Have a chuckle at the random photo thread

Baaaz! Was that you?

 

Kurt Cobaine was born February 20 1967 . I know because I was born February 20, 1967 .

 

Statistically speaking, it is what happens, when we vote the way we voted, at the last election

 

Nurses don't get pay rises because the money people don't want them. They'd rather pay a nurse provider when they need one. That's how they think. I believe it's a commercial cultural thing, a way to show you've saved money before you move on and spoil something else. It's currently wrecking everything everywhere in my humble opinion and has been growing for decades. It leads to organisations that are not fit for purpose.

I'll have a little ranty example.

The Canal and River Trust now try and run our waterways from their office with PR on a computer having sacked almost everyone (they haven't finished) who knew and cared about it, in favour of contractors. Maintenance is now just for show, the focus is on tow paths in a hopeless effort to present the waterways as something for all and get gov money. Meanwhile it's PR.
Have you noticed dams bursting and rivers overflowing, canal breeches, locks washed away? Nobody is there on the ground micro managing water where it needs it.
They have a thing where they say look how serious we are about maintenance, we have a list of 500 serious things to repair and we've done 300 of them. What they don't say is they had a list of 5000 things that needed doing, decided to call the 500 most expensive looking ones "serious" then did the 300 easy ones from that 500. That's why the dam burst, they fixed a towpath somewhere to tick a box to be able to say "We have fixed 300 of the 500 most serious faults".

Meanwhile Rome is burning, they spend £5M a year on company cars and... ever been chugged on a tow path to become a "friend" (for which incidentally you get nothing, your taxes are paying for it)? It costs something like 4x the amount it brings in, £millions spent every year on pretending to be a charity while they sell off everything they can and try making money by borrowing £10's of millions and investing in... offices. Oh dear, that won't be going well. What they have no interest in is maintaining the nations waterways.

An example so prevalent it must be policy. Locks have paddles to let water in and out. Typically 2 each end, but can be more. When one becomes inoperable, nothing happens. In fact nothing happens until the last paddle breaks at one end and the lock becomes inoperable, then they mend that paddle only. In EVERY closure/stoppage breech, they seek to blame vandals or boaters, it's a fact. Even when there was a huge breech it wasn't because the canal overtopped where they had failed to maintain it, oh no, it was " a boater left a paddle open. We boaters understand that canals are designed to cope with this, the problem stems from not dredging. Instead they just raise the level which costs nothing. If there's a problem they then lower it, the whole ban dries out and cracks then they raise it again and blame badgers when it leaks.

 

The problem stems from numbers. You can do a bad job but present yourself as a roaring success if there is no meaningful oversight.

 

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You need to go back to the great utilities sell off con of the century. Started the greed is good era.

 

And motorbikes!

 

Pedant Alert! As Hey Jude was written in 68 it is highly unlikely Paul would have been asking that question when that pic was taken, must be 64/65 maybe . Happy to help

 

Bloody pendant...