Ta1no’s Weblog

So I went for the allusive first run last night after work. Not sure why I chose yesterday of all days as I was really wrecked and tired from work but I thought what the hell lets go for it. I thought my chest was going to give in or I was going to die of a delayed heart attack in my sleep…

In the news today – well as you all know apple have announced there new phone and yes all the rumours where true the new 3G 8GB iPhone will be on sale in the UK shortly and will start at around £100 but O2 are giving it away free one particular contracts. Analysts said the price cut would spur sales of the iPhone despite the countries current economic slump. I would right about the functionality and the cool new features that the iPhone has but I am not going to. Very simply if you want / thinking about getting on/ hate apple or just want to be cool go buy one as there are worse phones out on the market, but for what it does and is you cant really go wrong with all in one powerhouse that is the iPhone – so go and but it when it goes on sale on the 11th of July.

Also in the news a girl Shoots herself in the chest with her Gran’s gun after snatching the pistol from her grandmother’s handbag. The youngster was riding in a shopping trolley at a discount shop in Columbia, South Carolina, when the incident happened. All I am wondering is why would you carry a concealed weapon in your bag and leave your bag with a child knowing that they like to play with things?

Last bit of news –  new research shows that smoking or being overweight can lead to loss of hearing. According to new research people with a high body mass index (BMI) were also more likely to suffer hearing loss, the study found. Not sure what you think of this new research but please let me know.

Grinding my gears today are stupid people that have no knowledge of gun control. I speak from experience after firing several weapons while on a military exercise and the fundamental thing even when using blanks is never aim it at someone also always have the safety on and not to have it loaded. Parents need to teach there kids that guns are not toys. Now I want to know how dangerous it is in South Carolina that you have to go strapped while doing your shopping – don’t mess with granny when she wants to get her cheerio’s.

Also grinding my gears are runners that run faster and and lap me in the park. Especially the guy that looked about 70 years old. Keep running past me with a smirk on your face and see what happens in two weeks.

The list – Please add the underground to the post again today. Same reasons as before no new ones just the same. But I will add viral adverts done in bad taste, please see below a viral for VW polo.

Went to Ping pong for a quick dinner last night before the run and even though the food was ‘delish’ and received a 3/5, I was disappointed with the lack of vegetarian set menu options. For that reason I had to deduct a point. No the restaurant does not sound like I was in Bangkok and seeing a ‘show’, you dirty minded people.

If you have read in a previous post I was going to put together a list of things that are annoying me or that have in the pass. So here goes. I will build the list over time.

• AA (back in 2002 when I had a little accident early in the morning they left me at the crash scene and roadside for 3 hours without even a call to say sorry we are delayed. I drove the car back after thinking I cant stay here anymore) Looking after the interests of its members as motorists has been at the heart of the AA since it was founded in 1905. taken from the AA. Apart form in 2002 when you left your member at the crash scene without any help.
• 3G – this list could go on, but lets just say Indian call center and systems that are always down. And a network and customer service which is just bad real bad.
• O2 they keep messing up with my contract 3 times they have messed with my bill or have done something to try and shaft me.
• T-Mobile – Seriously when you where younger t-mobile was cool when it use to be One2One those where the days when occasionally the network would crash and you would get free calls and text’s, but now they are just so annoying the service is crap and there customer service is just behind that of 3G
• Supermarkets :
  • Tesco – I think you have read the previous post, but it’s a toss between these guys and the AA and 3G who I detest the most, but until Saino’s steps up I will have to keep shopping here.
  • Sainsbury’s – not the retail side but the corporate side, thank you Sarah Squires cause of you I don’t shop in this place anymore.
  • Budgens - Who and what that’s all I have to say. Seriously who are they trying to fool and what are they trying to pull. They are more expensive than Waitrose and about the same quality as Asda. No offence to Asda, they are not on this list thou.
  • M&S – that Woman they have on the advert make me wan to go there and either buy everything on my CC or burn the place down after I turn fat. I like this spoof advert for it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzupByLKCgA
• Microsoft I wouldn’t say hate but dislike, a few reasons that i cant go into as they are a client but they are on the list
• London Transport – Have you ever tired to get home after 12 in London. Not nice is it now, other countries in the word have great public services, but its seems that when I want to go home 77other people have the same idea and then I end up becoming the Garfield doll on the bus getting molested by someone.
• Egypt – Dam you! Had such an amazing holiday when I was there that now all I want to do is go back, but no I am stick at my desk. So yes Egypt you are on the list actually for that fact the following are on the list
  • Malaysia
  • New York
  • Spain
  • Jamaica
• American Express – the American gimps won’t give me the RED card, but they will try and sell me the platinum card with a stupid yearly fee. Why would if want that, give me what I ask for
• FRANCE – I hate that place. That’s it I just hate the place.
• HALFORD – Seriously the staff in that place are so inept that they couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery. Anyway so I went to go get a bike and the guy was like we have no bikes at the moment we wont be able to give you one until next Friday. What the hell. Then I asked for the advice… what ever you do never ask for advice in Halfords seriously a one eye tramp that has just come out of the woods where he has lived his whole life with wolfs would give better advice than the staff in Halfords. Highly trained staff my ass. You can be highly trained if I know more about your stock than you do.
• London Metro (free paper) –
  Let me explain why, I love a good read on the way to work in the morning, but more and more I am starting to realise that the news in the Metro is becoming a bit liquidated, I think the writers are being obtuse on purpose as the Metro is full of advertorials and advertising with the hard hitting news gone in favour of glossy Mag’s stories such as the penguin that has its on blog (who cares).
  Not sure if you know how much a colour page advert in the Metro cost, well it cost over 22k – yeah that’s a lot. So you can see why they love to put adverts in the Metro. In favour of good news stories…..