Monday 23 November 2009

Be Safe Be Seen - Kids and ADULTS TOO!

"Dress Bright and BE SEEN", a simple enough message, and quite important given now it's pitch black outside and yet when I'm driving home from work, there are still pedestrians and cyclist wearing nothing reflective or bright and walking beside the road, or running across the road, or riding out in front of you. behaviour which is reckless during daylight and angers drivers, but at night is just idiocy.

Go to Tesco, buy an AA pack of 4 (2 adult, 2 child) reflective vests for £10 already! Or pick out some brighter/reflective coats for going out in, so not quite as odd looking.

"Three", not "fwee", and "Think", not "fink"

It's aggravating enough hearing this in person from day to day by some people, but when the presenters are teaching it to our kids, I really draw the line.

I'm not talking about teaching them the Queen's English, although that could be next on their list of kid cartoons, I was very surprised to find "Little Einsteins". Initially struck me as Posh Sesame Street, as every episode is about an item from a country and a piece of classical music. Not bad, I thought, should even out the brain dead presenters.... yes I know it's for kids... but seriously, these days by the time they're 4 they've already got a flick knife and 0% respect for adults, which one could argue is the fault of these quite imbecilic actors.

Unfortunately, like everything else, you have to vet and decide for yourself what to give your kids, some things like food are easy, you simply don't give them anything you feel is bad for them, and ensure they don't get it anywhere else... unfortunately it's not quite so easy to filter the idiot box. Particularly if you find some shows are acceptable, but the one before or after isn't.

Oh well... one more challenge to find a solution to... maybe buying DVDs of cartoon from my day and only letting them watch those.

Wednesday 18 November 2009

Check and Fix your Voicemail Message people!

Ah man... ! That's so annoying! Some people.. argh...

You ring their mobile, it answers, you hear the person's voice say "Neil Smith" (fake name btw),

So thinking you've got who you called, you say "Hi Neil, I was wondering if you'd.. yadda yadda" I'm on the phone or doing something else at the moment, please leave your name and number and I'll get back to you"
".. uck sake. .oh ah, yeah Neil, this is AJ, can you.."
Woman's voice "time up, to listen to your message, press 1, to re-record your message, press 2."
....