This sign is on a big rubbish bin outside my workplace. Are there actually people out there who think it would be a great idea to put "valuables" along with recyclable paper into a bin, the contents of which are intended to be incinerated? Do the signs come this way (and some bozo had to think that up....) or did this require upper management?
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Now, unfortunately, in the UK it might make more sense, since over the past couple of years we've had a spate of idiot civil servants, bankers and health workers accidentally leaving classified files, or laptops containing classified files, on trains, or accidentally posting confidential files to some random address, or putting them in the recycling, or selling defunct office laptops on eBay without reformatting the hard drives or erasing the classified contents.
They're certainly "forgetful" aren't they?
"Forgetful", I assume, being a euphemism for "so stupid they could disprove Darwinism."
In most cases, actually, I tend to ascribe these things to genuine forgetfulness - we've all had momentary brain farts. Unless, of course, the misplaced item winds up in the hands of the Daily Mail. You know, as opposed to a newspaper.
No snipping at the DM, STephen. Who else would give me all the news of the queen shaking hands with a two headed man?
No, the Daily Mail's great. They run this competition every day. They hide this tiny little piece of news somewhere in the paper, and the winner is the person who manages to find it.
(Thank you, Victoria Wood)
Stephen how does the old joke about British newspapers go? Something about "The Times is read by those who run the country, the Financial by those who own the country, the Guardian by those who want the left wing to run the country, the Telegraph by the people who used to run the country, and the Sun by those who don't care who runs the country, as long as she has big tits." Or something like that.
Something like that, yes, though the Times, these days, is nothing like as good as it used to be. It's basically the Daily Mail with grammar. The Telegraph is a much better bet for a broadly right-wing heavyweight paper. The Mail, like the Express, is toilet paper. I've actually less patience with the Mail and the Express than I have with, say, the Sun, because at least the Sun is upfront about being trashy. It doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is.
The Sun is like the National Enquirer, no pretense!
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