Posts by fruitoftheloon 927 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Jun 2013
Alister,
if I may chip-in, if Fox hunting is a sport, how many of the dogs/horses/riders have to get ripped to bits for the fox to have 'won'?
Sport it isn't, imho it is a moderately good reason to get dressed up and ride around the countryside, [potentially] killing a fox in the process.
Also I do live in the countryside, have neighbours who have lost chickens due to foxes, and have relatives who did hunt...
Regards,
Jay
Thondwe,
I hate to bust your bubble matey, but many medics/scientists DO run hospitals...
Which makes me wonder (anecdotal curiousity) why so many NHS trusts are cattle-trucked and are not very good at 'innovating' - granted I have painted with a broad brush but I suspect you get the gist!
From my experience (wifey is a senior physicist), 98% of the 'medics that manage' should have stuck to medicine, there are so many perfect examples of The Peter Principle in action it is genuinely scary...
Cheers,
Jay
Yugguy,
indeed, but you are not a feckless parent who is incapable of actually using their brain and taking responsibility for their actions, hence you (and I, presumably quite a few commentards too) are the exception
So the rest of the plebs obviously need the Government to ensure they never see anything naughty (for a given definition of naughty) as clearly they aren't capable of making their own decisions...
This is apparently the 'Christian' thing to do [cue laughter]...
/sarcasm
DS,
there is a difference between 'offshoring' and trade deals, one is sending UK/creating jobs overseas, the other is [potentially] creating jobs here, as a result of selling more of the stuff overseas due to lower/no import duties.
It's really not that complicated...
Ironically my nascent business will be better off when HMG [eventually] signs a few trade deals, as we will be exporting the bulk of our stuff from England to the far/middle east & USA...
Cheers,
Jay
Ds,
Well, one is unreconstructed bible basher who has a problem with pr/writing resumes...
The other is an authoritan nut job...
So same old same old re qualifications for the top job?
It's not ideal my friend, but earth will continue rotating!
What's your take on it then??
Cheers,
Jay
Dear AC,
Actually it isn't cynical at all! A little while ago I used help 'fix' troubled £xxxm programmes, funnily enough I have never encountered a cattle-tracked programme that needed to change to the latest whizz-bang methodology.
But I did encounter quite a few where:
- the client didn't know what they needed/wanted (which rarely actually matched)
- the sales numpties' primary focus was their commision, as opposed to selling something that would be viable/functional/add some value
- senior Directors/programme managers who would have 0% probability getting hired for the job they held if they were an 'outsider', due to them being f'ing idiots
- for some inexplicable reason, the client thought that hiring consultants/outsourcers to fix what was actually a cultural (not technical) issue would dramatically improve their organisations over a year or so....
Cheers!
Jay
Teamwork, or even better! Talking to and listening to each other, across team boundaries.
I mean cluck a duck, people talking about what they need to do, how to do it and working out potential problems in advance? Which could lead to better outcomes, WOW!!!
Jeez that's an awesome concept.....
/rant
Stoneshop,
I'm with you on that, pls accept a bevy!!
On a related note I think Groucho Marx said 'i would never join any club that would accept me as a member', or words to that effect, it was so long ago when I read his biog that I had hair.
Cheers,
Jay
TOH,
There's an awful lot of pronouncements, in your post, would you be so kind as to share the non-subjective evidence you based it in with your fellow commentards?
Ooi I think ANY form of racism (verbal, written or physical) is inexcusable, one would hope that Plod is doing their job...
If the vote had been for Remain, would you have just as vociferously supported the right for the 'Leavers' to insist on 'more democracy?'
Thanks for your input.
Kind regards,
Jay
Todd,
Well said Sir, please have one on me!
I mean, who'd a thunk it eh, some pesky Big Englanders deciding that what they want their country to do is more important than there 'betters' think?
Isn't democracy wonderful?
Also, lest anyone drivel on about 'omg what have you done?'/ 'screwing things for the younger generation...' An 'in vote' would have suited my wife & I as well as my nascent UK-based export business much more than the decision we made...
We view it as a greater good!
Cheers,
Jay
Phil,
I believe our fellow commentard was pointing that after they pressed the 'get back to the speed you previously set' button, it did, with great alacrity, rather than taking its' time.
I had a 1999 BMW 535i auto which when you pressed the aformentioned button (after braking to significantly reduce the road speed) would drop down a number of gears and really f'ing go for it, that was the first & last occasion I used CC on that vehicle, not my idea of a good time...
Our current family wagon/van/taxi doesn't have that issue (2.7 diesel Jeep)!
Cheers,
Jay
Voyna,
so what do you think of the items in the speech re the failed currency and the f'ed youth generation of southern europe re their employment prospects (which OOI was the main reason why I voted out).
Do you think many MEPs have much actual experience of the real world vis-a-vis Joe/Jane Doe in Euroland???
So what would you have the EC do differently?
