Recipe for the worst cup of tea ever

Try this...if you dare
1. Get someone to make you a cup of tea (if you're lazy like me.)
2. Take two sips, then leave the rest for at least half and hour until it is stone cold.
3. Put cup in the microwave on defrost. Sample.
4. Turn microwave dial back up to the high setting and curse the person who left it on defrost (which I would never, ever do myself.)
5. Leave cup in microwave until the tea bubbles over the side in manner of lava from an erupting volcano.
6. Stand for at least ten minutes until it is safe to drink (unless you have an asbestos-lined mouth.)
7. Try the foul brew.
8. Throw the cup of tea down the sink and enjoy a glass of council pop (water) instead.
Cheers!

General incompetence or the erosion of our language?

I eagerly scour WHSmith every month for Writers' Forum, which is a challenge as they move the writing magazines pretty much every week. I've found them near the grocery/smallholding mags, the craft/sewing mags, the teaching schoolchildren mags, and this month, they were by the art section, which makes a bit more sense to me.I got the magazine home, and was dismayed. I turned to page 5 where John Jenkins, the editor, has his page. I found two sentences on the page which had missing full stops, which really annoys me, and there were two areas of huge white space, gaps in the middle of sentences. 'Okay,' I think, 'everyone makes mistakes.' Then, on page 15, I found 'was n't' and a bracket with a full stop inside and outside, thus.). page 17 those huge gaps between words again, page 19 another missing full stop, page 21 another huge gap in the middle of a sentence, page 22 speech starting without a capital letter, page 27 those pesky gaps again, page 51 more missing full stops, and those are just errors that I noticed, and I'm not the most efficient proof-reader in the world. Yet this magazine has an editor, an assistant to the editor, a consultant editor, and two editorial assistants. Surely, between them, they could have proof-read the copy so that there weren't so many basic errors? This is a magazine that is 'dedicated to providing encouragement and inspiration to those who want to write and see their work published.' Maybe they should use the grammar check function on their computer?
I got over it, just about, and was happily watching The Apprentice earlier on BBC1, when an advert flashed up for the following programme on BBC2 - 'The Apprentice [b]Your[/b] Fired'. After much gnashing of teeth and screaming at the TV I turned over to watch the opening credits of this programme, just to check the spelling of the title. Thankfullly, It was 'The Apprentice You're Fired' so it was only spelt incorrectly on the trailer.
Writers' Forum and the BBC, shame on you!