Posts by Rich of Observationz
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"It was like the offices of a paper merchant in Slough, certainly not what I expected from the most carefully cultivated marketing driven brand on earth"
Aren't almost all firms like that really? Particularly those whose main job is to shuffle boxes from one warehouse to another?
Even the companies that have big glass offices, designer furniture and inspirational mission statements on every flat surface are usually hotbeds of incompetence, bitchiness and exploitation like everywhere else!
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"ENORMOUS number of fire engine callouts"
Apparently a firefighter called the B and said that the vast majority of their callouts to Guy fawkes incidents required no action - the bonfire or whatever was under control.
High rise buildings with automatic alarms also generate large numbers of fire callouts - nobody suggests banning them!
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In some ways we have a lack of *real* problems:
50 years ago we'd recently had a major war that ended in 30 million dead and nukes being used for the first time. Russia and America had thousands of said nukes and the propensity to use them. Most countries suffered from double-digit inflation and very high unemployment, often at the same time. People were still dying of polio and smallpos.
Most of that is now fixed. Osama might kill a few thousand, but he's never going to make one million dead, let alone thirty. Economic management has advanced to the stage where most economises haven't had more than a mild slowdown in the last ten years. And most people die because they've reached the age where their bodies wear out.
So governments are looking for other things to fix - like the fact that children misbehave, people who eat too much get fat and boys of all ages want to do dumb things.