Cheers,
jay
Dear AC,
a lot of good 'has come of this' - quite a lot of folk in the Euroland theme park have realised that maybe they can have a voice....
Of course it is way too early to say exactly what the +/- items are, anyone who says otherwise is telling pork pies...
But plusses and minuses there certainly will be...
JAy
A little while ago, whilst on a commercial related role for a LARGE programme for Network Rail (£xBn), I asked why something that was having a fence put around it needed five gates (@ £1,600 EACH), I was advised 'it was a typo', funnily enough I found lots of typos and things that by an amazing coincidence did not even f'ing remotely add up...
A little while later a senior manager gave me some 'friendly' advice' about how I may want to carry out my role.
Shortly thereafter I bowed out due to stress.
Re the HS2 debacle-to-be, from my experience of Network Rails' institutional stupidity and inherent dislike of providing 'value for money' the losses due to fraud and incompetence will be mind-boggingly amazing.
Items I heard of being:
- NR building something on land they didn't own, then finding that the owner of said land held them to ransom
- due to the nature of having fixed-fees agreed for certain types of legal work, the managers/contractors would decide how to divvy up any dosh that was left, I am sure that NONE of that ever got back to any NR staff
- Doing a survey and somehow MISSING A BRIDGE that crossed a river
- Do a full plan and cost budget for installing some BIG expensive widgets, but FORGETTING to like, y'know put the power in place...
/despairs
Jay
Hewbass,
yeah, the historic market data you have based your opinions on and the amount of historic data really ensures you have a solid statement (i.e. circa TWO DAYS of data).
And what exactly is HMGs position - presumably you are quoting policy from?? (if only...)
Chill out man, it's going to be an interesting ride!
Jay
Fonant,
A yay, verily yay for mentioning Axminster tools, I have only bought 'oddments', but there in-store folk (usually chaps in my experience) REALLY know what they are talking about.
They are the ONLY company that I am happy to receive daily promo/info emails from, some of the offers are seriously good indeed...
Btw i have no financial interest/ownership in axminster (regretably...)
Cheers,
Jay
Charlie,
I'm voting for you with that one matey.
Out butchers (little village just north of Dartmoor), cures their own hams and makes the sausage too, they taste incredible, and by an amazing coincidence are much cheaper than that proferred by 'supermarkets'....
Also the local (6 miles away) bakery delivers orders EVERY DAY to the butchers, local pork/bacon (29 miles), milk/cream/butter/yog stuff (5 miles), cheese (1 mile!!!) life is good!!!
Cheers,
Jay
Dear AC,
Would you be so kind as to clarify why my voting for UKIP should result in me 'drowning in my own shite'?
Also i quite agree with you about the 'immigrants keep pinching our jobs' whining, some people do genuinely seem to think that the world owes them a living...
Were it nor for (astoundingly irritating) Mr Farage, do you think we would be having the opportunity to vote today?
With your statement in mind, of course you will be presumably not voting on principle eh?
I look forward to your considered reply.
Kind regards,
Jay
The First Dave,
I'll take my time, hopefully it'll sink in....
At the last general election, there were more than three candidates (I don't recall the precise # and can't be arsed to look it up).
Candidate A was previously elected to the previous sitting of parliament.
Candidate B wasn't quite my kettle of fish
So I voted for Candidate C!!!
Candidate A got the most ticks in the box, so he was elected, which is fine by me!!
So to summarise:
- I did vote
- but for someone who regretably didn't get enough # to become my MP.
Would you be so kind as to clarify how me choosing which candidate I voted for somehow results in me having 'zero control' over who is elected as my MP, as clearly I am missing something eh?
Also if you actually READ my post, nowhere does it state, hint, generally point in the direction of me (or anyone else!) Being able to CHOOSE our Monarch, that's why it's called a MONARCHY!!
Is that clear?
Cheers,
Jay
David,
indeed, had to scoot out sharpish...
I sought to make clear[er[ to our fellow Commentard that I hadn't voted for either my MP or HM, the former because I am not overly fond of the party, the latter because we can't.
On the whole methink Liz does a pretty good job!
Thanks!
Jay
Dear Naughty,
I didn't vote for Liz in 1952, the primary one being I hadn't been born yet, plus my dad-to-be would have been five at the time....
More to the point matey I didn't actually state that I HAD voted for my MP, or whilst clearly not having the option, HM herself either....
Hence methinks the logical fuckups are elsewhere my friend!!!
Also who is this 'Jeremy Cockson' you allude to???
Chill out a bit eh???
Cheers,
Jay
JE,
I did! Which is why there are quotes around 'run'...
I readily acknowledge what we currently have is a long way from perfect, but steadily hurtling into a Federal EU oblivion is unlikely to improve matters!
What do you think should be done differently?
Cheers,
Jay
CF,
Err no matey, the primary reason for the state of many southern european economies is that the Euro simply does not match their economic requirements, this allied with the Franco/German solution for a starving economy to starve it even faster clearly hasn't worked!
