More GTBT

I’ve always thought ‘Good Things Bad Things’ had a nice ring to it.
And so do some others:

Good Things Bad Things

http://goodthingsbadthings.blogspot.com/

Unfortunately the second one is for invited guests only – must be good stuff (and bad stuff)

Who’s Taking Sides?

No Good Things

Bad Things

• Merrylee Road
  The jury is still out on the Merrylee Road kitchen.
  Thirteen quid for a small sirloin steak, the greyest steak I’ve ever had.
  £2.50 for sides – so an extra fiver if you want fries and veg.
  Opted for fries only; fairly horrible and hard.
  Overpriced dining in black and white; maybe it’s a new concept.
  STRIKE 2!
  (Seems others are of the same opinion – Click here)
• Morrisons
  Now I know a store can’t inspect every bit of fruit and veg it puts on the shelves, but it was a case of one onion too many.
  How often do cut into an onion and …..
  
• Virgin Mobile Call Centre
  JESUS!

Based On An Original Idea by Tennents

Remember the girls on the Tennents lager cans?
How about these beer cans from Russia?
Not quite the same but still quite a ‘Good Thing’

‘Refreshes The Parts Other Beers Cannot Reach’ – What Other Beers?

It must be the current climate but coming up with this week’s Good Things Bad Things was a bit of a struggle. So here are the feeble offerings.

Good Things

• Merrylee Road Kitchen and Diner
  (but subject to the Bad Things below)
• Orchestra Seats
  Delightful little French film shown on BBC4
  The French have a knack of making the simplest of films good.
• City Slickers
  Okay, so we’ve seen it God knows how many times, but it’s still addictive.
  Favourite bit: Mitch Robbins (Billy Cristal) at a career day at his son’s school, foreseeing a bleak future for everyone there and sharing his own misery.
  “Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so quickly. When you’re a teenager you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, “What happended to my twenties?” Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from highschool becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You’ll call it a procedure, but it’s a surgery. Your sixties you have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn’t matter because you can’t hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two, lunch around ten, breakfast the night before. And you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate in soft yogurt and muttering “how come the kids don’t call?” By your eighties, you’ve had a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can’t stand but who you call mama. Any questions? “

Bad Things

• 10% pay cut
  Seriously bad.
  And while we’re on the subject of the sorry state of this nation, can somebody tell me WTF the government are up to?
• Merrylee Road Kitchen and Diner
  Okay, so the food’s pretty good and reasonably priced but the owner really wants to find himself a smile and a bit of charm. And the lager policy is a bit restrictive; ‘You can have anything as long as it’s Heineken’. This, believe it or not, is also the option for non-alcoholic lager. ????