You’re all educated, intelligent folk. You all possess a worldly amount of knowledge and wisdom. That’s why I don’t want to patronise you by spelling out the obvious message of the video below. I wouldn’t do that to you all, you’re above that, the issues and subtext of the video are clear for all to see. [...]

I am not planning on moving home in the near future, but if I do, I have found the perfect place to move to. I am basing this potential future house purchase on the name of the street rather than the property itself, which I admit is a bit of a foolish thing to do, but [...]

(Alternative post title: We’re off to Button Moon)
Randomlinkage is here to address the burning issues of the day. Issues that affect all of us, like which biscuits you should have with a cup of tea and which bizarre Japanese gameshow you should watch on YouTube. What follows however is an even more important issue.
This very [...]

Predictive text. Two words that will conjure up either favourable thoughts from the youth of today, angry thoughts from old duffers like me or uncomprehending thoughts from technophobes.
Predictive text is the essential tool for writing a simple text; it tries to guess what word you’re writing. I much prefer the ‘classic’ way of pressing each button [...]

Woe unto us all. Margaret Mountford, the white-haired lady from the popular telly show The Apprentice, has announced that she will not be taking part next year. Apparently she’s studying papyrology or something, which I’m sure is very lovely, but how can it be better than following around a group of numpties ripping their every [...]

Just a quick post to thank the now deceased Shih Kien, not only for being such an awesome villain in Enter the Dragon but also for providing possibly the best photo for a BBC article about someone passing away, ever.

Break out the pointy gaudily coloured hats, the party poppers and those things that make a fun ‘toot!’ noise and unravel themselves when you blow into them, for it’s celebration time here at Randomlinkage Towers. The delightful Mr Trench and I have managed to cobble together 1000 posts, somehow keeping the attention of our five regular [...]