Posted by Ben @ July 8th, 2010 8:10 pm. Filed under: Abolish This!,Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me,I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown,Thank You For Coming -- It's Been Very Useful — Tags: deepinfen —
I run a very small business with two employees. I am required by law to have employees liability insurance which is just as it should be. To prove this I am required by law to display (for my employees to see) a valid copy of the pertaining insurance certificate which again is acceptable.However, by law I am required to keep each year’s insurance certificate for 40 years. I am nearing retirement and my business will end with my retirement. As the law stands and for my particular circumstance, I will be required to keep the last issued certificate until I am 105 years old which is barmy. The chances of my living to this age are remote and what happens if I die before the 40 years is up I am not sure. Perhaps I shall have it stipulated in my will that the certificates be interned with me in my coffin so that those responsible will have to dig me up to get their putrifying paperwork.
Why the contribution is important
There are much simplier ways of resolving this issue such as making it a legal requirement for those companies that provide employees liability insurance to keep an accessible unified data base (of those employers they have insured) on the web for 40 years. Of course that would be too simple and something the insurance companies will fight tooth and nail against, for they know full well that many employers will ignore the 40 year requirement and thereby make it difficult for an employee to make a far back claim.
Rather than sit there bitching to the government about your problem and making unsubstantiable claims about what insurance providers may or may not do under any particular set of circumstances, why don’t you do some actual research like, oh, I don’t know, asking a solicitor what you’re supposed to do under the circumstances?
Posted by Ben @ January 18th, 2010 11:44 pm. Filed under: Clearly You've Thought This Through,I Am A Brain!,I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown,Invading The Animal Kingdom,Please State The Nature of the Medical Emergency,spelin an grammer — Tags: Rebecca Stephen —
by Rebecca StephenWe believe animal testing should be banned as animals are comletely different from humans therefore making it pointless to test on animals if they have different reactions.
Yeah! I mean, it’s not like animal testing has ever resulted in serious medical breakthroughs or advancement in medical technologies! People aren’t rats. People are people. Duh.
Posted by Ben @ January 12th, 2010 6:56 am. Filed under: Batshit Mental Rants,I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown,I'm serious!,Is Research The Same Thing As Making Shit Up? Good.,There's No Time For Thinking! — Tags: Nicholas Fox —
by Nicholas FoxThe world is not facing a threat from global warming, but global cooling.
In Europe, most of the USA and even in Asia, including China, many of us in the early days of 2010 are currently experiencing extreme cold weather.
I call on the government to increase taxes – and to spend the revenue on sun farms. A sun farm would use electricity to power huge lamps that might heat an area the size of a small town.
I have studied temperatures globally over the last few months and if the world continues to cool at the current trend the whole of humanity is threatened.
Of course! It’s all so simple!
Posted by Ben @ December 23rd, 2009 7:08 pm. Filed under: Abolish This!,Can't someone else pay the tax?,Clearly You've Thought This Through,I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown,Is Research The Same Thing As Making Shit Up? Good.,It Says So In The Daily Mail,Stop Spending My Money On Things I Don't Understand.,Thank You For Coming -- It's Been Very Useful,That's SO UNFAIR! I HATE YOU!,The Nasty Television Upset Me!,There's Already A Solution But Don't Let That Stop You From Bothering The PM,This Is The Worst Kind Of Discrimination! The Kind Against Me!,Unreasonable Demands,spelin an grammer — Tags: Mr Richard Moore —
Oh dear, we have another “scrap the TV license” moron in our midsts. And this one is armed with misinformation! Let’s get this over with…
by Mr Richard MooreWhy should the BBC be given free money, whilst other TV channels gain no funding from the BBC TV License?
Why also is it satisfactory for the BBC to outsourse it’s published programs to e.g. BBC Americas for viewing abroad.
Why also is it satisfactory for the BBC to use UK License holders money to spurn products for their own profit from the UK public, i.e. childrens toy product etc…?
With the current economic state the country has been placed into, would it not enable families with a lower income to utilise the monies used for a TV License on more benificial items, i.e. feeding their family?
Is it not fair to the other broadcast network’s such as ITV, Channel 4 etc… to not recieve monies from the TV License.
