'Anything you're good at contributes to
happiness.'
Bertrand
Russell
'Quite so. I am
really happy that I'm such a good organiser!'
Adolf Eichmann
(Attributed.)
Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Ofpie Inspectors. (Thanks, Martin.)
From a forum entitled: Is the threat of Ofsted driving away good
teachers?
The pie factory was very proud of its pies, and rightly so. The ovens were
old and creaky, and could do with some money spending on them, but all of the
pies were sold. The bakers worked hard to produce a good pie, ensuring all the
pies had access to the same ingredients, but, through no fault of their own,
some of the pies were baked further away from the burners than the others, and
turned out a little paler as a result. That was okay, though: some people
preferred a paler pastry. All of the pies were bought.One day, the government
had a look at the pies baked in other countries. They were startled to see that
some foreign pie factories produced pies of a uniform golden colour, with very
few undercooked, middle-of-the-oven examples. The government liked pies. They
had all previously eaten pies, pie factories were everywhere. Such a simple
thing, everyone could be an expert on pie production. At great expense,
the government produced a colour chart with the desirable shades of pie
goldenness, and distributed them throughout the land. Ofpie inspectors were
created to inspect the shades of pies produced back home. Factories were ordered
to produce only golden pies, or face censure, closing down or public humiliation
of individual bakers.Because there was no investment in new ovens, (all the
money went on colour charts) some of the pies were still coming out of the oven
a little too pale. The government was not happy. It decided to count ALL the
pies in the land that were acceptably golden, and publish the results. The
bakers started to worry. What if the people decided to frequent a different
bakery, based on the inspector's findings? To keep their rankings on the new
golden pie scoreboard, the bakers learned to play the game, to cheat.When they
were told the Ofpie inspectors were coming, the bakers quickly removed the pale
pies from the middle of the baking trays, coated them twice in eggy-wash and
hurriedly baked them again. This resulted in rock-hard inedible pies, but the
inspectors would never know. The pies all looked golden, the head
baker's paperwork stated they were golden, and so they must have been
golden. Ofpie stuck a poster outside the pie factory stating its products were
100% excellent. At the back of the ovens the bakers carefully removed the
double-baked and inedible pies, shook their heads sadly, and threw them away.
(No pies were injured or discarded in the production of this post).
The pie factory was very proud of its pies, and rightly so. The ovens were
old and creaky, and could do with some money spending on them, but all of the
pies were sold. The bakers worked hard to produce a good pie, ensuring all the
pies had access to the same ingredients, but, through no fault of their own,
some of the pies were baked further away from the burners than the others, and
turned out a little paler as a result. That was okay, though: some people
preferred a paler pastry. All of the pies were bought.One day, the government
had a look at the pies baked in other countries. They were startled to see that
some foreign pie factories produced pies of a uniform golden colour, with very
few undercooked, middle-of-the-oven examples. The government liked pies. They
had all previously eaten pies, pie factories were everywhere. Such a simple
thing, everyone could be an expert on pie production. At great expense,
the government produced a colour chart with the desirable shades of pie
goldenness, and distributed them throughout the land. Ofpie inspectors were
created to inspect the shades of pies produced back home. Factories were ordered
to produce only golden pies, or face censure, closing down or public humiliation
of individual bakers.Because there was no investment in new ovens, (all the
money went on colour charts) some of the pies were still coming out of the oven
a little too pale. The government was not happy. It decided to count ALL the
pies in the land that were acceptably golden, and publish the results. The
bakers started to worry. What if the people decided to frequent a different
bakery, based on the inspector's findings? To keep their rankings on the new
golden pie scoreboard, the bakers learned to play the game, to cheat.When they
were told the Ofpie inspectors were coming, the bakers quickly removed the pale
pies from the middle of the baking trays, coated them twice in eggy-wash and
hurriedly baked them again. This resulted in rock-hard inedible pies, but the
inspectors would never know. The pies all looked golden, the head
baker's paperwork stated they were golden, and so they must have been
golden. Ofpie stuck a poster outside the pie factory stating its products were
100% excellent. At the back of the ovens the bakers carefully removed the
double-baked and inedible pies, shook their heads sadly, and threw them away.
(No pies were injured or discarded in the production of this post).
Hobsbawm Dies - He Has Much Explaining To Do.
'Eric
Hobsbawm, one of Britain's most eminent historians, has died at the age of 95,
his family have confirmed.He died in the early hours of Monday morning at the
Royal Free Hospital in London where he had been suffering from pneumonia, his
daughter Julia said.Mr Hobsbawm, a historian in the Marxist
tradition, wrote more than 30 books.' (BBC)
Incidentally, how can a 'marxist historian'
be 'eminent'. Surely bias alone makes this a pure oxymoron?
Monday, October 01, 2012
Good Call Sir Roger.
Sir Roger Moore urges shoppers to boycott Fortnum & Mason until it stops selling 'torture in a tin' foie gras. The James Bond actor, 84, claimed the retailer, which has a store in London, was trying to 'hoodwink' shoppers into believing that the food is ethically sourced. (Mail)
Bees In The Bonnet.
| "The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.” | |
|
Gough
Whitlam.
He wasn't wrong but what
about that speedy stallion named Bee-In-The-Bonnet owned by a consortium of assorted,
anti-democratic, usually leftist, occasionally
fascist ideologues?
|
Neanderthals.
How we have had to listen to non-stop guesswork over many decades about the 'apeman scenario' of so-called Neanderthals by evolutionary scientists. We now find that they were fully integrated with other humans. Surely - nothing more than differing racial characteristics separated them.
One more scam which found its way into school textbooks as 'fact'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2210403/Neanderthals-human-lived-side-Middle-eastern-caves-interbred-research-finds.html
Have The Beeb 'Done A Vatican' With Jimmy Saville?
