04/05/2011 by paul.

I guess that one bonus from the recent ‘royal’ wedding, is that there is now a small chance that some intelligent genes may finally get inserted into the ‘royal’ line

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16/04/2011 by paul.

Have just received junk mail from the ‘vote no to AV’ people.   On the back page it says “AV leads to broken promises”.
Now how can anyone say that…we have never had AV, so there is no experience.
An accurate and testable statement would be “Elections lead to broken prosises”….of that we do have experience

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04/04/2011 by paul.

I think that I agree with this guy

http://www.youaredumb.net/archive/all/2011/4/4

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02/11/2010 by paul.

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04/09/2010 by paul.

See Amazon is offering 50% off Tony Blair’s book …..Hmm! still don’t want to buy it.
If he fibbed about the WMDs, then I doubt that his book is that accurate 

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23/07/2010 by paul.

Was down the pub last night and a friend mentioned an interesting comparison between the BP oil disaster and the Union Carbide Gas disaster.
The BP oil disaster caused the death of 11 workers, which of couse is a tragedy, and an immense amount of damage to the environment in the Gulf area, and possible else where in due course, plus considerable damage to the local economies . The oil drilling operation was operated on behalf of BP by a third party, under the control of BP.  US is a powerfull country and estimates for the total cost to BP range from $3.2bn to $100bn.
In 1984, Union Carbide India Ltd, owned by Union Carbide USA, caused an estimated 3787 deaths through a gas leakage. The causes for both the BP oil disaster and the Union Carbide disaster are though to result from failure to act upon known weaknesses in operating proceedures and equipment.  India is a poor company with limited power on the wortld stage and the people killed were poor people. The total cost to Union Carbide, as negotiated with the Indian government, was $470M…..  

Hmmm!

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06/07/2010 by paul.

I have been pondering on the use of the plastic tongs in Tesco (or other supermatkets, I guess) at the bread counter.
The tongs are placed in the bread roll bins, inferring that you should use them to select your bread rolls and place the rolls into the plastic bag for the check-out. I think that it is meant to be a sort of hygene issue.
I always pick up my rolls with my hands and take them to the check-out and I am dying for someone to tell me off and insist that I use the tongs to handle the rolls. 
I want to ask the manager of Tesco, what exactly is the roll of the tong ?.
If I pick up my roll and take it home, as far as I can see, any germs on the roll, assuming that it has not been rolling around on the floor behind the counter, at any time, are my germs.  Also, if I use the tongs, I will transfer the germs from the previous customer to use the tongs, to my hands, and then in due course to the roll.    Also, if I use the tongs, I will transfer my germs to the tongs and then in due course to the next customer to use the tongs.
It strikes me that the tongs are an excellent means of transferring germs around….but I suspect that those who placed the tongs in the bread bin, meant quite the opposite.         Perhaps, as soon as anyone has used the tongs, an assistant rushes out and sanitises them before they are used by the next customer …!!!    Hmm! I doubt it.
So, come on supermarket manager, ask me to use the tongs…please….then I can ask my question.

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06/05/2010 by paul.

It has occurred to me that it should be mandatory that all politicians are ugly. Then, when television debates are aired, Daily Mail readers, or similar, would not exclaim “Oooh ! isn’t he lovely….. I must vote for him” or something similar.   

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29/07/2009 by paul.

Well, the weatherman definately said, earlier this year..”it will be a summer of BBQs”, now we learn that it will be wet and unsettled for the near future and that they didn’t really mean we would have a good summer !!
Definition of an expert…someone (often with an exagerated sense of self importance…maybe a politician) who is marginally less ignorant than the rest of us…but non-the-less, ignorant.  Weather men fall into that category…and so do financial “experts”

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30/11/2008 by paul.

I have been working in the electronics industry for 40 years and 2 months…I know that because I have just seen it on the redundancy settlement that I have received.            Now I am not shedding any tears over this, since I have seen it coming for a couple of years..and I stress that it has nothing to do with the ‘highly spun’ current recession.  What is weird, is the reaction of others to the news (of my redundancy, not the global self inflicted recession).     As soon a I tell anyone that I am being made redundant, they immediately adopt a sympathetic posture and voice a high degree of concern …., so I immediately have to re-assure them that it is no real deal to me.         In fact I have just been to the hairdressers and as part of that often forced convesation that takes place as ones hair is being cut, the young girl asked by if “I was on holiday today”, “just popped out of the office”  and whether” I would be leaving the office early today” (being a friday).      So, I just said “no” “yes”  and “probably” in that order, rather than saying that today was the last day of 40 years working for a multinational company and that today was the last day that I would be driving 100 miles on the motorway to get to/from the office. Also the last time that I would frequent that particular hairdressers.                                  So for the first time in a long, long time, I have just had to buy myself a car and a mobile phone (the later being a lot more complicated than the former), and on Monday …..well, I am not quite sure what happens from Monday.

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