Plus not one, but two apologies for my slack incompetence – and the return of the Hound of Newton Abbott The splendid Denny Hatch put up the following literary turd yesterday as a candidate for the worst-ever salesletter. It has …
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10 really great ways for your kids to have fun with guns
Since the NRA has put out a piece telling kids how to have fun at the shooting range, here’s a list of some they missed out Forgive me for butting in; I know it’s not really my business, but I …
Read More£15 million here, £390 million there. Pretty soon you’re talking serious money. Billions, actually
Another Royal Bank of Scotland classic. And who will pay? Anyone at the bank? What’s your best guess? We all remember fondly the man who got this bank into a mess – the deeply unpleasant sociopath Fred Goodwin, now happily …
Read MoreAmazing! A bank that does what banks used to do
Could it be that instead of running currency scams and pissing you off they’d do better by doing the right thing? Down the road from me a rather dull modern building was briefly occupied by part of the Hargreaves Lansdown …
Read MoreWhich is worse? Fraud or incompetence? Lloyds or Nokia?
If people were banged up in jail for blithering ineptitude, who should get the longer stretch? Here’s a good one for you. “Giving money to a bank is like handing …
Read MoreSound advice about content (and profit) from one of the two people who depress the hell out of me
Week after week, day after day Bob Bly gives sound advice. Here is what he says about what you get for what you pay Two people make me feel useless. One – Denny Hatch – is older than me, and …
Read MoreWould I like to work for Lloyds Bank? And whatever happened to doing your homework?
Even amongst the waves of meaningless pap that pour into my inbox, this asinine email from a job-slob stood out for sheer sloth and incompetence I guess you, like me, get the usual crop of inane waffle in your inbox. …
Read MoreThe decline of advertising in 52 years and two pictures
From one of the best advertising campaigns ever to a deer in the headlights. Where did it all go wrong? Being an old fart I cannot resist the thought, manfully though I try, that things were better in my …
Read MoreThe gentle art of polishing turds, as practiced by banks
Naive delusions cherished by the ignorant: what advertising can and cannot do As we have discovered to our cost, bankers may not be in the same category as paedophiles, but they do tend far too often to be grasping soulless …
Read MoreHow to survive the most terrifying thing apart from meeting a big, nasty poisonous snake that wants to kill you
A friend has to make a speech. He asked me for advice yesterday. Here it is Sheer terror! I know damn well how Carl feels – because I was so terrified of speaking in public. I couldn’t pluck up the …
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