Support the scrappage of the BBC TV License, sign the petition!
Okay, let’s dissect this one, shall we?
Why should the BBC be given free money, whilst other TV channels gain no funding from the BBC TV License?
Because the BBC is a public broadcasting service, and ITV, Channel 4, Channel Five, Sky etc. are businesses supported by advertising.
Why also is it satisfactory for the BBC to outsourse it’s published programs to e.g. BBC Americas for viewing abroad.
Actually, haha, they don’t. What happens is this: BBC Worldwide, the business arm of the BBC, is given the rights to distribute the shows to other territories. What happens then is that BBC America has to bid for those rights, and if they succeed then they get the show. You probably don’t know this but until recently BBC America didn’t have the first-to-air rights to Doctor Who – the American SciFi Channel (now called SyFy) outbid them for the rights to series one through four, and they let those rights lapse this year for the one-off specials.
Additionally, BBC America (which, I need to reiterate, is a business much like ITV and British Sky Broadcasting) actually co-funds some BBC productions such as Robin Hood.
So, y’know. Research.
Why also is it satisfactory for the BBC to use UK License holders money to spurn products for their own profit from the UK public, i.e. childrens toy product etc…?
Again, this is stuff that is all handled by the BBC’s business arms and is not funded by the money they get from the TV license, you frog’s gusset.
With the current economic state the country has been placed into, would it not enable families with a lower income to utilise the monies used for a TV License on more benificial items, i.e. feeding their family?
Considering that television is a luxury item and not a utility, they could always put the TV in the loft if they can’t afford their license.
Is it not fair to the other broadcast network’s such as ITV, Channel 4 etc… to not recieve monies from the TV License.
There is some debate about this, but once again it’s worth noting that ITV, Channel 4 etc. are supported by advertising. The BBC is not.
Thanks for playing.
Posted by Ben @ December 11th, 2009 8:22 pm. Filed under: FREEDOM!!,I Am A Brain!,I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown,Really REALLY Bad Ideas — Tags: Adrian White —
by Adrian WhiteIt appears that a ransom of £100,000 was agreed by both hostage negotiators and the Somalian pirates holding Paul and Rachel Chandler, around about the 20/21 November. However, the payment was blocked by the British foreign office, who reiterated their stance that The Government does not allow the payment of ransoms.This I believe is a dangerous and somewhat naive game to play with the lives of British citizens and will only add to the anguish felt by the the family of Rachel and Paul Chandler at a time of the year when Families should be together!
Surely sending the message that actually, yeah, we might be willing to negotiate with pirates and terrorists is an even more dangerous message to send, because they’ll encourage more kidnappings and the like.
Posted by Ben @ November 27th, 2009 5:37 pm. Filed under: George Orwell Had The Right Idea,I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown,Is Research The Same Thing As Making Shit Up? Good.,Join the Fight Against Nebulous Bad-Sounding Things!,Xenophobia — Tags: Ian Dobison —
by Ian DobisonThe current position at UK border points is that visitors who are allowed to enter the UK who have had to apply for a Visa are not then actively counted back out again when they are required to leave. For example if they were to overstay their visit nobody would actively go to seek them, or even be aware they hadn’t left the country.This effectively means that once they are admitted they could stay indefinitely. The USA has a proper system in place for all visitors who enter their borders with visa’s and they have, as a result, much better control of their Borders and Immigration Issues.
You’ve never actually been to America, have you?
Posted by Ben @ November 24th, 2009 12:12 am. Filed under: Duplicate Petitions,I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown,Is Research The Same Thing As Making Shit Up? Good.,My Other Car Is Another Car — Tags: Mr Christopher Bristow —
Christopher Bristow really likes his hydrogen-powered cars.
by Mr Christopher Bristowto combat climate change by the introduction and eventual change over of an alternative and non polluting feul of hydrogen gas.
by Christopher Bristowmore than 20% of uk CO2 emissions are produced from the nations car exhausts. The thought behind this petition is to advise the government to create a bigger incentive to car manufacteurers in producing hydrogen feul cell cars and to feul stations in providing hydrogen fill up points, to the eventual event of a switch over to hydrogen cars when a growing trade produces as if not more efficent hydrogen car than the standard petrol and deisel cars.
