OT pet hates

[charles]

Remember Parish Councils tend to have pretty low precepts so a ?10k increase - to replace tbe roof on the Village Hall for instance, could be a

10% increase.

[Steve Walker]

Not how much, but certainly that it is likely to be left empty far more than a sole residence.

SteveW

[FMurtz]

Not everyone has perfect vision, there are a lot of older people in the population and if their aim is to exclude a great proportion of the population, they are succeeding.

[FMurtz]

They have young designers with giant computer screen with very high resolution who think they are clever.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

And idiots trying to view things on 4" mobile phone screens. Mobiles are not computers.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Still waiting for which colours....

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Only a few people have shit vision and also have no decent specs.

[humphrey]

Large tracts of International Times were next to illegible because they printed across graphics

That was in the seventies, long before bright young things, dtp etc

[Rob Morley]

But might indicate it's worth casing the joint.

[bert]

And PCCs - not capped.

[bert]

Err, some of the people on here were young things in the seventies.

There was a lot of work done on screen/text colours in the 70s/80s. Logica produced a word processing machine which was amber/brown (or similar) which was supposed to be the best combination. One potential customer asked if we could change it to either green/green or black/white because that was the agreement with the union who wouldn't budge despite all the evidence from the bright young things of the day in Cambridge University.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

I'm reading your post with red, green, blue, and black text on a white background (different colour for each poster). They're all equally easy to read. Either I've got superhuman vision or there's a lot of people with shitty eyesight, because I can comfortably read anything on anything.

[charles]

Have they just changed that? Police expenditure was last year.

As for Parish Councils, they normally have a small precept so a medium sized sum can look enormous in percentage terms. An extra £10k for our village hall roof would put our precept up by 13%.

[Andy Burns]

PCC up 6.4% here

Yes it's a smallish amount (parish is 6% of the whole bill while PCC is now 11% of the bill)

[Cursitor Doom]

Yes, but *you* are a God amongst men! Please consider us mortals.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

I will throw you mortals off a cliff. There's no room on this planet for billions of people, why can't we have a clearout?

[Cursitor Doom]

I would deem it an *honour* to be thrown off a cliff by someone of your calibre, your Magnificence!

[Johnny B Good]

I feel I aught to be billing you for a new Sarcasm Meter[1]

[1] It sits right next to my Irony Meter.

[Johnny B Good]

Well, he is *something* amongst men but my first thought wouldn't have been "God", more like a Ghost (in the machinery of Usenet) since I've had him killfiled for the past year or so.

[tabbypurr]

what on earth has gotten into you?