Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[SV650rules]

Originally Posted by MrMessy

The trend to use "passed" instead of saying died! Cannot even say passed away! Is this an American thing?

So what happens when a student 'passed'....


Where did starting every sentence with 'So' come from ? Very, very annoying


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[admin]

Originally Posted by MrMessy

The trend to use "passed" instead of saying died! Cannot even say passed away! Is this an American thing?

It annoys me too.

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[SV650rules]

Originally Posted by embee

I'm not alone in perceiving the regime as a "would be" dictatorship.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/19...boris-johnson/
(other more detailed articles in other publications)

Is that the same Ken Clarke who is 'the old woman of politics', and failed underminer of Brexit vote, still chewing on the fact that Boris read the mood of the country and dismissed Ken and his mates to the outer reaches of politics ( Ken knew it was useless to stand for election in 2019 after his antics ) ? Pot and Kettle spring to mind, Dictatorships would ignore the result of any vote they didn't like ( or not even bother to hold one in the first place ). Ken was busy killing people as Chairman of British American tobacco - despite being Minister of Health during his career.... what a hypocrite...

[Biker Biggles]

Always good to shoot the messenger when the message is inconvenient.

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by embee

The good old taxpayer picks up another £94M bill to pay for the deeds of the management of Post Office Ltd and the Horizon scandal.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/othe...edgdhp&pc=U531

Were any of these post office bosses held accountable for this scandal ? How could they get away with misleading /deceiving etc ? Incompetence/negligence or worse ?!

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by admin

It annoys me too.

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Me too.

[Craig380]

Originally Posted by svenrico

Were any of these post office bosses held accountable for this scandal ? How could they get away with misleading /deceiving etc ? Incompetence/negligence or worse ?!

The senior PO management all the way up to Paula Vennels, the chief exec, knew Horizon was deeply flawed and knew that there was a strong likelihood that many postmasters had been wrongly prosecuted from as early as 2010.

In the enquiry that's currently ongoing, the law firm that represented the PO has just been forced to release all of its notes and communications with PO executives and management. In other words, the executives will be able to say "well, we were only acting on legal advice."

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Craig380

The senior PO management all the way up to Paula Vennels, the chief exec, knew Horizon was deeply flawed and knew that there was a strong likelihood that many postmasters had been wrongly prosecuted from as early as 2010.

In the enquiry that's currently ongoing, the law firm that represented the PO has just been forced to release all of its notes and communications with PO executives and management. In other words, the executives will be able to say "well, we were only acting on legal advice."

The senior PO management must have known so many postmasters couldn't have been acting dishonestly. Why were they prepared to cause so much grief to avoid admitting their mistakes and the computer system was flawed ?

[Craig380]

Because of the hundreds of millions invested in the Horizon system, and Fujitsu engineers (who developed it) refusing to admit there were serious flaws, because then they wouldn't get paid.

[Luckypants]

3 days with no power and still counting. ��

Working from "home" at a mates house and wondering what to do if the power stays off another day.