LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME - 2022

The last time I bought clothes the measurements were in Latin.

 

@Jocko I usually phone round a lot of insurers to try and do a deal with them and tend to get a good price. This last time I didn't think much of the quotes with the NFU being more than £200 higher than any other. So I tried Confused.com (first time I had tried this sort of company) and got one very good quote:-
£235.94, fully comp., NCD protected, courtesy car. (all the additions apart from breakdown) for a Volvo S90.

This was with Flow and had never heard of them. So I checked and found they are the online version of LV (used to be Liverpool Victoria). I went with them and Confused.com offered us a bonus for booking through them - a free car wash per month for 12 months (worth £6.30 a time).

 

'tis the modern way

Have just watched John Isner play Murray and didn't get too much enjoyment from it purely because he just smashes ace after ace. There's no grace or matchplay possible. Just a huge (he's 6'10"!!) powerhouse. Have to say Isner does seem a nice chap though, very humble in his little after match interview

 

This storm in a teacup about Halifax made me laugh - at first.

Apparently they have issued name badges with the 'modern' pronouns to their staff although they say they don't have to wear them.






Some people have been saying, on Social Media, that they are unnecessary or they object to them and Halifax have stupidly said if they don't like it they can withdraw their accounts - which, apparently, lots of them have started doing. A good way to lose customers, and a friend of mine who works at the H.O. of another bank has said they have already had a few dozen new customers because of it.

I still can't quite get my head around why people would find it necessary to have the pronoun/s on their badge or letter signature (I've received a number of emails with it on). I don't particularly care what gender (old fashioned or modern style) they are as long as they deal with the matter I wish them to do.

Actually, now I think about it, I feel a bit offended that they think I may feel differently about them if they don't use the pronoun.

I have always felt strongly that all people are equal (not the Animal Farm type of equal) and never distinguish between gender, colour, race or religion (or any other criteria). It was an ethos that I emphasised strongly to all my staff and it certainly worked with regard to retaining customers and promoting a good atmosphere.

Over 30 years ago the local authority Equal Opportunities Officer asked to see our Equal Opportunities Statement as we didn't appear to have it displayed. I told her/she/it that I was offended that they thought I needed to display such a statement and asked whether they had ever had a complaint about us. When she said 'No' I asked her to leave. As it happened, I had a meeting the next day with the CEO of the council and told him what I thought of the way she approached the topic. They changed their policy on approaching businesses!

This followed on from the previous fortnight when the same department criticised me for not having a ramp for wheelchair access to our property (the door had a lip of 1.5") and I pointed out to them that their own authority (planning dept.) had refused to allow me put a small ramp there because of safety conditions.

Bureaucracy gets me a tad annoyed!