I have a silly number of blogs and websites that exploded fifteen years or so ago when I went freelance. Over time a few have fallen by the wayside and this year I began a serious purge. Why? I am getting older and my life has changed a lot from those early days of being out from under the corporate umbrella. The world around me has changed too and current events will bring another step change; if nothing else they are giving me time to think. Continue reading
Author Archives: thatconsultantbloke
“Bloody foreigners!”
This was after the election before last, the one that saw us saddled with an ineffective coalition, and the remark in the title above was overheard on the ‘bus. It would be easy to disniss it as some casual racism from a couple of middle aged white men, for the pair whose conversation I was listening to fitted the bill in terms of skin colour and appearence, but there was more to it. Continue reading
Filed under serious stuff
Letters to the Editor – the 2017 election
Sir
It seems to me that Mrs May called for an erection, her campaign has been a cock up and could result in a prick entering number ten. Or perhaps I just have a penis fixation?
Yours etc
Disgusted of Dorcan
Letters to the Editor; can this be right?
Sir
Your columns, like all media chanels, are festooned with the question of rights. Human rights, women’s rights, minority rights and more all in the name of equality.
Yet if there is to be true equality who will make a stand for the lefts?
Yours etc
Letters to the editor; Daylight Saving
Sir
If at any time I decide to sieze power my first action, after signing some execution warrants, will be to abolish the stupidity of daylight saving.
Yours faithfully
Disgruntled of Dorcan
Free Willy – a touchy subject?
The operation to transplant a penis has been in the news again recently, and I admit that the thought troubles be a little. Not that I am going to be in the market for any fresh trouser equipment you understand, but more as a general, if I can use the term, point. Continue reading
Filed under serious stuff
are you prepared to sign the UK’s death warrant?
Do you remember watching the Berlin Wall as it was pushed over? Possibly you are too young, but got those of us who knew the Cold War period it was a symbol of hope that so many once proud nations could have the chance to escape from the tyranny of the old Soviet Bloc. But as we rejoiced at the scenes little did we know then that another dark force was gathering pace to subjugate all it could gobble up. Continue reading
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Hello, my name is Alex from Talk Talk
Yesterday I got home from a trip to the South coast, pleasantly weary from a lengthy business meeting and a personal catch up with someone that I haven’t seen for 47 years. I had barely settled when the telephone rang; “Not another one” exclaimed the Berkshire Belle as she picked up the handset, listened for a moment and then shouted “Go away!” before hanging up. Continue reading
Filed under business life
charities are sometimes not that charitable
Chugging has long been one of the basic hazards of the high street and has since invaded our homes through visits at the front door, mail-shots, and the email equivalent, TV campaigns plus telephone calls. Goodness knows how much it all costs and one assumes that it generates sufficient income or they wouldn’t do it, but I wonder how many people do they turn off in the process and how much potential revenue that loses them.
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in the wake of Sport Relief, another letter to the editor
Sir
A disturbing thought occurs to me. If comedians raising money for charity is Comic Relief and sports personalities raising money for charities is Comic Relief what would happen if the politicians joined in? Continue reading
The Voice of the Bloke at the Back 