Many are the reports coming in of sexually inappropriate behaviour by Sir Jimmy, who died last year. The allegations run both deep and young.There are accusations of a massive coverup by the BBC.
(Incidentally, this is the same Beeb which lambasted the Vatican for its own coverups.)
Cameron The Europhile Must NOT Be Trusted.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2209687/Cameron-prepares-series-moves-claw-100-powers-EU.html
It is one more tory euroscam - to add to all of those others which trail back into history.
This one is NOT different. The tory europhiles have neither 'seen the light' nor want to 'grant us a democratic voice'.
It is one more tory euroscam - to add to all of those others which trail back into history.
This one is NOT different. The tory europhiles have neither 'seen the light' nor want to 'grant us a democratic voice'.
REMEMBER
IRELAND!
ConDems Have Failed Us.
1) They have allowed immigration to continues as badly
as before into our vastly overcrowded islands.
2) They have allowed the continuing downgrading of Christianity with ever greater promotion of 'multiculturalism'.
3) Their failure on Law & Order has been on a monumental scale. What with Ken Clarke and out-of-control judges, lack of prison building ....
4) They have not tackled public spending by targeting QUANGOS, bureaucracy and the like but have damaged sharp-end public services.
5) They have looked interested in doing something about education but are now following a wrong-minded path.
6) The burden of taxation has generally increased.
7) They have done nothing to control the worst excesses of the abortion industry.
8) The persecution of the motorist has continued at the same time as not addressing the appalling state of our nation's roads.
9) They have reduced our ability to defend ourselves as a nation.
10) Proper checks on how our overseas aid budget is spent are not in place.
11) Illegal immigrants are not instantly deported.
12) Foreign criminals are not being deported.
13) We have been lied to over referenda and they want us to believe what they say next time.
14) Our economy remains in massive debt - so enormous it is almost impossible to imagine.
15) It costs the nation £150 billion annually to belong to the EU and yet, this is considered of no great import.
16) The ECHR continues to interfere in our legal system.
17) We are still subject to absurd EU regulation.
18) We remain trapped in the C.A.P.
19) Fishing around our shores remains at the point of distress.
20) Those non-green, highly expensive, inefficient quadruple- subsidised wind turbines continue to ruin our skylines at massive costs to the consumer.
I shall stop at 20. I could easily keep going. The electorate MUST learn to vote for change!
Almost all of the above are part of Labour's legacy - we cannot turn back to THEM!
The Greens are for just about all of the above but MUCH worse.
We must keep voting UKIP, rain or shine - so-called wasted vote or no. They may not be much but they are the ONLY party who are on our side!
2) They have allowed the continuing downgrading of Christianity with ever greater promotion of 'multiculturalism'.
3) Their failure on Law & Order has been on a monumental scale. What with Ken Clarke and out-of-control judges, lack of prison building ....
4) They have not tackled public spending by targeting QUANGOS, bureaucracy and the like but have damaged sharp-end public services.
5) They have looked interested in doing something about education but are now following a wrong-minded path.
6) The burden of taxation has generally increased.
7) They have done nothing to control the worst excesses of the abortion industry.
8) The persecution of the motorist has continued at the same time as not addressing the appalling state of our nation's roads.
9) They have reduced our ability to defend ourselves as a nation.
10) Proper checks on how our overseas aid budget is spent are not in place.
11) Illegal immigrants are not instantly deported.
12) Foreign criminals are not being deported.
13) We have been lied to over referenda and they want us to believe what they say next time.
14) Our economy remains in massive debt - so enormous it is almost impossible to imagine.
15) It costs the nation £150 billion annually to belong to the EU and yet, this is considered of no great import.
16) The ECHR continues to interfere in our legal system.
17) We are still subject to absurd EU regulation.
18) We remain trapped in the C.A.P.
19) Fishing around our shores remains at the point of distress.
20) Those non-green, highly expensive, inefficient quadruple- subsidised wind turbines continue to ruin our skylines at massive costs to the consumer.
I shall stop at 20. I could easily keep going. The electorate MUST learn to vote for change!
Almost all of the above are part of Labour's legacy - we cannot turn back to THEM!
The Greens are for just about all of the above but MUCH worse.
We must keep voting UKIP, rain or shine - so-called wasted vote or no. They may not be much but they are the ONLY party who are on our side!
Ripoff Merchants
I keep the closest eye possible on prices at Morrisons and in recent times
I have been shocked by the many price hikes on staple goods.
Last night I noticed on some basic lines the following:
Vinegar - 77% increase.
My loaf - 12.5% increase.
Canned peas - 91% increase.
Packet custard - 100%+ increase.
Chocolate bars - off the scale! Ones which were formerly in five packs had reduced to four packs and are now in three packs. I make that 65%. (Of course - these are often confused by the special offers which aren't all that special.)
So many ripoffs.
Look at the absurd prices for baked beans which they are hoping will
solidify.
As for meat ....
If customers pay these prices - they will soon become the norm.
PLEASE - for all our sakes - SHOP AROUND for everything!
Let's kick the ripoff merchants where it hurts!
Last night I noticed on some basic lines the following:
Vinegar - 77% increase.
My loaf - 12.5% increase.
Canned peas - 91% increase.
Packet custard - 100%+ increase.
Chocolate bars - off the scale! Ones which were formerly in five packs had reduced to four packs and are now in three packs. I make that 65%. (Of course - these are often confused by the special offers which aren't all that special.)
So many ripoffs.
As for meat ....
If customers pay these prices - they will soon become the norm.
PLEASE - for all our sakes - SHOP AROUND for everything!
Let's kick the ripoff merchants where it hurts!
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