North of the Stupid Line

Posts Tagged ‘Observations

18 Mar, 2007

What should life be like?

Posted by: Rob

This?

Or this?

11 Jan, 2007

Immigration

Posted by: Rob

This morning I had the pleasure of visiting the Asylum Unit at the Home Office Immigration and Nationality Directorate in Croydon. I attended with a client who was making an asylum application.
It was a real eye-opener. The attitudes of the staff there was appalling; their lack of communication skills and common courtesy was disappointing. [...]

28 Feb, 2006

HIVIEW

Posted by: Rob

I have to say that I’m really pissed off with MM who keeps deleting and creating new blogs all the time. The latest incarnation is this one: HIVIEW. What’s particularly annoying is the fact that he will not allow comments, so his posts end up being totally one-sided and not discursive. That [...]

23 Jan, 2005

Older generations and MSN

Posted by: Rob

I’m cracking up with laughter as we speak because I am having an MSN conversation with my mum.
Why do the older generations have such difficulty in dealing with the complexities (!) that is MSN? Actually, let’s extend that a bit further: why do the older generations have such difficulties using PCs?!?
Many of them use [...]



  • JGJones: Hear hear - I never understand those "fathers" myself either. My wife once said this quote to me which is very true: "Any man can be a father, but
  • Dafydd: JG: Point taken. Rob: you should have waited :-D
  • JGjones: Dafydd, Android phones are good - but the current hardware that's in UK sucks for them (they're nowhere near as powerful as the iPhone 3GS so you r

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Why North of the Stupid Line? It's quite simple: to signify an individual of subnormal intelligence and general social ignorance. This blog belongs to Rob Wilks (never!) who can be summed up thus: Deaf, married, daddy, happy chappy, smiley, solicitor, Welshman, Cymru.