ever … #1
There are good album covers, and there are bad album covers. And there are album covers that are just plain weird. What were…
The most annoying mispronunciations
As I get older I find I’m getting annoyed by more and more things that people do. Apparently that’s quite normal, so I’m…
Ranking 007 – A scorecard of the James Bond films
Dr No (1962) SCORE: 7 IMDB rating: 7.3 Starring as Bond: Sean Connery (Score: 8 ) As the girl: Ursula Andress (Score: 7)…
Channel 7’s promo department can’t get it right either
Channel 7’s latest promo for My Kitchen Rules is giving me the shits. Here I am trying to alert the world to this…