Did Anyone Else See That Coming...? Quotes

“You are advertising leather shoes in a deal of buy one, get one free. What has happened to the old-fashioned way of selling them in pairs? Kit Carson Budleigh Salterton, Devon”
― Iain Hollingshead, Did Anyone Else See That Coming...?

“Can broadcasters please be a little bit more careful in choosing the adverts that they show at half-time in televised football matches? Watching in a crowded pub I, like many other customers, took advantage of the break to visit the men’s room and found myself wedged between two complete strangers. Our discomfort wasn’t eased when the paper-thin walls failed to muffle a loud chorus of “Go Compare”. Clive Pilley Westcliff-on-Sea, Esssex”
― Iain Hollingshead, Did Anyone Else See That Coming...?

“The 1944 pamphlet advising US troops on how to behave in wartime Britain, which is being re-published by the Imperial War Museum, was not the first of its kind. I still have a copy of one given to my mother in 1943, which contains the following gem: “The British don’t know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don’t know how to make a good cup of tea. It’s an even swap.” Willie Montgomery Norwich”
― Iain Hollingshead, Did Anyone Else See That Coming...?

“You can tell what God thinks about money when you see the sort of people he gives it to. S. Lewin Northwood, Middlesex”
― Iain Hollingshead, Did Anyone Else See That Coming...?

“Relax. There is zero chance of Putin blackmailing Trump. Blackmail depends on the possibility of embarrassment. Allan Whittow Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire”
― Iain Hollingshead, Did Anyone Else See That Coming...?

“– The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. Discuss. Simon Warde Bognor Regis, West Sussex”
― Iain Hollingshead, Did Anyone Else See That Coming...?

“Donald Trump: perhaps best described as “a bull in search of a china shop”. John Stimpson Clanfield, Hampshire”
― Iain Hollingshead, Did Anyone Else See That Coming...?