Driving standards everywhere

26 November

That quote from Sartre I used yesterday was one I lifted from ForReadingAddicts, one of the Facebook groups I use daily. I thought it might be useful, that’s why I stole it, but I didn’t think I would be able to use only 24 hours later. Well, I did, so that means that not everything on there is worthless crap.

It looks as though the London cops have a lot of questions to answer over the deaths of a number of gay men. From what was said on the news last night three of them might have not died if the cops had acted sooner. Police across the world are yet another group who are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Children’s services is another one. What is really needed is some consistency across the board from both organisations.

Something else that is causing a lot of fuss and bother is in local recycling collections. Again there is no consistency with it. Birmingham is having major problems with the issue by the council unable to decide how they are going to deal with collect of it. A few months ago they had a nine bin system; now they just have six bins. Sounds a tad easier but in some areas, waste food wasn’t collected for a number of months.

Before we moved into here we had the main black bin, a brown recycling bin, a green garden waste bin, a red box for cans and glass, a yellow bag for paper/carboard, and then another bag for plastics. Not much went into the brown bin, as I remember. Here we just have one large industrial-type bin into which you place everything. So if that bin can be sorted at some point, why is there a need for all the other bins that are in use? Hinckley, Coventry and North Warwickshire have different systems again. It’s no wonder that so many folk get confused as to what is happening. The cost to each council has to be huge; all because the government won’t sort out just one clear system.

I’ve just read an item on MSN page about speeding and braking to avoid speed cameras. It claims that harsh breaking is causing a danger to other drivers. Oh dear, how sad, what a pity, never mind. This info came from thousands of black-box type bits installed in cars to test driving standards and methods, For me though, it’s not the harsh braking that’s the problem, it’s the speeding that’s the problem. Using the excuse that everyone does it, is not an excuse, it’s an attempt to pass the blame. At least we don’t hear many claims of persecution over speed cameras that went on years ago.

Today’s photo …

Another part to the Christmas Market in Brum.

Today’s funny …

What did one highland cow say to the other?
Och, aye the moo!