Rod Collins

Foreign Call Centres are inferior to those based in the UK !
Is this me ranting about a bad experience, no - it seems a multi-national company that uses call centres abroad to serve their British customers agree . . .
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Carla Bruni’s Underwear
Yes folks you might think it’s making mountains out of a couple of molehills but the pressing issue this week seems to be should Carla Bruni have worn a bra
We’ll examine this and other hot topics in this weeks hot shots and damp squibs
Thank goodness that’s all the world has to worry about . . .
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It’s time I put some effort into yet another Top of the Pops and Top of the Flops list
Check out who or what gets praise heaped upon them and conversely who or what gets scorn poured upon them
Some deserving cases this week
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When in history did surgery first begin ?
Well, this weeks hot and not list tells us
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Has My Child Got Rickets ?
No folks that’s not a line from a Charles Dickens novel but a real question parents may ask in this modern age.
Although I’m interested in history I think it would be better if diseases from history didn’t make a comeback - but they are
Check out the other winners and losers this week
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Am I being deliberately lied to and misled by issues on Global Warming ?
I seem to keep reading that previously stated ‘facts’ turn out to be bunk much like Al Gore’s film !
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A lot of us who have mobile phones or an email facility are well aware of the viral nature of jokes that spread like wildfire - many being in very poor taste if not absolutely sick.
What does it say about us ?
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Should people have a laugh at somebody who has an impediment or disability ?
Most reasonable people would say generally no I suspect.
In today’s hysterically Politically Correct World - you’d have to say no way !
Depends how popular the person is your making fun though . . . my hypocrisy alarm is sounding !
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Celebrity Big Brother Sucks ! ~ It’s back for the last time # it blows but what else does and doesn’t ?
It’s time to take a look at things on the up and things and people going down
Who or what is enjoying a period of plain sailing and who or what is ice bound !
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Women’s mobiles mean more to them than the man in their lives !
Yes folks, girls are more attached to their cell phones than they are to their partners or boyfriends
Of course women are notoriously fickle but . . .
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Your host is once again to don the mantle of Tintin Ace Reporter !
This time reporting live outside The Ministry of the Bloody Obvious
Why does the continual streams of research and opinion polls continually make headlines by telling us what in patently obvious in the first place.
Here’s a tip for newspapers - tell us something we don’t know
Here’s some very recent examples
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Who ended up on top - the porn stars or Tiger Woods ?
An unfortunate choice of phrase but it’s the return of the once weekly column of winners and losers
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Reading an article online I was forced to think . . . what is the definition of Thick or Stupid
Knowledge is a strange area admittedly but are there certain things we should know in order to be deemed reasonably intelligent ?
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Keeping things topical we’re on with All Hallows Eve again and a bit of fun for those who take part - or is it ?
According to the Vatican the Pope has stated today that Hallowe’en is Anti-Christian and Dangerous !
Dramatic stuff, but really is it ? And do things like this simply risk alienating people from the church ?
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Mother nature has provided us with a template and basic theory called evolution. The basis is fairly simple, if things change then they should change for the better.
As times and requirements change then so do various needs and facilities - so given that every day we all have increased experience of everything about us then surely any changes should make things better and / or easier !
So why do simple things only seem harder to do ?
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Due to public pressure on both myself and my sobriquet Rod Damon I have been forced to create a special page on Facebook of the type used by famous and notable people, bands and the like - it is called . . .
The Rod Collins Appreciation Society !
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