Category Archives: Angry Old Bloke

As old blokes everywhere my hearing is on the blink. Actually, unlike most old blokes I’m well on my way to completely Mutt and Geoff… 100% deaf in one ear and 50% in the other at best and some days … Continue reading →

Can someone tell me how taking one billion pounds of our money and using it as a bribe to get another political party to keep May’s political party in power isn’t corruption? Now let’s see how much she was prepared … Continue reading →

OK, so I am a deaf old bar steward with a grumpy disposition, so this probably won’t irk you like it irks me, but… I am flaming incandescently with Sky and other broadcasters whose subtitles fall woefully short of the … Continue reading →

…so why are subtitles placed on the TV screen in such a way that they obscure either the main picture or any displayed text like the match score? And why do they lag behind and get cut when an item … Continue reading →

Boris is hiding away in Chevening in Kent – a 115-room mansion, while Chequers is done up… who knows how much that is costing? Its probably cheaper than paying for cladding to be replaced on tower blocks. There owner occupiers … Continue reading →

When MPs are sworn in, do they take the hypocritic oath? Yesterday it was announced that ‘buy one, get one free’ offers on products high in sugar and salt were to be banned from supermarkets in order to combat the … Continue reading →

Brands are so ubiquitous that most of us in the UK call a vacuum cleaner a ‘Hoover’. Fashionable people obsess over labels. In clothing there is, no doubt, a difference in quality, but nothing like the difference reflected in the … Continue reading →

Apparently, scientists are split on whether to make over sixty-fives and other vulnerable groups shield so that deaths are reduced and the pressure on the NHS lessened. The debate is wrong-headed in the same way that those who were shielding … Continue reading →

A while back I ordered a meal to be delivered by ‘Just Eat’. We watched the little avatar speed its way towards us, got alerts saying he was about to deliver our food and another telling us it had been … Continue reading →

Angry Old Bloke’s ‘Random Rants’ are mostly not related to birding – they are mostly me letting off steam or ranting about some element of modern life.