People tend to
do their own thing these days, so nothing really surprises me.
What really does get up my goat (wonder where that phrase came from) is the computeristic approach to almost everything which has almost destroyed flexibility. If supermarket computers go down we starve. If banking syatem goes down we starve. HMRC automated penalties - some may starve.
What would happen if a virus from a meteor suddenly rendered our computers helpless - much like manflue. We would be totally bolloxed.
That's Ok ...
... I feel for the kayaker's family, but he was an idiot putting at risk the lives of the mountain rescue volunteers and the crew of the air-sea rescue helicopter, just to get an adrenaline rush, and deserves and gets no pity from me.
People with buggies never fail to irritate - I have lost count of the number of near misses where a buggy hasd been thrust between parked cars in to the path of oncoming traffic.
However, whilst I think I am compassionate and caring, I don't suffer fools - there are enough unavoidable hazards to negotiate in life with creating more through stupidity or lack or awareness and common sense.
Being English and being imbued with a strong sense of irony though gives one a rather dark sense of humour at times, but laughing in the face of death is to me a far better way of dealing with it than weeping and wailing and the rending of clothes - IMHO.
It's all part of evolution
Darwin was right - survival of those best fit for the environment.
Unfortunately ...
Darwin was right - survival of those best fit for the environment.
Our Elf'nsaftee department
Our Elf'nsaftee department here at Democratus Towers work on the basis that they have to manage the entire organisation based on the stupidest person in the building. Those people without the Elf'nsatee blanket just get removed from society.
@Democratus
yer but wouldn't that infringe on their EU human rights.
Oh, and this dumb couple too
how thick can you be?