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Two things, one faintly irritable, and one very joyful:
I was just looking for info on a pub near cambridge, and chanced upon a couple of review sites./
How come is it that, no matter what place you look at, there is always someone on the site who had the absoluite worst meal/drink/service/orgasm of their lives there?
I actually think the sites lose in credibility from this - in trying to cut out the outliers from a sample, if the sample only contains half a dozen reviews, I will be inclined to ignore the lot, unless they are unanimous.
I suspect part of the problem is that, for all our increased savviness, more and more people expect every pub, restaurant or hotel they visit to be like the Ritz, even if they're only paying £5 for a pub lunch. It's ridiculous really - like the people who pay 1p plus tax to fly halfway across Europe, then complain that Stansted doesn't roll out the red carpet for them...
On a happire note, just watched an old South Bank Show on Humphrey Lyttelton. What a hero that man is. He is:
- Britain's greatest ever jazz trumpeter
- chairman for 37 years of the funniest show on the BBC
- described by the Sunday Times as "purveyor of blue-chip filth to Middle England"
- still touring the country and playing to sell-out crowds
- eighty-five years old
The only other person I can think of with a similarly enviable record is Sir David Attenborough, and he doesn't make me curl up howling with laughter, at least not intentionally.
God keep you, Humph, for as many more years as we can get away with...
I was just looking for info on a pub near cambridge, and chanced upon a couple of review sites./
How come is it that, no matter what place you look at, there is always someone on the site who had the absoluite worst meal/drink/service/orgasm of their lives there?
I actually think the sites lose in credibility from this - in trying to cut out the outliers from a sample, if the sample only contains half a dozen reviews, I will be inclined to ignore the lot, unless they are unanimous.
I suspect part of the problem is that, for all our increased savviness, more and more people expect every pub, restaurant or hotel they visit to be like the Ritz, even if they're only paying £5 for a pub lunch. It's ridiculous really - like the people who pay 1p plus tax to fly halfway across Europe, then complain that Stansted doesn't roll out the red carpet for them...
On a happire note, just watched an old South Bank Show on Humphrey Lyttelton. What a hero that man is. He is:
- Britain's greatest ever jazz trumpeter
- chairman for 37 years of the funniest show on the BBC
- described by the Sunday Times as "purveyor of blue-chip filth to Middle England"
- still touring the country and playing to sell-out crowds
- eighty-five years old
The only other person I can think of with a similarly enviable record is Sir David Attenborough, and he doesn't make me curl up howling with laughter, at least not intentionally.
God keep you, Humph, for as many more years as we can get away with...