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The full title of this book is really ‘Beware of the Bullshit’ because bs is all around us. We are swimming, sometimes drowning in an ocean of political correctness + made-up rules by officialdom + opinions shouted, tweeted et al to sound like facts from every Dick and Dora + bandwagon-jumping politicians sounding tough or smarmy + advertising executives scaring us to death in a bid to get us to buy cure-all stuff + daily frustrations and irritations to drive us to the brink of insanity, and on and on and on. We must be on our guard because every second of every day someone is trying to manipulate us to hand over our votes, our loyalties, our personal information and especially our money, or they are just annoying oiks getting in the way of a simple life. Resist this nonsense. Beware of the bull. This book identifies some of it in my humble and, at times, not so humble opinion. But above all else, with a few serious jabs, this is a joke book. Feel free to laugh at my funny random thoughts about modern life. Laughing is still allowed, at least for the time being.
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Stop
treating libraries as community hubs, crèches, nurseries, playgrounds, youth
clubs, silver surfer sanctuaries and gigantic phone booths. They are places for
books, reading, study, quiet contemplation, not indoor playgrounds for kids to
run around in or places for adults to shout into their mobile phones, chat
loudly or cackle uncontrollably. Sssssshhhhh.
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Stop buying personalised car number plates. A55
H0LE5.
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Stop
reinventing, reshaping, remoulding and rewriting Star Trek. We get it. We got it a
long time ago. These days the pointy-ear guy must be offending somebody.
Enough. And don't get me started about Sherlock Holmes!
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Stop
wasting political party money on printing manifestos that will be shredded the
day after elections. Fewer manifestos, a decline in supplies of shredded paper
and a hamster cage bedding crisis is the worst scenario.
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Stop
the bandits who install ‘no change given’ ticket machines in car parks and
elsewhere. It’s called stealing.
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Stop
referring to every new album release as ‘essential’. Essential is food,
clothing and shelter. CDs are way, way down the list unless you eat them, make
a coat out of them or build an igloo with them.
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Stop
celebrity fitness DVDs. Just stop.
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Stop
actors pretending to drink scalding coffee out of obviously empty cups. Acting
school should give lessons in how to sip hot beverages realistically rather
than ignore that annoying thing where the actor buys the coffee and immediately
starts to drink it with the cup at a 90-degree angle to the mouth.
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Stop
crowding entrances to buildings with your gangs of smokers. You smoke if you
want to. I’ll not smoke because I prefer not to. But spare me the jog through
your fog-smog whilst holding my breath, otherwise I’ll fart my way in and see
how that goes down.
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Get my drift?
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