CEOP

Posted: Tue 7 February, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: 1BEM, Advertising, Cynicism, Geeky, People, Stupidity, Technology | Leave a comment »

And on the subject of CEOP, which is (apparently) part of the UK Police, wouldn’t you have thought they could’ve made the acronym into eCOP instead?

As an example, they probably could have called it ‘Exploited Children’s Online Protection’. Or something.

Mind you, it just goes to show how little thought went into CEOP in the first place, doesn’t it?

Internet Safety

Posted: Tue 7 February, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: 1BEM, Advertising, Cynicism, Geeky, Technology, Thoughts | Leave a comment »

Today is, allegedly, “Safer Internet Day“.

Surprisingly, it’s not being mentioned or promoted by CEOP, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection bunch of muppets Centre. Not a thing.

Wouldn’t you think that – if CEOP were actually any fucking use at all – they’d support and cross-promote this Safer Internet Day? Or even have created the concept themselves.

You Park Like a Cunt

Posted: Tue 7 February, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: 1BEM, BMW Drivers, Driving, Parking | 1 Comment »

(via @thehacksaw – thanks!)

I know I’ve posted one or two ( *ahem* ) pictures in the past of people parking like titbags, but this site is just brilliant. Sterling work.

Snow joke

Posted: Mon 6 February, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Domestic, Driving, Travel, Work-related | Leave a comment »

Over the weekend, as many have already noticed and experienced, we got Snow again.

We’re now living in a little village, and none of the roads that access the village have been gritted/salted. All three roads really only go to the village and that’s it. It’s a cut-through route to other villages, but none of them are apparently important enough to justify gritting even one of the roads. Thanks, local authority.

So travelling in and out of the village is a bit more interesting than usual. Normally you’ve got to deal with mud on the roads, but now it’s snow and ice.

I’ll admit, snowy/icy roads are about the only road conditions that make me a bit nervous. I had my first (and still only) accident on snowy roads, and I’m just not a great fan of driving in those conditions. I still do drive in those conditions, it’s just probably my least favourite situation.

So I’m a) hoping it all fades away pretty soon, and b) thankful that 99% of my current stupid daily commute is on major roads that aren’t going to be a concern on that score.

John Terry – Unproven, yet punished

Posted: Fri 3 February, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Charm School, Cynicism, Thoughts | Leave a comment »

First of all, remember, I couldn’t give the tiniest shit about football in general.

I do find myself somewhat bemused though by today’s news that John Terry has been stripped of his captaincy of England (again) – this time because he’s been accused of racially abusing another footballer.

Now note, he’s been accused of it, has pleaded ‘not guilty’, and the case is going to court in July. (conveniently just after this year’s Euro 2012 football) So at the moment he’s not been found guilty (or, of course, not guilty) of the offence. Yet he’s already been punished.

And just what kind of message does that send out to the courts, jury, fans and everyone else? Are they punishing him because they think he is guilty? (and so are acting as judge and jury before it goes to court)  Or just because “it’s safer” ?

London Police Corbett

Posted: Thu 2 February, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Corbett, Customer Services, Marketing, Stupidity, Technology | Tags: , | 1 Comment »

I see in today’s news that the Metropolitan Police have committed a Corbett, ‘inadvertently sharing the email addresses’ of ‘a number of’ victims of crime with each other. In total 1,136 emails were sent out on Monday, the Metropolitan Police said.

Yep, another case of CC: instead of BCC:

Of course, it’s not a Full Corbett, because the Met has actually apologised, and will write to the people involved, explaining what happened. Let’s hope they use BCC this time…

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