The British government are, once again, bleating on about binge drinking and coming up with new and innovative means of stopping it. Insert the rest of “Drink!” » into your cortex

I hit upon the idea to confront perpetrators of heinous advertising very easily – they create a horrible ad and I go for the very obvious jugular. So far, business as usual. Sometimes however I go chasing some heinous advertising and find that it gets worse as I go looking for the “contact us” link on the website. (I do link to the advert, sorry in advance.)
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While I was promised by the Orange Customer Service Automaton that I would receive a response within 24 hours I had to wait 144 hours for the enlightening feedback from their expert front line customer experience and satisfaction staff.
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One man’s quest for retail satisfaction continues apace as today he’s taking on high street department store par excellence, Debenhams. Home to the casual gentleman’s semi-stylish without being unconventional fashion range this was the last bastion of shirts that don’t have fucking buttons on the sleeves because modern youth are incapable of rolling their sleeves up and instead require a button to take the hard work out of it.
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In what is going to be a regular feature, our hero dons the cape of consumer activism and goes in search of getting a better deal from his mobile phone operator. Saddled with a lousy phone and a lousy contract, Sam works his unmistakeable mojo on those in a customer service role.
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London’s mayoral election is looming and the two leading candidates have been jousting and generally sniping at each other for several tiresome months now. As ever the political discourse is more about who can be more smug, condescending and generally clever regarding their opponent.

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Quite out of character for me to not write this myself, however I have nothing further to add.

In the words of many internet denizens these days, I say…

THIS.

This is a little something I’ve been meaning to write for a while, and since thinking about the subject initially I decided to hold off and build up some source material to back up my point. However, me being me that thinking fell by the wayside, but since I’m in a clearing up kind of mood I’ve decided to just let rip and see where the chips fall.

British media has an unhealthy fixation with celebrity, earned and generated. As a regular commuter into London this is never more obvious than within the pages of the daily, free tabloids The London Lite and The London Paper.

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Once upon a time men provided services for men, women for women. Now, in the age of sexual equality we have Unisex services which should in theory take the best of both worlds to offer the ultimate in customer service. Right?

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New inductees into the list of the first against the wall come the revolution. Yes, it may well be stating the obvious, however it needs saying.

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