Of course there is also the issue that the EU knew that about their relative fiscal cycles and day-to-day tax related issues, but let them all join the club anyway...
But hey, if we had a common tax base, unified laws, common treasury functions and a full banking union (plus our own army), it would all be fine eh?
Cheers,
Jay
N,
Could be, how well do you think the EU and the folk that 'run it' are performing at the moment?
As an aside, my previous career was Risk Consulting, hence one of my favourite subjects is the law of unintended consequences...
Thanks for your input anyway.
Cheers,
Jay
Any organisation only changes for one of two reasons:
- it has too
- it wants too...
Clearly the EU isn't overly fussed about fixing the glaring flaws: CAP, absurd unemployment in southern states, mass emigration, innappropriate effective costs of money, causing mammoth f'ups that only benefit people trackers & Vladimir Putin
So why would it want to change then, unless it is FORCED too?
Btw I love Europe, can get by in French & German, had my recent honeymoon in Paris, I love german cars & beer, adore french food & wine.
My family a few generations back are from Irish & Dutch stock, my mother-in-law is American, so lest anyone think otherwise I believe my self by thought and action to be as far away from a stereotypical 'little Englander' as is possible!
Europe is great, next year I expect to be selling lots of stuff I am currently developing to our european cousins.
BUT I have an MP and a monarch, my fundamental belief is that they should basically 'run' our country, not folk we have never heard of, voted for and can't kick them out of office if we want to...
And as to a European Army? If it wasn't so scary it would be bloody hilarious!
For those that wish to carry on rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, go for it, I'm voting for leaving before we all drowned.
My 2p...
Ymmv.
Jay
Err what matey??
So there are some poor, shy, nervous folk that are so 'whatever' that the sight of my flag (the English one) starts a rumbling that results in their whole world falling down.
Has it occured to you that someone who chooses to don the flag in a manner that suits them could be, like you know a proud English[wo]man???
I suspect that they are not trying to tell you anything. Btw who do you think is 'harmed by the hatred' of a footie or rugby fan donning the flag in some fashion?
Granted things flag-related are different in Europe to the US of A (thank cluck for that), generally speaking methinks the hysteria quotient is a little more grown-up in blighty.
BTW my American mother-in-law isn't that far from being a Puritan 'enthusiast', so I know quite a lot of what I talk.
Have a nice day y'all.
Jay
Is a dishwasher.
When we change our gas combi boiler to a wood-pellet one I will be checking out the latest whizzy thermostat thingies.
That aside I see NO F'ING BENEFIT WHATSOEVER of any other currently available IoT 'applications'
'Tis often a solution looking (DESPERATELY) for a problem...
/cynicism
My much loved MacPro had to go, due to being not terribly portable (recording music).
Whilst clearly old, it was perfectly usuabke, my lad's primary school were pleasantly received to have it, FCP (including manuals & media) together with a humungous Wacom tablet.
One of the munchkins genuinely recoiled in shock as I carried it along the corridor, then I suspect it is probably the biggest computer that most kids will have seen.
Stevie babes,
Yes I do know that a new one is on the way (at some point....)
If you would be so kind as to confirm WHEN, I will get a refund on the aforementioned, then wait (laptop-less) for the coming of the "new shiny"!
It will be used for CC graphicsy stuff and some development work, and some video editing (FCP), I would be surprised if it didn't hum along for five years or so.
I gave up using bits of silicon, metal and plastic for bragging rights a long time ago...
In a similar vein, my previous MacPro (with FCP) was well received by the Headmaster of my lads' school when I donated it to them last month.
Cheers matey.
Jay
And there was I, daft enough to buy a (really rather nice) 13 inch MBP just two weeks a ago, I should have seen it coming.
My lovely new shiny, will undoubtedly be outmoded, decrepit, superceded, just a bit of old tatt...
The very essence of my being (and the balance of my self esteem) will disappear faster than a vampire running from the rising sun.
Jay.
Steve,
A little while ago ~10 yrs I had an 'interesting' role with the Capita Risk team, a key part of which re big sales pitches necessitated:
- reading the ENTIRE client reqs document(s)
- reading the ENTIRE draft contract from the sales bods.
Often there would be lack of congruence between:
- what the client said they wanted
- what the sales bods and techies THOUGHT the client needed
- what the client actually NEEDED
- what it was technically and practically viable to deliver within the defined timeframe(s)
I am proud of my achievements therein, bearing in mind that human nature rightly points out what f'ed up, but overlooks what worked (yes there were several).
Trouble is, the type of role I had only worked if your boss reported to the Group FD, who incidentally made Gordon Ramsey look like the UN Secretary General...
Cheers,
Jay
UT,
Yes it would!
It's called the Queens Highway for a reason....
Btw what you would see 100% matches what is visible in streetview.
My attitude is far from laissez-faire, I prefer to be 'reasonable' and observe the law of the land, perhaps you should consider it eh?
Cheers,
Jay
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