What made you 'Shake your Head' today?

[C8RKH]

Great to know my hard earned taxes are being used to keep prisoners in a nice cocooned bubble away from the pressures, strains and reality of life.

I'm not normal (well, you all know that anyway) but if it was my  decision it would be a 6' x 6' concrete cell. An opening but barred window. A blow up mattress, a toilet in the corner and a shower head in the middle of the ceiling to clean the cell and occupant every 2 days.

Shorter but tougher sentences in isolation with no frills, nor benefits.

Rehabilitation? Bah humbug. Punishment first. Like to see them laugh at that.

[100th_Idiot]

That mattress sounds a bit harsh. Would it blow up at random intervals? Are we talking fire cracker or plastic explosive?

[C8RKH]

1 hour ago, 100th_Idiot said:

That mattress sounds a bit harsh. Would it blow up at random intervals? Are we talking fire cracker or plastic explosive?

Now you've got me thinking!

[Sparky]

Improvised explosive divan.

[Bibs]

Inflatable exfoliating duvet?

[exeterjeep]

Shared blow up doll.

[C8RKH]

Oooh, the shared blow up doll sounds messy......

[Painterdave]

5 hours ago, C8RKH said:

Oooh, the shared blow up doll sounds messy......

And only washing every 2 days 🤭

[Frickin_idiot]

12 hours ago, Sparky said:

They might have been in tears had they known the truth.  My idiot son-in-law is doing a stretch at the moment.  He has carpet, TV, a Playstation, a phone in his room with unlimited use, is being retrained as a plasterer and has all-day access to the well-provisioned gym.  I'm seriously considering a life of crime.

Absolutely ridiculous. 

11 hours ago, C8RKH said:

Great to know my hard earned taxes are being used to keep prisoners in a nice cocooned bubble away from the pressures, strains and reality of life.

I'm not normal (well, you all know that anyway) but if it was my  decision it would be a 6' x 6' concrete cell. An opening but barred window. A blow up mattress, a toilet in the corner and a shower head in the middle of the ceiling to clean the cell and occupant every 2 days.

Shorter but tougher sentences in isolation with no frills, nor benefits.

Rehabilitation? Bah humbug. Punishment first. Like to see them laugh at that.

Spot on. And if they are a corrupt politician or civil servant pop their matress.

[PaulCP]

That a person like this can actually believe he has any human right whatsoever. He certainly didn’t give a flying fcuk about the human right of the people he massacred 

https://news.sky.com/story/mass-murderer-anders-breivik-suing-norway-government-again-in-bid-to-end-his-prison-isolation-12681931

[Escape]

7am, just arrived at work and I need to vent! I thought about posting in the 'unhappy' thread, but it's really more frustration so seems better here.

The drive up to work went smooth enough (apart from an annoying vibration at speed I thought I had fixed... Range Rover, not Lotus). I even managed to avoid the 2 suicidal cyclists that jumped the red light they were waiting at just as my light turned green. I wouldn't have minded running them over, the Range can take it and I would no doubt be doing society a favor, but it's all the paperwork afterwards.

Parked in my usual spot and took the stairs up as always. Every little bit to help stay in shape, right? Whatta mistaka to maka! In their infinite wisdom those in power have decided to put up motion activated speakers in the staircase. Every time you pass one it blurts out what is supposed to be a motivational message. I can tell you, it's not working! I'll be taking the elevator the rest of the week. Or I could bring a baseball bat to work, but that might be frowned upon. Anyone seen the movie 'falling down'? 😈

Really needed to get that off my chest before tackling any work today.

Filip

Edited to add: things just got worse. I was scheduled to work from home today, but got asked by my boss to come to the office instead for a live meeting. Fair enough, it is what I'm paid for. But now they've rearranged things and it's going to be a Teams meeting. FFS! Why are these changes always made at the very last minute? The meeting is in 1 hour. Yesterday was similar, I kept the afternoon free for a meeting and about an hour beforehand that got cancelled. For reasons they've known about since the day before.

Probably better for people to stay well away from me today the way things are going!

[Barrykearley]

you might find this useful to have for the next meeting.

[Rambo]

That's a new one from when I was working 😲

Where's the curved ball, thinking outside the box, singing from the same hymn sheet, shooting from the hip, blue sky thinking bullshit? It's not the same anymore. And now we have to contend with all this wokeism and gender bullshit 😕

[Escape]

There is one silver lining: the resistance is growing and that brings colleagues closer together. No doubt more so than a teambuilding day.

Someone is turning the motion detectors away, another one is looking for masking tape, I'm thinking spray-on grease should work as well.

What we haven't figured out yet is who's bright idea this was and how long they plan to keep the bloody things. There is the optimistic view it might just be for this week, as we have a 'soft mobility' week to encourage people walking and cycling. I'm pretty sure they'll stay until we remove them ourselves.

[Rambo]

Sounds like some of the senior knob ends in your Company have just read George Orwell's 1984 😲

The "thought police" are listening and watching !!

[ramjet]

1 hour ago, Escape said:

There is one silver lining: the resistance is growing and that brings colleagues closer together. No doubt more so than a teambuilding day.

Someone is turning the motion detectors away, another one is looking for masking tape, I'm thinking spray-on grease should work as well.

What we haven't figured out yet is who's bright idea this was and how long they plan to keep the bloody things. There is the optimistic view it might just be for this week, as we have a 'soft mobility' week to encourage people walking and cycling. I'm pretty sure they'll stay until we remove them ourselves.

Maybe the cyclists that you nearly hit were from where you work and they were wanting to get there in a hurry to walk up and down the stairs and listen to the speakers before other naysayer employees come along and put masking tape on them?  

[Escape]

If they read it, they certainly missed the point!

What I find most disturbing, someone is actually trying to keep the system operational! I've been told the detectors that had been turned away have been put back into position... 

I'll try the other staircase when I go home, still debating the masking tape. Could be useful on the cyclists as well. 😈

[tim_marra]

1 hour ago, Escape said:

There is one silver lining: the resistance is growing and that brings colleagues closer together. No doubt more so than a teambuilding day.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

[ramjet]

I must admit I have never heard of movement activated positive message speakers before.

Someone is making money for a short lived fad I would think.

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

 

[DDubya]

On 21/09/2022 at 07:14, Barrykearley said:

you might find this useful to have for the next meeting.

There’s two glaring omissions from the table. “Reach out” and “Moving forward”. I just ******* hate those!

[DDubya]

And to add to my comment. The only people that should be allowed to utter the words “Reach Out” should be the Four Tops.

[PaulCP]

When will the media start to report things correctly.

Headline “Protester sprays paint on Aston Martin showroom” totally incorrect.
If they must report it the headline should read “Vandal commits criminal damage to Aston Martin showroom”

Please, please, please can the media send their reporters on a course to learn the difference between a protester and a vandal.

The fact that they film themselves doing it just shows that they expect to get away with just a slap on the wrist. We definitely need some real justice from the courts in this country.

https://news.sky.com/video/share-12722077

[Chillidoggy]

Two 'Stop Oil' activists climbing up the Dartford Crossing bridge wires.

What a marvelous way of getting everyone onboard with their cause, I'm pretty sure the thousands of individuals stuck in the resultant jams will be cheering them all the way.

[pete]

Why do the police pander to them. Stopping the traffic is exactly what they want. Just leave them there and let the traffic carry on as normal