Monthly Archive for December, 2006

Guess Who’s Got a Wii

Published
by
Chris
on December 19, 2006
in Games
. 1 Comment

Nintendo WiiOkay, so I’ve had one for ten days or so now, having picked one up on launch day, but I don’t think there are that many Nintendo Wiis about yet and so I’m still a little smug about it. It’s brilliant.

That’s pretty much all I wanted to say really - it’s just jolly good fun (even Jess enjoyed Wii Sports). Zelda is typically amazing, and in fact is a large part of why I’ve taken over a week to write what I intended to be a post on launch day itself (which was Friday 8th December).

I will just pop in a quick plug for the Bullring HMV store - they’re always very helpful when I go in there, and they worked around a cock-up clerical error they’d made with my pre-order to give me a Wii on launch day with very little in the way of argument from me for them to do so. Thanks guys - and I do mean it about the staff; for some reason I seem to walk out of that particular store feeling like I’ve had good service more than I do anywhere else.

Oh, and all these stories that have caused Nintendo to offer to replace all the original wrist straps issued with the Wii Remotes at launch are a load of rubbish. Half of them have got to be fakes, and you can take it from me that those which aren’t are accidents caused by people being far too enthusiastic with themselves. I’ve not once had the Wiimote slip from my grasp, but should it do so I have no doubt it will be caught by the strap. That’s what it’s there for, as a safety measure - it’s not designed to be stressed every time the remote is swung, the big idiots.

Well it’s not quite Waitrose…

Published
by
Chris
on December 4, 2006
in General, Investigations and Science
. 6 Comments

One Monday evening a couple of weeks ago I returned home late from work wanting something quick and easy for dinner, so I slung a pizza in the oven. At this point I realised I’d bought the wrong pizza. I’d stopped off at a Morrison’s on the way home from a client a day or two before and bought what I’d believed to be a jolly nice pepperoni job. It was a fresh one, and said “Italian Style Stonebaked Pizza” on the box above a picture that looked itself good enough to eat (come to think of it, this might not have been such a bad idea).

Guys... where's the topping?Anyway, I removed it from its packaging to find this:

What kind of a disgraceful excuse for a pizza is this? There is a distinct lack of topping of any kind - what there is consists of about three square inches of spectacularly thinly dolloped tomato sauce, four shavings of rather bland cheese and ten slices of pepperoni. While they’ve been easily the most generous with this last ingredient there’s not an embarassing amount of it and what has been provided is somewhat unevenly spread. I hardly need add that I grated about half a loaf of my very own cheddar before throwing it in to cook.

On another, sadder note, the famous Scissors have bitten the dust. This happened a few days before the aforementioned pizza incident, and so I had to use the Pizza Cutter to slice this one up. Which was probably a good thing since to ask the Scissors to cut food as shoddy as that would have been downright indecent. So here’s to an old friend: you did us proud.

R.I.P. The Scissors