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Grumpy Young Man: The home electricals make-to-break rip-off May 12 2012

SOMEWHERE, deep in the bowels of every electrical home goods manufacturer, is a department so insidious it doesn’t officially exist.Read

Grumpy Young Man: A fantasy supermarket stroll in a parallel universe May 12 2012

AS I tucked into a predictably bland supermarket satsuma – described on the packaging as ‘sweet and juicy’ – the cogs of my mind starting spinning.Read

Grumpy Young Man: British customer service could learn a lot from our American cousins Apr 21 2012

WE say tomato, they say ‘toe-may-doh’.Read

Grumpy Young Man: The phenomenon of gap-toothed models Apr 21 2012

EVEN if you’re a champion advert avoider like me you’ll still have noticed the relatively sudden appearance of gap-toothed models gracing our screens and billboards.Read

Grumpy Young Man: When something’s so bad it becomes good Mar 10 2012

IN the USA there is a beer that was previously enjoyed by the lower echelons of American society.Read

Grumpy Young Man: I’d like to find the toerag behind those automated spam calls Mar 10 2012

EVERY day at roughly the same time the phone belonging to my fellow Examiner columnist Barry Gibson rings.Read

Grumpy Young Man: You can’t complain if your flight cost £20 Feb 25 2012

BEFORE I joined the pale blue and grey-shirted world of journalism I used to play guitar in a slightly more colourful punk band.Read

Grumpy Young Man: Emasculated by a pair of windscreen wipers Feb 25 2012

MY Dad was spectacularly bad at DIY.Read

Grumpy Young Man: The joy of the mute button Feb 04 2012

IF Harold MacMillan had been lent a large LCD telly and a Freeview box he’d probably come out with a variation on his most quoted phrase.Read

Grumpy Young Man: Enforced New Year fun is like the funeral of Kim Jong-il Jan 07 2012

WHEN despot Kim Jong-il popped his tyrannical clogs the entire people of North Korea melted into a quivering mass of hysterical bawling.Read

Grumpy Young Man: The spray that makes driving fines go away Jan 07 2012

A PERSONALISED number plate is God’s way of telling people they have too much money.Read

Grumpy Young Man: Christmas tunes that drive you crackers Dec 17 2011

MY GIRLFRIEND used to work on the tills at a city centre supermarket.Read

Grumpy Young Man: No Christmas gifts, thanks. I'm Jewish Dec 17 2011

BEING Jewish has many advantages. But it’s at Christmas where I am most able to enjoy my Semitic roots.Read

Grumpy Young Man: Dawn of the pyjama-wearing dead arrives Nov 19 2011

SPEAKING of laziness and reverse evolution, many of you will have spotted a relatively new slob phenomenon.Read

Grumpy Young Man: The ready sliced onion spells signals a u-turn for evolution Nov 19 2011

HAUNTING the supermarket shelves is an item which could signal a u-turn for evolution.Read

Grumpy Young Man: What will the museums of the future be like? Oct 29 2011

THEY’RE the ugly remnants of Britain’s grim past but we can’t stop slapping conservation orders on them.Read

Grumpy Young Man: The adventures of waiting in the drunk tank Oct 29 2011

BEING injured isn’t fun. Being injured to the point where you need medical attention is even less enjoyable because, in all likelihood, it hurts and, secondly, you’ll have to go to accident and emergency (A&E). And nobody enjoys being admitted to A&E.Read

Grumpy Young Man: Fried aborigine, anyone? Sep 24 2011

WE’RE planning a trip to Australia next year and to get us in the mood we visited this restaurant.Read

Grumpy Young Man: There’s a word for the festival experience – ‘squalor’ Aug 27 2011

I’M in a soggy field. My knees are buckling under me from standing up for five hours.Read

Grumpy Young Man: Comedy career awaits Gaddafi’s spokesman Aug 27 2011

YOU have to feel sorry for Moussa Ibrahim.Read

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