Things that make you say "Gawd blimey mate, whatever next"
Feb 9th 2006, 11:51 pm
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Things that make you say "Gawd blimey mate, whatever next"
I am finally getting round to catching up on some Weekly Telegraph reading and found some articles that really take the biscuit. We often laugh about the idiocies of the USA but I think the UK is rapidly catching up. If tax on light bulbs isn't enough here are my top three picks from the last couple of weeks of Weekley Telegraph:
1. 225,000 pounds was spent on a scheme advising the elderly on how to wear slippers. The aim of the iniatative was to persuade the over 55's not to wear ill fitting slippers in case they tripped downstairs. This is one of the many "wastful and useless" government spending highlighted in a new book called "The Bumper Book of Government Waste".
2. Goodbye SAGA and Club 18-30. The government are being asked to extend the agism law to include goods and services. So as well as Club 18-30 and SAGA, there will be no more cheap coffee, discount for seniors etc etc. I am sure the "seniors" in the UK don't feel they are the victims of agism when they get a discount.
3. Schools are being asked to stop asking kids to put their hands up to answer a question since someone now says that the kids that don't put their hands up feel victimized. They are also looking at the "phone a buddy" system where if a kid is asked a question and they don't know the answer they will be given the option to get a friend to answer it.
Whatever next
1. 225,000 pounds was spent on a scheme advising the elderly on how to wear slippers. The aim of the iniatative was to persuade the over 55's not to wear ill fitting slippers in case they tripped downstairs. This is one of the many "wastful and useless" government spending highlighted in a new book called "The Bumper Book of Government Waste".
2. Goodbye SAGA and Club 18-30. The government are being asked to extend the agism law to include goods and services. So as well as Club 18-30 and SAGA, there will be no more cheap coffee, discount for seniors etc etc. I am sure the "seniors" in the UK don't feel they are the victims of agism when they get a discount.
3. Schools are being asked to stop asking kids to put their hands up to answer a question since someone now says that the kids that don't put their hands up feel victimized. They are also looking at the "phone a buddy" system where if a kid is asked a question and they don't know the answer they will be given the option to get a friend to answer it.
Whatever next
Feb 9th 2006, 11:59 pm
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Re: Things that make you say "Gawd blimey mate, whatever next"
Originally Posted by Lynne
I am finally getting round to catching up on some Weekly Telegraph reading and found some articles that really take the biscuit. We often laugh about the idiocies of the USA but I think the UK is rapidly catching up. If tax on light bulbs isn't enough here are my top three picks from the last couple of weeks of Weekley Telegraph:
1. 225,000 pounds was spent on a scheme advising the elderly on how to wear slippers. The aim of the iniatative was to persuade the over 55's not to wear ill fitting slippers in case they tripped downstairs. This is one of the many "wastful and useless" government spending highlighted in a new book called "The Bumper Book of Government Waste".
2. Goodbye SAGA and Club 18-30. The government are being asked to extend the agism law to include goods and services. So as well as Club 18-30 and SAGA, there will be no more cheap coffee, discount for seniors etc etc. I am sure the "seniors" in the UK don't feel they are the victims of agism when they get a discount.
3. Schools are being asked to stop asking kids to put their hands up to answer a question since someone now says that the kids that don't put their hands up feel victimized. They are also looking at the "phone a buddy" system where if a kid is asked a question and they don't know the answer they will be given the option to get a friend to answer it.
Whatever next
1. 225,000 pounds was spent on a scheme advising the elderly on how to wear slippers. The aim of the iniatative was to persuade the over 55's not to wear ill fitting slippers in case they tripped downstairs. This is one of the many "wastful and useless" government spending highlighted in a new book called "The Bumper Book of Government Waste".
2. Goodbye SAGA and Club 18-30. The government are being asked to extend the agism law to include goods and services. So as well as Club 18-30 and SAGA, there will be no more cheap coffee, discount for seniors etc etc. I am sure the "seniors" in the UK don't feel they are the victims of agism when they get a discount.
3. Schools are being asked to stop asking kids to put their hands up to answer a question since someone now says that the kids that don't put their hands up feel victimized. They are also looking at the "phone a buddy" system where if a kid is asked a question and they don't know the answer they will be given the option to get a friend to answer it.
Whatever next
Do you watch Fox News, by any chance?
Feb 10th 2006, 12:04 am
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Re: Things that make you say "Gawd blimey mate, whatever next"
Originally Posted by dbj1000
I agree! It's amazing the level of crap that they print in the Telegraph.
Do you watch Fox News, by any chance?
Do you watch Fox News, by any chance?
Feb 10th 2006, 12:09 am
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Re: Things that make you say "Gawd blimey mate, whatever next"
Originally Posted by BigDavyG
Watch out - Guardian readers about
Feb 10th 2006, 12:13 am
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Re: Things that make you say "Gawd blimey mate, whatever next"
Originally Posted by dbj1000
I agree! It's amazing the level of crap that they print in the Telegraph.
Do you watch Fox News, by any chance?
Do you watch Fox News, by any chance?
On those rare occasions that I think it might be nice to go back to the UK I just pick up the Telegraph and I begin to remember why I left. lololol
Feb 10th 2006, 12:16 am
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Re: Things that make you say "Gawd blimey mate, whatever next"
pretty amusing really, poor old folks...my ole dear loves her oap bus pass now that she's plucked the courage to bother use it 
Feb 10th 2006, 12:16 am
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Re: Things that make you say "Gawd blimey mate, whatever next"
Originally Posted by Lynne
I watch very little news, occasionally watch the local stuff but mainly for traffic info and if I happen to be at home at the right time will watch the BBC World news. Our local news station have a World Wide News section but that usually refers to stuff happening on the US West Coast.
On those rare occasions that I think it might be nice to go back to the UK I just pick up the Telegraph and I begin to remember why I left. lololol
On those rare occasions that I think it might be nice to go back to the UK I just pick up the Telegraph and I begin to remember why I left. lololol
