Home Office Deep Skirt FAQ

Can somebody remind me…..

What is the purpose of HODS bulb holder skirts?

To stop fingers coming into contact with any part of the lamp cap?

Or something else?

According to Lyvia Electrical it is to keep moisture away from the bulb

That's the basic idea, practically it's queastionable, as it depends on the size of the fingers!

That is unlikely to be achieved.

I'm pretty sure the Home Office managed them. This was at the time the Home Office was the relevant ministry for just about everything in the country.

Yes, but specifically the deeper type.

This was my understanding. Many years ago when I moved house I went to an ironmonger asking for a 'Home Office skirt'. The owner not only knew what this was but also operated an electrical contracting business. I ended up getting him to to a rewire.

All the ones I have used, held a lampshade in place.

General Assistance Department or Department of Administrative Affairs.?

GH

Long before that. There was only The Foreign Officc, The Colonial Office, The Treasury and The Home Office - (and The War Offfice & The Admiralty). Everything else is 'modern'

I think I have remembered, the deep ones were mandatory in bathrooms, etc.

...and could probably be entirely dispensed with.

But what could you do with the other half million? We don't need that many programmers.

Telephone sanitisers?

Ive often thought when confronted with an overweight Karen in an administrative position she isn't qualified to hold, that the country would be better off simply paying such people to stay at home. And the male equivalents.

Socialism holds that people want 'jobs' - when its clear that all people really want is money.

Bread and circuses. The dole, daytime TV and the Internet and plenty of computer games, drugs and occasionally sex.

I know. I've met them.

The savings of bypassing all the expensive rigmaroles that go with 'jobs' - buildings, management, 10 sex toilets, roads, cars, public transport, HR, HS, and accounts departments...

...would be so great that we could afford to pay them more to stay at home than go to work.

They could all become ArtStudents™ and have ValuableOpinions™ And Influence people on the Internet with the dreary stories of their Daily Lives.

Leaving the 10% of working age who actually can Do Stuff to do it without tripping over them.

Are they ever underweight? Just wondering.

The Home Office mandated them, hence the name given to them.

Correct.

I'm pretty sure Charles would have recognised the nod to "The Men From the Ministry".

I recognised "Yes, Minister"