Anyone that instigates a major tube strike or takes part in one in the middle of a recession should be fired immediately. Tube station supervisors are incredibly well paid (£35 – 39k) and recieve amazing holiday. In an economic environment where a large portion of the London population is facing pay freezes, reduction in working hours and redundancy the tube workers should not be receiving pay rises or guarantees against the same action anyone else in employment has to now contend with. The London population pay tube worker wages and 2 – 3 days disruption will cause major havoc to the country’s capital city, working hard to pump cash back into the economy. Sack them!
Of course, they’re not really Star Trek jumpers. They’re supposed to be trendy and I guess that because Star Trek is en vogue at the moment, you could say they are ‘trendy’. But come on… they don’t even have the walkie talkie badges.
Dead Tomorrow readers may recall our recent post about Caffè Nero cup lids. Incredibly, within 12 hours we had a comment on the post from the Managing Director of the chain and reassurance that he was looking into the issue. A short time later and we did receive a follow-up email from him with a detailed and helpful response about leaky cup lids when you have tea in them. As we’d suspected (kind of) it’s partly to do with the “capilliary action” of the tea bag string. With the issue in hand and a few free vouchers, our confidence is more than restored in Caffè Nero. FYI, Dead Tomorrow found out about the lids through regular tea visits to Caffè Nero because despite the minor flaw, they do have the best tea on the high street. Given the fact Caffè Nero’s MD actually commented on our blog post, took it seriously despite our over dramatisation of the problem, looked into it and is coming up with a genuine solution PLUS offered vouchers – it’s impossible to deny Caffè Nero customer service top marks.
There’s something brilliantly uplifting about the one song that arrives every year to announce “yes, this is summer.” It usually takes the form of an upbeat, happy, Euro-pop-ish dance tune set for Ibiza. 2009 is no different and takes the form of David Guetta ft. Kelly Rowland. Below is the original track and the mixes are even better.
UPDATE: this is the current best mix. It’s as good as the above and then throws in a MENTAL bit of AMAZINGNESS. See you all through the summer clubbing to this:
“It’s the end of the human population!” I’ll probably eat my bacony hat as I am dying tomorrow, but I’m willing to bet that it isn’t. Not even close. Yet you’d be mistaken for thinking that it is as the world press go totally pork chops about the thing. The BBC website has even wheeled out one of its outbreak maps, last used for the recession. Read More…
It’s Sunday and I have an issue. It’s an issue that has been boiling up inside me for some time now and it’s this: Caffé Nero takeaway cups are the worst takeaway cups in the world. “Takeaway” implies that the cup is meant to be used as you ‘take’ your cup ‘away’. Caffé Nero disagrees. Every single time that I have had a tea from Caffé Nero to go, it has leaked. It is actually impossible to stop the tea dripping out, no matter how calmly or slowly you walk. I know because I have taken tea away from there many times (I’ve got my loyalty card to prove it). Surely this is a major design flaw, yet I can tell you now that it has been going on for years. Please Caffé Nero paper cup makers, if you’re reading this desperate plea, please fix this terrible flaw that blights your cups.
Now, I’m a fan of Star Wars and Lego, so when the two are combined it’s brilliant! On a recent trip to Legoland (believe it) I couldn’t help but pick up my new friend, Lego Princess Leah. In the film, she’s chained to a giant fat slug, but in real Lego life, Lego Princess Leah is chained to you and your house keys. She is your slave. Not only does she have the right hair style, they’ve also undressed her in a life-like gold bikini. HANG ON. Rewind a second. Lego + gold bikini + chained up + slave? This is amazing, but is it really appropriate for kids? This is kinky Lego. CHECK OUT X RATED PICS OF LEGO PRINCESS LEAH —>Read More…
Do you advocate for same sex marriage? If you do, you seem to be causing terror in the United States of America. Not just terror, but a miracle enduced STORM OF SATAN. If you are afraid, the National Organisation for Marriage (yes such a daft thing exists) is thankfully building a rainbow coalition of love to stop those horrible homos:
And as if that isn’t amazing enough in the first place, this is about 33.25 times more amazing:
Right, best be off to choose between my faith and my job…
People aren’t allowed to embed the video, so if you haven’t already, get over to YouTube now to watch Susan Boyle becoming an overnight global phenomenon. I won’t go into why she is racking up millions of views an hour, just get over there. It’s event entertainment as it happens. I also rate Flawless and Stavros Flatly was the bee’s knees.
Ryanair includes an unexplainably high number of extra costs to bump up the false cost even further such as huge tax.
Ryanair charges £10 – 20 to actually pay them by card! And this is added to your bill AFTER you click to pay.
Ryanair charges £10 – 30 for you to check in! Unless you have online check in… oh wait, that option is NEVER available.
