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Does anyone else think that…?

23 Sunday Jun 2013

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… J.K Rowling should write another hogwarts series about James, Sirius, Peter, Lupin,Lilly and Snape? I love the Harry Potter books but I seriously think this series would be even better than Harry Potter, I mean the Marauders created the Marauders Map and became animagi in Hogwarts, and James did this in addition to being a seeker and acquiring an invisibility cloak. Also, who doesn’t want to read about Snape’s unrequited love for Lilly? I feel like these books not being written is like bread not being invented, the Mona Lisa not smiling or the internet not existing. These books just need to BE. Yes I am a total geek but there is no way I can be the only one who would walk over hot coals to read those books. We should start some kind of campaign to beg J.K Rowling to write them.

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… designers who design products that don’t work or make life more difficult should be allowed to use only those products for the rest of their lives? Hello, I designed this sink so small with a tap so big that now I have years of spraining my wrists every time I wash my hands. Bad designs would be a thing of the past.

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…  all changing room limits should just be a standard 10 items? I was shopping yesterday and trying a lot of things on and in some shops I was only allowed 4 things in the changing room at a time and in others it was unlimited. Maybe this doesn’t annoy you as much as it does me but when I go shopping I like to do it all in one go, hitting all the shops and trying a lot of things on. This means that when I leave half of my items with the changing room attendant I can’t even remember what items they were when I come out. Plus it’s such a hassle to put your own clothes on again just to walk to the front of the changing room and swap over your items. The changing room Bingo should just be abolished, every shop should agree to let you have 10 items in and then you would always know how many items you can bring in with you.

… adverts for things not available in your country should not be played in your country? This happens quite often in Scotland, an advert for some offer will come on TV and just when you are thinking that’s a good offer, I should take advantage of that the small white words of woe appear at the bottom of your screen stating ‘available in England only’. That is just sadistic if you ask me.

…make up adverts should show a woman with no make up on having the make up being advertised applied, and finish with the end result? Then we would know which brands have products that work and which companies have photo-shop and airbrush artists that work.

… when you buy something with your debit card your bank balance should be updated instantly? Why is this not the norm? Well it’s not the norm in Scotland, my australian boyfriend tells me that it is the norm in Australia which makes the situation doubly frustrating for him with his accounts. Seriously banks, sort it out. Luckily, I know how much I spent shopping yesterday because my online bank account sure doesn’t. If it were to be believed, on my shopping trip yesterday I was using my magic bank card that makes everything free. You have two options banks, sort it out or send me a real magic bank card that makes everything free.

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Anyway, those are some of my thoughts about things that I think would improve life. What do you think? Do you agree/disagree? What things, no matter how trivial or epically life-changing, would improve life for you? Please comment and let me know 🙂

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E-readers … To Buy or Not To Buy?

31 Thursday Jan 2013

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I’ve been contemplating buying an E-reader but I really can’t make mind up. Maybe some of you can’t either so I am going to list all my pros and cons and they might help you come to a decision.

Image from amazon.com where this kindle is on sale for £69.

Image from amazon.com where this kindle is on sale for £69.

Pro’s

  1. They store a lot of books
  2. Portable – less bulky than the majority of books
  3. Discreet – you could read some trashy romance on the bus an no one would know.
  4. Instant – you can get a new book to read instantly, just jump on the internet and then bam! what you want is right there on your kindle.
  5. They save paper.

Con’s

  1. No pretty book covers for your book shelves
  2. Not waterproof -This is my biggest problem, I love a hot bath and a good book.
  3. Can’t swap with your friends the way you can with books.
  4. Can’t buy used e-books like you can with normal books – there are no charity e-book shops as far as I’m aware but feel free to correct me in the comments section.
  5. Don’t get to use pretty bookmarks
  6. There will be no more lining up at midnight at book shops for new release books – I did that for harry potter once (call me a geek if you want I don’t care) and there was a really cool friendly atmosphere.
  7. No more points collecting on my Waterstones card.
  8. You have to buy one and then buy books, with books you only need to buy the actual books.
  9. A book is never going to run out of battery.

