OK, I'm getting into my stride now...
Mini Tescos.

Too useful to totally eschew, too ubiquitous to avoid and yet...my soul dies a little more each time I use one as I feel the suckers of the octopus sucking ever more strongly.

Why are they so greedy? And how-fucking-dare-they suggest I buy certain products for the privilege of amassing several more worthless Clubcard points.

Which reminds me: I couldn't give a tinker's testicle what other-people-that-bought 'Care of Shrubs' also bought. I didn't buy this for me, it was a present, so why don't you stop pimping your 'Roy Lancaster's book of everything plant-like' to me you Amazon PIMP.


Right, I think I'll go out and assault a chugger. How dare they make me feel slightly bad for even a few seconds when I'm in town on my lunch break.

EDIT: Just realised that this may not qualify as self-pity, having strayed into 'rant' land, but why should I have to put up with THE MAN just because I want to live in the West? Eh?
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 16:26, 2 replies)

My amazon deals email this week was catering boxes of crisps.
Which I considered rather bleak, having not bought a catering box of crisps ever in my life.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 17:04, closed)

Chuggers are bastards
They are exploiting a loophole in the law (you need a licence to solicit cash donations but not to wave standing order forms at people) in order to make vast amounts of money for the companies who employ them. It's not unusual for three years' worth of donations to go to the chugging company. And they make you feel bad?
(ubergeekian, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 18:19, closed)