Preparedness for when

moneyistooshorttomention

I think many of us do "bits and bobs" of community clearing-up etc when we see it and I know we've several very active people to my knowledge in my current area also doing so.

Not easy though when you can see all the local authorities in your particular area blowing money on luxuries - whilst busily cutting necessities and I will admit that "blunts my appetite" personally knowing that money I helped save them on keeping the environment clear would be wasted on these luxuries and there would be Big Rows if it were pointed out that these particular ones could easily be cut . But people living in most local authority areas probably don't have that particular dilemma staying their hand from "helping out" (bar the local mayor in your area having a taste for lavish civic functions that is:rotfl:).

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Forget what local authorities do or don't do, if YOU (or me come to that) live in a place and care about it it's in your/my own interest to actively take action to make it the way we want it. It doesn't take much effort to pick up a bit of litter and dispose of it in the right place, it doesn't take much resolution to do it every day. I know we pay council tax, I know it's someone elses designated job to clean the roads but I care about this village and like many other people, I can't walk past and leave the litter and then moan, it's picked up and put in the bin, it doesn't cost me much even in terms of time and energy expended, it's being a good citizen and a responsible villager and NOT HARD TO DO!!!

Our local Mayor lives round the corner in a small close, works tirelessly for the village like his predecessor who was a local councillor not the Mayor and she also had only the interests of the village at heart and worked very hard for all of us, besides I know the Mayors Mum, have done for the past 23 years and she's a straight as a die, non word mincing Yorkshire Lass who's one of the mainstays of the WI at the age of 93, he'd not dare put a foot wrong or he'd know about it!!!

Mojoworking

GQ yep mandatory voluntary a definite contradiction in terms. I think I just want to know how to get people to feel invested and take ownership and to care.

How do you teach people to be responsible which comes back to prepping ultimately and not waiting for "them" whoever they maybe to swoop in and save the day for every single occasion when there is a bump in the road.

There was something I think gmtv yesterday about teachers potty training. Today missed the story about a girls extreme haircut getting her suspended from school but saw the response from a school representative saying how ridiculous it was for her mother to allow it and cite human rights the school has rules.

It's the sublime to the ridiculous. People never cease to surprise me. Everyone is clear on how they should be treated spoken to and respected but don't really seem to feel the need to show that to others. Gosh but I'm on one today sorry!

GreyQueen

Yeah, I saw the silly haircut story, too.

I think the mother was in the wrong allowing a child of school age to sport such a stupid haircut. The lass should save such things for adulthood and then she can face the consequence (irate employer, possibly no employer). Not getting your own way doesn't mean that your human rights are being violated, madam.

One of my pals teaches law. Bearing in mind that law students are typically a bit older than other undergrads, and are going to competing for a limited amount of first placements with law firms, pal is still having to point out the bleedin' obvious; no one is going to hire you for a responsible professional job in a conservative profession with pink hair and piercings. Esp when you rock up to appointments in jammies!

Of course, what you wear and how you style your hair doesn't impact on the caliber of your thinking, but it's the job of the school student or the job applicant to fit in with the culture, not to affront it. Personally, I have never had to go to law, but if I was spending mucho spondulicks on the advice of a legal eagle, I would want one who looked neat, tidy, conventional and professional. Particularly if they were representing me in court.

Pals says also has to repeatedly pull law students up over spelling and grammar which, as offspring of the internet age, they tend to think is irrelevant. Points out solicitors are expensive and people expect competance and professionalism, not sloppiness, when hiring one.

*steps off soapbox*

jk0

Mojoworking wrote: »

There was something I think gmtv yesterday about teachers potty training.

Are they planning to train them in a less potty way now?

moneyistooshorttomention

GreyQueen wrote: »

Pals says also has to repeatedly pull law students up over spelling and grammar which, as offspring of the internet age, they tend to think is irrelevant. Points out solicitors are expensive and people expect competance and professionalism, not sloppiness, when hiring one.

*steps off soapbox*

Well considering that the legal profession is one of two I can think of where literally every single word HAS to be the correct one and mean what you expect it to mean etc etc (the other profession being trade union official) - then, if they cant even be bothered to get their spelling and grammar correct = gawd help any of the public that got them "on the case":eek:

GreyQueen

Don't worry too much, MTSTM. The supply of qualified solicitors vastly exceeds the need for them. A lot of the law graduates won't make the cut. They will be the next generation of expensively-educated waitpersons.

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A report on the radio news today, said more people than ever are being arrested, on suspicion of terrorism offences.

Two things occur to me.

1. Being arrested doesn't make you guilty. what we need, is the figures for the number convicted in court.

2. This sounds like another Hegelian Dialectic situation.

GreyQueen

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

A report on the radio news today, said more people than ever are being arrested, on suspicion of terrorism offences.

Two things occur to me.

1. Being arrested doesn't make you guilty. what we need, is the figures for the number convicted in court.

2. This sounds like another Hegelian Dialectic situation.

Your challenge for this evening is to explain what a Hegelian Dialectic is, in words even tired people like me can understand.

I did look it up yesterday but was too tired (or perhaps just too thick) to grasp it. :rotfl:

Mojoworking

GreyQueen wrote: »

Your challenge for this evening is to explain what a Hegelian Dialectic is, in words even tired people like me can understand.

I did look it up yesterday but was too tired (or perhaps just too thick) to grasp it. :rotfl:

Seconded x