I think I will probably get one at some point, I’m probably just reluctant to leave books behind. Books as we know them could actually cease to exist as we move to e-books, like how videos died out when we moved to DVD’s. That’s sad 😦

What do you guys think? Any pros or cons to add to my list? Let me know in the comments section. Also, if you have an e-reader what do you think of it? Would you recommend getting one?

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Opinionated – It’s a NO-NO

29 Wednesday Aug 2012

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Maybe I’m overly grumpy or anti-social or easily irritated but a lot of things annoy me. So without further ado here is my list of No-No’s.

1. Shopping spree competitions with a celebrity. – Shopping spree = all good. Meeting your favourite celebrity = all good. Putting the two together = DISASTER. Seriously, who wants a celeb hanging over their shoulder on a shopping spree? If I ever win a shopping spree then I want to be flinging everything that I get my hands on into my basket, there will be no time for polite and possibly star-struck chit-chat with someone I don’t know. What are you going to do when your favourite celebrity picks up something you hate and says ‘this would look so good on you, you should get it?’ Well I would say ‘no thank you’ without hesitation which is probably why it is a bad idea for me to go on a shopping spree with a celeb.

2. Nicknaming your blog readers /followers. Now I know a lot of you do this. A lot of my blogger friends do this, and that’s their choice and I still love their blogs.  But it makes me cringe so much. I don’t want to be called a beauty or fashionista or bookworm or cereal box when I read your blog about beauty, fashion, books, or cereal boxes. It makes me feel like your are trying to force you blog’s branding on to me and I always imagine it being said in the over-exuberant voice of a children’s TV presenter; ‘Now then explorers, let’s imagine that we are going on a magical spaceship ride to Mars..’ No.

3.‘You have a great blog, check out mine: http://randomannoyingpersonsblog ‘ , No.

4. Putting your feet on the back of my chair in the cinema, on the bus, on a plane. No. One day I will snap and your legs will break.

5. Shop assistants. No I do not need your help, if I did I would ask for it. If I am looking at a top what could I possibly need help with? I’m quite tempted to answer ‘yes’ next time this happens and have the assistant hold the top in lots of different places in the store so that I can see how it looks from 10 metres away, under a different light, against a white background, paired with a skirt…then I will say that I don’t like it and move on to the next top. Want to ask me if I need help while looking at this one? No.

6. Adverts for scary films. Are you kidding me? I’m sitting there happily watching TV when suddenly the monster/ghost/alien/demon from some new horror film is doing demonic and terrifying things on my tv screen. I will see that image when I am in bed at night. There should be a scary advert warning so that I can chose not to watch them. Surely I could sue these advert people for the nightmares that they cause.

7. Celebrities endorsing charities when they have enough money to solve whatever problem the charity is combatting.

8. Bad designers. Oh you designed a sink so small with a tap so big that I have to be a contortionist in order to wash my hands. Aren’t you clever? That sink should be the only one that you are allowed to use for the rest of your life.

So there you have it, my big grumpy list of no-no’s. Do you agree/disagree with any of them? What no-no’s would you add to the list? Tell us in the comments section.

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Dear all magazines and adverts which target women

09 Monday Jul 2012

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Hello Magazine and Advert people. I am writing to you because there are some things that you should know.

1. If you are advertising mascara on T.V and I see a tiny little anouncement saying ‘enhanced in post production’ or ‘styled with lash inserts’ I wil never ever, ever buy your mascara. Ever. Those 2 little statements basically just say ‘our mascara is so rubbish that we won’t show you how it looks in real life’

2. If you are advertising shaving products, I do not want to see gorgeously bare sleek legs. I want to see gorrilla legs. I want to see your shaving product turn those gorilla legs into  gorgeous sleek bare hairless legs. If you manage that, I might give you a shot.

3. If your magazine has an advert on every other page I will stop buying it. I’m talking to you ‘Glamour’. There are some things that I love about your magazine – you have informative articles, decent free products every so often and I love the ‘Hey it’s ok’ page but enough with the ad’s! Just how skint is the magazine that you need to sell so much ad space?!

4. Again, this is aimed at Glamour – who was the genius that decided that the ‘Glamour to go’ winners win a digital camera? Sure a digital camera is not to be sniffed at but when it’s the prize for sending in a photo  of yourself with glamour magazine in an exotic location, it doesn’t make sense. I bet the majority of your winners took their winning photo on the digital camera that they already own. Give them an Ipad or something.

