For the second year running, the award for the....

most unreliable, wireless, telephone handset goes to:  

Binatone Symphony 2210 Phone & Answer Machine TRIPLE

DESCRIPTION:   The Binatone Symphony 2210 is a very stylish cordless phone with a host of features including a handsfree speakerphone, 40 name and number phonebook and a handy answer machine with 15 minutes recording time. Check out all the features below !

• Specification:

  • Digital cordless telephone with answer machine 
    
    When it works
  • Black
    True
  • Hands-free
    When thrown against the wall in frustration
  • Up to 10 hours talk time
    I don't think the phone is designed to work for that long
  • Up to 100 hours standby time
    Handset life expectancy
  • 40 name and number entries
    What's the point if you have to change the handset every 5 minutes
  • Last number redial - 10 numbers
    When it works
  • 20 call log
    If it does not crash
  • Secrecy button
    If it does not crash
  • 8 melody ringtones for handset and base
    All sounding shit
  • Remote access answering machine
    Never tried it
  • Call timer
    Maybe
  • Amber backlit large display
    When it works
  • Clock
    Never looked at it
  • Keypad lock
    Never tried it
  • Message playback from handset
    When it works
  • Ringer volume control on both handset and display
    When it works
  • Up to 50m range indoors and up to 300m range outdoors
    Bullshit
  • 15 minutes recording time
    Maybe
  • Supports up to 5 handsets
    Theoretical values, under controlled lab conditions
  • Requires 3 x AAA rechargeable batteries per handset (included)
    True
    
    
    The base units for the above above handsets are so unreliable, it's legendary. I'm already on my third set in as many years.
    
    
    You buy it, and after a year or so, the base unit dies, so you decide to buy another base unit to use with the other satellite stations (phones) that you have left, only to discover that those would not work with another base unit, unless you free them from within the existing faulty base, which is pretty much impossible - so once again, you end up with some more bricked-up handsets.
    
    
    I still remember when BT used to charge us for the Telephone Handset rental, and guess what, the sets used to last forever. Now, and 12 months down the line, we have another dead system, and we need to buy another, and another, and another... 

And why not?...

MADRID — Ironic art fans have launched a petition to save the “world’s worst restoration”: a retouched, century-old church painting of Christ that has become an international joke.
Cecilia Gimenez, described as being in her 80s, has won global fame with her horribly botched impromptu attempt to restore an oil painting of Christ crowned with thorns, his sorrowful gaze raised to heaven.

The “restored” painting looks like a pale monkey’s face surrounded by fur, with mishapen eyes and nose, and a crooked smudge for a mouth, a style some wits have compared to Picasso’s.
Titled “Ecce Homo” (Behold the Man), the original was painted in oil in 1910 directly onto a column in the Iglesia del Santuario de Misericordia church in Borja, northeastern Spain.

It was showing its age as the paint deteriorated over the years.
But the “restored” version has provided grist for an explosion of jokes across the world this week.

Online commentators in Spain inserted the faces of King Juan Carlos or Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy into their own, digital versions of the restored painting.
More than 5,000 people have now signed an online petition to halt the town’s plan to return the painting to its pre-restoration glory.

The restoration “reveals a subtle criticism of the Church’s creationist theories while questioning a resurgence of new idols,” says the petition launched by a user on http://www.change.org, comparing the retouched painting to the work of Goya, Munch and Modigliani.

Gimenez herself said she had been patching up the painting for years, with the church’s knowledge.
“The priest knew,” the elderly, neatly dressed lady in spectacles told public television TVE.
“Everyone who came in could see me painting.”
Despite the derisive coverage, with some media calling it worst restoration in history, Gimenez said she was an accomplished artist. “I had a four-room exhibition — I sold 40 paintings,” Gimenez said.

The church painting was no masterpiece, completed in two hours by a local man, Elias Garcia Martinez just over a century ago.

But the original artist’s granddaughter, Teresa Garcia, was unimpressed by the brushed-up version.
“Until now the only thing she had touched was the tunic,” Garcia told TVE.

“The problem is that now she has meddled with the head and, clearly, she has destroyed the painting.”
The town hall has not yet decided whether to sue over the botch job, which was performed a month ago. “It would be different if it was vandalism,” said the town councillor for culture, Juan Maria de Ojeda.

“She did it with the best faith in the world,” the restorer’s sister, Esperanza Gimenez Zueco, told daily newspaper El Mundo. “She just wanted to give it a bit of colour.”

The All New iSh....

Frankly apple could spray a piece of Shit silver, stick an apple label on it and people would be queuing around the block to buy it . Oh of course they would have to call it the iShit because the i means that its super cool.

Self-Made My Ar.....

Another day, another...

Parking fine - for a 6 minute overstay at a car park in Swinton... So why not charge you the correct amount of "PARKING FEES" when you finish your business and leave the car park...

I hope they choke on this 'ILL GOTTEN' money.

Wow, look at all those pretty colours - Pink & Yellow - Make it worth every penny...

How do they do it? The young royals get everywhere at the Games...

Snippet of an Original article that can be seen @  http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/young-royals-get-everywhere-games-125240635.html

The young royals seem to have an unquenchable thirst for sport - or so their attendance day after day at the London 2012 Olympics would suggest.

 

Royal cheer - the young royals show their support

Prince William, his wife Kate (or Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge if you want her proper title) and his brother Prince Harry seem to be 'ever presents' at the London 2012 Olympics.

They've obviously been pretty diligent with their approach to buying tickets from the LOCOG website (!) and whoever their boss is has been very generous about giving them time off work to watch so much sport!

Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? No, It’s ..........

James May in Drag - I'm not into the Olympics, but today, and while changing the channel, I watched around 4 minutes of the shot-put finals.

I was impressed with Belarus's Nadzeya Ostapchu - The winner of the Gold Medal, but I still had few suspicions as to her exact gender..