Category: Blog

  • How ‘Lorry Spotters’ Get Rich

    Article by Charlie Wright I had two celebrity-based dreams last night – and I swear these are true… 1. I was on a rooftop rehabilitation clinic run by Noel Edmunds. Strapped to a bench alongside other patients, I’d lost the use of my legs through a combination of fatigue and lager abuse. A girl was…

  • Two lessons from the Dragon’s Den

    Article by Charlie Wright You may think that when I’m not writing to you, I’m loafing about the house… watching ‘Deal or No Deal’… cackling insanely… and shooting at passers- by from my window. Not true at all. This only happens on Thursdays. But I must say, I am partial to a bit of television.…

  • My Paddy the Clown Biz Opp Disaster

    Article by Charlie Wright Back in 1997, I scrounged a fax machine. It was huge thing, like a mechanical stegosaurus, sat in the corner of my living room. Every night, my flatmate and I would drink wine, talk and listen to music. In the morning, he’d stagger to work, and I’d sleep ’til I got…

  • The weirdest biz opp offer yet

    Article by Charlie Wright The biz opp world can be very topsy-turvy. Some promotions seem genuine… like a racing tipster with a good track record, a screen shot of his bank account, and a bunch of great testimonials… and yet they’re utter fiction. Other offers seem ridiculous… like the one I’m about to show you……

  • Beware the latest email scams

    Article by Charlie Wright I hope this email will find you in the best of health. I am Prince Joe Eboh, the Chairman of the “Contract Award Committee”, of the “Nigerian Delta Development Commission (NDDC)”, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). I am looking for someone to transfer monies… SORRY! Sorry about…

  • How NOT to write a book

    Article by Charlie Wright My fridge-freezer packed in on Sunday. I couldn’t get someone to look at it until yesterday. A stoned guy called Winston turned up in a Del Boy van, stared at it for ten minutes, told me it was broken, and left. I love this country. Until it’s sorted, I have to…

  • Let’s escape all this nine-five slavery

    Article by Charlie Wright EVERYTHING ANNOYS ME. Apparently it does, according to my girlfriend last night. I’d just picked up the remote control after hurling it in the direction of Trinny and Susannah. ‘Everything annoys you, Charlie,’ she said. ‘Everything.’ Okay… so make-over TV shows, crowds, photocopiers, directionless taxi drivers, MLM scams, couples who chat…

  • How idiot fools ruined my free party

    Article by Charlie Wright As you’ll know by now, I’m a bit of an ageing pub DJ. Sometimes I think that the only reason I get into biz opps is to pay for new CDs to annoy my friends and neighbours with. The C.E.O of Amazon.co.uk must have a picture of me on his wall,…

  • My lungs have collapsed, but I can still laugh

    Article by Charlie Wright Cough. Splutter. Wheeze. These are just three of the sounds you’d have heard over the last 4 days at my East London pad. It started with a tight chest on Friday. By the next morning, I was barking like a Cocker Spaniel. By Saturday afternoon, I was at the level of…

  • Do you procrastinate?

    Article by Charlie Wright I’ve always wanted to be a Disc Jockey. Not one of these idiots you get on the radio nowadays. I mean the old Smashy ‘n’ Nicey types, like Simon Bates. For instance, do you remember ‘Our Tune’ on Radio One? In the show, listeners would write in with their sob story…