I don’t have many relations. Certainly not many I am on speaking terms with. But some of those I do speak to, probably count as ‘serious’ people.
I was pleased, then, to find this advert brought up on my gmail account recently:
But what should I get for the more light-hearted members of my family?
Still with telephones – or, more accurately, still in search of phone and internet connections while travelling – I happened upon this:
In the same way that BT is ‘affectionately’ known as British Telecon, the Spanish company Telefónica is frequently called Timofónica. Perhaps this mission statement from their website explains it: instead of spending money on customer service, it’s going towards ‘creating values for [their] costumers’.
Perhaps someone should tell them that dressing it up nicely won’t help if the basic service is a pig’s ear.
What is it with coffee shops and countability?
I’ve commented in the past on the Starbucks slogan “Less napkins. More plants. More planet.” *
Today, though, it’s Coffee #1 who have offended my grammatical – and poetical – sensibilites. Again, it’s napkins (or serviettes):
The real reason I started writing about tax returns earlier is because I saw an advert for the por tantos campaign on one of the web sites I visited this morning.
That’s this year’s campaign to get people to tick the box on their declaración de la renta to give a contribution to the Catholic church.
Continue reading “vivir de las rentas II”
I received a clothing store newsletter this morning with this image in it: ![spring seperates [sic]](https://dontconfusethenarrator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/spring_separates.jpg "advert: spring_separates")
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