I can say no more

No, not a hiatus, but instead, via Scaryduck, the absolute winner of the “Let’s see what I can get past the editor” headline award of 2003.

One voice – Helen Keller’s

via an advertising link, I clicked on this link to my own bank. “Talk to the whole bank through your relationship manager” What a load of old shite. My “relationship manager” (already I loathe that expression) still hasn’t managed to pick up the phone and talk to me.

Or perhaps the phrase that the bank should be looking for is “Adding insult to injury – professionally”.

Response 2

“Dear Sir,

Kind Regards
SMS Team.”

So, that’s that cleared up then. Or not.

For fuck’s sake, m’lud

I must admit, I completely fail to see the logic in “naming and shaming” courts that are ‘underperforming’ in a new set of league tables. There seems to be a huge flaw in the logic – “I know, we’ll make them do MORE paperwork, then say that they’re not up to scratch.”

Rather than spend the money on a fucking league-table, I’d rather see the money spent on improving the courts themselves, and look at perhaps increasing their “opening hours” (sorry, I don’t know the exact terminology for the times a court operates) so they can deal with more cases. But of course, that would be logical, dare I say even sensible, so there’s no chance that Lord Falconer and the new “Supreme Court” (Hey, Tony, I wonder where you got that idea/name from?) will even be on nodding terms with it.

Response

Further to my post a bit further down regarding the SMS feature on the new landline phone, I got this reply.

“Unfortunately we do not support the telephones so we do not know how you would switch this facility off. However it is standard practice that your number be delivered with the SMS message as SMS messages cannot be sent from anonymous lines.”

So – the instructions tell me not to give out my number, but it can’t actually be stopped from doing so. Nice paradox.

At a loss for words

I know it won’t come as a shock to anyone who uses the train network, but it looks like we won’t get an efficient (and punctual) service for at least another decade yet. If then. Personally, I reckon we might have a decent infrastructure by about 2035 – by which point it’ll all need replacing as it’ll be MagLev trains or something entirely different. Although I do think that the concept of “train delays going on for years” is a bit much – it’s bad enough when they go on for two hours. *Grin*

I wonder if anyone’s still working on the idea of teleportation as a public transport device? It couldn’t be any worse than what we’ve got now, surely?

Here we go again…

Not content with the bollocks about reports that were “sexed-up” before war on Iraq, (and how the hell do you “sex-up” a report about purported chemical weapons?) that lovable bundle of happiness and hope, Jack Straw, is now insisting that Iran opens up it’s nucular nuclear programme to Western inspectors.

A more suspicious soul would perhaps think that the UK and US were trying to take over the entire of the Arabian Gulf, and grab all the oil-production sites/countries for itself.