Posts by Andy-Klockweiss

US court ungags Yelp reviewer who dissed builder

"Yelp off"

Since when has Yelp been the protector of free speech in their reviews?

I wrote a (deadly honest) review of a garage franchisee playing that ancient game of 'false MOT failures to generate business' to warn others of their practices, and it was taken down by Yelp.

Obviously they don't like to bite the advertising hand that feeds them.

So now I no longer read any Yelp reviews as I find them untrustworthy.

Oh well, I guess that last statement means this post will be taken down now too.

Aside: Surely if a review is merely stating an OPINION, can an opinion be libellous?

. . . OK, who's gonna be first to reply by saying 'and don't call me shirley'?

Manchester plods cop £120k fine for USB-stick-inna-wallet data gaffe

Soak the taxpayer, again

Things will only change when they start slinging Police Chiefs and Chief Exec's of companies in the cooler to deliberate awhile on their organisations' data loss misdemeanours.

Ooooh look, a flying pig.

(pun intended)

LONDON iPHONE 5 MADNESS: 'You must be CRAZY to buy Apple'

Imported Americanisms

This brings back to mind doing one of those sales presentations in Florida, where they give you a free family theme park ticket for attending.

So we all had our free breakfast, and very nice it was too, a short 20min video, then a tour of the apartments c/w swimming pool, club and golf course, that were being touted. Then back to the breakfast room for the "hard sell". This was the laughable bit.

Every so often a guy would come on the mic to announce to the room full of people, "We would like to welcome Mr & Mrs Moronic Imbecile to our community," . . . at which point all the "hard sell" sales people would all burst into euphoric applause. Clearly implying these crappy apartments were selling like hot cakes and we were to be swept up in this hysteria and buy one - in yer dreams mate!

To finish, the 'junior' soon exhausted all her arm twisting techniques against our stone wall and passed us to the 'senior'. He soon recognised a lost cause much quicker than the junior did and handed over the voucher and off we zoomed to the intended theme park, had a fantastic day.

Study: Climate was hotter in Roman, medieval times than now

Roman Vineyards

Quote: "The Romans had quite extensive vineyards around York so we've 'always' known it was a bit warmer back then."

It's called COLD CLIMATE VITICULTURE and still practised today in UK vineyards, nothing to do with whether it was warmer then. It just means you grow grapes up on wires to keep them off the cold ground. So that's an irrelevance.