Happy New Year

I would like to wish you all a very happy, peaceful and prosperous 2009.

Wasting Time

Beware wasting time in your youth, as time will most surely waste you in your latter years.

Season's Greetings

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Politicians

Politicians are like mirrors, they try to reflect what they believe the voters want to see. However, just like mirrors, they have no depth.

Mirrors

Mirrors may provide the user with a reflection of how they think they are. However, be aware that mirrors provide no depth.

Advice To Sainsburys

Your help desk is meant to be there to help your customers, it is not meant to be run for the convenience of the staff of the help desk.

Advice To Restaurants

Wipe the dust off your dinner plates before placing them in front of your diners.

Advice To Restaurants

Ensure that you have a cloakroom or at least an adequate number of coat hooks; making customers hang their coats over the backs of their chairs is rude, unsightly and dangerous.

Financial Waves

Those investors (both private and "professional") and bankers who think that they are riding an investment wave should beware, lest the wave turns out to be a bubble.

Advice To Chez Gerard

Given that you claim to offer cocktails, it would be wise to have a sufficient supply of limes with which to make them.

Great Con Tricks of the 21st Century

PPI.

defective

Why say defective when you mean broken?

Bans

Banning things, such as fags, merely makes them more tempting.

Currencies

Currencies are like water, they should be allowed to find their own level.

A Suggestion For The Detroit Car Industry

Before rushing to Washington with your begging bowls for a taxpayer financed bailout, try designing and building a quality car that doesn't waste so many resources that people will actually want to buy (eg a practical electric car).

I am sure that you are well capable of that, if pushed.

Advice To The Police

When raiding MPs' offices, use a search warrant.

Utility Tariffs

Why are utility tariffs so complex?

Could it be that the utility companies don't want their customers to understand how much they are being ripped off?

Advice To Furniture and Domestic Appliance Delivery Companies

Don't use members of staff who have recently suffered a hernia.

Advice To Appliance Retailers

Not everyone wants their appliances (eg fridge) located on the ground floor, insuring yourself only for ground floor delivery is not helpful.