Near work we’ve got a cafe which operates a loyalty card system.  Unfortunately, as they also have a policy of employing non-native English speakers, my attempts to educate them on the subtle errors on that loyalty card have proven fruitless.

Despite my repeated attempts to get my sixth coffee for free, apparently I’m only allowed one once all the little circles have been stamped.  Rules are rules.
Although I do appreciate the little “Thankyou for yor custom” message.
I guess it’s a mute point*, as I’m pretty much exclusively visiting the awesome coffee …

2 phrases that thoroughly get my lexicographical hackles / heckles / feckles / schmeckles up (ignoring for a minute my favourite dead horse, the word “sorry”), are the following:
“Deeply”: the problem with rampantly overenthusing or overgravatising things is that when you go to actually express what you’re feeling you suddenly feel like you’re not quite giving it the credit it deserves.  For example, the word “awesome”., defined as “inspiring awe or admiration or wonder”…  when your travel agent asks “Do you want a window or aisle seat?”, and you indicate …

I am not a financial genius.  Perhaps someone else could point out the selling point here for me?
Whilst standing in the queue around the corner from work to get some cash out this morning (because my normal ATM is on the fritz) I spotted this promotional board out the front of the bank branch.  Now, ignoring for a second the fact that the account’s designed for the over 50’s…
Clearly the 6% is meant to be the eye-drawing thing, otherwise they wouldn’t have made it so big, bold, contrasty, or put …

All I’m saying is, you wouldn’t want to move here if you were bothered by a little bit of rain, would you?
In other news, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Neil Innes, Carol Cleveland and others will be teaming up at the Royal Alber Hall in October for a performance of new Python-inspired oratorio, “Not The Messiah”.  Guess who’s out of town that night?
Grr.

Methinks I’ve just been hosed in a game of Facebook Scrabble… errm, sorry, LEXULOUS.
I’m all for winning word games using words that sound a bit unlikely, or are a bit on the bizarre side.  You can typically tell these ones because you get an exchange which includes the phrase “it’s a type of”, e.g. ADZE (good word to know if you’re stuck with a Z and not many other letters).
Person 1: Adze? What the hell is an adze?
Person 2: It’s a type of ancient Egyptian woodworking tool, used for hollowing …

OK, so for this post to be interesting, you’d probably have to be familiar with Facebook, and Twitter.  Cos we’re so Web 2.0 here at Humpy Towers.  And I’m going to assume that you are too.
Facebook has just introduced a new layout, and judging by peoples’ recent comments (where “people” == “my Facebook friends”) from within Facebook nobody seems particularly keen on the new layout.  I’m reading comments such as “NO to the new facebook layout”, “doesn’t get the new facebook, why do they gotta go changing things all the …

Being a reasonably ethical chap I suppose I am continually flabbergasted at some of the activities my fellow human beings will undertake in order to get ahead in life.  In a system where there’s a finite amount of resources, given that human wants are unlimited, it strikes me that unless there’s a social movement towards central equitable resource distribution then eventually some of the people are going to end up with all of the resources, and the rest without resources.  This is very much how the world works, and it …