Ryanair charges £10 – hundreds of pounds for you to take luggage.
Ryanair has the most hideous yellow seat backs that give you headaches.
Ryanair has the worst landings known to the flight industry.
Ryanair lies about the whereabouts of the airports it flies to. Very few are actually in the city you’re flying to, they’re on the outskirts or simply outside.
Ryanair has a stupid name.
Ryanair’s website is purposely made to trick as many people as possible into accepting pointless costs like additional insurance.
Ryanair cancel flights and then expect you to either accept a ridiculously inconvenient new time or get your money back, thus forcing you back through the entire painful booking experience all over again.
Ryanair has only a smidgen of customer service and that customer service couldn’t care two hoots about your ruined holiday.
Dead Tomorrow now has a wonderful forum which uses the same login details as the rest of the site. There are a few teething problems such as the font colours are like Christmas, but it’s great to use. Please leave me a message, even if it’s hate mail or a death threat. Actually, preferably leave one of the two. Or both. Try to out threat each other. All in all, it will be good but it currently doesn’t look right and there’s no one on there… Dead Tomorrow forum scores low now, in time however it will soar to the lofty heights of Facebook!
It was a sunny, quiet afternoon as I strolled through the Swaledale valley in Yorkshire. Suddenly I heard a noise: a rustle of feathers. I looked to my right and there it was, a double headed monstrosity of a goose. Caught exclusively here on camera as evidence for Dead Tomorrow readers so you too can witness the fruits of years of in breeding and/or genetic experiments.
Geese with two heads are wrong. Look at its evilness. You can see it in the eyes. The head on the left knows exactly what you are thinking just by looking at you. The head on the right has an evil blood red eye that says “I’m going to kill you.” It looks weird, probably lays weird eggs and will almost certainly give you cancer if you try to eat it. It gets one star because it will probably take over the world and become the dominant species in a matter of years.
Clapham Highstreet gets a lot of unusual fashions walking up and down it. Mostly not good. Not on Easter Monday! This cool dude was spotted crossing the road sporting a cross between contemporary punk and suave smartness. I have to say, that is the best mohawk I’ve ever seen and I love that it matches his shirt. The only ‘whoopsy!’ I can see here is the umbrella on one of the sunniest afternoons of the year so far. Otherwise major kudos. Really want to know what book he is reading!
“Travel in style and comfort” says the leaflet. Comfort yes, style no. Four things struck me during my trip to Yorkshire on Grand Central trains:
Curtains have no place on public transport. Planes, trains or automobiles – curtains look hideous on all of them. All dangly and dingy. Ew. Where is the future? There must be a modern solution to this design mistake.
Train tables do not need Monopoly or Chess boards printed on them. People have far better, more modern things to be doing – like talking to each other, reading books, playing computer games, using the internet. Oh wait…
WIFI on public transport should be free and work. Hooray! Trains now have free WIFI on them. Boo! Everytime you use it you have to log in. What the hell? After you’ve gone to all of the trouble to log in it’s slower than 3G. No, no, no!
Just because it’s a train, doesn’t mean it should look like it’s designed by a train driver. I refer back to the Grand Central leaflet “travel in style”. This sounds good, but it should specify what sort of style. I don’t normally find the interior of anything offensive. I found this train offensive to look at.
Considering these four Grand Central factors, I would like to make a simple suggestion. Comfort and leg room is great, but more importantly WIFI should be included in the ticket price and fast, interior train design should be simple and nice and not include ‘retro’ fittings or board games.
Oh, one other thing – a train should never be delayed for “refuelling”. Are you listening Grand Central? A train timetable is there for the companies to stick to and something as simple as refuelling should be factored into this timetable. Dah.
Seen those Confused.com adverts on TV? Well, there’s a greasy teen in the advert who it turns out is a serial video blogger on YouTube called Amazing Phil. Bizarrely, he’s actually a darn funny, likable guy. At first you think “another YouTube weirdo” then you get it.
Someone talking non-stop into a camera about their lives shouldn’t work. Here it does. Not quite on the level of Chris Crocker (Phil breathes a sigh of relief), but Phil IS actually amazing.
HEREA COME AGAIN WITH MA RHYMIN SLANG! Does anyone remember when Alesha Dixon was MC Alesha of Mis-teeq fame? Probably not. Now she’s all about climbing up hills with Gary Barlow and dancing. Amazingly, she’s still got a career going on and it’s not been too bad a career either. Some catchy little ditties. Her latest, Let’s Get Excited, is a bit crap. It’s also a bit good. More crap than good. Worth one watch but that’s about it. It’s like a cross between some really bad British pop and that Shake It Like A Polaroid Picture song with some weird Madonna bit at the beginning.
