Posts by The Nazz 1023 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jan 2013
re "Presumably social services will be scheduled for a visit, along with a shrink. Her poor parents must be mortified, worried, and thoroughly embarrassed."
Parents SHOULD be worried if they are scheduled for a visit from Social Services.
It's not like they have a good track record (no pun intended) on good interventions, is it?
Firstly, congrats on yet another successful launch and rendezvous.
The lesson that a lot of modern day manufacturers could learn? If it (the design)ain't broke don't fix it.
Shoddy, or malicious*, workmanship, well that's an entirely different story.
Speaking of malicious, the BBC carried a news item recently of someone taping scalpel blades to childrens playground slides. WTF is the world coming to?
First bunch of students "We thought we'd have a laugh and erect some christmas lights in the shape of a penis."
Second bunch of students "Well it's offensive, reeks of toxic masculinity, rape culture and it's ....it's ....it's oh so, so white. Don't you care about diversity?"
First lot again "Well yeah, we did think of putting a black one up but no-one would've seen it. And besides, the buildings only three stories high."
re Dave 126
Yep, brilliant idea.
Now all we need are Police forces who care a toss.
"Can i report some littering, McDonalds wrappers thrown, by a fat bird, out of a moving vehicle by a fat lass, of which i took a note of the the registration plate?"
"Hmmm, a fat bird you say, you're nicked sonny jim."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttGmLC13p7s
There again, if it hadn't have been Sutter it would have been someone else in due course.
re Blockchain, at least the Aussies only spent $700,000 looking into it and pretty much ruling it ineffective for anything. Money which does end up in someone's pocket of course, but has pretty much come out of every taxpayers pocket.
I thought the purpose of an audit was to dig deep into the businesses records, not just accounting, to determine the factuality of all matters? "Being lied to" is a) a matter that would soon be discovered and b) not an excuse in any event.
if, and it's a big if, they were "backdating" contracts and revenues as per the charge sheet, then it seems to me their UK VAT invoices would be invalid, and unlawful, on the "point of supply" dating.
Maybe, they did fully comply with the UK accounting standards at the time.
Can never understand why it takes years, and months of actual trials, to determine relatively simple facts.
Overhearing a school Games/Physical Education teacher in conversation :
"I teach under 15's Rugby*. The problem is, i tell the boys what we are gonna do and they go and do it. I tell the girls what we are gonna do and i get 15 opinions back on what they think we should be doing."
It now appears to be a growing issue in democracies and employment.
If you work for Google/Microsoft/Raytheon (to name a few) and don't like what they are doing, making and selling then go work somewhere else. Become an organic vegan farmer or whatever.
* those alert enough will notice it's proper ruggers, not the hitherto M62 variety.
re Theatre tickets, and other matters.
Pay by CASH. Keep the receipt.
When they ask for a name and address simply make one up. Or use the M-i-L's.
If everyone did it, the "spammers" would have so much useless data, it may cause them to lose heart. Especially if they spoke to the M-i-L.
As i'd like the lounge doing.
I know in my mind what i'd like it to look like, but somehow, with my choice of colours and maybe (lack of) skilled technique, it never turns out quite(anything?) like i'd like it to be.
Let the AI machine tune into my brainwaves and get on with it.
Little girl runs inside crying to mummy.
"What's the matter darling?"
"Little Johnny has just dropped his trousers, shown me a sticky out thing he calls a willy and teases me that i haven't got one."
"Aw bless" says mum, and dropping her skirt adds "i haven't got one either, but the thing to remember is that as long as you have one of these you can get as many of those as you want."
Genuine question, as i'm wholly unknowledgable ( and too lazy to google ) on matters regarding GDPR.
Are the 4% fines levied on both Google AND the advertisers (agencies and brands) in such breaches?
If not they ought to be. Legitimate businesses would soon change their ways if they were also fined for unwelcome adverts finding there way to me and others.
Or indeed, that many of the victims are hardworking, law abiding and extraordinarily talented themselves, such as for eg Intensive Care Nurses.
Perhaps whilst serving time (what little they will actually do) they could be bombarded with calls from scammers with an overseas accent. Multiple times a day and night.
AND a daily letter from Dido Harding (better still a daily visit) "explaining" that although they've been hacked, they are at no risk, whatsoever, of having their very precise and personal details misused. No sireee, whatsoever,
re Flaming Death
A little unfair, at least. AFAIK the Yorkshire Bank side of CYBG has been very well run, even with DC having two decades of experience there, latterly COO.
I won't comment further on DH.
Edit : If memory serves me accurately, at all, the local Yorkshire Bank is open till 4pm on Saturdays.
Common perception, and multiple localised newspaper/radio reports all have it the the MAIN thing people want from their NHS is free and unlimited parking when they get there.
Mind you, something needs to change. On my last visit to a hospital, accompanying a friend (i rarely need to go myself, yet) i was staggered at the length of the queues simply to purchase a parking ticket. Which certainly are not cheap.
I also wonder about the make up of the "1800 adults" involved in the survey and the detailed breakdown of them.
To, erm, borrow a phrase from above, the lardy-arses, especially if heavily into social media, are going to have a completely different wish list to those of us with a more active outdoor lifestyle.
I agree completely. A very fined tuned and precise order has been made made.
Without wishing to be too morbid, how much privacy does a dead person buried several feet under a patio require?
FFS in a civilised society, Amazon should be falling over themselves in their rush to assist the authorities in such circumstances, at their first opportunity.
Interesting comment that about "illegal parking". Yes, traffic wardens exist and yes, people frequently get ticketed, those which stick* are almost always entirely their fault for their chosen action.
But, i would be willing to wager that less than 5% of illegal parking is ticketed. I could go out now, 9pm in the evening and within minutes find hundreds of cars parked illegally which won't get ticketed.
So, should we ban all motorists because some park illegally and get away with it?
* eg the twat of an Oxford city centre warden issuing a ticket despite a perfectly valid parking ticket being on display, immediately cancelled upon a complaint being made, obviously, albeit at my further time and expense.
For some reason, maybe being elected "by an avalanche of voters" on a platform of "Change", supposedly for the good, (actually anything but) he makes me think of Blair. Maybe it's the same arrogance that he, and he alone, knows best, and what's best for us all.
Perhaps he should simply start with making France a safer place? Move to London and become Mayor here, maybe?
but, if i'd been the one having a dump in the field, i'd also have had a Slash at the same time. A forward slash is recommended, unless it's into a headwind.
Anyways, where are the 28 8x10 Glossy colour photographs,with circles and arrows and a paragraph written on the back of each one?
All well and good, but ....
Yesterday, it was reported that the Chancellor is to give an extra £400m to schools for the (badly phrased) "little extras". Also reported with much derision from the teaching profession.
I haven't done the maths but i doubt that would cover the "Increase in pay, and pensions" that the teachers DO actually get but often state that they don't get?
Discipline works both ways.
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