10 Pet Hates

I hate this artwork (Tenerife) Photo copyright Janet Cameron

I thought I'd post my 10 pet hates. (IWell, 11 if you count the photo)  I'm not including obvious "big" things in this list relating to politics, etc. Just little things that I find very very irritating.)

1. OAP Fish 'n Chips - I'm not an acronym never mind one as disrespectful as this. Keep your cheap fish 'n chips.

2. 2nd one FREE - It's not free if I have to buy something to get it.

3. Huge Fierce Eyebrows. I'm all for feminism and power but - please - these young girls scare the bejesus out of me!

4. Commercials on daytime tv shows -These commercials are relentlessly repetitious. For example, happy old men and women adveritising jolly (and cheap!) funeral plans, Oh how exciting! Hurray! I think I'll get one too. How about you? Let's have a nice cup of coffee and discuss it cos our kids are gonna be so happy and impressed! (Guilt trip implication here.) And all the cringe-making medical ads that I won't go into here. 

5. Bus drivers who accelerate suddenly before you've managed to sit down. Shame on you, meanies! You will be old one day.

6. Packaging. Everything is so hard to get into. I completely understand and endorse safety aspects to prevent children from accessing dangerous chemicals, but honestly. for many things it's all gone too far. If you need to use it immediately and if you don't have scissors, pliers or some gunpowder to hand, forget it.

7. Being Patronised. I'm quite old and sometimes a little deaf and slightly visually impaired, but I am not daft. (Well, not all the time.)

8. Labelling Products. Products should be more clearly labelled to accommodate those of us who can't see 8 point font. What the product is should be in the largest possible letters for its size.

9. Very cruel jokes. Stand up is becoming more and more offensive. I don't mind risque, 
naughty, challenging or mickey-taking, but I hate sick or hurful. 

10. Gratuitous moaning. So this is where I check out

READ (while) NOT DEAD

Where does Google bury old blogs and the money
they earn?

I have been running my six blogs for quite some time, but the earliest -janetcameronwriting.blogspot.com - has been going for 13 years. I've had page views and good comments (and a few negative ones too) and I've posted frequently albeit with some gaps when life got in the way.

I've had ads going too, and shifted them about to try to optimize my "profits." So far I've earned £19.26. Lucky I do it for pleasure and not the money!

All the same, I will never see that £19.26 or any further profit I make. The sad truth iis, since it took me 13 years to earn £19.26 and Google only pay out when you reach £60, I am not going to live long enough to hit gold, and even if I did, I will be too gaga to know it. (PS: that might be dollars, I'm not sure. Still makes no difference under the circumstances.)

Fortunately, as I writer, I have had alternative more profitable employment, but I do wonder what Google do with all the money from ads left on the Earnings tab of people who have done their best and sadly popped their clogs.

It would be nice if it went to charity.