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Furniture for (old skool) gamers - Storm & Invasion tables.
I Am BlogFest 0.1
Last night saw a coming of age of rubbishcorp®. The first (and very international) Blogfest was held in London’s ‘fashionable’ Soho. The cream of rubbishcorp® readers traveled from as far and wide as Amsterdam and congregated in what was surely a pub, and had some drinks.
“I was so proud - some people turned up”, said Nathan Cooper. Chief Exec. rubbishcorp®
“Good” Sean Chambers. Jnr Account Exec. Kong.
“I didn’t actually go, but I heard it was alright” Neil Starr. Copywriter. R/GA.
“Yeah” Vic Polkinghorne. Runner. Sell Sell.
Blogfest was a triumph and rumours are already circulating about a possible October Blogfest.
Actual Blogs that came to BlogFest: Andy // Yacco // Asi // Dom // Gor // Al
Thank you all so much for attending. Special shout out to Yacco and Sean for their frankly awesome effort, and I mean coming from Amsterdam, not just getting trousered.
Blog On Dudes. Blog On.
Top Headline
“Beadles Not About” - The Sun.
Domino Rally Action Alley Vs John Virgo
Sort of pointless, yet mesmeric.
I Am The Resurrection - And I Am The Light
This image has been around for a few days now - but since encountering it on the splendid ‘Why, Thats Delightful’, I have been determined to write a pun of my own to go with the image.
It’s taken a couple of days, but I am pretty pleased with the result.
iAmAna
Brill design by Ana Helena Tokutake.
Extreme Laziness
Woman dies after 6 years on sofa.
Shed Of The Year
Sheddies‘ Shed of the Year and Shed Blog. Brilliant.
LynchRingtone
Spurious
It might be just me (and probably all my school mates), but the idea of lovejuice being available at a bar in a shopping centre makes me laugh.
And feel a bit sick.
SwearySweden
The Swedes have always been one step ahead of the game when it comes to blue stuff and these two items, recently spotted in Stockholm, are no exception.
First-up, this quite spectacular pun for a hairdressers:
And secondly this most excellent fly poster (which doesn’t appear to have any point other than just being offensive).
Class.
O2 Data Charges
Extortion.
That is the word I would use to describe the charges I have incurred as a result of using my new O2 wireless modem. A wireless modem I bought for work, explicitly to give me access to my email when there was no regular wireless network available. At purchase I asked the person in the shop what the cost of using it was, I was told it would cost me about £25 quid a month.
’Brilliant, I’ll be needing it abroad a lot, does it work abroad,’ I asked. ‘Yes, should do.’ Came the reply.
Today I received a bill for £803.75p, which I apparently ran up during December on that very modem. Admittedly, I’d been surfing in Ireland, but that’s why I bought the modem in the first place, as I’d explained to the person in the shop.
I’d somehow managed to surf and email my way through 112386KB, which in laymen’s terms is about 112meg. On closer inspection and calculation, it appeared that the ‘112 Meg’ was run up over the period of around 15 minutes, which I’m sure you’ll agree isn’t great value at £803.75p.
I was more than a little vexed, so I rang O2.
They proceeded to pass me around several departments, before someone didn’t really clearly answer any of my questions. This made me more annoyed, especially when the person I spoke to said (and I quote), ‘Yeah, we roughly round up a visit to a page as a Meg.’
What?
‘You roughly round up one page to a Meg? That can’t be right.’
‘Sorry Nathan, (yes, they call you by Christian name) that’s how it works.’
Well, it’s hardly a surprise I spent £803.75p – silly me.
On top of all this, O2 had decided that they should put a bar on the SIM, because my bill was inordinately large - which I had to laugh at the irony of. Genius.
I am waiting to be granted an audience with a more senior billing person. I hope this person be able to explain to me how I could spend £183.62p between the time of 10:31 and 10:35 (some 4 minutes) on 13 December. Seems like a lot doesn’t it.
I think you’ll agree that this is a total rip-off and a great example of hidden charges pushing up profits at any cost to the punter. How easy would it be to warn me about the charges, who wants to run up £800 phone bills? Yes I was dumb and should have checked the charges cafefully before using the service, but I (like many others) trust a brand like O2 to be fair and just. Clearly they are not.
It’s like I have been duped out of a load of cash by a brand I trusted and liked.
Which, I guess essentially, I have.
Nike Films
Celine Dion Is Amazing
WTF?
GoodSign
