Quick rant.

If you live or work in London and drive you would have at some point probably had to have paid the congestion charge.

£8 to enter an area of London and a big fine if you forget to pay it. Now, I'm not here to rant about the charge, thats been done to death far more eloquently than I ever could or more occassions than a matabelian witch doctor could shake a stick at.

My beef today is those adverts you get on the radio. The ones with the soft female melifluous voice and the cute little beeps from car horns and oh so innocent sounding.."what if I do this and that" type questions from some dumb sounding ass, whilst miss melifluous answers in those soft reassuring provided-you-pay-in-time-we-wont-nail-your-bollocks-(or tits)-to-the-mast tones!

Grrrrr, listen here Mr nasally-bugled-I'm-alrighty-jack-doing-very-nicely-thanks-very-much Ken Livingstone, no matter how you try and dress it up, you will never ever in a month of 75 degree centigrade sunny sundays convince me that the congestion charge is anything other than a diabolical liberty of the most monumental proportions, so there! I hope you feel put out for the knowledge too!

Seriously, do the advertising execs who are paid excessive amounts to dream up these cheery little pieces of "get inside your head and press your emotional buttons bullsit" really think that we will all sit there and say "awwww, how nice of them to put it like that" They must, else why would they bother!

Reminds me too of those other ads from the Inland Revenue. That nice old boy with the grey hair who talks enthusiastically about machines and inventions, the one where he is standing inside a big egg timer whilst the sands of time ebb away, whilst cheerily proclaiming if you don't pay your tax on time, you'll get hit with a fine of £100.

Know when you are getting got at people, and tell em bollox, thats what I say