:(

The fork is a beautiful piece of precision engineering and design.

To criticise someone for using a fork rather than chopsticks is to put appearances before practicality. Like a Mac fanboy. And no-one likes them.

"inability to work with anything other than a tiny portable TV, as the on-screen input window would otherwise be bigger than the device itself"

that's not true, the first step of using the lenslok was to adjust the size of the on-screen image until the edges lined up with the plastic legs of the lenslok

although I could still never read the code properly afterwards

"this guy" is 1981 world rally champion Ari Vatanen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_Vatanen

"The sound quality is poor [..] what can you expect for the price?"

A pair of Creative phones? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Labs-EP-630-A-Earphones/dp/B0009G6FQI/

more like CRAPTCHA

You could or couldn't care less?

I agree that Armando Iannucci's version from Time Trumpet as YouTubed by Adam Buxton is better...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q4pY3QtiGyo

For years, the music industry has built a business on other people's music.

Goths on a rollercoaster in an advert for Irn-Bru:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nInipy617U4

didn't realise it was Yiddish, I always thought 'nosh' was just an old-fashioned slang word for food, like 'grub'

it's not an uncommon word, for example the BBC's spoof cookery series Posh Nosh: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/poshnosh/

As MrAlistair said, this is very reminiscent of The Tragically Hip's 'Fully Completely' album cover: http://www.rounderstore.com/images/catalog/0114310532_0.JPG

Screenwipe is much more than Charlie swearing at adverts, in this compelling clip he discusses the nature of aspirational TV...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59OJ17raqWw

...which contains my new favourite expression "low self-esteem engine".