A few weeks ago Scottish Steve was visiting Scottish Steve’s grandparents in Ipswich. His stay there included a day trip to the Tiptree Jam Factory in Essex from where came back with a host of confitures and preserves. However, a few days ago the impressive selection that our cupboard once boasted was looking depleted in size.
But today the reinforcements arrived via the godsend that is mailorder…
So without further ado!
(Apologies go to Kipp who may well have wanted some features in this post.) Anyway, Scottish Steve and English Glen are both very happy Mr Wilkin, and that’s no mean feat. Good night!
The second special episode of Burr’s Two Fingers to Clements Tour of Cafes takes us to a cafe right at the heart of the busiest part of the busiest road in the West End – Tinderbox, Byres Road, Glasgow.
Tinderbox is a well known cafe amongst West Enders. To most, it is famous for the Vespa they have on display by their window for no apparent reason; but for Glasgow medical students it is probably most famous for being used to represent a T helper cell in a metaphorical scenario used to explain the immune system.
Here was the first problem – there were no prices on display for any of the food items. To be brutally honest this is completely out of line. Perhaps they want you to be ‘surprised’ when they eventually tell you that the sandwich you just ordered will cost you somewhere in the region of thirty to forty thousand pounds.
I’ve also written down ‘crap service’ here in my notes but I can’t remember why. I don’t remember there being any ‘service’ at all, since it was one of those cash and carry affairs. I think it had something to do with the server trying to ring up Michael’s tap water order on the till. The tap water was free, just to be clear.
When we eventually went to sit down at the only free table in the place, we encountered a dilemma. The table was one of those stuck-to-the-wall American diner type efforts, and our dilemma was this: each side could fit precisely one and a half adult people.
Would we squeeze in two per side, doing no favours for our crotches; or would we pull over two chairs and stand up every time somebody wanted to walk past us? We opted for the latter.
The sandwiches were okay. When you take into account the four pounds it cost, perhaps it would be more appropriate to say that they were only just okay. And as far as I can tell, the coffee was good. Obviously, we would usually be looking to Michael for a proper opinion on the coffee, but after buying his only just okay sandwich, he couldn’t afford one.
In fact, as a result of going to Tinderbox, Ports has been forced to live on the streets; both Johnts and I have been forced to drop out of medical school to get jobs; and as for Burr, he no longer has the capital to buy Yahoo.
Posted by Michael on February 17th, 2008 — 11:43am
Yesterday I was the subject of some social estrangement that sums up the Web 2.0 generation we make up. In the words of George Costanza, I’ll “cut to the chase” and say that yesterday I was “removed as a friend” on the social networking extravaganza that is Facebook. I found it hard to believe that not only someone would dislike me so much (I mean really! It’s me!) nevermind so socially vain that they consider “friends” on a website like Facebook or Myspace to actually be friends. In fact it seemed so ridiculous I had to search within my friends to make sure it was true.
And here’s the evidence:
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My solution? I have attempted to re-add the culprit for what I consider would probably the first ever “re-add” in social networking history.
I dont normally join in the endless criticisms of Apple products (normally over-expensive, liable to break, and a litte bit pointless), but I’ve just discovered that Apple are releasing argubably the most pointless laptop ever. The following review fails to mention the fact that you’ll need to connect up your own CD-ROM drive but the rest speaks for itself. Oh and the thing’ll cost £1200. Yes £1200.
‘Apple industries, i have to congratulate you on a advertising job well done, you have managed to create a laptop with no optical drive (and NO the superdrive will not work), slow processing speeds (if not THE slowest of any mac book in production),a single usb drive (what were they thinking?) and a price tag that im surprised even Apple has the balls to foist on us. So all on in all, yet another perfect buy for the apple fan boy and no doubt it will be a top seller. Still wanting something thin and portable? then try a piece of paper, as it will have about the same processing speeds…If you want to disregard this review, go ahead, it is not my money you’re wasting ( people like you dont deserve money), just dont come crying to me when you realise that you have bought the electronic equivalent of a chocolate teapot (that lacks the redeeming feature of being edible).’
