Posts by henshaw11

BBC's 3D blunder BLASTED OUR BRAINS – Doctor Who fans

Better publicity ?

Part of the reason that the beeb may not be finding much uptake of the 3D service is 'cos they just don't seem to publicise it, from what I can tell. Since I seem to watch most things recorded via the PVR nowadays I *might* have missed related plugs,, but then we have the Radio Times and I'm pretty sure there's little mention of 3D transmissions there either.

Other than Dr Who and the olympics I really don't recall anything being shown in 3D - and that was squirreled away via the red button, which isn't normally (or certainly wasn't a while back) appearing on schedules.

(in the event that I've missed something, I'm sure there'll be someone along shortly to correct me..)

Traffic-light plague sweeps UK: Safety culture strangles Blighty

Please get your facts straight...

>This might justifiably annoy motorists, as it is they who pay for the streets and roads. So far from helping pay for the infrastructure they use (and destroy, and block up), buses are heavily subsidised: cyclists and pedestrians use the facilities for free. But the roads budget (no more than £15bn annually) is dwarfed by the revenues received by the government from road tax and fuel duty (£46bn as of last year).

Wrong, wrong, wrong...

VED goes into a common pot, like all taxes. Roads expenditure comes out of a common pot, as does everything else, regardless of contribution/end user usage (librarys, hospitals, schools etc...get the picture?). Simply as a taxpayer, you're still contributing to the roads regardless - I think the figure's about £100 per person pa.

Churchill severed the tenous link between VED/'road tax'/road fund license in the 30's to try to end the road lobby's sense of entitlement. Even when there was a 'road fund' it was only there briefly, and for *maintenance* of roads as a result of the damage vehicles were doing to them.

The same roads, btw, that had been built *prior* to the existance of any kind of 'road fund', paid by public funding.

Bear in mind too, that the level of VED that the lowest emission vehicles falls into is exactly the same as that directly paid by cyclists/pedestrians/horse rider....

Imitate Real Ale quaffers, save the economy, says biz prof

younger types need to get bed early with their cocoa ?

@paulf "So I'd love to attend their beer festivals around London (Reading, imminent GBBF and so on) but they hold them during the week when most of us "younger types" are gainfully employed."

Errr..have you ever been to one ? - a beer festival's not like a music festival, you can go for a few hours, a half day, a full day ->evening and variations of the theme. As for 'younger types' - if you can get to the pub in the evening, you can go to a beer festival. Myself and colleagues that go range from early 20s to late 40's. And it's not obligatory to get so wasted you can't function the following day...

>Wetherspoons dick the breweries about,

I'm not aware that's the case (allegedly some is bought at the back end of it's date period, but I'm not sure even that's true) - any actual evidence, or urban myth ? AFAIA there's been some beers brewed especially for some of the Wetherspoon's festivals, which would imply there's no dirty tricks being pulled there - I doubt anyone would start brewing without a firm order on their books.