A tale of two safety elves

As Penny Dreadful observed it may be time to leave the planet, or at least hope fervently that this level of madness won’t spread (fat chance of that). For in the week that our safety elves say that it wasn’t them, and that in fact could people please stop using them as an excuse to do stupid nannying shit for insurance reasons. On the opposite side of the world the courts down under have decided that if you work from home and slip on your own stairs whilst wondering around in your socks that it’s your employers fault and they’ll … Continue reading

AV – and simple maths

OK I promise not to say too much more about the AV referendum, I’ve been and voted, and really most everything that could be said has been. However I’m seeing loads of pro-AV articles at the moment, and there is a huge fallacy they’re promoting that is really starting to get on my nerves. The claim that to win in AV you have to have majority support is just nonsense, as a simplistic example can show (well simplistic examples are popular with Yes2AV so I don’t see why I can’t use them). Let’s consider 10 voters just because it makes … Continue reading

That infamous kiss

Like many people I wasn’t in the John Snow when that infamous kiss took place, I don’t know the landlord or the people who were kissing. So I’ve got no reason to believe either of them over the other. The few things that we do know for certain is that the LandLord acted after a complaint, they claim it was quick peck on the cheek the person who complained says it was more (and some supprto this). Quite frankly I don’t care, we’ve no evidence that the landlord would have acted any different if someone had complained about a straight … Continue reading