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Yesteryear’s Articles TODAY! featuring: The Sensational World of British Tabloids

If you waltz through life without an ounce of subtlety in anything you do, you’ll no doubt be in the target audience of Britain’s world famous tabloids. That – along with functional illiteracy – make up the core demographics of what the English affectionately call “Red Tops,” named as such because your eyes spray
blood when you read them. (more…)

Jeremy’s Greatest Retail Hits: Ten Years of Sadness

So in case you don’t know, I spent the majority of the last ten years working the sheer Hell that is retail. If you have worked in retail, then you already know how bad it is. It is a pit of awful, where you can literally watch yourself age years beyond what you are with each passing customer. It is a test of patience that few people can stomach for more than a few weeks. If you have not worked in retail, then I firmly believe you should be forced to work at least six months in a store just so you can understand how bad things can get. I understand all too well. And I will thank the Gods every day that I am no longer forced to work in it.

While I could sit here for ages and tell you the many horrors that have happened to me over the years, I’m just going to focus on a list of what I consider the Jeremy’s Greatest Retail Hits. These moments tend to go above and beyond what many would consider the worst of retail, and will forever be burned into my mind until I get old enough to develop a disease that makes me forget them. So let’s see what we got here… (more…)