New York in the late 1970s was a much better setting for movies than now. It was gritty, grimy, and violent. New York has been beautified and has so much less crime it's hard to suspend disbelief when movies pretend it's a hell hole.

A fork is the best cutlery for squeezing a teabag.

That Paxman interview with Michael Howard is iconic but it's led to a generation of political interviewers who just badger away at a random point in order to create a headline rather than delivering anything with any actual substance

Literally every study ever conducted shows that working consistently longer hours doesn't increase productivity beyond a few weeks. So why are tech and finance bros so adamant that they want to spend their entire lives working? Enjoy your life while you can guys.

If "Maybe I'm Amazed" were released as a Beatles song it would probably been in contention as the greatest song ever written. Because it's a McCartney solo effort I feel it's underrated

It's obvious that absolutely no actor on this planet knows how to drive. They take their eyes off the road for far too long, every single time. Someone who actually knows how to drive wouldn't do this, even when acting.

Cars should show performance in miles per litre. We stopped filling up in Gallons 40 years ago

You have to admire The Rest is Entertainment's devotion to utter landfill television.

In every meal, there is The Bite. Never the first, sometimes the last, but somewhere in there is The Bite in which all the flavours of the meal are present and profound. During The Bite, it's important to slow your chewing, take a breath through the nose and close your eyes.

What an awful online culture SEO and the pursuit of clicks has created. For example, I'm so fucking sick of the neverending drive to make YouTube thumbnails as eyecatching as possible. They've now just devolved into gurning competitions between self obsessed creators.

Other people in the family group chat hate it when you say happy birthday/anniversary to another person in the group. Send the message to them directly instead of making a show because you said it first.

There should be hang-out places for kids to go that their parents pay for by subscription. Then the kids can go there unlimitedly, and parents aren't handing their kids money they could just go and spend on less wholesome things. Parents would love this.

Getting into a cold bed is always much nicer than getting into a hot bed.

There's nothing more satisfying than turning up to a Park Run in Primark trainers and an old t-shirt and beating some tosser in all the pro running gear. You don't need to spend a shitload load of cash, just put one foot in front of the other.

Bowie's best barnet was the Station to Station era.

Personal assistants are just childminders for rich adults who can't look after themselves without mummy to help them.

The new "spatial scene" feature in iOS 26 makes everyone in your photo look like a cardboard cutout. It's a bit like the cartoon people were from the eighties version of Paddington from the BBC. I'm old enough to remember this yet can still use a smartphone, by the way.

The verse melody of Shania Twain's "Man! I Feel Like A Woman" is a direct lift of the verse melody of Aerosmith's "Uncle Salty" from their Toys In The Attic album.

Airlines have it arse backward. Bags in the hold should be free and any case brought into the cabin should be charged.

Chips and eggs is better tea than chips and steak. You've got to be a bloody terrible cook to ruin eggs but even an average cook occasionally ruins a steak.

Camouflage gear for fishing is ridiculous. The fish don't have periscopes. You're just hiding from your wives.

The words desert and dessert are too similar in spelling, while different in meaning. We should borrow the ß from German and spell dessert as deßert. This would make things easier for everyone and let restaurants make their menus more pretty.

Flies are cunts in general. But the most cuntish thing they do is play their version of Ding Dong Ditch on people. Where they repeatedly and purposefully fly in front of your face like "Woo-hoo! I'm still here motherfucker" before disappearing again. Their extinction is overdue.

London is 31 miles across at it's widest point, please take note Ebay sellers who list "Collection Only", location as just "London" sellers.

The most unrealistic thing about zombie films and books is that nobody seems to have heard of zombies before. And yes, this is way more unrealistic than zombies themselves.

Cockneys rave about traditional Pie & Mash. However, I tried it once with 'liquor' from an authentic East End outlet and I thought it was disgusting, probably the most bland meal I've ever had.

UK 3-Pin plug sockets should be fitted with the two holes at the top - 90% of things you plug in are used above the socket.

I'm not sure why anyone would buy a product that's being advertised by the voice of Philomena Cunk.

There's no situation in which choosing to listen to the second Stone Roses album is a good idea, even though it's not as terrible as its reputation suggests. Just put the first one on again.

Star Trek TNG would have been a hell of a lot better if Jordi had spoken with a Geordie accent.

Every motorway service station should have a 5-a-side football pitch. The score should be continuous throughout the day with travellers swapping in and out via infinite subs.

The speed you can stop caring about a societal problem after it no longer affects you is scary. I still care about everyone being able to buy a home but it's not at the front of my mind since I bought. Scary to realise the difference in mindset between have & have not.

Too many platforms display times and dates as relative. "1 year ago" could mean anything from 365 days to 730 days ago. Instagram is the worst with their "137 weeks ago" nonsense. Who refers to anything like that? Just always show me the date and time.

Tradesmen - if a job is too small or you just don't fancy it, say so rather than promising to come round and then ghosting

Never trust someone who doesn't have a bookcase in their home.

Russia really needs to mandate locks on all windows. Russians really seem to be terribly clumsy around windows.

People are complaining about the new Mitchell and Webb series but Monty Python's hit rate with sketches was incredibly low. But the point was that, when they got a hit, it was always sublime.

If you're using a question mark and an exclamation mark, it should be "?!" and not "!?"

We're all trapped in a simulation. Deja Vu is actually when we respawn from a previous save file after dying.

I have, on occasions, treated myself two a five-star hotel when staying overnight somewhere. When staying there, I have never once had a breakfast that is better than the breakfast you get at Premier Inn.

Digital ID is probably the stupidest thing this government could have come up with at the point. People went mad about 15 minutes cities and the entire political spectrum will hate this

If retailers want to use religious occasions as a marketing tool for their food they should at least make sure the food will be ok for that occasion. I'm looking at you, "Christmas Mince Pies" with a best before date in November

We should never have allowed smash burgers to replace regular burgers on restaurant menus. You pay more for less meat, the quality is generally worse, and the cheese-to-meat ratio is way off.

One of the biggest losses in the UK has been our newspaper industry. Once the envy of the world, even when Murdoch owned most of it, now 95% is little more than dirt cheap, right-wing ragebait. Hard to believe that The Times was once called "The Thunderer".

On social media I was ready for the marriage photos phase. I was ready for the new babies phase. No one warned me about the dead parents phase.

I find it so gross when couples do toilet humour or shitting and farting in front of each other. Like how do you have sex ever after that?

Telling someone their Union Jack is upside is as bad as correcting a your, you're error. No one gives a shit.

The dumbest people you'll ever meet all work in highly paid executive jobs. At least two to five times a week I have to literally show a brain-dead executive how to press a fucking button.

From the start of October, everyone should be wearing string backed driving gloves in their car. It's such a shame that so many people don't do this. No wonder the standard of driving has dropped in the last 20 years.

I like how The Mall's road surface is red. Black tarmac is boring. We should make sure all roads have coloured tarmac and it should be semantic as well as pretty. Make motorways blue and A roads green and so on.