Methodical madness
When somebody goes to the trouble of spending an hour showing you “this great new method” that they have for doing something, you can be pretty sure that they are trying to sell it to you. The underlying message is, “why don’t you do it this way too and, while you’re about it, give us your hard earned time and money so that we can justify our existence”. The trouble is, the great new method is pretty crap and takes twice as long as the old method and has a worrying tendency to go wrong. There are unintended knock-on consequences too. How do you tell your friend that you don’t want to use the great new method?
Chilly Willy
Round these parts. Et vous?
Slippery brummy has-beens
It’s dangerous being famous.