As pointed by Robert Llewellyn, who is famous for playing a square-headed robot in a sitcom and is therefore an expert on such things, hydrogen power actually expends more energy than is collected. You have to use a ridiculous amount of electricity on rather a lot of water to get a halfway decent amount of hydrogen and that, to me, seems rather wasteful.
Posted by Ben @ November 2nd, 2009 8:34 pm. Filed under: Duplicate Petitions,I Am A Brain!,I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown,Maybe... but not for THAT reason,Stand Back! I'm Going To Try SCIENCE! — Tags: Tristan Wibberley —
by Tristan WibberleyThe late light on summer evenings is extremely welcome, and later light during the winter would also be welcome.
In addition, changing the clocks twice a year is a nuisance, costly, and error prone.
You seem to have forgotten a fundamental piece of information when considering your otherwise sterling idea, Tristan. I’ll leave you to figure out what it is.
Posted by Ben @ October 28th, 2009 3:45 am. Filed under: Batshit Mental Rants,I Am A Brain!,I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown,Thinking Things Through Is Just Not British,spelin an grammer — Tags: christina aston —
by christina astonNo one in Government should be able to sell off Englands – land – gold – property – Royal Mail or other assetts. These belong to England to be looked after for future generations they are not for use by whichever political party that is in power at the time. The government is in power to look after this country not sell parts of it off whenever they feel like it. Just because they have got us into a financial mess does not mean they can sell off the countries gold etc to get themselves off the hook. If past generations had not built up this country there would not have been the gold – property etc that we have now – we must not allow it to be sold.
Well I’m glad you’ve taken the time to think this through properly.
Posted by Ben @ October 28th, 2009 3:37 am. Filed under: Batshit Mental Rants,I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown,Sorry, What Was I Talking About?,What A Load Of Bankers — Tags: Rev Dr Richard Rodgers FRCS —
This is a perfect example of a petition posted by someone who has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about. Behold!
by Rev Dr Richard Rodgers FRCSAt present we allow commercial banks the huge privilege of creating money out of nothing as their own property for their own benefit. You and I can’t do it. Why let the banks do it? They do it by issuing loans of money which didn’t exist until the borrower signs a promise to pay it back. Then the bank sells that agreement to a dealer for real money up front. We don’t need to depend on banks for our nation’s money supply. Let’s make the Bank of England, acting as a public servant, the sole creator of new money in our land. Then our money would be an asset of the nation as a whole not the property of commercial banks. This practice caused the credit crunch. Banks lent to people who couldn’t repay because it wasn’t costing them much in the first place. It’s why bankers get bonuses. The problem isn’t bonuses. It’s the activity that the bonuses encourage ie getting people to borrow. Don’t nationalise the banks. Let them compete but don’t let them create money out of nothing as they do now.
Posted by Ben @ October 23rd, 2009 3:43 am. Filed under: Don't Worry About What THEY Want,I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown,I Sure Hope There's No Way This Can Be Misinterpreted.,It's Just A Little Request...,Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children? — Tags: Denise Donaldson —
by Denise DonaldsonOur world is in crisis. The planet is overpopulated. We do not have enough resources to sustain ourselves as we exist at present. Working to reduce world population would go a long way in helping to reduce the strain, and create change. Contraception is available. Education is needed globally, not only to control the population boom, but also to help to stop the spread of disease and the overall health costs.
Why would we want to mimic one of the more abhorrent elements of China’s questionable Human Rights violations?
Posted by Ben @ October 21st, 2009 10:32 pm. Filed under: Everyone Stop What You're Doing Because You're Mildly Inconveniencing Me,I Could've Looked This Up But Instead I Watched Countdown,You Know - We Haven't Banned Anything Lately. — Tags: sam newbould —
Sam doesn’t quite understand why people go on strike.
by sam newbouldThere are perfectly good legal recourse for industrial disputes through the Industrial Tribunal. This needs to be extended so that people can take more action in front of a well informed panel to resolve disputes instead of inconveniencing everyone else. Such tribunals will make better judgments about what is appropriate that any union ever could