Pet Hates........or FFS

[Macca]

Perhaps my interpretation of this phrase is too literal then:

"The cabinets are installed only when they have been approved by the Local Authority and we do give them full dimensions for them to consider......"

Plus a brown envelope full of cash.

[guy]

Plus a brown envelope full of cash.

oooh you cynic

[Macca]

oooh you cynic

The way I see it you have to decide whether local authorities are hopelessly incompetent or bent as a nine bob note. Since no organization can possibly be so utterly and so permanently incompetent you have to figure they are on the fiddle. I reckon corruption in local government is at Nigerian levels. They know it but they daren't do anything about it because they would uncover a mountain of it going back years and it would destroy the credibility of our whole system of government.

[walpurgis]

I think you'd be surprised. After nearly forty years serving local authorities directly and indirectly in Highway Engineering, I have to say I saw little evidence of it. No doubt it occurs, as with everywhere else I expect, but it will be on a very minor scale.

[Macca]

The level of bentness is going to vary I suppose. I know that round here there is a lot of it. I'm not talking bout the ordinary workers here mind, only top bosses and the councillors. The ordinary working man rarely if ever gets to wet his beak.

[struth]

there is graft in any business but dont think councils in general are bad for it nowadays.

[Pieoftheday]

Well no response from Virgin,I kind of expected that, looks like it's tough titty, what a dreadful attitude toward people.saw a couple in Scotland had one put in front of theirs, it were nearly 6ft
×6ft ! And they got know where either

[Roy S]

An internet connection that either works or doesn't, not sort of half working, making you think it's actually doing something only to come up with an error message five minutes later.

[Minstrel SE]

Councils!...Bent as a nine bob note!! Another one of my pet hates along with the Council Tax...just the poll tax given another name and a punitive system of taxation

Macca summed it up with "Nigerian Levels". They just have a British way of dressing it up with green and pleasant land/ stiff upper lip propaganda. This country is as corrupt as the best of them

[Len Co]

On a lighter note, anything that goes on a bathroom shelf. It will be specifically designed to fall over at the slightest provocation. I have only to reach out for my sponge to have an avalanche of shampoo bottles, toothbrush holders, back scrubbers and assorted cosmetics containers bombard my nether regions.