5. To ALL womens magazines – Just how much do your writers get paid? It must be a heck of a lot because in just about every woman’s magazine on the market, I can find find a bag for ONLY £500 or shoes for ONLY £300. From your fashion savy bargain-hunting writers I want to see deals similar to the ones that even I manage to find. Gorgeous dresses for £15 not £150.

6. Putting ONLY in front of a high price does not make me think that the product is indeed a ‘steal’, it makes me think that you are thick.

7. Some of us are swayed by free products. If I get something free with your magazine and my regular magazine isn’t offering any free products, I will probably be tempted to dump it for your magazine. Just sayin’.

8. You know those pages that are thicker than the others? The ones that feel a bit like card?  They are usually in the middle of the magazine with an advert on them? Yeah? You’re using them wrong. The ‘hard’ pages should only be used for perfume samples. Those are the only pages that I’m used to being hard. The ones where you open the tab at the edge and smell perfume. If it is just a normal advert it can just have a normal page and stop thinking that it is better than all of the other adverts. It’s not, it’s usually for something more expensive and therefore more annoying.

9.  Why do any of you use naked/nearly naked women to try and sell other women products? I mean I know that stereotypically guys are more likely to buy a car if a nearly naked woman is sitting on the bonnet, but that same trick doesn’t work with us and I’m sure that if I have any lesbian readers that they will tell you that it doesn’t work with them either.

10. Be careful with celebrity endorsements. If that celebrity has always had great skin and suddenly she can’t live without your new skin care product that came out yesterday, I will know that she doesn’t give a damn about your product and is just concerned with £10,000 she got for saying she ‘uses it all the time.’

So, I hope this is helpful for you. I expect better adverts and magazines in the future.

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Things I don’t understand…

03 Sunday Jun 2012

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I don’t understand…

…why people like butterflies, especially people who are creeped out by insects, I mean they are creepy big bugs but everyone loves them because they have big colourful wings. To me wings do not make a butterfly pretty, they enable it to fly at my face.

…why people eat butter and/or margarine. I know I’m a total minority on this, a total weirdo. But if I’m the weirdo because I don’t spread salted fat on my sandwiches then I can live with that.

…why men are not catered to in the realm of shopping. If you think about the number of shops on the highstreet aimed at women and the number aimed at men you will understand what I mean. Plus in shops that cater to both sexes, it’s often the case that women’s stuff takes up like 90% of the shop and the guys only get some small space in the corner. Don’t even get me started on sales, we girls get them all the time but guys don’t, no wonder so many guys don’t like shopping.

…why those of us in the UK sit back meekly and accept the TV licence, yes it funds quality programming on the BBC, but I don’t watch the BBC, I pay money to Sky because they show programmes that I actually want to watch. It could at least be moved to a subscription service. I don’t care whether or not they have advertisements or product placements, I just care about them taking £145 out of my bank account every year because I dare to watch TV. Stop robbing me!

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Hey, it’s OK…

14 Saturday Apr 2012

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…to stick to your guns. You said ‘no’ to trying radio-active looking food but they insist, tough! no means no.

…to secretly turn the shopping trolley into a scooter when no one is looking.

…to return an item simply because you changed your mind about it.No it wasn’t too small, you don’t want it in another colour, you just want your money back.

…to see your friends having babies and think that you need at least another 5 years before even contemplating it.

…to not want babies.The human race will continue without your contribution.

…to re-gift. You don’t like it, why can’t you give it to someone who does?

…to go to work looking like a supermodel on Monday but come Thursday you look like Shrek, you’ve had a busy week, it was either stay late to get that report finished or get your beauty sleep.

…to put the beauty sleep before the report. Shrek is not a good look on you.

…to buy a lottery ticket and immediately start planning how you are going to spend your winnings.

…to actually be surprised and disappointed when you don’t win the lottery. After all, your horoscope did say that you would come into some money today.

…to not be a technophile. No you don’t want the latest new mobile phone because it can make calls to the moon. Your current mobile suits you just fine.

…to like this blog on Facebook, go on you know you want too 😉

 

Inspired by Glamour Magazine’s ‘Hey, it’s OK’ page but all work is my own.